Setting up a new watercolor palette!

[@Carolyn750]

Finally purchased the full set of pan colours. I have only just swatched them out, but boy, am I excited by the range and saturation of the colours! I look forward to painting with them.

[@craftycrandall]

So many colors! That feels like an almost overwhelming amount to have to sort through to construct a palette! Your choices are really interesting. Lots of yellows and blues and not a single green. Personally I'd have such a hard time with that for anything beyond portraits. I'm glad you mentioned it was on hot press paper. I was confused by how the paint was moving during the swatches, but it makes sense now. Thank you for another amazing video! :)

[@petiteflower5259]

The paint definitely acts in unexpected ways on that paper!

[@Kokose]

No need for green if you have a lot of choices between blues and yellows!

[@craftycrandall]

@@Kokose Lol it's true! I'm just lazy apparently.

[@Kokose]

@@craftycrandall lol dw, i am a big fan of convenience mixes myself, like why get only 4 colours (lemon yellow, ultramarine, quinacridone red, titanium white) and constantly think what to mix when I can just have a pre-mixed colour ready xD

[@artica2806]

The clamness and relaxation is incredible. Thank you for putting so much effort into your videos for us, Arleesha.

[@Katalina_K]

I love seeing you use potters pink. It is my FAVORITE. And not for the color. Idk about this one but the WN potters pink is amazing for muting colors while pretty much keeping the same hue. And bc it transparent it doesn't mess with that quality in my other paints. But I really love it for the granulation. So mixing it with other colors always gives you something new... that and helps me a lot with skin tones. I will take out black or white in other pre done palettes just to add it. (White bc it's always rare I use it unless it's tubes, and black bc I can pretty easily make it or I grab an ink instead) Edit- I can't spell sorry!

[@hershelroswell]

god yes i love potter's pink for that!! i like the dusty dark rose that schmincke's version is too :D

[@RamoArt]

Hope you don't mind me asking, but how do you use the WN potters pink? Do you use it squeezed from a tube, dried or wet? Or the extruded version? I have a half pan and while I love the granulation and the colors, it's so low tinting that it gets lost in every mix. I'm wondering if that's due to it being an extruded pan.. Or maybe it just doesn't play well with all the vibrant synthetic colors I use.

[@Katalina_K]

@@RamoArt omg no problem! So I made my own half pan from the tube. I have found that it's one of the colors that the prebought pans has trouble picking up. HOWEVER u are totally correct in that it will almost never show up with strong synthetics. That's why it works so well as a tone corrector- it just isn't strong. It can be frustrating though. Is you want the color (or similar) but with stringer color payoff? Daniel smiths version is quite a bit stronger. It will still take work but it is much much easier. I hope that helps some? It's truly a weird little color. I think of it more like a toner and texturing agent than a color by its self

[@RamoArt]

@@Katalina_K thank you for taking the time to reply! I think I have a dot card by Daniel Smith somewhere.. I'll see if their Potter's Pink seems any more useful to me. I can see it working beautiful in skin or for rendering white things in the way you describe it!

[@Katalina_K]

@@RamoArt @Ramo there were so many typos I'm so sorry lol. But np!! It's fantastic for skin. It adds life and a bit of consistency without taking over or changing everything. And using it in landscape? Like especially desert landscapes? It's so so good. That granulation really shines. It's a transparent color so washes can work too but it granulates so be careful lol. Like I said I use it more as a texturizer and tone or hue corrector. Not a full impact color. Kinda like using a lavender for undertones but not really for the color itself if that makes sense?? But it's pretty so I totally get wanting a stronger version. I think schminke also has one but it does not granulate as much. It is a stronger color if I remember right. (I'm so sorry I've only really played with DS and WN bs I can easily buy them and I'm lazy lmao)

[@chels2145]

The Naples yellow pale is quite beautiful! I haven't seen that color in other lines and I've never tried this brand before. The porcelain palette is on my wish list. Very beautiful color choices- many would definitely be on my limited palette 🎨 as well. Oh, I finally made my own paint! Its been so much fun (small batches) and helps me understand pigments and color combinations etc. Many blessings 🙏 🥰 What a nice surprise to get all those paints.

[@Shesvii]

What a beautiful painting! There's something melancholic about the eyes that I really like. These watercolors look like very good paints for layering. Very transparent and good for building up depth, perhaps ideal for botanical work and realistic portrait. Also not so good for hot humid climates! They seem to be eternally moist like M Graham and Sennelier. 😅

[@softandcosy]

it’s so satisfying seeing the paints squeezed onto the palette

[@Alpha13Wolf]

An excellent set of colors especially for portraits and land landscapes. Some of these colors are in my standard palette. Some absolute musts in my palette is Quinacridone magenta, Dioxazine violet, hooker’s green, napthol red, indigo, pyrrole orange/permanent orange, ultramarine, and aureolin. Quinacridone magenta is just a perfect magenta for making other purples and pinks. And when using rubbing alcohol instead of water for the pigment it becomes fluorescent pink(almost orange) until dry. Dioxazine violet is just a vivid deep transparent violet that is just indispensable for mixing other colors to balance the vividness of the color wheel. Hooker’s Green is just the perfect transparent green that mixes well with either blue or yellow for various hues of green. Napthol red is wonderful transparent primary red that leans a little cool. Indigo, i just like this deep blue to make things deep and cool. Pyrrole orange a strong transparent orange. Ultramarine a primary blue. I know aureolin is not many artists favorite pigment, but it’s “drawbacks” are what I like about it. It’s just the purest yellow hue, it’s transparent, it fades. I like having a “best if viewed by” window for my art and aureolin is a great pigment to use to add a time window of viewing. It’s fading is also useful for adding a feeling of decay as a piece ages the fading yellow can change how the piece is interpreted. There are other colors i like to have but these were just the musts I absolutely have to have in a palette.

[@verditerthistle]

✨the naples yellow pale makes some really beautiful and soft mixes! lovely painting :)

[@thebooksofmylife]

I was feeling overwhelmed and was just about to search for watercolor palette set up videos to quieten down, so this came at a perfect time for me

[@scottmantooth8785]

*i've had some really interesting results from my derwent graphitint half pan set while combing them with some of my very limited selection of Danial Smith tube paints...i like how the subdued colors dance around each other before deciding to remain in one place*

[@sophiakrans7439]

I noticed during the swatching that some of the colors seemed to pool in the center of the swatch. I'm a new painter, would this be due to the paint itself or the paper? Edit: I am obsessed with the piece you made by the way

[@sergiuman7178]

The paper - it sometimes happens to me when I touch the paper and some of the residue on my hands sticks to the surface

[@beckbabej]

I've never seen watercolor behave like that before. I would stay away from these paints, they look terrible , the weird gummy way they dried in the palette too, none of that is normal.

[@tatyannafrancis9935]

This is such a delightful painting! It’s been a while since I’ve watched one of your videos, I forgot how much I love them 🥰💛

[@abby4684]

Brown madder looks gorgeous, would love that color in gouache.

[@quill8943]

This was really cool!!! I love your art stlye

[@Anonysus-z9y]

Nice to see you gave the brand another try, I like the final painting 😌

[@meerabellenbaum6092]

The mineral violet is so so soooooo pigmented, I've got the half pan. And such a wonderful colour

[@widabuye]

ur videos never fail to get me in the mood to paint! ❤❤

[@TheStainedCanvasArt]

Love the colours you chose for this palette!

[@immkk1125]

how do you store your open palettes? also how do you keep them from getting dusty?

[@therestlessknitter4290]

I use a big soft mop brush and dust them before use

[@jennw6809]

This particular one comes with a cover, but I use plates and just stick them in a cabinet to keep the dust off

[@HaruKazePIU]

I have few colors from Renessans. I really love how they dry in pans because they flow and fill everything in so the pan looks very flat after drying. I also have several of their half pans. I think my favorite are both Cinnebar greens from half pans line and from tubes line it's Gold Ochre, Brown Madder, Polish Brown (what an interesting shade of PBr25), and also Carmine (it's a weird PR48:4 pigment that's supposed to be more lightfast than other 48s but I still have to test it. But the shade... I just fell in love with it and can't make myself remove it from the palette). I also use few others of their tubes but don't feel so attached to them.

[@kourtneyreilly8519]

Their my favorite I love Purple Magenta, Mineral Violet and Helio Turquoise

[@KwameCrawford]

Been waiting for a video like this!!! Thanks!

[@ShelahirKrynn]

So, what I've learned from this video is that... I really should get a porcelain palette, why don't I have one. Also the freshly squeezed paint looks like candy.

[@sanayavg]

I save money and use small ceramic quarter plates !!

[@mjpete27]

Hullo Arleesha, I love working on Porcelain! I have found the larger palettes to heavy, the smaller ones light but not enough space to keep enough colors or mixing areas! So I have given in to buying plates from a local thrift store, some even have indented areas on their rims for keeping paint! Now if I drop one I can rescue the paint easily and I am not out a fortune for a broken porcelain palette! I have never used Rembrandt watercolors, well I do not remember them if I have! these look very opaque, is that just the lighting? or? Well I am happy for your Patreon supporters! a wonderful support gift, and so worth it too!

[@jennw6809]

I do that too, I have a rectangular plate that fits right in the mixing areas of many of my palettes so I just drop that in and have porcelain instead of plastic to mix on!

[@PinkWytchBytch]

Soooooo many colors I may just kneel over and faint 😩👌 I myself am currently waiting on a sizable palette of white nights to arrive in the mail so I’m down to watch other artists fiddle around with their own palettes haha

[@fuzzydragons]

looks like someone looking down from the clouds, very ethereal 🥰

[@AbraCassandraCrafts]

What paper did you use for swatching? I find that watercolors that may not look great, usually don't look good because of the paper. I prefer swatching on strips of Arches cold pressed or Fabriano cold pressed to get a good accurate visual on how it'll look. For example. I have this Strathmore watercolor book that I will put swatches from all my palettes in and they usually look like garbage. Even my Sennelier palette looks bad HOWEVER on Arches even my Cotman palette looks good.

[@monikawiedmann8594]

The rose madder is lovely!

[@xoonaniart]

Your videos are so calming.. I love watching and listening ..

[@therestlessknitter4290]

What paper are you watching on? It seems hydrophobic

[@Klynkha]

Hey, I love your painting and I think that this style really suits you. I can’t find the link to the previous video.

[@amyx231]

So. Many. Yellows! Lol. If I had so many tubes, it’d be purples and greens. So nice of them to send you all their colors though. Wow!

[@talluna8619]

it's strange how the paint seemed to bead when you were doing the swatches. do you think that was because of the paper or because of the paint itself?

[@thebooksofmylife]

I also noticed that - it looked like there was a lot of binder and the pigment was kind of pulled inwards. Really weird behaviour -there's no way to get a flat layer with the paint acting like that :/

[@talluna8619]

@@thebooksofmylife right? its strange. i asked about paper bc ive had similar experiences regardless of paint where some watercolour papers ironically seem to reject water, and you need to kind of scrub away at the top layer before you can paint on them

[@kamalitarajagopalan2671]

@@talluna8619 not sure if you know, but apparently watercolor paper can expire. Sometimes it works fine but if you have had a sketchbook for a long time you might notice the quality has changed over time.

[@talluna8619]

@@kamalitarajagopalan2671 i did not know this! but my experiences have been with two new sketchbooks from the same company so i just assume it was the paper itself lol

[@jennw6809]

It looked like sizing flaws to me because it didn't happen on all the colors. So surprised she didn't mention it

[@jennw6809]

Love seeing a palette poured and I always love your videos. But what was up with the swatches? Hopefully that was sizing problems in the paper, and not the paints. I'm surprised you didn't mention it, because they looked frankly awful, especially for instance the cadmium bordeaux. I'm also surprised to hear that was hot press paper, it had a lot of texture. Is it cotton?

[@ginistewart9636]

What type paper did you swatch on?

[@katenaru]

It looks so pretty

[@kaboomsihal1164]

They look like they really love to separate. Not sure i'd enjoy working with them. But hey always fun to watch pretty colours.

[@MedaHalmaciu]

I can't say I love these paints. I do prefer their dried pans to their tubes.

[@AndreeaEremiaArt]

Your videos are so amazing as always. ❤🤗❤

[@fufufuaru]

What paper did she use to swatch the paints? I'm sorry but it performed horrendous. Maybe some will like it but I hate how the water gathers like that, like it's beading up or the paper is resisting much of the water.

[@hannahcollins5905]

The paint colors are so pretty, that I want to eat them! 😍

[@ColorfullyOptimistic]

This was fun and relaxing to watch. I love making new palettes!

[@MeowMeowKapow]

::Is summoned:: Did somebody say setting up a new palette, in here?!?! ::Waggles eyebrows excitedly:: I've been out of the game for a while (Ran away to become an author, had to advance my digital art skills to focus on cover art and such, haven't gotten new paints in YEARS at this point), but I don't think I've seen this brand before today. That part of me that always wants to try everything all the time is very intrigued, but the part of me that's able to live through others via their videos is not entirely sure about this one. In your swatches, the colors looked a little muted and sort of... uh... dull? Which can be nice if you're trying to go for a sort of pastel-esque vibe, but that's not my own personal jam. It also seemed like the pigments didn't always flow evenly, and that could have been just casual water control in the initial swatches, or it could be that these paints aren't entirely predictable in how they move. As always, though, you've managed to take them and make something beautiful. That inconsistent pigment dispersion works to set the atmosphere of this hazy, restricted piece. It is both muted in vibrancy, and muted in a literal, mouthless sense, which is a clever play. Much love to you and the fam, Arlee. Hope that you are all safe, happy, and flourishing. 🖤

[@lifeismusicparnadonkers]

Hello Arleebean. How are you? I love you,re water colour paints. So mutch colours wow. I paint whit acrylic basics paint from liquitex. Its my favoriete paint. I have a miya himi gouache pallet of 24 colours. I tryed it its not for me haha. I love you,re colour combinations. Can you do a review of acrylic paint sometime? If you do thank you. Have fun painting. Greetings from parna donkers from the Netherlands 😁👋🏾👩‍🎨🎨

[@solveigfrank]

Thos colors loook so yummy kinda when u just squeeze them out of the tube xD

[@labaccident2010]

I like the muted-ness of the colors but the way some of those swatched bothers me. They are gorgeous though.

[@sanayavg]

This paper sizing is nasty…which one is it please?

[@swankyankee]

I need a link to the palette AB used in this video or even the brand name. Looks like a perfect palette. Thank you in advance.

[@someonesomewhere1100]

Omg so much vocal fry, like..are you good? I can't even listen to this it is nails on a chalkboard

[@labaccident2010]

Don’t watch, then. No need to be rude.