Watercolor - Using Tube Greens

[@morningglory8559]

Miss Jean, you are the only painter I've seen on KZbin that can swipe a piece of paper 5 or 6 times and have it look so marvelous! Bless you and thank you! P.s. I LOVE green! It just makes me feel ALIVE!!!

[@jennyreed2597]

Not a painting! I absolutely love your work Jean you have inspired me to be loose and experimental ! Thank you .

[@OtoKano]

Totally agree with you Jean. We have so many awesome wonderful tube greens, they are so much fun to explore. Love how you use perylene green in your skies!

[@chantalnugues-perrin3631]

Hi Jean, beautiful way of using perylene green for skies ... thanks for your tutos 👍

[@essietangle9931]

Don’t think that I have watched anyone start with a tube green and mix from there. It’s great and i appreciate you showing this to us today.

[@mariapellegrino4815]

Hi Jean, For not being a painting, this is fantastic!! Love how you can turn just having fun into something so great. Love your work 👍💕🤗

[@peggyperry1706]

Thanks! Those are the same three greens that I consider my go to greens!

[@maureenknight3863]

amazing

[@pstutor1]

I am glad I watched this. I used to think i had to mix all my greens, but I too found sap green was very good as a base and required much less mixing. So thanks!!

[@JohnArnoldPhotography]

Hi Jean. Thanks as always. Green is my favorite color in watercolor. I have just used M. Graham's various greens. But maybe I will get the W&N and Daniel Smiths you show to play with. I always like how you did not intend this to be a painting, however those top trees formed in a way, you did make one without trying. Thank you again.

[@sallycain3716]

Wow your experiment is so inspiring! I love DS paints and like sap, green gold and serpentine green. Must try that perreline (sp?) green!

[@anam00090]

Love the demonstration painting. I use the exact greens you mentioned, plus Undersea Green from Daniel Smith - it's a very muted color that can be perfect for muting down other hues (even used in portraiture) or giving more natural look to brighter greens. Mixing every green on the go can take too much time. It's nice that you addressed this.

[@janicehilton8884]

Although John Arnold said everything I think..lol...I wanted to thank you as always for such awesome inspiration. :-)

[@karenkrosnick8725]

this is great! Love the perylene green and green gold together. thank you!

[@kazfarndon4990]

I love using DS rich green gold. A rich yellow to brown colour thats good on its own or mixes great greens with different blues or violets. Has a good value range on its own too

[@burningwiththesun]

That's how I make all my paintings just having fun and see what comes from it at the end

[@TheWipal]

So many colors might as well enjoy convenient colors 🤷🤷😋 i like a pallette with the primarys, tertiaries plus brown, white, black~

[@森下典樹]

I mix my rich sap green trying to duplicate the Daniel Smith original sap green with PO 49 in it, I put the premixed convenient green in pan, push it towards other hue when using.

[@juditharowland3461]

Hi Jean......I too love green and I am so grateful that you did this. I was unaware of the properties of Perylene Green and Green Gold. I have the DaVinci one but I don't have any Green Gold at present. I do have some Isaro Chartreuse and will try that. I sincerely am enjoying all my classes with you and am in the process of painting a few ...It's so freeing to be able to paint like this and so very much fun. The results are so interesting. Thank you. I'm looking forward to more classes down the road.

[@JeanLurssen]

Hi Judith. So glad you stopped by. I am currently creating a new course on Loose and Abstract Florals. Will be a few weeks before it's publihed. If you want to be notified be sure to signup for my mailing list if you haven't already at www.jeanlurssen.com/online-classes

[@juditharowland3461]

@@JeanLurssen Of course I'll be taking the course.

[@rosemaryclark610]

I find greens are fairly easy to mix myself, but find browns harder to get to. Would you do a video on how to get your own mixed browns? I live in Colorado and there are a lot of rock colors that are different shades of brown. Individual, really nice, tube browns are harder to find, I think. Thanks!

[@JeanLurssen]

Great idea Rosemary. Will put that on my list.

[@carollangman1163]

I just ordered those two Daniel Smith greens after seeing you work with them..pity you aren't on commission 😂

[@WmAnnis]

I don't quite get the obsession with not using green, and only mixing, when often it seems to me this just complicates mixing. If your blue+yellow combo results in an unnatural, day-glo green (which it can, if you use the right blue and yellow), you're going to have to mix in an orange/red/purple to tone it down anyway. Starting with a tube green seems to save a step. I like perylene green + cerulean for the dusty blue shades of some evergreen trees. I've recently been playing with dioxazine purple to tone down sap green (MG).