Hello, welcome back to my studio.
Last week, I did a video on Daniel Smith watercolors and did a quick demonstration
to show you just how powerful those colors are.
Now, a lot of you have
given positive comments about the water colors and are keen to try them.
Some of the concerns I've heard are
Well those paints of pretty pricey but Daniel Smith have a very handy way
of letting you choose the right colors for you and helping you save some money.
So we're going to have a look at that right now.
OK, so how do you test out your
Daniel Smith colors before you actually stump up and buy yourself a few tubes?
Well, they've got this handy selection of colors that you can try out.
It's Daniel Smith's, extra fine watercolor sheets, and they've got two hundred
and thirty eight color dots on these different sheets.
These are actual dots of Daniel Smith water colors that have
dried on here. And you can wet them with your brush
and try out the colors. Now you can purchase these sheets.
This has several sheets in it.
Let's have a quick look at them. All right.
So as you can see, these are reds and yellows, oranges, basically warm colors,
and
I'll put that down.
In this one
we've got blues and greens and a variety of unusual colors,
even iridescent ones and then earthy colors, browns, et cetera.
So these four sheets with all the main watercolor colors on them. Now what you can
do with purchasing these is take them home, try them out.
And what are we going to do right now is
try them out and show you just what you can do with these color dots.
And I'll do a little painting to help demonstrate.
OK, so here's the sheet of the watercolor samples. Let's open it up.
So what does it say in the directions.
Wet your brush. Apply wet brush to one of the watercolor dots,
put your brush with paint to paper and see the beautiful color for yourself.
All right.
I think we can follow those instructions.
So I guess most popular, are going to be warm colors.
And some cool blues and greens
and then a few earthy colors as well.
But what a vast range.
So I guess this is a good way to get familiar with a few of them.
So let's do that.
I'm going to use a smaller brush.
So let's have a look for something perhaps a bit traditional to start off with.
I like to start with cadmium yellow.
Well, let's start with this cadmium yellow light
hue.
Okay just a bit of water on there.
And I must say, pretty strong, isn't it?
Let's make something out of this, let's say a pear shape shall we?
Weird pear.
All right, sunny side, not too much water just
get that on there. Wow!
Look at that.
No one can say that the
paint does not have punch.
That's just from a little bit there. Let's go a
bit darker.
Let's go to cadmium yellow deep.
A bit on there.
And boom!
And what do we have here?
Aureolin Cobalt Yellow.
Frankly, I've never heard of that.
What is that?
Looks like yellow ochre, goes on like yellow.
All right, how about some orange? Cadmium orange.
Well, that looks pretty powerful
Look at that.
Amazing! And something brown.
I need an earthy color here.
Let's have a look. What we have?
Roasted French Ochre.
Interesting.
Let's try some.
Burnt Sienna almost. Good old yellow ochre.
I need some of that for my pear.
And how about
Verona Gold Ochre. This is fun.
Something but stronger. What do we have here?
Fired Gold
Ochre.
That looks more like it.
How about this, what is this? Aussie red gold.
That looks good.
That's pretty amazing.
Let's have a look at that on its own.
Well done Aus! Now we need something
for shadows. What are we going to try?
Cobalt blue violet.
Look at that.
All right, cerulean blue.
Quite sweet.
How about
cobalt blue.
Yep, that is pretty strong.
Drop some of that in.
All right, pretty.
And Pthalo Blue. Yup.
Look at that,
incredible.
All right, let's bring a bit of green in here.
What
do we have?
Spring green.
Yep, that's
pretty potent. And viridian?
Cascade Green? Something a bit darker.
OK,
go back to yellows.
Right, Hansa Yellow light.
All right, I need something with brown. Browns, browns.
What's it going to be?
It's quite fun, actually.
Lunar Earth?
Come on,
let's get some of that in there.
A few of those little marks you get on a pear.
Lunar earth.
I wonder if Elon Musk has tried this one?
No, he wants Mars.
Maroon.
What is that?
Verditer Blue.
Little bit of cooler blue.
Let's get a bit of that Pthalo Blue right down there.
Uh.
I bit of that Aussie gold.
Quinacridone Rose?
What have we got? Pthalo Green.
Wow,
powerful.
Be careful with that.
So there we have it.
I mean, those colors are astonishing, actually,
and
there's still a lot of paint left on these dots.
So you'll get your money back
and it'll help you save in case you buy a color you don't need.
Perhaps choose a chart that you need.
I'm not sure if we can get them separately, but
you can certainly have fun testing out
unusual and amazing colors.
Well, I hope you enjoyed that little demonstration and found it useful because
what a great way to test out the color
and then decide which colors you need to purchase.
And that'll save you a whole lot of speculation and maybe ending up
with a tube of premium paint that you're never going to use.
So this is quite handy.
And also with the amount of paint on here,
even these little dots go a long way, as you saw for yourself.
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All right. We'll see you soon.
Cheers for now.