hey guys. today I am trying out Daniel Smith watercolor. they have these cool
dots sample cards, which are brilliant and really affordable. and you know
expensive watercolors like this... you really only need a small amount
you can do a whole entire painting with just a dot of watercolor so this is
a fantastic deal. I think this card was around six bucks
and has 66 colors on it. I really really wish that every company would do this
because it's such a good idea. and you might fall in love with colors that you
didn't think that you would care about and that's a sale right there.
considering that each little tube of paint is often between 14
to 25 dollars? yeah this is definitely the way to go. and I am
curious about other brands cuz I went from Cotman student watercolors to
Qor, which is already kind of different in some way from other professional
watercolors. it has a different binder in it so there's a lot of stuff
I'm missing out on. this way, I get to experience that without
investing in a whole other set of watercolors that I don't need or will
think to use in the moment. so yeah let's get into it. so this card has
samples from three of their lines of colors: primatek
colors, the quinacridone, and the luminescent colors.
I found the quinacridone colors to be very very similar to the qor paints that
I'm already using. I think they must use similar pigments? they reactivate
really really easily which is why I definitely like these ones. the other
lines like the primatek and the luminescent ones, they don't reactivate
nearly as easily. I appreciate that these cards allow
you to determine that, so you can choose which colors.... because I know that I've
bought so many blues from the qor brand because I kept finding blues that
weren't satisfying to me! they were too hard to reactivate after they're dry.
I'm the type of painter who uses dry pans over tubes. I'm really
excited about the primatek colors because these are so interesting. they
are actually made from stones. pretty much like, the crystals that I
collect? they they grind those things up and use those to make the colors and I
think that is just already so fascinating. but the one that I am so
interested in is this red fuchsia genuine. and with the context of using
mineral based paints, it looks very much like I'm painting with a glittery sand.
you know when you look at sand and you can kind of see all the little bits of
glass in it? it looks like that and it's really really cool. but it's slightly
different from mica because it's a bit larger.... so it almost looks more like
glitter to me. I really like that. if I could find a tube of that on its own I
would totally buy it. so the luminescent range: they don't reactivate after they
dry very much, so when I was trying to use these I kept trying to rub my
paintbrush against it and getting color I'm not really getting much of anything. so
um that's really disappointing because I think that the colors that they are, are
so beautiful. I love this green in this 'cactus flower violet'
the 'hibiscus'... those are such beautiful freakin colors that I feel
like I would really love to use those. just can't quite get them to work off of
this card. so they're definitely colors that I would have to use straight from
the tube I think. but they're really nice... they're just like the the coliro colors
that I use. I imagine these work in almost the exact same way... they just
I think they've just meant to be used from the tube not from a dry
cake. of course making this little painting was a lot more frustrating than
I expected it to be and I think a lot of it is because I'm not used to having
this particular collection of colors. you know, you use a certain palette all the
time, you get used to it. so I kept looking around for the color that I
normally use and it's not here. there's like eight greens on this
page and none of them were the ones that I wanted and I was having a lot of
trouble mixing the colors together for some reason. but I think a lot of it just
has to do with the fact that I'm spending too much time trying to
reactivate the dots in the paper. I guess that's just a review on the card itself?
very cool, love the concept, I think everyone (business) should do it and it is useful
to know which colors are harder to reactivate when they're dry.
I'll probably just add this painting to the shop when this is done and I will
see you next time. thanks for watching