MY FAVOURITE WATERCOLOURS 2023! ✮ 30 colours you need to know about
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 2 ก.ค. 2023
- I've chosen 15 of my current favourite 'big brand' watercolours and 15 handmade watercolours to share with you in this video. I hope that you enjoy the video and perhaps find some new colours that you love too. :)
List of colours:
Holbein Artists’ - Grey of Grey
Roman Szmal - Lazurite
Schmincke Horadam - Random Grey 2022
Daniel Smith - Blue Apatite
Schmincke Horadam - Glacier Green
Isaro - Payne’s Grey
Schmincke Horadam - Shire Grey
Daniel Smith - Lunar Violet
American Journey - Pat’s Coastal Blue
Sennelier - Greenish Umber
American Journey - Blue Stone
American Journey - Coastal Fog
American Journey - French Grey
Daniel Smith - Burnt Sienna Light
Schmincke Horadam - Mahogany Brown
Handmade watercolours:
Arkaar Creation - Fossil
Beyond Indigo - Putty
Kwarts Creations - Blue Grey
Arkaar Creation - Vivianite Blue
Red Clover Meadow - Teal Blue
Deep Deep Light - Lapis Lazuli Baikal
A Gallo - Notturno
Beyond Indigo - Eucalyptus
Arkaar Creation - Vintage Green
Deep Deep Light - River
Deep Deep Light - Cedar Teal
A Gallo - Olive Green Deep
Kwarts Creations - Moss
A Gallo - Harbour Blue
Deep Deep Light - Blueberry
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I've chosen 15 of my favourite 'big brand' watercolours and 15 handmade watercolours to share with you in this video. I've now added a list of all the colours and brands to the description box underneath the video. :)
The Lapis Lazuli in the 6th spot in the 3rd row, would be perfect for a painting of the moon
@@elizabethlynch6544 Ooh, thanks - I may try that!
Can I ask what paper you are using for these stunning colours please?
What a lovely relaxing way to start my Sunday :) I adore every one of your favourite colours and now you have me lusting for all these handmade beauties! My current favourites are Roman Szmal for their unusual colours and stunning granulation. Their greys in particular are superb and would be perfect for your palette! Your finished swatch reminds me of those moon pebble sweets from my distant childhood in the UK :)
This is such a beautiful swatch card! Looks like painted pebbles. I’d absolutely frame and hang this haha. Some really beautiful colours there.
My favorites in this list, which I never used before...but... Schmincke Horadam glacier green (the gradiateion is absolutely stunning); American Journey coastal fog; and I saved the best for last - I am in love with A Gallo Olive green deep (oh my it is GORGEOUS)... However, I find that all 30 colors are lovely!
Those were exactly my picks too! I’m a colossal sucker for granulation, the freakier the better😅
Oh my goodness! So many moody luscious colors! -BUT! I'm saving all my pennies for the Wallace Seymour paints. Can't wait to see that video. I've been obsessed with them since you first showed them to us. It looks like even their Quinacridone paints granulate. Can you imagine?!? It may be a bit too much excitement for me. Thanks for this gorgeous video, Natasha. I hope you are well! 🌜
Ha ha! It's coming. :) I think there seems to be a lack of Wallace Seymour videos on TH-cam, so I'm hoping that this will be a good resource for people who want to try them.
@@NatashaNewtonArtyes please! I’m sitting on my wishlist of 13 colors but I’m not sure if I want to pay that much and have all the hassle with import till you do that review 😅
I❤the Roman Szmal watercolours 😊thanks ❤😊
Would love if you would do an updated main palette video - I love the way you edit colours for your painting style.
Thanks Jemma! I'd like to do an updated palette video and make it an art process one too. :)
Beautiful choices! Thank you for sharing!❤
First of all, this was a complete eye-opener for me to learn about some of the artisan manufacturers you've mentioned here. Secondly, your swatching is a work of beauty in it's own right and so totally absorbing to watch. These particular colour choices are also beautiful and enlightening... thank you.
All the muted greens and blues are my favorites haha! Such a beautiful selection and this page is pretty enough to frame!
I want to hang it in the studio!
It's not entirely clear what kind of video you're suggesting we shoot, but be sure to shoot it! Your fans will watch it with great pleasure! I love your videos!
What you've painted here is so much like what I'm seeing this summer along the shore of Lake Superior where lake-smoothed agates are all over the beaches and shining up from the shallows of the amazing clear water, so many colors arraying themselves in subtle collections of darks and lights, contrasts and analogous. I think I can find much joy at home recreating the stones as individuals as you have here like a school yearbook. Thank you so much for such a lovely exercise, Natasha.
Love this!
All are gorgeous,gorgeous ❣️ Thanks so much for another swatching video 🙏
Coastal fog, eucalyptus, river...so. pretty.
Watching you paint these swatches and listening to your voice should be offered as therapy so relaxing
Thanks Penny!
Those swatches are a work of art on their own! So many gorgeous colors. 😍
Oh my- all those moody blues. LOVE! My wallet is going to be angry with me!
I‘ve been obsessed with my Roman Szmal paints since I got them, especially Aquarius green, but I’m heading to England this week and I’ve ordered some Wallace Seymour paints to bring back with me and I can’t WAIT to try them. Also, thank you for showing some of the paints in your work at the beginning of the video. It’s helpful to see them swatched, but it’s also helpful to see them in action in a finished piece. Also, also, “notturno“ means night in Italian, so it’s quite fitting that you like to use it in your night landscapes!
Have a lovely visit to England and enjoy your new paints too! Wallace Seymour watercolours are quite unlike any other watercolours I have. I love them!
Absolutely love these colors! Thank you for sharing them with us!
You are so welcome! ;)
So many stunning colours 😍
Excellent.. watercolors Lovely video
Such a beautiful selection of colours x
Outstanding colors, I added several to my must try/buy list.
This video just caused me to create a new saved list called "Wants"!!! ❤️ Fabulous paint/pigment discoveries for those of us wanting to paint more natural hues. Thank you so much for sharing your pallettes and time😊
I love your pebble swatches!
Beautiful colorsI I only have two of them: A Gallo Notturno & Olive Green Deep. I love them both. From your swatches, Schmincke Glacier Green looks intriguing. My current favorite color from my palette is Daniel Smith Green Apatite.
Just the swatch sheet is a piece of art 🥰 and honestly it's very hard to pick a favorite I can imagine how hard it was for you to just pick these colors!
Thank you!
beautiful selection of colors. i can see why you love them. they are gorgeous.
Thank you so much!
Oh my these are all absolutely gorgeous, I can't even choose!! What a lovely video. Thank you.
Thanks so much, really pleased that you enjoyed it!
Always love a swatching session. One of my favourite colours at the moment is Michael Harding Quinacridone Bronze.
Love them all x
Beautiful colours and swatching Natasha, as always. I just adore the teal Meadow, it sings to me, hehe 🎼🎤❤
Thanks Wendy! It's a beauty, isn't it!
Hi Natalie...I really enjoyed watching you swatch your fave colors of 2023. Oh my...I've veered off into pastels lately. But I'm missing my watercolors. And while I have a good size stash of pro wcs, I don't think I have any of the super-lovely colors you swatched here. Some of the ones that stood out for me are Coastal Fog, Putty, Glacier Green, French Gray & Mahogany Brown. But really, I'd be delighted with all of the colors. And I love vivid and bright colors, but lately I've been happy with going a bit moodier and I'm also experimenting with graphite and Graphitint pencils too. Thanks for sharing ❤
So cool to see your pebbles again 😊💕
Ah, thank you!
Can we please go through all the Watercolor palette you own and then go through each individual colour? You do so many handmade water colours and I’m very interested as I’m very new to the area myself a handmade watercolours I’d like to land and I would love to see the whole collection.
Love your palette tours, so I vote yes on an update :)
Isaro PGrey is sitting poured to the pan in my main selection of colors. A stunner!
I am so enamored by this palette...I'm inspired
needed this today. I'm sick with a head cold. Never nice when it's nearly 40C outside
This video gives me so much inspiriation! Thank you again Natasha. And YES, please show us your newly revisited watercolor main palette! x
That's great to hear! Thanks Eline. x
So relaxing! The colours look perfect together, dont which one is my favourite 😊 thank you ❤
Thank you! 😊
Your swatching videos are always so beautiful and calming to watch so thank you🙏🏼
A. Gallos, Olive Green Deep is a firm favourite of mine, along with Notturno. I think I've now fallen for Teal Blue and Putty😍 I would love to see a review of your previously reviewed main palette when you have the time❤️
I have the Schmincke Horadam Glacier collection, and glacier green is a magic colour, I think. Thank you for a lovely video. I love your stone swatching 🥰
Thank you! There is something quite magical about it. :)
I am currently waiting for a delivery of deep deep light colours, including River. This looks so beautiful. Not my normal colours but they are so pretty together. It’s also lovely to see how you have used them in your work. Thank you. X
Always so calming to listen to you swatch colors. I have recently given in and tried A Gallo (and I now get why everyone is raving about them) and "Pietra Rosa" was an instant fave. I used it in a recent painting of mine where I was a bit stuck color-wise until I got this one.
I did mix it further (rarely use the paints straight out of the pan) but "pietra rosa" is the "potter's pink" that I've always wanted.
Probably too bright for you, but I love it:)
I really need one of the light greys you use for overcast skies. My green equivalents are Terre Verte and Davy’s Grey, which I use a lot for my nature paintings. They are great for subtle backgrounds, so a bluish version would complement them well. Thanks for the inspiration!
Yes please I would love to see your revised main palette!
Such a gorgeous collection of colors 😍😍 glad some of mine made the cut ☺️♥️
Definitely! They're such special colours.
I love all of these! If I had to pick just one Blue Stone or Olive Green Deep!
Delightful! I’m a sucker lately for a mauve-y taupe, so the Putty watercolour is my fav. I really enjoy mixing Mahogany Brown with Buff Titanium and a touch of Potters Pink.
I'll have to try that!
Perhaps I can persuade you to make longer 45 mins videos. Your voice, description of pigments and general paint talk is the perfect lullaby for a peaceful beautiful sleep ❤️❤️
Longer videos coming soon!
These are all so lovely! I don't know how on earth you manage to choose only 30! I've been fascinated lately by Daniel Smith's German Greenish Raw Umber. It looks a little different in different light and every time I use it, I'm a little surprised and delighted by it and wonder why I don't use it more!
Would love to see the swatches of your master palette!
Love seeing the handmade colors. I have a few of your A. Gallo favorites, like Harbor Blue and Noturno. Thank you for sharing. Want to try some of your handmade watercolor choices from Deep Deep Light and Red Clover Meadow.
So glad you enjoyed it, Paula!
Loved every single one! Right now my fave is Roman Szmal’s Potter’s Pink
That's a very nice Potter's Pink! I have that in my Frazer Price palette.
SH Glacier Green and A Gallo Olive Green Deep. Love them!!
With Your style of swatching, Ms Natasha, You always know where Your marbles are... 😊
Ha ha!
I am loving the S Glacier Green but must get the AJ coastal blue!
I also gravitate towards moody dark teals. Your palette is wonderful. It feels very modern.
Thank you!
I tend to use more vibrant colours, but this is such a beautiful collection Natasha. I think my two fabourites here are: Glacier Blue & Teal Green
Thanks Anita!
A. Gallo harbor blue is one I can't stop touching. I certainly see a few more here I will be hunting down.
I have always loved bright, vibrant colors. BUT I have to agree that these are really beautiful. And I have many of them, but don’t use them that much. I may have to dive into that more dark side!!!
I kind of re-discovered a color I had for a long time in my palette Schmincke Horadam "perylene green". Enjoying the color so much again. ❤ I like to mix it with dabs of other colors and neutral tint too.
Lovely video, I always enjoy the swatches and fun shapes. 😊
That's a great colour!
Beautiful colors! The DS burnt sienna light looks very much like my transparent red oxide. Loving those American Journeys. Once I am off my no-buy, those are the next paints I plan to invest in. Thank you for sharing those! Actually, I totally loved every single paint you showed us and totally see why they are in your top 30. My current palette is more of a mixing palette, but I plan on changing that, well, after the painful no-buy is over...lol
The AJ paints are well worth investing in - I'm loving using them!
Beautiful swatches! That fossil color is amazing I’ve been wanting to get it ever since I first saw it on ur channel❤
Aw, it is a lovely colour! So textured. :)
Hi Amber, it’s been restocked today ☺️
What beautiful swatches . They look like little muted gems . The colors are so ethereal and calming .
Thank you!
It's a very 'you' choice of colours, and has a lovely harmony, but they're also very similar... I can follow your arguments perfectly, for why you've chosen them 😊 But I think, one of your strengths is, that it still develops over time 😘
I couldn't find a 'one' favorite between them, but I'm possibly leaning towards the blue/green with that yellowish olive thrown in 😂
I love these swatching sessions, don't ever stop making them, please ❤
Thank you so much, I'm really pleased that you enjoy them.
I watched this video twice while was working and wanted to let you know that all the colours you swatched are so gorgeous! A lot of inspiration! Also I just bought some Kwarts paints as I noticed that she finally opened her Etsy back, it was hard to resist. Thank you for making this day so much calmer and inspiring us with your videos.
Aw, thanks Kriksis! I'm so glad that you enjoyed this video. :)
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@@kriksis That means a lot to me. :)
A Gallo Olive green deep and Kwarts moss, please! I will happily use any mouldy, mossy, gloomy looking green :D
Another delightfully relaxing video, Natasha. Thank you!
You and me both! 😂
That is a stunning collection. I want them all, but particularly drawn to Beyond Indigo - Putty, and the Schminke Horadam Glacier Green. I currently am playing with a few colours from Beam. They have one with mica in it, Chiigbii’aande - Beach Sand, it’s very sparkly and I’m mixing it with everything to see what happens :). Great video, thank you.
That sounds lovely!
Stunning! Would LOVE to see you swatch your palette (again ☺️)! 🥰
Thanks Hannah! I've changed a few and it could be interesting to explain why, and then create some art with that palette. :)
@@NatashaNewtonArt YESSSS, please! 😁🙏
Loving the look of arkar and deep deep light paints- I think I’m looking more for colour separation in my natural and granulating paint choices.Having said that my favourite new paint is Wallace Seymour Oxford mudstone a lovely pale grey- but you may already have that in your Wallace Seymour collection!
I do have that one, and I love it! I'm excited to share my Wallace Seymour collection. :)
So moody I love it. Still in love with the Daniel Smith Blue Apaptite it has such depth. It looks a though many of the hand made watercolours are somewhat opaque? Maybe a swatch over a black waterproof line would give us more visual info. Also I am wondering if the handmade w/c companies offer the pigment make up of their colours as that could help workout if there are opacity fillers. Thank you for all your work and sharing. .
Yes, please film updated video of main palette so we can see what you've removed & replaced - Thank you!!!
Sorry comment spamming here - appreciate your clearly labeled description. A valuable reference ‘sheet’. Of paint and brand. ❤️
Thank you!
Just discovered your channel, and so pleased I did. I’m very new to watercolour and all of your palette is very much the colours I love I would love also earthy brown/yellow /green tones (forestry I guess), do you use or recommend any that Would sit perfectly alongside this palette ?
Also your pebbles/egg swatch would make a lovely art piece in itself . Just beautiful and calming 🌿
Welcome to my channel! :) I would recommend that you check out the different Schmincke Horadam super granulation colours. There are lots of interesting earthy browns, yellows and greens in that range.
They're all so beautiful. I'd love to have them all. LOL
My current favorite color right now is Ardoise Gray by QoR. It reminds me of Coastal Fog but darker.❤
I totally could have included that one in the Top 30!
oooo ... yummy!
Coastal Fog, Fossil, Putty, Lunar Violet, Olive Green Deep & Harbour Blue are doing it for me 😊
Your swatching videos are sooooo dangerous Natasha! 🤣 much love to you darling xx
:) xxx
I love Schmincke Random Grey. I think this year, they made a pastel out of their random pigments. I’d have loved a 2023 watercolour version tbh. My favourite colour at the moment is MH Dark Morellone Earth. Just got it for my birthday and I’m in love 😂.
Would love to see the updated main palette ❤
Oh no, no Random Grey watercolour for 2023?! Dark Morellone Earth sounds like a wonderful colour. :) A belated happy birthday to you!
@@NatashaNewtonArt thank you!
The Random Grey reminds me of Shadow Violet from DS - I don't think I've seen you use it, but I think you would enjoy it. And yes to updated palette swatch!
Ok, that's now in my Jackson's basket for next time! ;) Thank you.
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I think we need a part 2.
your swatches are looking very pretty like gemstones :)
but I´m thinking some colors are a bit simular and some times is less more?...
I like also very interesting muted crazy granulating colors and I´m thinking that i can mix with my 15 of them and some other colors endless more colors if I want ...
I like that this awesome colors can make a artful pattern by itselfe with more or less water - so I need just 1,2, or 3 colors per artwork and every watercolor artwork will be very unique, interesting and harmonicly.
Hi Natasha, thank you for a beautiful video. Gosh now my list expands for me again. Please, the brush you used is adorable too. May we know which one that is? Thanks a lot
Thank you, it's the Betty Hayways watercolour brush, No. 7!
@@NatashaNewtonArt thank you so so much. I feel so bad now. I have been bingewatching your videos over the past days and stumbled upon a few where you not only mention which ones they are, but also that you are asked about then quite often 🙈 please accept my apologies... anyway I am even more in love with them now and will get this one as soon as I can. Just to stare at it's beauty while I paint 😅
Hello Natasha I so love your collection and I always watch your videos! Honestly you are one of my inspiration for my new art youtube channel. I love your voice and just the mood of your videos is so relaxing and all the topics you have are very interesting! Thanks for all your efforts and for sharing your love for art!
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Thank you so much, Elizabeth! Good luck with your new channel. :)
@@NatashaNewtonArt Thanks a lot Natasha and I am here to always support you! 💕
Stunning colors! Where did you get the beyond indigo and arrkaar creation colors from? I need them both in my collections 😮
Beyond Indigo are on Etsy (UK based) and Arkaar Creation are from their independent shop (google it and you should be able to find it!). :)
I don’t know when I became Natasha Newton with moody colours, but lately all I want to do is put Payne’s grey, moonglow , potters pink And eSumi Boku undo shadow palette to paper.. 🤣
Ha ha!
I heard grey of grey as grave grey. That was rather ominous 😂😂.
Ooh, that took a turn. 😂
@@NatashaNewtonArt 😂😂. I still hear it grave grey 🤣.
Me too😮
@@tammylanglois2602 Message from the other side, perhaps? 👻
Thanks for video. You have 5 greys?
I do! I actually have about a trillion.
What brand is the eucalyptus colour? It's my favourite.
Beyond Indigo! There's now a full list of all the colours in the description box underneath the video. :)
I’m glad you didn’t put Wallace Seymour in here because I cannot for the life of me find them for sale.
I need that A. Gallo Green deep now. 😅
Have you ever used Daniel Smith’s Green Apatite? That’s the green I’m always obsessed with. When I want it brighter, I’ll mixed it with a phthalo green or blue, but on its own, it is my favorite green. That and Schminke Cobalt Green Dark. Those are about as moody as I get. However you’ve definitely inspired me over the past year to add some moody colors to my palette.
WS are very hard to get hold of! I've only ever known of three places that sell them; Choosing Keeping in London, Art Req in Scotland, and an Ebay seller! I've tried a sample of Green Apatite but don't have a tube of it (I wonder if I thought it was too bright for me?). I have Schmincke's and Winsor & Newton's Cobalt Green Dark and love both of them!
Aarkar creations are no longer on ETSY, and could not find the brand website via google. Would be helpful in future videos if you could provide amlist of the colors you are recommending. Your handwriting is understandably tiny, but unfortunately hard to decipher when I pause the video.
Check the description for a list, Julie!
Are you asking me to pick just one ?? I can pick 30 if that will work. 😉
Ha ha!
Frame this artwork.
I want to hang it on the studio wall!
🅒🅞🅞🅛 I don't use that many colors, though