See what watercolors I'm taking into 2024! ✶ Palette setup and swatching
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- For my final video of 2023, I decided to reflect on my watercolor palette, share how it's going, talk about some colors I'm retiring and adding, and swatching my core colors. As usual, I'm experimenting but I like to give my core colors 3-4 months in use before making any changes. Over the summer and autumn I painted hundreds of paintings and found some colors lacking and need for new colors. I hope you enjoy this relaxing watercolor video.
Blog post with swatches ➤ bit.ly/3RZGghj
Watch the series:
Part 1 - Discovering Daniel Smith colors ➤ • Building a custom Dani...
Part 2 - Curating up my custom palette ➤ • Curating my perfect LA...
00:00 Intro
01:36 Examples of my recent paintings
02:11 New colors
04:48 Retired colors
06:13 Swatching my PrimaTek colors
12:24 Swatching my core colors
19:52 Final thoughts
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If you have room for one more color: Prussian blue is AMAZING with quin burnt orange. The greens and browns you can get with those two is fantastic, it's one of my favorite color combinations and makes a cool limited pallete.
Both are gorgeous colours, good suggestion!!!
Im gona try this! Thank you for sharing!
Great combo!
I love mixing Qor’s Indigo with Quin Burnt Orange for the same reasons. I find I don’t even use my Burnt Umber if I have those two, plus I use Quin Burnt Orange more than any of my browns anyway (for portraits)
This is such a good tip! Been wanting to add a warm orangey brown to my palette and you made me excited about this combo! Thank you!
I look forward to one of these palette updates every year, it’s so cool to see how you simplify your palette to get rid of redundant colors. Beautiful selection :)
Mostly swatching videos bore me deeply, but yours are packed with so much information and insight which makes them a joy to watch. You take so much care with the lighting and camera angles which means the viewer can really see the properties you are speaking about. Happy xmas and new year.
I really enjoy your videos. For colors tend you intend to mix a lot (like your two yellows), you can put them as two separate stripes in the same well. This was actually an idea from Mijello Mission where they suggest putting two or three stripes of colors in the same well for those common mixtures. This will save you some space too 😄
You might want to consider trying their lavender gouache. Same pigments and binder but higher pigment load than the watercolour version. I found I was using up the watercolour one too quickly so switched to gouache to use very diluted or smaller ammounts in mixing for watercolour paintings and thicker for gouache paintings- dual purpose
I'm on a no buy moratorium for the last several months. I have way too much paint! I like a few DS paints and may get that phathlo turquoise and Pipestone red. The only reason I'd get the Minnesota Pipestone red is because I'm from Minnesota and spent several summer trips to Pipestone to go to the museum and hieroglyphics area, and field trips. Lived 50 miles away. It's just nostalgia. I still have a little Pipestone turtle I got as a souvenir 60 years ago.
Thank so much for a great video and God Jul to you from a snowy Sweden.!
As I was looking though my stash to see if I had something alike to Lavender ( DS is very very expensive here) I was happy to find a good quality colour in my drawer that I will try in my mixes. If anyone is looking for a less expensive Lavender thecompany White Nights/St Petersburg makes a lavender watercolour w the same pigments that is in the Daniel Smith’s hue. It is also called Lavender. I know this company is based in Russia so it might be tricky to import because of embargos but it has always been a popular brand and I am sure shops still have it in stock. If you do not want to buy a Russian brand the Ukranian Rosa Gallery brand has a similar hue ( they normally have similar hues to the St Petersburg) but as I do not have it in my stash I don’t know the pigments but I am sure that is easily found on google.
Thank you....
I love seeing what other artists are up to like this, and planning for in the future. I don't have any new watercolors (I went on a no buy for 2023) but I do have some that I want to use more of. I have a big collection with different palettes/brands. It's like a window into how we've evolved over time in our tastes as artists.
You have emotions about colors similar to myself..fun to hear you talk about them.
Great content... I'm such a paint nerd... I'm hoping my stocking will be stuffed with plenty of new tubes this Christmas!
I would love to see your other pallets
I love Daniel Smith paints. I treated myself to a dot card last year and swatched them all in my sketchbook so I can select a few useful colours that I know I'll use often. 😊
I still have my dot cards and look at them now and then...so many gorgeous colors!!
@SarahBurnsStudio I like the fact that the dot samples are big enough to be useful for testing on a small sketch to see if you really like them. 😊
I learn so much from your thoughtful narration, Sarah ❤ Thank you (and Wolfy) for all the beauty you share with us here 🙏 Merry Christmas to you (and Floki, too) - can’t wait to see 2024 unfold!
I love DS Cascade Green and Quin burnt orange or Quin Gold together!!!! You need to try cascade green!
I listen to you (first time) and am absorbing your comments about the colors. I too, am a huge fan of turquoise, even though I don't actually use it as much as I'd like to (haven't learned how to paint underwater scenes yet). Thank you!
Stunning colors!! Quin Gold is so much fun to mix with other colors, especially granulating colors. A new favorite of mine is DS Aussie Red Gold - PY83, PR101, and PV19. It’s a gorgeous deep reddish yellow. Thank you for sharing! 🙌💕🙌
Oh sounds like a nice color. I totally love my Deep Scarlet mixed with a bit of lemon yellow, so I probably don't "need" any super warm orange/yellows but hey, it's fun!
Aussie Red is one of my favorites and must haves!
Wishing you both a happy , safe and peaceful Christmas ! Good Mexican food too !
Quin Gold and Burnt Orange for me are absolutely wonderful.
If you love turquoise, you should try Daniel Smith's Ultramarine Turquoise. I ended up keeping it on a palette instead of the Phthalo Turquoise because it has some granulation and far less drying shift. The only downside is that it doesn't get as dark in mass tone, but I actually like that because it means it doesn't overwhelm mixes as easily. 😄 Your praise of Amethyst has made me want to give it another try! And somehow I wasn't aware DS added a Quin Magenta in addition to the Quin Lilac. I'll be interested to see how you end up comparing them after using both for awhile.
Ultramarine Turquoise is very similar in hue to Amazonite (although different in granulation) and bonus--is a Series 1 price. It's also mixable using DS Ultramarine PB29 and Phthalo Green PG7.
That's great to know, thank you!
I just came across your video. You have some gorgeous paintings but beyond my skill level. But i will still watch. Thank you😊❤
The quinacridone gold made my heart jump! My most used colour from my Roman Szmal collection is quinacridone gold and I could not go without it. It was love at first sight and I'll never abandon it. I am very curious for the DS Quin Gold though!
It's such a powerful color! And it seems to be a color that a ton of people use, so I like to know how it behaves. I've been enjoying it for some experiments in the studio, especially for mixing greens and greys
Thank you for sharing this wonderful video and dedicating so much effort to creating valuable content that benefits all watercolor artists. Wishing you a truly wonderful day!
This was so helpful. Thank you so much!
For the colors you find gummy and don’t reactivate well, schminke watercolors are absolutely amazing for drying and using as cakes for reactication! So if you’re looking for ones that reactivate well I would recommend schminke!
Yes I have used Schmincke a lot and enjoy them too. They are great. But they have animal byproducts which I'm trying to avoid as I continue to buy materials
You're such a good teacher and I love hearing the joy in your voice when you talk about your paints. ❤
I love lavender in my palette! Useful! As @woutsebastiaan says below, Prussian Blue is great too! Beautiful greens, browns and purples for sure! Thanks for the video Sarah. Perfect on a relaxing, Boxing Day afternoon!
Beautiful colors! Thanks Sarah! Happy New year!
thank you for sharing.
Happy holidays, Sarah and Wolffy! Love your videos and can’t wait to see what’s coming in 2024 ❤❤
So happy to see this pop up on my page - I was afraid that you had abandoned watercolor for goache! I miss your watercolor videos and hope you will do more in the new year!
Amazing video, and happy holidays to you too!!!❤
These are some of my favorite videos. Thanks for making it!
Thank You for all wonderful advice and I wanna replace some of mine that I use now!
Thank you for all the inspiration you've provided this year. I can't wait to get started in my gouache lessons in the new year. Merry Christmas to you and your family.
After spending a few days at Art Institute of Chicago studying Monet, I was inspired and picked up a watercolor tube of W&N Cobalt Violet, as well as Utrecht in oil. I have barely gotten a chance to play with it, but good news: no white, just PV14, fairly transparent, but it is pricy. That said, I put it in my travel kits yesterday.
That color does come highly recommended. Enjoy!
What a beautiful calming video 😊. I’m just picking up my brush again (I’m very new) and I need to pick up paints. It’s a bit overwhelming to decide. I’m
In Canada 😊
Merry Christmas Sarah!
Really a wonderful selection of colors. Thanks for sharing.
Great video, thank you. Enjoyed it❤
Very informative - thank you!
Love all of your colors!! Thank you so much Sarah for your videos, they are all so inspiring and helpful especially as I'm still fairly new in my watercolor journey. Loving every second! Merry Christmas! 🎄
I love how much thought you put into choosing colors.
Merry Holidays to you and Wolfy!
Looks fabulous! Looking forward to your next paintings with these new colors.😄
So helpful seeing your swatches. I need to do that more. Merry Christmas
Thanks!
I'd considered getting that lavender shade before, it's so beautiful! lovely to see your colour selection process, it's always interesting seeing which colours different people are drawn to ❤❤
I love watching swatching videos and hearing how other artists use color. Denise Soden does lovely videos and explains what she uses the colors for which is great. And Natasha Newton
Merry Christmas!
Lovely colours. I have to watch this again and take some notes. A very Merry Christmas to you and yours. Happiness, joy and health for the new year.
Your such a talented artist and love your paintings.
Great informative video, thank you. Wishing you both a very happy Christmas and best wishes for 2024.
I love your swatching videos! I always learn something new about some of the colors I already use and ways to mix them that I hadn't thought of before. Bloodstone and Green Apatite have been on my palette for over six years and I've gone through many tubes of them. HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO YOU, WOLFY, AND FLOKI!
Sarah, Thanks for all your excellent advice and inspiration. Your videos are beautifully done. I especially appreciate the guidance about pigment choices and mixes in your palette videos. I pull out my swatches (on key rings by color) to learn and be encouraged to experiment. Wishing you and yours, a lovely holiday season. All the best in 2024!
Happy Holidays! Thank you for sharing your palette update with us. In case you weren't aware, the production of PO48 has been discontinued, so if you fall hard for Quinacridone Burnt Orange, Quinacridone Gold, and Undersea Green, keep an eye on stock. When PO49 was discontinued, Daniel Smith had enough to keep producing for near a decade. QoR and Roman Szmal (and maybe others) have started introducing new versions to replace PO48 mixes.
it is impossible to get any paint with PO48 now. The buy up by Daniel Smith happened a number of years back and they've got no stock left with PO48 and haven't had for some time. Unless you can find something in a garage sale that's very old stock, you're out of luck.
@@warpedweft9004 That may be PO49, the original Quinacridone Gold. I can still buy PO48 locally from DS and lucked into another tube of QoR.
@@warpedweft9004I think you might be getting PO48 and PO49 mixed up. Quin burnt orange (PO48) is still available from some brands. M Graham and Daniel smith still have them available
I love how you tell us how you use certain colors! Such a great video. I think I'll pick up that amazonite, and add deep scarlet and lavender to my "just for fun" palette to play with them. Thank you for sharing this and may you and ours have a very Merry Christmas! 🎄🎁🎅
The Pipestone, Minnesota color is gorgeous. I have been in that area and this color is representative of the beauty seen in that area. Happy New Year!
Thank you, Sarah! I see your three reds, pthalo turquoise and lavender in my future! Happy holidays!
I look forward to a video on your updated plein air palette. I used your colors on a trip to the UK this past fall, and they were spot on. Thank you for the inspiring content!
All the best to you and Wolfy in 24 Sarah! Can’t wait to see what you get up to 😁
I like your Christmas jumper as well as the watercolours
Hi Sarah, I wish you and your family a healthy Happy New Year!🍀🍀🍀 Thank you very much for sharing your work in 2023. I appreciate it and learned so much. Wish you all the best and happy painting in 2024🎉!!! Gabi:)
Thank you for this! Happy New Year!
Happiest of new years to you!
Your mountain paintings-incredible!!!! Thanks so much for this. Coming from gouache i really want to get more into watercolors and this helps!
Love watching this type of videos! Your colours look so amazing swatched all together - I am very jealous because in architecture you basically need greys and browns hahaha Happy holidays, Sarah!
I could watch ya swatch all day long! I see Green Apatite Genuine in my future. I added Quin Gold Deep recently and started using Quin Lilac for any pinky needs; I dream in Undersea Green. I still love your videos SB, all the best to you and Wolfy in 2024 and beyond.
Merry Christmas Sarah and Wolfy! You guys are such a great team - in every way. Thanks for all you share. Looking forward to coming along for your 2024 adventures
Thank you so much! Merry Christmas!
I love how you talk about color. I always learn a lot and it helps me reflect on what is in my own palette which I see as a good thing! I too have found Manganese Blue Hue a bit difficult to activate which I find disrupts my work flow. I have found I prefer colors that easily reactivate.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you, Wolfy and Floki!
Thanks so much for posting this video. I have been having a hell of a time motivating to paint of late. (Complicated life things and just not sleeping very well). This has got my painterly juices flowing again.❤
I understand. I get a bit depressed this time of year. Let's try to do at least one painting this weekend just for fun!
I’ve found the same for the last two years. Love being creative alongside videos like this, which make me want to get out and sketching and just getting my brushes to paint and paper. But ultimately I haven’t been finding joy in painting anything, really. So it’s all on hold for me for now. It will come back, that inkling. So I’ll just wait it out and build up my list of places and ideas and I’ll gather another color or two, maybe try a couple DS colors, as I’ve never tried them. Just got a couple paintbrushes and a tiny black paper pad to use w markers and chalks. Till then, I’m watching and dreaming through amazing artists like Miss Sarah.
I haven’t used watercolors..yet…but I love watching your videos because they are so informative. Hoping to get into gouache and watercolor in 2024. Just wanted to tell say Merry Christmas to you and Wolfy and Floki! 🎄❤. Looking forward to 2024 when the subscription boxes start. I’m excited! 😊❤
Happy holidays and all the best for 2024. Thanks for all the awesome videos in 2023.
Happy holidays!
Such beautiful colors! Makes me want to paint right now 😊 Happy Christmas!
I plan on doing lots of painting just for fun during the holidays :)
Thank you for an inspiring video🎄🎄🎄♥️🎨🖌️
Have a lovely weekend and holiday!
Cool colour thanks Sarah, lavendar looks interesting but ill have to save up Daniel Smith is sooooo expensive in england
Gorgeous color palette 🎨 choices! Have a great Merry Christmas 🎄🎁 & a Joyful Prosperous 2024 New Year!
Thank you, and a very merry christmas to you!
Jackson's house water color and cheap Joe's house brand both have quin golds without py150. These house brands are made by Sennelier and DaVinci, respectively.
Hi Sarah, hope you're well! Please, consider a video on color mixes and their proper applications in your paintings. I'd love to watch and learn. Thank you! Merry Christmas! ❤️😃
Bloodstone makes some incredible mixes. I also love the Amazonite and Amethyst. I just got iron oxide brown and am loving it, too. I tend to use the Hansa Yellow light rather than Lemon Yellow. And I keep phthalo turquoise & ultramarine blue, too. Those are such beautiful colours!
Happy Holidays to you both.
Thanks for sharing, I’m surprised at the umber of convenience colours you use, but no one can deny their attraction
Just added Bloodstone to my Gouache pallette!
I am in southern Oregon, so close to you. I agree about Undersea green, my fav! I am sad that PO 48 is going away. I stocked up on tubes of that one.
I mixed a very similar color to Undersea green with Quinacridone gold and ultramarine with a hint of bloodstone genuine. But kind of a faff which is why having a tube is nice :)
Great selections! Daniel Smith has a Lavender Gouache.
I have a small limited “fun palette” without a standard yellow but with quin gold and green gold and it actually works great for almost everything if used at the proper concentration ❤
I could see that! And that's kind of similar to what some participants had at the workshop
Your videos make me excited to keep painting and practicing! I long to know my paints, and which colours work best for each environment, as well as you do. Happy holidays!
Once I started doing this thing where I don't change pigments for 3-4 months - it changed the game. It gives me an opportunity to get intimately familiar with mixes and it really helps me learn what works (or doesn't)
You spoke of your gummy colors, but I have had the opposite w my W&N Indian Yellow-it dries and shatters like the desert sand. I cannot keep it together. So it is getting replaced and I wasn’t sure what with. Now I might try one of your suggestions here, and I’m going to watch the swatching again to see for sure and choose. Thanks so much for your wisdom-adds so much more to my curiosity and understanding!
Thanks for sharing.❤ If you want a less staining and a bit of granulation in your Turquoise try Ultramarine Turquoise. It’s very similar to the Phathlo and Amazonite.
Deep Scarlet is a long-time permanent color on my palette, it’s probably my favorite rich red. Quin Gold is another long-time palette mvp. I tend to use it a lot with Holbein’s Neutral Tint, they compliment each other so well. Cobalt Turquoise is a recent addition to my palette, it’s cooler, brighter, and lighter than Phthalo Turq, and is definitely another “a little goes a long way” color. I’ve also swapped out DS’s UnderSea Green (which I love,) for Sennelier’s Greenish Umber, which I use All The Time.
I really enjoy listening to why watercolor artists choose the colors for their palette. It opens my eyes to how I can use these colors. Thanks! Did you know that Daniel Smith now has Lavender gouache?
Hi Sarah, absolutely love your content. I wanted to suggest trying the Danial Smith Prussian Green, if you haven’t already. You might like it since you like the Phthalo turquoise. I love them both so much. ❤
First of all, I love those palettes, and have used them for a dozen years or more. I have 3 of them. One for gouache, and the others with 2 different watercolor palettes. Secondly, darn you anyway for showing me more paint colors that I’m just going to have to buy!😉Just kidding, but really they’re1 so beautiful, I gotta get at least the Phthalo Turquoise and the Amethyst. I have a lot of Daniel Smith colors, but not many Primateks. Thanks for sharing with us. I hope you have a very Merry Christmas and a healthy, happy New Year🎄🎅🎄
Phthalo turquoise and amethyst are my two favorites on my palette! You'll love them
Love colour talk!! I’ve never tried lavender (although I think I have a half-pan in a DS palette that I haven’t opened). I need to give it some consideration apparently 😊.
It has become indispensable for me. I use it in every painting now
Nice
Merry Xmas Sarah, to you and your assistant film director
Happy Christmas and New years to you!
I wish you and yours… a. Very Merry Christmas.. just got your brushes from craftamo.. can’t wait to try them.. after Christmas.. ❤
Awesome! Hope you have lots of fun. Merry Christmas
If you want to dilute ds gambouche might need some practice; it takes over really fast but I like it to mix my own version of naples yellow with white; for mixing yellow i prefer the hansa yellow deep for some reason mixes more translucent than the gambouche wich I ove for botanicals on stamns and so on.
I also took workshops with both Iain Stewart and Thomas Schaller. Schaller prefers the Holbein Lavender so I bought that and found I prefer that to the DS. I’ve recently tried to recreate a John Singer Sargent and find I am liking the modern equivalents to the colors he had. One being “BrownPink” which I found from Sennelier. It was better than the Holbein greenish yellow Stewart liked and the DS rich green gold. I’m also trying using Viridian instead of phthalo green and Prussian blue instead of phthalo blue. I love the primateks. There is nothing like them and the granulations are awesome. Piedmontite is awesome as there is such a color shift depending on the saturation. Love serpentine, green apatite, jadeite and amazonite. I also like the quin lilac. PO48 has been discontinued so stock up now and with anything you like that has it in the mix. Quin burnt orange and quin gold. DS says they have a 20 year supply but it won’t last forever. I stocked up on the PO49 quin gold before it was gone and it’s even better than the current mix.
I use Quin Lilac instead of Opera Rose because of opera's fugitive issue. The lilac makes a pretty good substitute.
If you haven’t tried their Aussie red gold you should!
Lavender is a color I absolutely love using also. I even use it, sometimes with various blues, for skies.
Thank you for such a comprehensive review of so many D.S. paints.
Have you tried any of the D.S. watercolor
sticks? They are easy to pack for plein air painting and for travel.😊
I'm interested in the lavender for sure. I'm curious do you ever have issues with gouache drying in the tube? And do you have solutions??? Would love to know your thoughts.... I hope you and Wolfey have a wonderful Christmas and happy New Year, Sarah. 🎄🎁🕯🎅
I think I have the same (or very similar) palette with 18 wells. I've sorta accumulated a lot of paints, but at some point wanted to build a custom palette. At first I found it difficult to limit myself to 18 paints, but now I'm super happy with the selection, and I reach for it more often than my larger tin of watercolors. I love the size of the palette.
I also recently bought a bunch of granulating watercolors from Daniel Smith. I tend to not like granulating watercolors, but this time I intentionally set out to buy some, so that I could paint textured walls and such more easily. Have you tried Geothite yet? I bought that one to paint sandy beaches. Need to keep Bronzite in mind for some darker rocks. The Phthalo Turquoise is so stunning! I can see why you love it. I have a turquoise problem, though, so I should probably resist buying another one... xD