Is This The UGLIEST Colour? German Greenish Raw Umber | Daniel Smith Watercolor
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ก.ย. 2021
- I know we all love to have pretty colours in our palettes, but how about ugly ones? I came to the conclusion when painting out Daniel Smith's dot cards, that German Greenish Raw Umber is the ugliest of them all! But of course, by my logic, I had to then have it for my collection. So today I will be taking a closer look at this less than attractive colour, and we can decide for ourselves if it is truly hideous, or UBU (Ugly But Useful), lol.
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I will never understand why natural, muted tones are seen as "ugly" by so many people. It's wild. The natural world around us doesn't have many bright, pure, "clean" colors.
Haha true that! It was just my visceral reaction when first trying the colour. Like when you swatch out all the dots and so many of them are just so stunningly beautiful when you wet them, then this one was "ewww" by comparison! 😂 But really it is a very useful colour, and perfect for natural scenes.
So in love with this kind of colors 🍂
I just immediately want to use it for autumn leaves, knit sweaters and rough pleather coats.
Oh I love those ideas! 💜
It’s not ugly at all… it’s gorgeous, mixes beautifully into other colors especially clouds. I really love it. I think you just got to open your mind 😸
Clouds is an interesting one! I don't think I'll ever love that particular shade, lol.
She just doesn't like the color, why the hell should she 'open her mind'? It's a matter of prefference. You're just toxic ☠️
@@HeavenlyBrujo You’re the toxic one, bro. Listen to your negative self 😂
My kind of color-really. I love muted granulating colors. Constantly on the lookout for the perfect color to use for white rhinos (they're really not white). This could be a winner.
I'd be interested to see how they turn out! 💜
@@BeckyTregear Took a while-but I'm getting ready to order it. Will keep you posted!
It's one of my favorite colors. I use it both as a muted olive green, and as a muted yellow (even more muted than raw sienna). In most book illustration we rarely use pure colors, and yellows usually aren't favored (along pure greens). So on an autumn or muted palette for a vintage-looking book illustration, this color is a must-have. Along sepia (your base brown), transparent red oxide (your burnt sienna), indian red (your red-magenta), moonglow (your purple), payne's gray (your blue), and then the German Greenish Umber as both your green and your yellow. That 6-color muted palette can do wonders for a specific type of illustration look.
Thank you for the lovely suggestions! The greenish raw umber has proven to be a surprisingly useful colour overall. 🙂
Becky, many thanks for cheering me up! (nothing serious - I was having a sort-of tired bleurgh moment) This made me laugh out loud (the stuff from the bottom of the duck pond...) , and then intrigued as you talked about what I thought at first was Kanto (and thinking, what *is* kanto? - well, it is past my bedtime!) and then realised was a Cane Toad!
What a grim sort of beast it is! But the painting was amazing. As others have commented, as a landscape / urban landscape artist, raw umber is a good colour to have - it's the 13th in my 12 colour half-pan palette and in the 12 full pan set, it has to share a space with a half pan of burnt umber.
Not sure this one would find a place, though, as it's just not strong enough, and wouldn't replace the raw umber.
Anyway, thanks - I'm still smiling and have another piece of random information to tuck away in my brain cell. "Kanto and Duck poo..." 😊
Kanto, haha! 😂
This colour is very useful for landscapes and animal paintings. I've used it a lot for my bird paintings, since my native birds are very often this subdues neutral green brown colour that takes a lot of time mixing and adjusting if you don't have green umber. I've learned to love it for it's usefulness since it reminds me of birds rather than bird poo :)
👏👏👏 That description though 🤣🤣🤣 Gave me a chuckle, well done! We need lots of those in lockdown right now! I loved your painting Becky, and I've always loved sepia, so I actually also love this colour, too!! 🤣🤣🤣 Well done on this really fun video! ❤️❤️🤗🤗
Thank you! I just thought it would be fun to pick a less attractive colour, because usually I go for the prettiest ones, lol.
Hi! I recently got into watercolor and youtube and through that I found your channel! I just wanted to let you know that I really enjoy your videos. 🤗
Thank you, I really appreciate it! I hope you're having fun with watercolours; I love them so much. 💜
@@BeckyTregear I'm really enjoying watercolors and I'm enjoying the process of finding and mastering my art style. Keep up the good work 😊
I LIKE this color! In fact, when I discovered it, I bought it in several brands (Schmincke, Sennelier, and I think Windsor-Newton). The only one that disappointed me was the Sennelier - but a really thorough stir fixed that. I mean, how many cool browns are there?
That's a fair point! It is growing on me, and is useful for sure. 😆
I agree. And it's an incredibly useful mixing color if you paint landscapes as I do.
Thanks for the introduction to green umber. My initial reaction was the same as yours. But I can see it as useful in landscapes and toning down greens. To be honest I prefer other browns than raw umber.
Yeah I am not a big fan of raw umber as a colour. I much prefer burnt umber because it is a nicer shade 😌
Think it might be useful to mute greens for landscapes.
Non-native species are such a major issue. When I lived in Hawaii, the mongoose and feral cats did a number on the native ground nesting birds. When I left in 2001, they had either a toad or frog issue. Living now in Central Florida, there is a lot of nervousness about the pythons that have established themselves in southern Florida. I hike and do volunteer trail work. Wild pigs, Brazilian Pepper bushes,and Ceasar Weed plants are a major headache for hiking and trail work.
Love your toad. Glad you were able to "play".
Introduced animals always seem to cause so much destruction! Yes I agree - I think this would be an excellent colour for muting greens, as it also has a greenish undertone.
I loooove it!!!!
Oh I think it is beautiful! I love that it is greenish. I actually love it 😅😍. Nice painting btw.
Thank you! It is growing on me too, and has a of usefulness as an earthy tone ☺️
The swatch on its own is rather ugly, but in the painting it was great. This color definitely needs context. Sennelier has a greenish umber that is quite nice - more of a perylene green color. Thanks for sharing 😎
It seems like it might be good for landscape painting. Interesting to hear about the toads in your area.
Yes it is great for rocks and trees, those neutral tones ☺️
I have Da Vinci's Raw umber Natural, and I think it's probably their version of this one. I don't use it a ton, but I agree, it's nice for neutralizing other colours when you want some granulation. I was planning on trying to mix skin tones with it. I used it for the lighter browns in a nightjar painting too.
I imagine it would be pretty good as a skintone, though there is a bit of granulation (depending on if you prefer smooth or textured skin effects).
@@BeckyTregear yeah, I figured for when I'm not looking for perfect alabaster skin; more for wind weathered skin, or freckles :) But also, Da Vinci tends to have finer/smoother granulation than Daniel Smith, so it might be more versatile than I think. Your frog turned out great :)
Love your cane toad! Thanks for sharing your 'ugliest color", and giving us some ideas about how to use this color. I love natural colors, but haven't used this one--Daniel Smith has some of the best earth tones and so many to choose from. I'm a fan of low-tinting colors, I can do so many interesting techniques with them in landscapes and portraits.
I think this is a decent earthy colour to add to one's palette. 😊
lol Duck poop is a perfect description for this color. But I can see a use for it with other colors. A friend of mine had a coin purse made out of a cane toad!
I've seen those in souvenir shops...gross! 😂
I love this color!
I like that colour. I might have to get a tube.
thanks for the demo. There is no other detailed introduction of this paint on youtube, not that I know of. So this is very helpful. It'll be better if you can show some color mixings using this color. I already have DS Raw Umber which is quite dark and cool, do I need this one too? hmmm...
Glad it was helpful, and thank you for the feedback about colour mixing. I don't often do it because I have a lot of colours and it's hard to know which ones would be most useful to mix together, haha.
😅 I actually kinda want this now. I agree it was 'gruesome' straight out of the tube, but - once diluted from its masstone - it's my kind of color. LOL Maybe I just like 'duck poo brown' because I have some nail polish in this shade.
Oh awesome, haha! I can see you having fun with this paint. It's a pretty useful colour overall.
I guess I'm weird, but I like the color because it reminds me of nature / the earth....and lends itself well to those types of paintings...as well as your pretty frog painting. :D
I love it!
I liked the painting, if not the toad, lol. That color, as many have said, is a good pigment for landscapes. I could see that as background pine trees, distant hills, etc. The granulation is good. I like your idea of using it to tone down bright colors. Thanks for sharing!
I do plan on adding it to landscapes as I think it will be very useful. 💜
Wow! It is a bit of an ooky odd colour out of the tube! LOL But there is some appeal to it for sure. I have recently been drawn to earthtones and exploring the various ochres, siennas, umbers, lunar earth and lunar red rock by D.S. My dot card had a large glob of this German greenish raw umber; so out of curiosity I just did a few mixings with several blues and blue/green and this is what I found:
ultramarine turquoise = lovely shades and one is extremely close to tera verte
cobalt blue = super soft and muted perelyne green
cobalt blue violet = slightly violet sepia type colour
ultramarine blue = beautiful grays with a slight hint of green
You are right Becky it doesn't have that strong a tinting strength but oooooh the colours are just lovely!! Having seen these mixes I can definitely see how @Strawberry Sparrow uses them in clouds! The various tones would give such gorgeous depth to them! I am adding this to my cart today and can't wait for it to arrive and try it out some more mixing on a larger format. It makes me sad I am unable to use any of your links to help fund your channel; I'm in Canada and can't seem to get any of the links to Jackson's to work. :( But I did definitely hit subscribe, like button and am excited to check out more of you videos in the coming weeks!
Thank you so much for your lovely comment! Hmm I wonder if I made a mess of the links again, it is always so confusing! 😂
I love the sound of the mixes you made; I will have to try those out too! Muted colours do tend to work really well with brighter ones. 💜❤️😊
I actually live the color and use it all the time. It's one of my most used colors in Landscapes. I love your take on it though. It really isn't one of those go to colors for most is it. Yeah I could see how it could be seen as ugly.
I also love it for my wwii esc paintings. It's great for capturing that whole Vietnam feeling as well. Great for historic paintings when you're trying to capture that moody feeling without making it dark.
Oh wow I can totally see this as a military colour, what a great use for it! It's not the most attractive colour in the world, but as you say, it has a lot of uses. Ugly but Useful! 😄
Ooh would love a real time tutorial of this toady! In fact a few on frogs and toads.😘
I really like this colour :)
You're not the only one, it is way more popular than I ever expected, haha!
Oh, I like this color a lot better than a lot of Daniel Smith colors. This color would be perfect for landscapes! Rocks, autumn leaves, dirt roads, rocky hillsides, the clay hills in Wyoming, trees, fields. I love it and am thinking about buying it now. 😁 I have burnt tigers eye genuine and tigers eye genuine. They are a lot like this also. 😁
You make me chuckle Becky!
It's quite similar to the tiger eye paints in its tinting strength, and a useful shade for landscapes. 😊
LOL. Laughed at the comparison to duck poo (so accurate), but i still love the colour. Granulation saves the day with this one and is great in texture oriented paintings. Depends on what one likes to paint, seems very earthy and natural. I can almost smell the mushrooms in a damp multi-coloured autumn forest with this one. Would work well in mixes. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder 😆
Haha true that! It has a lot of practical uses.
I looooove this color
Aah that’s the colour of my palette dirt and I love coloring with palette dirt. Honestly the only ugly colours that exist are in my artwork with the hideous combinations I do ( not mixing just juxtapositioning of the colours).🤣🤣
Palette dirt is awesome, haha! 😆💜
Even Cane Toads need love too! 😁
Most farmers go out of their way to run over them, lol!
@@BeckyTregear yuck squishy!
Not the most attractive color, maybe boring even, but it is a good color for landscapes... the color of soil and certain tree barks, rocks, or dead vegetation... and that's a lovely little beast-toad.
It's a good colour for Australian landscapes, which have a lot of very neutral colours 🙂
I use it in seascapes.
I got to have umber on all of my pallets. And yea on its own it often look like poo. It was of course a raw umber acrylic ink I tried to shake, while it was open, and got it all over my keyboard and screen. XD I am looking to get a green umber already, it will not be a DS one though. Love the toad!
I guess poo is a common occurrance in life, so there needs to be a colour for it too 😁
You had me laughing out loud with your comparisons to this color! 🤣I inherited this color from an artist who passed on and I have really come to love it! But when I run out, I am going to switch to QOR’s Bohemian Green Earth, as it is a bit more lively and less “duck poo.” 💩
Ohhh I love the name! Bohemian Green Earth.....I might need to check that one out as well.
It might not be the most beautiful colour at first glance but I like the granulation and the natural tone. Some colours are nice to look at but are so bright that they are not useful in a painting unless mixed to neutralise them a bit. So I like this colour.
Your cane toad is much 'prettier' than the real ones, lol. We now have a better balance between them and all kinds of frogs on the property than years ago. So glad.
Oh they are pretty hideous in the flesh! I am glad you have other frogs now...the toads just take over everything! And yes, bright colours can be quite unrealistic so nice neutral tones like this one are very useful.
Before you even started the video all O thought was oh that'd be a good color for an underwash, but its non staining lol maybe I'll get the oil version lol
Ah yes, it would make an excellent underpainting colour for oils! 💜
I was tempted to buy it for mixing and I can imagine it’s great for landscapes. Only drawback is the low tinting strength. But I do see beauty in its ugliness - and it’s quite unique 😊
Agreed
Exactly that! The more I use it, the more it grows on me as an excellent earthy tone.
I would look up verdaccio …add pbk6 (yellow ochre) and it is the perfect under painting for a majority of skin tones. It is not an ugly color.
after working for a few years with earth pigments, collecting them myself as well as making watercolors from commercial earth pigments, I rarely use anything else anymore, except Ultramarine Blue and a few other synthetic pigments like Cadmiums and Titanium pigments (especially for really good orange tones, which are hard to achieve only with pure natural ochres).
Now the synthetic, overpowering, super saturated and bright colors seem not exactly ugly to me, but somehow too much / yelling / too loud. Hard to describe. It just doesnt feel good to me anymore, after I used those insane powerful colors for many years.
There is a lot to be said for natural, earthy tones. I tend to swing between using those, and then going for all bright ones, and back again.
@@BeckyTregear sometimes I try to balance both kinds in òne painting. With Ultramarine it works, also with Cadmiums. However I didn't really succeed in using Lemon Yellow or synthetic Indian Yellow together with earth pigments, and not at all with Chinacridon colors or Phthalo colors.
It almost looks sepia on the camera anyway. I like the earthiness !
Yes, once a lot of water is added it really looks like a sepia colour!
I actually love this colour!!!! LOL
Haha, I am liking it a lot more now I've painted with it a few times. ☺️
@@BeckyTregear Good! Give that colour some love!
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ooh I really like it diluted, but you are right, straight out of the tube it's not very appealing...in fact it's almost exactly the colour you find in a newborn baby's first nappy :D
Haha gross! 😂 But it definitely looks better when watered out a bit.
That's my fave colour😂
Haha! Actually, it is pretty useful. 😊
New baby diaper color does well as a mixer .
Haha that's a great description! 🤣
My only gripe with the greenish raw umbers is that they are often quite low tinting strength. Other than that I honestly quite like it. It mixes really well imo.
And yeah, so many stories about smooth brained humans introducing invasive species to deal with something and then go all poggers when it inevitably runs amok. 😅
Love the toad!
It's definitely not a strongly tinting colour, which made things more difficult when painting the toad. But otherwise I am growing to like it for its sepia-like qualities. ☺️
We call this colour in French 'caca d'oie', goose poo... Not very attractive colour ( but more than headache inducing neon) but pretty darn useful in a palette, I think. The painting is great and as usual, very life like. Have a nice week. V.
Haha that's brilliant! Caca d'oie it is. 😁
I can think of a million uses for that one, it’s definitely one of those colours.
And wow, as a Queensland girl, it’s perfect for a cane toad. Damn things are a total menace.
It's great for all sorts of things, especially cane toads! 😂
This is subjective - i could certainly envisage using this in a variety of compositions - If you put this in the context of a dark skintone or a landscape I think you could certainly find a place for it - thanks for sharing Big Like👍🏻 🎨 👩🏻🎨
Oh very subjective for sure! And as much as it isn't a very pretty colour, it has a lot of uses so I am glad to have it in my palette 😊
It does have a pond scummy sort of color to it. LOL
Ha ha ha ... duck poo brown ....I will always think of greenish raw umber that way from now on lol...... Love your cane toad Becky but yeah still not a fan of the color if I need it I will make it....I"ll save my penny's for something else.... Thanks for the demo.
I bought it "for the channel" (lol) but it has grown on me and it's now a welcome addition to my palette 🎨
I would like to see how it works with other colours, I could see it as being useful for a value underpainting as it has low tinting strength and brighter pigment will take easily over it. Your cane toad is good, and yes, a lesson on not introducing a species that has no natural predators, though it has an interesting history it is lethal to other species. I do not dislike this colour it somewhat reminds me of faded sepia too. Also old damp algae coated concrete! Maybe not so common where you are. The duller earths are useful, just not that inspiring!
I totally agree! It would be a great algae colour, and is a nice tone for underpaintings etc, though it is not very staining.
de not a nice colour on its own, but it did work really well for colouring the toad 😀
At the first sight it was … a bad color, but you used it very well
It's one of those Ugly But Useful colours. 😆
"Dog poo brown" 😅😅
He looks like a mini dinosaur, I wonder if they’re related to dinosaurs 🦖
They certainly have a prehistoric look to them!
Who thumbed this down?!
Haha! There is usually at least one. 😁
Army color
I'm glad you tried this paint out - it was really interesting it see it in a complete painting. You're right - it's not a very attractive color, lol.
Haha no it isn't....but I kind of like it, and I am happy to have it in my palette. 😆
Hmmm, German greenish gurbulish raw umber😂 As you said, it’s quite unappealing in the palette and even the swatch, but I can see the use for it now after your toad painting! That toad definitely looks like royalty and the painting reminds me of a portrait of an villainous ruler😂
Haha I love it! He just needs a little crown. 👑
Y'know, I was thinking it was pigeon poo brown, but you're right; it's dank cane toad brown! Lovely granulation, though.
It is definitely a bird poo colour! 😂
Why did you have to paint a toad 😞😩
Because cane toads just happen to be the same colour as German Greenish Raw Umber! 😄