Very interesting info, Marty! I have DS Buff Titanium and have used it mainly in painting sandy beaches and landscapes. Recently I decided it was time to learn how to draw real portraits so this will come in handy as I move away from my stick people. Thanks for always posting amazing content here and on IG!
Thanks for the "recipe", as I try to avoid buying more paint. I was thinking of purchasing cobalt teal, but this looks great. This comment is a wonderful example of how your comments can help someone, even years later.
Thank you! Also thank you for not spreading the fake news that buff titanium isn’t a white! This is a great video and I’ll def share it w folks. Also unlike titanium white (which is more expensive) because buff titanium isn’t a super stark white it’s easier to use because you don’t need to keep the poured paint or dried half pan as super clean as you do with a titanium white (don’t accidentally have a little phthalo blue when you dip your brush in white titanium! 😭😭) And yes! It’s made even getting darker skin tones easier by adding opacity without adding a chalky look! I also started using open acrylics this year and buff titanium is great for getting tints.
100% Karia. As you know from Instagram I paint many types of people and like getting the tonal values closer by using buff titanium. When you are trying to get a range of flesh tones, it's good to have options. Glad you stopped by. Keep posting to IG, especially love your fighting for equality. Marty
Hi Lindsay - I know the old audio had a LOT of echo. I recorded this in a different room. My oldest moved out and I'm set up in his old room, but it's empty and so lots of echo. I have to watch that because it's really a distraction. Thanks for the note and for taking a look, "buff titanium", pretty niche. :-)
Wow! Your quick little portrait of James Gurney is great!! I’ve only been watercoloring for a year and a half, but have used buff titanium for skin tones . It was one of my early Daniel Smith purchases. I was just scrolling on a site to get a variety of colors and for some reason it caught my eye. I prefer transparency, so I do go a bit easy when mixing the Buff Titanium with other colors. I’ll be watching you painting Mr. Gurney a number of times over! Have not seen him with a beard. Nice. Looking forward to painting with your ease sometime in the future. I’ve gotten a late start with watercolor and find your videos very helpful! Thanks for taking the time to share your talent😊
Hi Mary - I got a late start with watercolors as well. I was deep into my 40's before I even tried it out. I was oil painting before that and drawing mostly. One day I said, I'm gonna start and make as many mistakes as I can, so I can learn something about this crazy medium.
I just fell in love with the color the moment I saw it..great to know so much more about it from your video..Thank you 😊. Subscribed, as a token of appreciation.
A great examination of the qualities of buff titanium, Marty. I've seen a few other artists mention this recently, so I guess it's definitely a good potential add-on to any artist's palette. It seems to work well in portraiture but I was interested when you mentioned it also works well in landscapes. It's the start of the month so I'm putting together a 'wish-list' of art products ..... which I'll order after I get my 'highest priority' order sent off to Total Wine for a month's supply of beer (well, I am British, after all!). I might then just drop a tube of the buff titanium into my art wish list, after seeing your demo. Incidentally, it was good of you to give a shout-out to James Gurney .... it's always nice when an established artist gives a helping hand to these young up-and-coming painters LOL :-) Well, thanks again for the video and you and your family stay safe - and Mrs Two-Legs, young Mr Four-Legs and I will try to do the same down here in Florida. Cheers, Brian.
Greetings Brian - A months worth of beer can be consumed in less than a month from what I hear. :-) Well it's good to have a list and mine never seems to grow smaller. I have too many things on it and note enough money. Such is life. I laughed at your Gurney comment and even though he's a big shot and I ain't, I still gotta respect the masters. ;-) All is well around these parts and hoping for better days ahead my friend. Stay great Brian. All the best, Marty
Hey Marty , that was a great video . Sometimes you just need a suggestion and it sends you to your brushes 😇 . Never underestimate a simple idea or tip , it’s quite valuable to the right people at the right time 👍🏼 !
@@owingsart same here 😂 I have my brushes in the living room and they always stare at me 👀 as if they say use me 😂 sort of.. lol I think I try to say the passion I feel for creating paintings wether they good or not it's just a urge.
I didn't know they used Rutile! I have some Rutilated Quartz right next to me, fun. Thanks for all the great info, per usual!😸 Ok you convinced me, I need it.🤣
Thanks for letting us know about buff titanium...very interesting. I liked that you did that quick portrait of another one of my favorite artists, James, like you & Steve.
Thanks for the info on where it comes from! I have a tube but ended up not loving it. Since it was gigantic (37 ml American Journey), I divided it into half pans and added some other tube colors so now I have a whole palette full of artist grade pastels that are amazing on toned or black paper 😍
if buff titanium white is pose to be a cheaper alternative to titanium white why is it twice as expense ?...i don't understand...(.im talking about water soluble oils)....mayb u were using watercolor??? idk....if anyone knows please answer ..TY
Thanks for the educational mini-doc on buff titanium, love these kind of things.... I just bought a tube and I'm anxious to try it out on skin tones...
You are spooky. I’ve been fighting with myself about buff titanium. “I have enough paints, I need another tube”.... that kinda thing lol. I just made up my own fake bt by mixing titanium white and stuff, sepia and something, I forget. It worked for what I wanted at the time. Didn’t know bt was cheaper than tw, though. Shucks. Well, I guess I’ll have to go to the art store anyways then. You know.... to save money. Haha. Cheers Marty.😎🇨🇦🐝 PS: I subbed to James Gurney ages ago; he’s an amazing artist too. Even after watching him paint something, I don’t know how he does it lol. He’s so confident and his paintings come out with that “feeling” every time.
LOL! Thanks man. Yeah Gurney is awesome. I just like testing out new techniques and new supplies, stuff like that. I got this tube from Wet Paint, my local art store and thought what the heck, I'll make an entire documentary on it...LOL.
Happy Labor Day Marty! Hope you and yours are well! We’re doing well, aren’t planning to go anywhere due to COVID and the crazy heatwave hitting SoCal this weekend. Thank you for the in-depth view on Buff Titanium! I learned a lot. :)
I use it as well sometimes as mixing colour, or just to tone down the white areas in a paiting as I often find the paper too white. at first I didn't really liked the colour but now I find it a good addition to my palet. it's a interesting colour.
Awesome job explaining, I had actually been wondering about this paint. I did kinda figure that it is probably a variation of titanium white, but I wasn't sure. Now this definitely looks like something that I could use very much, so thank you for letting me know. 😊
I remember mixing a nice buff. I was trying to get a look like YT artist 'iraville'. But it was palette leftover in the mix, and I couldn't reproduce it. :-)
Awe, Marty, you should have left the monkey in. Lol. No, seriously thank you for the demo and info on buff titanium. I'm liking this paint more and more. Karen from Canada ☺☺
Thank you for the video. Daniel Smith is beyond my budget, but I saw that Roman Szmal also has this colour with exact pigment. May I ask a question which is oot? I have seen you use paper plate lookalike as palette in several of your videos. I wonder if they are actually paper plates? Sorry for my silly question, I am a beginner 😅
This video was very informative, thank you so much! I recently bought Warm Gray from Sennelier as a Substitute for buff titanium, I saw a review about it and realised how pretty vintage colors it made mixed with other paints! Didn’t knew it was made by rutile which I see often on my crystal collection 🤣
Warm grey has 4 pigments in it? Jeez. It's a wonder you don't end up with mud every time you mix it with something. Roman Szmal (order on Jacksons for world wide delivery) does a buff titanium full pan for a fraction of the Daniel Smith one and it's just the one same pigment so it makes much cleaner mixes, when you're ready to replace that horror.
I've seen other people use buff titanium; but, that's one color that I've never even considered adding to my watercolor collection. I don't even have titanium white. Is that weird? My son recently started painting with oil paints and he has a huge tube of titanium white. I think his oil paints are M. Graham. I don't know if he can even get buff titanium. Did I hear you say something about rutile? I thought that the word seemed familiar and one of my watercolor pan sets has a yellow in it called Rutile Yellow.
Hi Donna - Absolutely yes on the Rutile and it's used in more than just buff titanium so that's probably what's in your Rutile Yellow. It's not weird that you don't have a titanium white, but I do use mine quite a bit. Also in my watercolor palette when I want to make something more opaque.
Hi, Nice history on buff. But probably not the best way to explain and demonstrate opaque quality of any paint. Just mark the paper with thick black lines and then paint over the lines. If the lines remain visible then the paint is transparent and if the lines are not visible then it means that the paint is opaque. Try it.
@@owingsart thank you so much for your response. But I am suggesting is that showing something in demonstration is always much better than talking about it. What your video demonstrated is how buff white BLENDS with other paints. Not how opaque it is. If someone is considering to buy buff white for its opaque quality, your video is not helpful in that regard. Also, do you think buff white gets more rusty as time goes after mixing with water? Because of the iron content?
@@danrazART I haven't noticed any rusty color over time, but my previous experience was with oil paints, so I'll have to keep an eye out for how the watercolor behaves. Also, I get you point about the additional demonstration of opacity and it's a fair one. Thank you!
Hidden gem of TH-cam ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Very interesting info, Marty! I have DS Buff Titanium and have used it mainly in painting sandy beaches and landscapes. Recently I decided it was time to learn how to draw real portraits so this will come in handy as I move away from my stick people. Thanks for always posting amazing content here and on IG!
Thank you Kelly. Hopefully you get some good use in your portrait work from it.
you can get a wonderful teal mixing buff titanium and lemon yellow + phtalo blue!!
Thanks for the "recipe", as I try to avoid buying more paint. I was thinking of purchasing cobalt teal, but this looks great. This comment is a wonderful example of how your comments can help someone, even years later.
Never thought of it as a means to soften n dilute a bright color.thanks
Thank you! Also thank you for not spreading the fake news that buff titanium isn’t a white! This is a great video and I’ll def share it w folks.
Also unlike titanium white (which is more expensive) because buff titanium isn’t a super stark white it’s easier to use because you don’t need to keep the poured paint or dried half pan as super clean as you do with a titanium white (don’t accidentally have a little phthalo blue when you dip your brush in white titanium! 😭😭)
And yes! It’s made even getting darker skin tones easier by adding opacity without adding a chalky look!
I also started using open acrylics this year and buff titanium is great for getting tints.
100% Karia. As you know from Instagram I paint many types of people and like getting the tonal values closer by using buff titanium. When you are trying to get a range of flesh tones, it's good to have options. Glad you stopped by. Keep posting to IG, especially love your fighting for equality. Marty
Ive always loved opacity
You audio sound really good! Did you change something? Great video!
Hi Lindsay - I know the old audio had a LOT of echo. I recorded this in a different room. My oldest moved out and I'm set up in his old room, but it's empty and so lots of echo. I have to watch that because it's really a distraction. Thanks for the note and for taking a look, "buff titanium", pretty niche. :-)
Wow! Your quick little portrait of James Gurney is great!! I’ve only been watercoloring for a year and a half, but have used buff titanium for skin tones . It was one of my early Daniel Smith purchases. I was just scrolling on a site to get a variety of colors and for some reason it caught my eye. I prefer transparency, so I do go a bit easy when mixing the Buff Titanium with other colors. I’ll be watching you painting Mr. Gurney a number of times over! Have not seen him with a beard. Nice. Looking forward to painting with your ease sometime in the future. I’ve gotten a late start with watercolor and find your videos very helpful! Thanks for taking the time to share your talent😊
Hi Mary - I got a late start with watercolors as well. I was deep into my 40's before I even tried it out. I was oil painting before that and drawing mostly. One day I said, I'm gonna start and make as many mistakes as I can, so I can learn something about this crazy medium.
I just fell in love with the color the moment I saw it..great to know so much more about it from your video..Thank you 😊.
Subscribed, as a token of appreciation.
I learned a new term: Portraiture . Of, comprising or related to the depiction of portraits. Nice
A great examination of the qualities of buff titanium, Marty. I've seen a few other artists mention this recently, so I guess it's definitely a good potential add-on to any artist's palette. It seems to work well in portraiture but I was interested when you mentioned it also works well in landscapes. It's the start of the month so I'm putting together a 'wish-list' of art products ..... which I'll order after I get my 'highest priority' order sent off to Total Wine for a month's supply of beer (well, I am British, after all!). I might then just drop a tube of the buff titanium into my art wish list, after seeing your demo. Incidentally, it was good of you to give a shout-out to James Gurney .... it's always nice when an established artist gives a helping hand to these young up-and-coming painters LOL :-) Well, thanks again for the video and you and your family stay safe - and Mrs Two-Legs, young Mr Four-Legs and I will try to do the same down here in Florida. Cheers, Brian.
Greetings Brian - A months worth of beer can be consumed in less than a month from what I hear. :-)
Well it's good to have a list and mine never seems to grow smaller. I have too many things on it and note enough money. Such is life.
I laughed at your Gurney comment and even though he's a big shot and I ain't, I still gotta respect the masters. ;-)
All is well around these parts and hoping for better days ahead my friend. Stay great Brian.
All the best,
Marty
Raw sienna is also nice for mixing flesh tones. Nice video, Marty.
Agreed.
Hey Marty , that was a great video . Sometimes you just need a suggestion and it sends you to your brushes 😇 . Never underestimate a simple idea or tip , it’s quite valuable to the right people at the right time 👍🏼 !
Thank you Tracy. That's true and any excuse I get to pick up a brush, is a good one as far as I'm concerned. :-)
@@owingsart same here 😂 I have my brushes in the living room and they always stare at me 👀 as if they say use me 😂 sort of.. lol I think I try to say the passion I feel for creating paintings wether they good or not it's just a urge.
Thanks for this informative video! You would be great as a narrator! Love your painting of the artist.💗
Thank you for the kindness.
I like buff titanium + DS Gothite for beaches/sand
I need to try some of that.
I didn't know they used Rutile! I have some Rutilated Quartz right next to me, fun. Thanks for all the great info, per usual!😸 Ok you convinced me, I need it.🤣
Ha! Small world isn't it.
you are an a amazing teacher, thank you😊
That is very kind. Thank you 🙏
Thanks for letting us know about buff titanium...very interesting. I liked that you did that quick portrait of another one of my favorite artists, James, like you & Steve.
Thank you PJ. That's awesome to hear.
Thanks Marti... I have never use the Buff Titanium, but after your review I am now interest to add this to my selection... thanks.
Howdy Walt - Thanks for the note my friend. And thank you for watching.
Thanks for the info on where it comes from! I have a tube but ended up not loving it. Since it was gigantic (37 ml American Journey), I divided it into half pans and added some other tube colors so now I have a whole palette full of artist grade pastels that are amazing on toned or black paper 😍
Thank you for the note. I'm sure you will find a good use for that giant tube at some point.
Great video!
Thank you Sarah.
if buff titanium white is pose to be a cheaper alternative to titanium white why is it twice as expense ?...i don't understand...(.im talking about water soluble oils)....mayb u were using watercolor??? idk....if anyone knows please answer ..TY
Yep this is watercolor. Different with oils paints.
@@owingsart k...ty 👋
Thanks for the educational mini-doc on buff titanium, love these kind of things.... I just bought a tube and I'm anxious to try it out on skin tones...
Glad it was helpful!
Great Review!
Glad you enjoyed it
very interesting , Marty !! thanks for the video and the information . so many options for us artists!! norakag, here 👍👍
Hi Nora - Thanks ma'am.
You are spooky. I’ve been fighting with myself about buff titanium. “I have enough paints, I need another tube”.... that kinda thing lol. I just made up my own fake bt by mixing titanium white and stuff, sepia and something, I forget. It worked for what I wanted at the time. Didn’t know bt was cheaper than tw, though. Shucks. Well, I guess I’ll have to go to the art store anyways then. You know.... to save money. Haha. Cheers Marty.😎🇨🇦🐝 PS: I subbed to James Gurney ages ago; he’s an amazing artist too. Even after watching him paint something, I don’t know how he does it lol. He’s so confident and his paintings come out with that “feeling” every time.
LOL! Thanks man. Yeah Gurney is awesome. I just like testing out new techniques and new supplies, stuff like that. I got this tube from Wet Paint, my local art store and thought what the heck, I'll make an entire documentary on it...LOL.
Happy Labor Day Marty! Hope you and yours are well! We’re doing well, aren’t planning to go anywhere due to COVID and the crazy heatwave hitting SoCal this weekend. Thank you for the in-depth view on Buff Titanium! I learned a lot. :)
Glad you are staying safe my friend. Thanks for the kind words as always and stay great!!!! - Marty
I use it as well sometimes as mixing colour, or just to tone down the white areas in a paiting as I often find the paper too white. at first I didn't really liked the colour but now I find it a good addition to my palet. it's a interesting colour.
Hey that's cool Brenda, glad to hear you are finding a use for it.
Awesome job explaining, I had actually been wondering about this paint. I did kinda figure that it is probably a variation of titanium white, but I wasn't sure. Now this definitely looks like something that I could use very much, so thank you for letting me know. 😊
Thank you so much.
Great video. I didn't know what I had. Thank you.
Thank you.
Very informative and you are excellent at portraits Marty. Thank you.
Thank you kindly
I was long opposed to this colour but then I had a chance to get a tube (not DS) and I found that it is really useful! Even better than whites :)
Hey that's great to hear.
I remember mixing a nice buff. I was trying to get a look like YT artist 'iraville'. But it was palette leftover in the mix, and I couldn't reproduce it. :-)
Happy accidents. ;-)
Going to order now! Thanks tired of white!
Enjoy
Thank u for sharing ☺️ I haven't tired this color before but have wanted to
For sure and thanks for watching.
Awe, Marty, you should have left the monkey in. Lol. No, seriously thank you for the demo and info on buff titanium. I'm liking this paint more and more. Karen from Canada ☺☺
Thank you Karen. I love Canada.
Thank you for the video. Daniel Smith is beyond my budget, but I saw that Roman Szmal also has this colour with exact pigment. May I ask a question which is oot? I have seen you use paper plate lookalike as palette in several of your videos. I wonder if they are actually paper plates? Sorry for my silly question, I am a beginner 😅
Thank you Dewi - Yes they are paper plates. They are inexpensive and recyclable. I have a butchers tray somewhere around here, but never use it, lol.
Owings Art Thank you for replying. Have a lovely weekend!
Thanks! I have some but never use it.
I think a lot of people overlook it.
What is on your website that we can't get here?
I guess you’ll have to visit to find out! 😊👍🏼
wow ok that's so cool😍👏
Thank you!
Is there an alternative for buff titanium in sennelier/white nights?
I'm not sure.
Warm grey from Sennelier is a good substitute.
Manda uma caixa do.lapis marcos rafine pra mim.
This video was very informative, thank you so much!
I recently bought Warm Gray from Sennelier as a Substitute for buff titanium, I saw a review about it and realised how pretty vintage colors it made mixed with other paints! Didn’t knew it was made by rutile which I see often on my crystal collection 🤣
Warm grey has 4 pigments in it? Jeez. It's a wonder you don't end up with mud every time you mix it with something. Roman Szmal (order on Jacksons for world wide delivery) does a buff titanium full pan for a fraction of the Daniel Smith one and it's just the one same pigment so it makes much cleaner mixes, when you're ready to replace that horror.
I've seen other people use buff titanium; but, that's one color that I've never even considered adding to my watercolor collection. I don't even have titanium white. Is that weird? My son recently started painting with oil paints and he has a huge tube of titanium white. I think his oil paints are M. Graham. I don't know if he can even get buff titanium.
Did I hear you say something about rutile? I thought that the word seemed familiar and one of my watercolor pan sets has a yellow in it called Rutile Yellow.
Hi Donna - Absolutely yes on the Rutile and it's used in more than just buff titanium so that's probably what's in your Rutile Yellow. It's not weird that you don't have a titanium white, but I do use mine quite a bit. Also in my watercolor palette when I want to make something more opaque.
Thank you for the video. I never tried buff tit. But you video made me interested.
Hi Dawn - LOL.
Buff titanium is one of my must have colors. I'm not skilled enough to come up with a light neutral color, so this is a good starter.
Hopefully this will help.
Hi,
Nice history on buff.
But probably not the best way to explain and demonstrate opaque quality of any paint.
Just mark the paper with thick black lines and then paint over the lines.
If the lines remain visible then the paint is transparent and if the lines are not visible then it means that the paint is opaque.
Try it.
Everyone does that. I try to actually paint with them.
@@owingsart thank you so much for your response.
But I am suggesting is that showing something in demonstration is always much better than talking about it.
What your video demonstrated is how buff white BLENDS with other paints. Not how opaque it is.
If someone is considering to buy buff white for its opaque quality, your video is not helpful in that regard.
Also, do you think buff white gets more rusty as time goes after mixing with water?
Because of the iron content?
@@danrazART I haven't noticed any rusty color over time, but my previous experience was with oil paints, so I'll have to keep an eye out for how the watercolor behaves.
Also, I get you point about the additional demonstration of opacity and it's a fair one. Thank you!
@@owingsart ah, you are awesome.