Let me know if you have questions about staining colors, or which are your favourites. Try this one next: Viridian Green Watercolor (why they LIE to you about this color!) th-cam.com/video/QngktICubHY/w-d-xo.html
The beautiful DS Green Gold makes me think of spring & summer at dawn & American poet Robert Frost's 'Nothing Gold Can Stay.' : "Nature's first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf's a flower; but only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down today. Nothing gold can stay. "
Thank you Michele for all of your amazing advice, tips and techniques that you are sharing here absolutely for free. I am coming to your channel time and time again and keep learning more and more. I highly recommend everyone who haven’t subscribe yet- Do it and enjoy amazing content coming your way on a regular basis and I hope that your videos will pay you out well for all of the great videos that you have created for so long. Thank you 🙏 ❤❤❤ You are amazing!
Thanks for this great video, this is really useful. i think your hair really suits you in the shorter style that you’ve got now. It makes you look much younger. X
I've just looked at my technical data info on Cotman colours and have realised how much I have learned since August 2020 when I started watching your videos. I now realise why you say you can't mix a really dark colour without using a staining colour. Thank you
Totally agree about how much I've learned from Michele. She excels in explaining the process and I love her directness and sense of humor! Like all great teachers, she sets up her students for success!
I had no idea of ANY of this! I thought "staining color" simply meant "a strong color." Will watch this vid again, taking notes, and probably a couple more times after that. You REALLY know color. Thank you!
Ahhh an easy way for remembering what are my staining colors. Very interesting to know that those two words will cover a lot of colors across the palette. Always love learning more about watercolor painting with you. Hope you’re having a wonderful day & keep hydrated during this summer time heatwave.
Thanks Michele. When I started painting I made a separate pallet for staining colors( once I found out what they were), so I could learn them by using them. Also made a swatch sheet and labeled swatch sheet for that pallet as a key. Then just used the pallet. It didn't take long to remember them.
I Love Quinns. When I was a kid I got a small box of crayons. I was disappointed that there wasn't this one color I had seen my friend have. My mom asked me about it. The next day she gave me a huge box of crayons...I immediately found the special Quinn pink and pulled it. I gave her back the rest! She said don't you want the rest of the box? 😂 Silly kids. And my love affair with color was born.
Very helpful. I’ve received my first “commission”. My next project will be “sugarplum fairy ballerinas”. So, of course I wanted to be able to lift some dark, snowy background colors. Timely for me. Thank you.
Omgoddess i so need this information from this video, thank you so much for doing this video..i will probablywatch this video a few times.....mikelle art mom🎨👩🎨✍
Thank 😊 you Michelle!!! As a beginner, I am getting more familiar with names... However, I just love that Turquoise green color you swatched - already forget the name! Quinacridone colors are a favorite, as well as Marine Blue by Holbein, Aqua Green by Winsor and Newton... I'm having fun just seeing how watercolor is an experience. Trying to make fun... no mistakes watercoloring! BTW- love your hair! Enjoy 😉 With love, from a California Gramma ❤️
Love your channel - took meticulous notes on this one, I've really been looking for this information. Question: you started your swatching with a color you called Permanent Blue Violet. Was that one a Da Vinci, or some other brand? Is the word "permanent" a clue to whether it's staining?
Talens Rembrandt. Permanent usually means that a new pigment or formulation has swapped in to replace a traditional fugitive (fading) pigment. Example genuine madder rose/permanent rose
This is perfect and very useful! I've trouble achieving dark skintones (in the shadow) with watercolor. I wonder whether I should have gone for some staining colors? Thank you a lot! Your videos are so original!
Glad it was helpful! I do have a shadow set of watercolors, including a universal skin shadow colour, and also a video about how to darken watercolors, that one is quite recent.
@@IntheStudiowithMicheleWebber Yes, I've watched the video about darkening watercolors. I think I tried everything in it and the watercolor layers still look way lighter than if I were to use color pencils or gouache. Maybe my expectations are a bit off, because watercolors are not a dark medium, but a video about your shadow set or your universal skin shadow tone would still be amazing! 😊 Thanks again! You're the only watercolor TH-camr that I'm still watching on a regular basis!
Michelle your wealth of information is amazing and so helpful! Thank you so much! Kindly let me know how things are going on England as to co vid? In America they are starting in on monkey pox. Are you seeing alot of masks? I see them here on the occasional old person but mainly on teens which frightens me.
No one is wearing masks here (virtually no one anyhow) which is not good because the virus is spreading fast. Unfortunately people have become weary of taking government advice. I had Covid after being on a plane. Pretty much everyone who travels comes back with it. I am over 50 so will be eligible for my fourth vaccination in due course (they start with the oldest then work down).
@@IntheStudiowithMicheleWebber oh my Michelle, I see something different here. Truly and I mean truly the only people I know who were pos for the virus were vaccinated. We are getting worried about that here. I’m in healthcare. Take care!
Sorry, I have made over 500 videos on TH-cam and other platforms, I can't recall the content in this one. Violets and reds are often staining, the exception would be cobalt violet and oxide reds, cadmiums
Hi Michelle, Do you know any non granulating blue other than SAA? SAA is expensive. My skies don't look smooth with granulating blue even on arches cold pressed
The non granulating blues are Phthalo, Prussian and Indigo. If you want an Ultramarine go for 'green shade' rather than French, it's a little less granulating.
I’m reading a lot about mixing watercolors and and trying to wrap my head around opaque, transparent and staining colors. I’m reading manufacturing information and seeing some colors say they are both opaque and staining which really confuses me because you’re saying staining are transparent, yes? Is it just that different brands are going to work differently?
Staining colours are generally the name given to strong, transparent colours. But some manufacturers may describe very strong but not transparent colours, or mixed pigments containing both to be staining. At the end of the day it's just a word and people decide how to use it. It doesn't really matter, knowing what your own paints do, how they swatch, layer, mix and lift is what will help you the most.
@@IntheStudiowithMicheleWebber thanks for following up. I guess the reason I’m concerned is because I read a blog post somewhere that said, for example, staining colors should only be mixed with other staining colors and opaques with other opaques, etc. So I was believing it but then got confused when a paint said it was BOTH staining and opaque. would you say it’s not really that black and white?
@@JenniferNoelle well pigments vary even within numbers. There's no reason you shouldn't mix pigments with different properties. If someone tells you only to mix transparent with transparent they're talking about preserving the transparency. But if you're prepared to lose some transparency (or any other property like opacity, granulation) then you can go ahead. It's an artistic preference not any scientific reason. Granulating colours will always settle or separate on the palette so those should be stirred in between applying. But any watercolor can be mixed with any other if you like the results.
@@IntheStudiowithMicheleWebber Thank you so much for replying!! I couldn't find these answers anywhere! I'm grateful I found you. I'll definitely subscribe!
Let me know if you have questions about staining colors, or which are your favourites. Try this one next: Viridian Green Watercolor (why they LIE to you about this color!) th-cam.com/video/QngktICubHY/w-d-xo.html
The beautiful DS Green Gold makes me think of spring & summer at dawn & American poet Robert Frost's 'Nothing Gold Can Stay.' :
"Nature's first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf's a flower; but only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden
sank to grief, So dawn goes down today.
Nothing gold can stay. "
Very helpful video. I appreciate that you often talk about the technical side of paints and paper, and present the information very clearly.
You're welcome 🙂
Thank you Michele for all of your amazing advice, tips and techniques that you are sharing here absolutely for free. I am coming to your channel time and time again and keep learning more and more. I highly recommend everyone who haven’t subscribe yet- Do it and enjoy amazing content coming your way on a regular basis and I hope that your videos will pay you out well for all of the great videos that you have created for so long. Thank you 🙏 ❤❤❤ You are amazing!
Thanks so much, I am not rich yet, but the income is helpful towards my rent!
Thank you Michele. There is a good reason to set up a “staining color” palette. Thank you.
As usual, I learned so much about watercolor paint from this video! Thank you Michele 🎨
Thanks for this great video, this is really useful. i think your hair really suits you in the shorter style that you’ve got now. It makes you look much younger. X
Thank you so much!
I've just looked at my technical data info on Cotman colours and have realised how much I have learned since August 2020 when I started watching your videos. I now realise why you say you can't mix a really dark colour without using a staining colour. Thank you
Totally agree about how much I've learned from Michele. She excels in explaining the process and I love her directness and sense of humor! Like all great teachers, she sets up her students for success!
Thank you both!
thanks, once again you simplified something that is normally kinda hard to remember! 💖
I'm so glad!
Thank you Michele for your always useful videos. 🥰
I had no idea of ANY of this! I thought "staining color" simply meant "a strong color." Will watch this vid again, taking notes, and probably a couple more times after that. You REALLY know color. Thank you!
Thanks, glad you liked it!
Thank you!! I have been wanting to know this since forever!
Oh, great stuff!
Ahhh an easy way for remembering what are my staining colors. Very interesting to know that those two words will cover a lot of colors across the palette. Always love learning more about watercolor painting with you. Hope you’re having a wonderful day & keep hydrated during this summer time heatwave.
Thank you I am good, much cooler now!
@@IntheStudiowithMicheleWebber You’re welcome & glad to hear that.
Thank you for such useful information delivered in your usual easy to understand way. It’s much appreciated
You're very welcome!
Thanks Michele. When I started painting I made a separate pallet for staining colors( once I found out what they were), so I could learn them by using them. Also made a swatch sheet and labeled swatch sheet for that pallet as a key. Then just used the pallet. It didn't take long to remember them.
Excellent work 👍
I like your hairstyle, looks great!
Thanks so much!
Thanks! You explain staining colors perfectly!
No problem!
Thank you for this! Its just what I've been trying to find out, a lot of staining colours in one place.
This has been really useful.
I'm glad Rosemary 🙂
Such useful information, i was only just recently thinking about different properties between paints such as staining granulation and cadmiums
Ah glad you liked it!
Brilliant! Looking forward to the follow up video on how to use them. Thank you 🙏
Coming soon!
On your advice I re-watched this video, thanks for answering my questions, I ‘ve taken notes, hope they help me!
Very useful information, thank you.
Another informative art lesson. Thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it
Very helpful
Thanks, I'm glad!
I Love Quinns. When I was a kid I got a small box of crayons. I was disappointed that there wasn't this one color I had seen my friend have. My mom asked me about it. The next day she gave me a huge box of crayons...I immediately found the special Quinn pink and pulled it. I gave her back the rest! She said don't you want the rest of the box? 😂 Silly kids. And my love affair with color was born.
Yes it's amazing!
What a lovely story and what a lovely mum 🥰
Very helpful. I’ve received my first “commission”. My next project will be “sugarplum fairy ballerinas”. So, of course I wanted to be able to lift some dark, snowy background colors. Timely for me. Thank you.
Wonderful!
Thanks for the Useful information Michele! Would you please consider doing a video on colors that lift well?
Great suggestion!
Wait a minute!! I love the new do & glasses!!! (Haven’t watched vid yet)
Ah thank you 🙏 that was a few months ago. Everyone loved the hair but it didn't feel like me so I grew it long again 🤣
Omgoddess i so need this information from this video, thank you so much for doing this video..i will probablywatch this video a few times.....mikelle art mom🎨👩🎨✍
Glad you liked it ☺️
Thank 😊 you Michelle!!! As a beginner, I am getting more familiar with names... However, I just love that Turquoise green color you swatched - already forget the name! Quinacridone colors are a favorite, as well as Marine Blue by Holbein, Aqua Green by Winsor and Newton... I'm having fun just seeing how watercolor is an experience. Trying to make fun... no mistakes watercoloring! BTW- love your hair! Enjoy 😉 With love, from a California Gramma ❤️
Thank you!
Love your channel - took meticulous notes on this one, I've really been looking for this information. Question: you started your swatching with a color you called Permanent Blue Violet. Was that one a Da Vinci, or some other brand? Is the word "permanent" a clue to whether it's staining?
Talens Rembrandt. Permanent usually means that a new pigment or formulation has swapped in to replace a traditional fugitive (fading) pigment. Example genuine madder rose/permanent rose
nice
Thanks 👍
This is perfect and very useful! I've trouble achieving dark skintones (in the shadow) with watercolor. I wonder whether I should have gone for some staining colors? Thank you a lot! Your videos are so original!
Glad it was helpful! I do have a shadow set of watercolors, including a universal skin shadow colour, and also a video about how to darken watercolors, that one is quite recent.
@@IntheStudiowithMicheleWebber Yes, I've watched the video about darkening watercolors. I think I tried everything in it and the watercolor layers still look way lighter than if I were to use color pencils or gouache. Maybe my expectations are a bit off, because watercolors are not a dark medium, but a video about your shadow set or your universal skin shadow tone would still be amazing! 😊 Thanks again! You're the only watercolor TH-camr that I'm still watching on a regular basis!
Hansa yellow (py74) is a cooler medium yellow that stains well, correct?
Yes I would say so.
Michelle your wealth of information is amazing and so helpful! Thank you so much! Kindly let me know how things are going on England as to co vid? In America they are starting in on monkey pox. Are you seeing alot of masks? I see them here on the occasional old person but mainly on teens which frightens me.
No one is wearing masks here (virtually no one anyhow) which is not good because the virus is spreading fast. Unfortunately people have become weary of taking government advice. I had Covid after being on a plane. Pretty much everyone who travels comes back with it. I am over 50 so will be eligible for my fourth vaccination in due course (they start with the oldest then work down).
@@IntheStudiowithMicheleWebber oh my Michelle, I see something different here. Truly and I mean truly the only people I know who were pos for the virus were vaccinated. We are getting worried about that here. I’m in healthcare. Take care!
A bit confused here. On the first set of 4 colors are the outer 2 staining while the inner 2 are not staining? This would be the violet thru the red.
Sorry, I have made over 500 videos on TH-cam and other platforms, I can't recall the content in this one. Violets and reds are often staining, the exception would be cobalt violet and oxide reds, cadmiums
Hi Michelle, Do you know any non granulating blue other than SAA? SAA is expensive. My skies don't look smooth with granulating blue even on arches cold pressed
The non granulating blues are Phthalo, Prussian and Indigo. If you want an Ultramarine go for 'green shade' rather than French, it's a little less granulating.
@@IntheStudiowithMicheleWebber thanks a lot
I’m reading a lot about mixing watercolors and and trying to wrap my head around opaque, transparent and staining colors. I’m reading manufacturing information and seeing some colors say they are both opaque and staining which really confuses me because you’re saying staining are transparent, yes? Is it just that different brands are going to work differently?
Staining colours are generally the name given to strong, transparent colours. But some manufacturers may describe very strong but not transparent colours, or mixed pigments containing both to be staining. At the end of the day it's just a word and people decide how to use it. It doesn't really matter, knowing what your own paints do, how they swatch, layer, mix and lift is what will help you the most.
@@IntheStudiowithMicheleWebber thanks for following up. I guess the reason I’m concerned is because I read a blog post somewhere that said, for example, staining colors should only be mixed with other staining colors and opaques with other opaques, etc. So I was believing it but then got confused when a paint said it was BOTH staining and opaque. would you say it’s not really that black and white?
@@JenniferNoelle well pigments vary even within numbers. There's no reason you shouldn't mix pigments with different properties. If someone tells you only to mix transparent with transparent they're talking about preserving the transparency. But if you're prepared to lose some transparency (or any other property like opacity, granulation) then you can go ahead. It's an artistic preference not any scientific reason. Granulating colours will always settle or separate on the palette so those should be stirred in between applying. But any watercolor can be mixed with any other if you like the results.
@@IntheStudiowithMicheleWebber Thank you so much for replying!! I couldn't find these answers anywhere! I'm grateful I found you. I'll definitely subscribe!
Where can I buy a proper beige?🤔
Beige, hmm. Dark beige I recommend Raw Umber (I like Talens Rembrandt), for a lighter colour you can try Titanium Buff (Daniel Smith is good).
@@IntheStudiowithMicheleWebber Thank you!🤗
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