The name “cerulean blue”/“ceruleum blue” can represent a lot of colours that look very different. I don’t like the Lukas cerulean blue, but White Nights make a gorgeous light non-staining ceruleum blue that is really pretty to blend with other colours imo
Also, my favorite cerulean blue is actually Winsor & Newton Cotman Cerulean Blue Hue. It's actually Phthalo blue with a tiny bit of white in it. Because there is white, the paint lifts out clouds to white just beautifully, without staining the paper. There was some kind of famous artist who uses it, buys it by the giant tubes. I can't remember who he was, though lol But skies can be different blues, depending on the season, lighting, etc. I took a 9x12 sheet of paper, and painted nine big patches of different blues, and lifted out clouds in each one. I labeled each one with the brand, pigment, and color name. Now when I want to paint a sky, I have big swatches to look at to help decide which blue will work. Cerulean Hue usually wins, lol But it's super helpful to see all those blues side by side.
i have only tried the cobalt turquoise. it is a bit greener than most and a bit more opaque. it is not my go to but sometimes it is just perfect. thanks for all your hard work!
I just ordered 15 tubes of Daniel Smith watercolor yesterday. Now I am watching your video and thinking about ordering some more Lukas tubes. They are pretty cheap compared to other brands.
Wow 15 tubes of Daniel Smith? I'm sure you will enjoy them. Lukas are pretty cheap but I would warm you that they can be more opaque than other brands. I'm in the process of making another video about them as some people have commented that they find them 'chalky'.
Interesting to see the tube colors. Have seen only demos with pans which seem quite vibrant (as much as you can tell on a phone screen.) Thank you-nice music and good swatching.😊
@@JayNathanWatercolor forgot to mention that their Paynes grey is quite nice if you are looking for your next order🤗 . Am trying to justify 70 bucks for the 24 half pan set on Jerrys. Super price.
Love the Phalogreen Wow! It almost looks like two colors. I wonder about the genuine rose. It is so light. I never knew that there was a single pigment like that that didn’t have titanium white. I use PB16 with a little Phaloblue gs and water it down for my skies to get that lower level tone instead of using Cerulean. The real Cerulean just looks too granulating for me to use in the sky. It makes the painting look heavy in my humble opinion. Thank you for sharing the Lucas wc.
You're very welcome ☺️ I'm with you on the Cerulean. I don't like too much granulation in my skies. I tend to mix a phthalo blue red shade with a little cobalt blue. Not too much granulation there but something to give it a little texture. This Lukas Cerulean is pretty good though in my opinion. The more I use this genuine Rose the less I like it. It's just a strange paint to me. Thank you for watching and commenting 🙏
I love this brand! Their specialness comes from the fact that they created their own unique watercolor binder that makes them so easily rewettable in the pans or from tubes poured into the pans and dried. No scrubbing, just smooth paint lift off. And they’re entirely vegan, no bunnies like the other high end European brands. They look gorgeous on all my high end papers but pretty basic on my low quality papers, so I wonder if that has anything to do with other people’s poor experiences? Also the tubes LAST FOREVER without drying out 🎤
Thanks for this one. There aren't enough Lukas 1862 reviews around, and they're one of my personal favorite watercolors, similar to Rembrandts. Your swatching has convinced me that my next 1862 color will be Olive Green. Btw, Lukas 1862 Cyan is my favorite Lukas color :)
I'm not sure why there isn't more reviews of them. They are such a great deal. Maybe they're not widely available or the large 24ml tube size puts people off? The olive green is pretty nice. I hope you like it when you get it.
It's interesting I understand Daler Rowney own Lukas now...I think the tube said made in England and I know Daler make paint for a lot of own brand paints too as well as their own watercolours. I wonder if that's why they aren't so widely available in the US? I'm intrigued by them, and I really enjoyed this video thank you...I still can't make up my mind to try them...the rose looked very washed out and that would be a major drawback, still no reason why I can't Cherry pick the best of them. BTW the Phthalo blue 15:6 💙 is I think the same version as schmincke phthalo sapphire blue...and the Spin Dr was waxing lyrical about how beautiful this version of pthalo blue is. Good to know I can get it more reasonably priced from Lukas.
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Many people like it a lot. I much prefer normal cobalt blue or a Phthalo Blue Red Shade. Phthalo Green is a lovely color but very strong. Thank you for your comment.
yay! been waiting for this one! that raw sienna looks lovely~ almost like rembrandt’s raw umber. i’ve been having my eye on Lukas’ verona green earth and cobalt green but the downside to their huge tubes is that... if i dont like the colour/texture, i would have a huge tube in my collection that wont get used lol. so im thinking maybe getting the roman szmal cobalt green first to test if i like painting with such colour. but i’d definitely get Lukas’ cobalt turquoise and phthalo turquoise 😆
If you get a huge tube and don't like it you can just send it to me 😜 🤣 I like the raw sienna too. Maybe it can replace my discontinued Rembrandt raw umber?
@@JayNathanWatercolor hahaha~ that might not be a bad idea. if i ever do some spring cleaning (summer now though) then i might send some earths your way ;P it probably can replace the discontinued one. i've been seeing a shift though. all the raw umbers have started becoming "green umbers"... i wonder if it's a pigment manufacturer update type of issue.
@@JayNathanWatercolor that's why I started making my own...especially earth pigments which are so reasonable to buy. I keep being disappointed by the brand versions.
I haven't met a shade of blue I don't like... haha. I have the Lukas pallet of 48 colors. I haven't played around with them other than swatching them and from just that little bit, I like them. I have not tried the Mijellos... yet, that is. Are they really that bright? I do have other pallets that are similar, 48 colors by Schmincke and 48 by Sennelier, which I also like. But, yes, Lukas watercolors are quite nice, though I can't say they are that much cheaper than those other two... And I am in California, most of the European watercolor brands are expensive here anyway... so there is that.
Hi, Thanks for your comment. I like the Lukas I have too but the more I look at them the more they look almost pastel to me. Especially the Genuine Rose I swatched. It seems far more opaque than I would expect PV19 to be. I will do a full painting with just the Lukas sometime soon to see if I like working with them.
I recently bought 13 tubes of these from Jerry's. I returned them. They were the most chalky paint I have tried, including student grade. The dioxazine violet and the ultramarine blue were the absolute worst, actually rubbed off of my finger and tissue after drying. Getting a clean mix is almost impossible, these have so much filler you only get mud. Or at least that is all I could get with the paints I got. I was super disappointed. I thought there was something wrong with the tubes I got, clearly even your swatches look opaque on colors that should not be, like the genuine rose, dioxazine and phthalo, all should be transparent. There are so many better quality paints, even for the low cost. Anyway, those are my thoughts, happy painting
Hi. You're the second person I have had tell me their Lukas paints were chalky. It's a shame you had to send them back. They must've been really bad? Yes I do agree that they are a bit more opaque than my favourite watercolors and so wouldn't be a replacement for them but I do like these Lukas paints. I've not had the problem of the pigment rubbing off. Isn't that usually a sign of not enough binder or that they had separated? Thank you for your comment. Best wishes 🙏
@@JayNathanWatercolor they were very chalky. Mine did not have any binder separation, they poured into pans easily, dried normally. Once dry and when reactivated the paints were very chalky, so much so that the paints rubbed off. I returned them and asked if there was something wrong with my batch. I had tried some samples of lukas before and they were not like this. Jerry's customer service tested them and said they behaved as expected. So I don't know. I am thinking about doing a video of the swatches.
@@reneaclark7689 Ah yes you should. That would be a very interesting video. Now I feel like doing a follow up video soon to investigate a bit more. Maybe swatch them alongside another brand and compare?
Oh well- these are what they are. I WANT to like them all but it isn't that way. However: SOME tubes are very good indeed. I love my Lukas English Red Deep PR101: it is awesomely powerful and gloriously opaque (very unusual among Lukas!) I find their PY129 soner, well behaved and a fine mixer- as are their Naples Yellows. Their Prussian Blue is a dream: its drying shift makes it a very poetic and subtle sky pigment- which is not a traditional attribute of Prussian but it is with this Lukas one. BUT I do not accept the weakness of, say, their Thalo blues... because phthalos are NOT expensive and they have no reason to be diluting them which they 100% are. Iron oxides are also cheap and behold: they do make some solid earths, as I said with the English Red. SO: I can never see myself putting togethe a full Lukas palette but they are very worth picking and choosing from- I really love those which I finally decided to try.
Hi. Thank you for your comment. I've had a few comments saying that these paints have been chalky. I've also had others saying they were not. I wonder if it's a quality issue or just the way the brand is?
Mandy van Goeije mentioned in one of her lives that Lukas is the worst watercolor she ever tried. Super chalky, not much color, and a lot of fillers. She didn't even edited the video, so much she disliked them. This put me off of ever giving them a chance honestly. P.S. Yellow, rose, and even both phthalos look like gouache on your swatches. Olive though is pretty.
A few people in the comments have said that they found them to be chalky but at the same time others have said that they didn't. 🤔 I keep meaning to make a video taking a closer look at them but keep forgetting. As far as.I can remember the only one I thought seemed chalky and more opaque that I would like was the genuine rose. The yellow is a cadmium so it being more opaque is normal while I didn't really notice the phthalos being unusual. I will have to put a closer look video on my list.
I live in a country where its difficult to buy artist grade watercolors and Ultramarine blue is one of my palette staples. So when I was in the US this Christmas I bought a tube of Lukas 1862 Ultramarine Deep. The amount of white pigment added to the paint is insane. It makes all my mixes come out chalky, W&N cotman was significantly better quality. The fact that they don't even list any white pigments on the tube is genuinely infuriating. Also unlike other blues that you may add white to make a lighter version like a PB 15 this color was ugly. Outside of buying their Earth Tones I would not recommend this brand.
I love the Lukas paints and especially their Ultramarine Blue Deep and the Green Yellow (PY129 mostly called Green Gold in other brands)
The name “cerulean blue”/“ceruleum blue” can represent a lot of colours that look very different. I don’t like the Lukas cerulean blue, but White Nights make a gorgeous light non-staining ceruleum blue that is really pretty to blend with other colours imo
Also, my favorite cerulean blue is actually Winsor & Newton Cotman Cerulean Blue Hue. It's actually Phthalo blue with a tiny bit of white in it. Because there is white, the paint lifts out clouds to white just beautifully, without staining the paper. There was some kind of famous artist who uses it, buys it by the giant tubes. I can't remember who he was, though lol
But skies can be different blues, depending on the season, lighting, etc. I took a 9x12 sheet of paper, and painted nine big patches of different blues, and lifted out clouds in each one. I labeled each one with the brand, pigment, and color name. Now when I want to paint a sky, I have big swatches to look at to help decide which blue will work. Cerulean Hue usually wins, lol But it's super helpful to see all those blues side by side.
Haha I wonder who the artist is? I love it when I hear a well known artist uses cheap materials. 🤣
Haven't used them but I'm eager to try them out.
Love the look of the tubes.
Thank you for your comment. The 24ml tubes are pretty great. Let us know if you do use them and what you think. 🙏
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Thank you 😊🙏
Try mixing violet into raw sienna, raw umber, and burnt umber. I get the most beautiful earthy purples with them.
Thanks that sounds great. I'll give it a try 🙏
Oooo thank you for the recommendation! I too will surely try this combo out!
I once had a tube of Cerulean that came free with an order from Cheap Joe's (I think). I liked it and it rewet well.
i have only tried the cobalt turquoise. it is a bit greener than most and a bit more opaque. it is not my go to but sometimes it is just perfect.
thanks for all your hard work!
You're welcome. Thank you for watching 🙏
I just ordered 15 tubes of Daniel Smith watercolor yesterday. Now I am watching your video and thinking about ordering some more Lukas tubes. They are pretty cheap compared to other brands.
Wow 15 tubes of Daniel Smith? I'm sure you will enjoy them.
Lukas are pretty cheap but I would warm you that they can be more opaque than other brands. I'm in the process of making another video about them as some people have commented that they find them 'chalky'.
Interesting to see the tube colors. Have seen only demos with pans which seem quite vibrant (as much as you can tell on a phone screen.) Thank you-nice music and good swatching.😊
You're welcome. Thank you for watching and commenting. I've never tried Lukas pans so I don't know how they compare.
@@JayNathanWatercolor forgot to mention that their Paynes grey is quite nice if you are looking for your next order🤗 . Am trying to justify 70 bucks for the 24 half pan set on Jerrys. Super price.
Thanks for the recommendation. I'm sure I will try it out sometime.
Is Lukas usually expensive where you are?
Love the Phalogreen Wow! It almost looks like two colors. I wonder about the genuine rose. It is so light. I never knew that there was a single pigment like that that didn’t have titanium white. I use PB16 with a little Phaloblue gs and water it down for my skies to get that lower level tone instead of using Cerulean. The real Cerulean just looks too granulating for me to use in the sky. It makes the painting look heavy in my humble opinion. Thank you for sharing the Lucas wc.
You're very welcome ☺️ I'm with you on the Cerulean. I don't like too much granulation in my skies. I tend to mix a phthalo blue red shade with a little cobalt blue. Not too much granulation there but something to give it a little texture. This Lukas Cerulean is pretty good though in my opinion.
The more I use this genuine Rose the less I like it. It's just a strange paint to me.
Thank you for watching and commenting 🙏
I love this brand! Their specialness comes from the fact that they created their own unique watercolor binder that makes them so easily rewettable in the pans or from tubes poured into the pans and dried. No scrubbing, just smooth paint lift off. And they’re entirely vegan, no bunnies like the other high end European brands. They look gorgeous on all my high end papers but pretty basic on my low quality papers, so I wonder if that has anything to do with other people’s poor experiences? Also the tubes LAST FOREVER without drying out 🎤
Thanks for this one. There aren't enough Lukas 1862 reviews around, and they're one of my personal favorite watercolors, similar to Rembrandts. Your swatching has convinced me that my next 1862 color will be Olive Green. Btw, Lukas 1862 Cyan is my favorite Lukas color :)
I'm not sure why there isn't more reviews of them. They are such a great deal. Maybe they're not widely available or the large 24ml tube size puts people off?
The olive green is pretty nice. I hope you like it when you get it.
@@JayNathanWatercolor They're also not available at Blick or Cheap Joe's.
@@PcakeTheMadDoodler oh so not that widely available?
It's interesting I understand Daler Rowney own Lukas now...I think the tube said made in England and I know Daler make paint for a lot of own brand paints too as well as their own watercolours. I wonder if that's why they aren't so widely available in the US? I'm intrigued by them, and I really enjoyed this video thank you...I still can't make up my mind to try them...the rose looked very washed out and that would be a major drawback, still no reason why I can't Cherry pick the best of them. BTW the Phthalo blue 15:6 💙 is I think the same version as schmincke phthalo sapphire blue...and the Spin Dr was waxing lyrical about how beautiful this version of pthalo blue is. Good to know I can get it more reasonably priced from Lukas.
@@JayNathanWatercolor Jackson's Art have a good selection of them....
do you prefer the lukas PBr7 or rembrandt PY43 raw sienna?
I don't know at the moment. I love the Rembrandt color but it seems a bit weak. I usually prefer PBr7. I will have to paint with it a bit more.
@@JayNathanWatercolor yeah i’ve been looking at the swatches and Lukas seems like a solid choice.
Lukas is ok. I prefer the color of the Rembrandt I think.
@@JayNathanWatercolor alright, thank you for your advice!
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I feel the exact way about cerulean blue, but phthalo green is beautiful, checking it out right now.
Many people like it a lot. I much prefer normal cobalt blue or a Phthalo Blue Red Shade.
Phthalo Green is a lovely color but very strong. Thank you for your comment.
Ooohhhh THAT Phthalo Green!!!
Glad you like it. Thanks for your comment 🙏
yay! been waiting for this one! that raw sienna looks lovely~ almost like rembrandt’s raw umber. i’ve been having my eye on Lukas’ verona green earth and cobalt green but the downside to their huge tubes is that... if i dont like the colour/texture, i would have a huge tube in my collection that wont get used lol. so im thinking maybe getting the roman szmal cobalt green first to test if i like painting with such colour. but i’d definitely get Lukas’ cobalt turquoise and phthalo turquoise 😆
If you get a huge tube and don't like it you can just send it to me 😜 🤣
I like the raw sienna too. Maybe it can replace my discontinued Rembrandt raw umber?
@@JayNathanWatercolor hahaha~ that might not be a bad idea. if i ever do some spring cleaning (summer now though) then i might send some earths your way ;P it probably can replace the discontinued one. i've been seeing a shift though. all the raw umbers have started becoming "green umbers"... i wonder if it's a pigment manufacturer update type of issue.
Could be. I don't know why else they are bringing out the greenish umbers. They look horrible to me. Haha
@@JayNathanWatercolor that's why I started making my own...especially earth pigments which are so reasonable to buy. I keep being disappointed by the brand versions.
I haven't met a shade of blue I don't like... haha. I have the Lukas pallet of 48 colors. I haven't played around with them other than swatching them and from just that little bit, I like them. I have not tried the Mijellos... yet, that is. Are they really that bright? I do have other pallets that are similar, 48 colors by Schmincke and 48 by Sennelier, which I also like. But, yes, Lukas watercolors are quite nice, though I can't say they are that much cheaper than those other two... And I am in California, most of the European watercolor brands are expensive here anyway... so there is that.
Hi, Thanks for your comment. I like the Lukas I have too but the more I look at them the more they look almost pastel to me. Especially the Genuine Rose I swatched. It seems far more opaque than I would expect PV19 to be. I will do a full painting with just the Lukas sometime soon to see if I like working with them.
I recently bought 13 tubes of these from Jerry's. I returned them. They were the most chalky paint I have tried, including student grade. The dioxazine violet and the ultramarine blue were the absolute worst, actually rubbed off of my finger and tissue after drying. Getting a clean mix is almost impossible, these have so much filler you only get mud. Or at least that is all I could get with the paints I got. I was super disappointed. I thought there was something wrong with the tubes I got, clearly even your swatches look opaque on colors that should not be, like the genuine rose, dioxazine and phthalo, all should be transparent. There are so many better quality paints, even for the low cost. Anyway, those are my thoughts, happy painting
Hi. You're the second person I have had tell me their Lukas paints were chalky.
It's a shame you had to send them back. They must've been really bad?
Yes I do agree that they are a bit more opaque than my favourite watercolors and so wouldn't be a replacement for them but I do like these Lukas paints. I've not had the problem of the pigment rubbing off. Isn't that usually a sign of not enough binder or that they had separated? Thank you for your comment. Best wishes 🙏
@@JayNathanWatercolor they were very chalky. Mine did not have any binder separation, they poured into pans easily, dried normally. Once dry and when reactivated the paints were very chalky, so much so that the paints rubbed off. I returned them and asked if there was something wrong with my batch. I had tried some samples of lukas before and they were not like this. Jerry's customer service tested them and said they behaved as expected. So I don't know. I am thinking about doing a video of the swatches.
@@reneaclark7689 Ah yes you should. That would be a very interesting video.
Now I feel like doing a follow up video soon to investigate a bit more. Maybe swatch them alongside another brand and compare?
@@JayNathanWatercolor that would be interesting 😀
I will get it made soon 🙏
Oh well- these are what they are. I WANT to like them all but it isn't that way. However: SOME tubes are very good indeed. I love my Lukas English Red Deep PR101: it is awesomely powerful and gloriously opaque (very unusual among Lukas!) I find their PY129 soner, well behaved and a fine mixer- as are their Naples Yellows. Their Prussian Blue is a dream: its drying shift makes it a very poetic and subtle sky pigment- which is not a traditional attribute of Prussian but it is with this Lukas one. BUT I do not accept the weakness of, say, their Thalo blues... because phthalos are NOT expensive and they have no reason to be diluting them which they 100% are. Iron oxides are also cheap and behold: they do make some solid earths, as I said with the English Red. SO: I can never see myself putting togethe a full Lukas palette but they are very worth picking and choosing from- I really love those which I finally decided to try.
Mix the violet pv23 and the green pg7
Its fun trust me 🥰
Spoiler you'll get a deep blue
And I think thats cool 😎
Thank you I'll give it a try ☺️🙏
I bought a few tubes to try but I find them chalky and heavy. I won’t buy more no matter how cheap they are.
Hi. Thank you for your comment. I've had a few comments saying that these paints have been chalky. I've also had others saying they were not. I wonder if it's a quality issue or just the way the brand is?
Mandy van Goeije mentioned in one of her lives that Lukas is the worst watercolor she ever tried. Super chalky, not much color, and a lot of fillers. She didn't even edited the video, so much she disliked them. This put me off of ever giving them a chance honestly.
P.S. Yellow, rose, and even both phthalos look like gouache on your swatches. Olive though is pretty.
A few people in the comments have said that they found them to be chalky but at the same time others have said that they didn't. 🤔
I keep meaning to make a video taking a closer look at them but keep forgetting.
As far as.I can remember the only one I thought seemed chalky and more opaque that I would like was the genuine rose. The yellow is a cadmium so it being more opaque is normal while I didn't really notice the phthalos being unusual. I will have to put a closer look video on my list.
I live in a country where its difficult to buy artist grade watercolors and Ultramarine blue is one of my palette staples. So when I was in the US this Christmas I bought a tube of Lukas 1862 Ultramarine Deep. The amount of white pigment added to the paint is insane. It makes all my mixes come out chalky, W&N cotman was significantly better quality. The fact that they don't even list any white pigments on the tube is genuinely infuriating. Also unlike other blues that you may add white to make a lighter version like a PB 15 this color was ugly. Outside of buying their Earth Tones I would not recommend this brand.