Thank you so much for these beautiful swatches! I'm running out of place in my palette too and don't know if to buy a bigger or another small palette 😅 I need all my colours, not in every painting, but still from time to time. So I can't make place in my current palette for new colours. 🫣 Maybe I'll go for a small palette with a travel setup of my most used colours, since I paint a lot on the go. 🥰 Btw I love to paint animals too! I'm so happy I found you!
I have several palettes for various reasons. I have my main one porcelaine with colors I know really well, mostly Daniel Smith and M.Graham. Then I have an all D. Smith palette, an all M. Graham palette, and non granulation palette, and a “play” palette for all my new colors that I don’t know well yet. On top of that I have an all Schmincke palette and some other brands and others that are for plein air painting. I like to know the purpose of each palette.
@@catherinelevison3310 Thank you for this helpful comment. I love this explanation. It has really gotten my wheels turning. I love your palette with the colors you know very well too. It made me realize I want a dedicated palette with colors that speak to me the most, and work with my animal and bird paintings in particular, since that's where I go the most. I may put all of my other colors in one big palette for ease of use and section them off. But thanks to some comments here, I am a lot more clear! Wonderful!
Vermont winters are harsh, too. I'm using Preparation H for my dry cracked alligator 🐊 s(in hands. It has petroleum jelly, an anti-itch & numbing agent for the painful cracked skin caused by soaps & hand sanitizer. Don't judge. It works & is super cheap for generic tubes.
Many have found that Schminke super-granulating tube paints do NOT rewet well, at all. They're best used straight from the tubes. They have a different binder than pan paints for obvious reasons. Pans must survive the violence of shipping. Tubes have caps. Pans do not. Natasha Newton just reviewed a Schminke super-granulating dot card and was like Wait, WTF 😮 Just FYI so you don't squeeze out paints to dry in Pans & then find out how poorly they perform once dry. I am thinking that a Stay-Wet sealed pallette is best for the tube paints. Thank you for sharing your swatches. I am going to pull the trigger & start collecting these sets. I want the White Nights too. So many paints, so little time. 😊
@@NavyAssassinOnBLAST Wow! What incredible information you’ve shared! I wish I could easily edit the video and add this advice! I will have to add another video using these paints and add that. Thank you so much! Invaluable!!
@@BeckysJourneyWithArt haha, thank you for that. I know what you mean, and then I think my brain can't cope with several palettes at once either... because I already have several brands of paints that I love. ha! I have seen people making palettes for certain paintings, or a certain feel...maybe a couple of those would be fun. I suppose it'll be a journey figuring it out. :)
Yes. In order to see the actual color of the paint, which looks different when wet, and then dried on paper. If you don’t do that, it is a lot harder to pick the right colors for your painting.
Forest blue and Haze blue ❤❤
Yes!! 😊❤
Thank you so much for these beautiful swatches! I'm running out of place in my palette too and don't know if to buy a bigger or another small palette 😅 I need all my colours, not in every painting, but still from time to time. So I can't make place in my current palette for new colours. 🫣 Maybe I'll go for a small palette with a travel setup of my most used colours, since I paint a lot on the go. 🥰 Btw I love to paint animals too! I'm so happy I found you!
We’ll all figure it out for ourselves in time. Haha 😊
I have several palettes for various reasons. I have my main one porcelaine with colors I know really well, mostly Daniel Smith and M.Graham. Then I have an all D. Smith palette, an all M. Graham palette, and non granulation palette, and a “play” palette for all my new colors that I don’t know well yet. On top of that I have an all Schmincke palette and some other brands and others that are for plein air painting. I like to know the purpose of each palette.
@@catherinelevison3310 Thank you for this helpful comment. I love this explanation. It has really gotten my wheels turning. I love your palette with the colors you know very well too. It made me realize I want a dedicated palette with colors that speak to me the most, and work with my animal and bird paintings in particular, since that's where I go the most. I may put all of my other colors in one big palette for ease of use and section them off. But thanks to some comments here, I am a lot more clear! Wonderful!
Vermont winters are harsh, too. I'm using Preparation H for my dry cracked alligator 🐊 s(in hands. It has petroleum jelly, an anti-itch & numbing agent for the painful cracked skin caused by soaps & hand sanitizer. Don't judge. It works & is super cheap for generic tubes.
@@NavyAssassinOnBLAST More great advice! Thank you!
Many have found that Schminke super-granulating tube paints do NOT rewet well, at all. They're best used straight from the tubes. They have a different binder than pan paints for obvious reasons. Pans must survive the violence of shipping. Tubes have caps. Pans do not. Natasha Newton just reviewed a Schminke super-granulating dot card and was like Wait, WTF 😮
Just FYI so you don't squeeze out paints to dry in Pans & then find out how poorly they perform once dry. I am thinking that a Stay-Wet sealed pallette is best for the tube paints.
Thank you for sharing your swatches. I am going to pull the trigger & start collecting these sets. I want the White Nights too. So many paints, so little time. 😊
@@NavyAssassinOnBLAST Wow! What incredible information you’ve shared! I wish I could easily edit the video and add this advice! I will have to add another video using these paints and add that. Thank you so much! Invaluable!!
I’m a new painter, complete beginner, but my brain can only cope with one brand of paints in one palette I couldn’t cope with them all mixed up
@@BeckysJourneyWithArt haha, thank you for that. I know what you mean, and then I think my brain can't cope with several palettes at once either... because I already have several brands of paints that I love. ha! I have seen people making palettes for certain paintings, or a certain feel...maybe a couple of those would be fun. I suppose it'll be a journey figuring it out. :)
@ maybe do one for each style so one for urban sketching, one for landscapes etc etc x
Yes!
Now artists just paint squares?
Yes. In order to see the actual color of the paint, which looks different when wet, and then dried on paper. If you don’t do that, it is a lot harder to pick the right colors for your painting.
Maybe try to google ,,color swatching"😂