Ultramarine Blue and Quinacridone Magenta give the most intense violets and purples. Even replacing one of the colors with a violet won't get you the intensity that these colors can mix.
These 3 colors together are so versatile, what a stunning purple mix! I have mixed feelings about Qor because the binder is so unique, sometimes the paints just move too quickly and unexpectedly in a wet wash. I love them if I work more dry, or don't need subtle blending. Your painting turned out amazing!!! The amount of colors you can mix from just owning these 3 tubes is really inspiring for anyone - especially those that might be on a budget looking to get started with a small set.
Thanks Teoh. I have 12 QOR colors. I like the nickel azo yellow and transparent pyrrol orange best. Just love the transparent orange. A little goes a long way with these paints.👍😊
Golden Paints (they make QOR watercolors) is very close to where I live. Its a nice little company with some great people who are serious patrons of the arts running it. Also good community citizens. Since I discovered them they are the only watercolors I use. The luminosity and intensity is amazing. I also love to visit the factory. They give away a lot of free stuff at their store and do tours. Give away a lot of free stuff too! Hmm...maybe its time to go and pick up a few more tubes!
Every painter has his own customary color. He just liked a lot of colors when he was studying painting. As you progress, the colors you really need will be less and less. A relatively cool and warm color can complete a painting, which is no problem.每个画家都有自己习惯的颜色，刚才是学画画的时候喜欢很多种颜色。随着自己的进步，真正需要用的颜色会越来越少。一个相对的冷暖两种颜色就能完成一幅画，这是没有问题的。
I love QoR! I use Schmincke and Daniel Smith mostly (two or three holbein thrown in) but I do have a huge collection of QoR colors as well, and they never disappoint me. They disperse so beautifully!
I have the introductory and high chroma QOR sets and love them! Best on 100% cotton paper. Fun to use lots of water on 300# 100% cotton paper and let the paints do their magic. Love QOR.
I have a 12 pan set of split primary Qor paints that I ordered from Wet Paint. I have to say that I like these paints much better than the set of Schminke Horadam paints that I also got from Wet Paint. When Golden created this 12 pan set, it did a really good job with picking colors that suit the split primary palette. The colors are vibrant. But, I don't know if the pan colors are just made with tube colors or if a different manufacturing process was used.
I used Qor almost exclusively (until I got the Daniel Smith colors from you) and I love them. The are still the foundation of my paints, but I wanted a broader range of earth tones. The Qor do blend well with the Daniel Smith. I love the transparent colors - quinacridones, Nickle Azo yellow, transparent oxides etc. they are especially vibrant.
You should try the following: put down a fairly wet wash of a paint which is based on Gum Arabic (like Daniel Smith). Then drop in some Aquazol-based paint (QoR). You'll see that the Aquazol agressively pushes away the Gum Arabic. You can get the most crazy effects with this.
This combination is actually very very versatile! Look at those vibrant colors with only 3 colors! I was curious of Qor watercolor but they’re expensive where I live, so I didn’t know which colors to buy first that go nicely with each other. I think these colors are great.. thanks for the review, Teoh!
Hi Teoh, you mentioned getting a grey gel pen in place of the white. Sakura Gelli Roll has a great opaque grey gel pen I’ve been using lately. If I remember correctly it’s in the souffle line, so it is matte. I tried another grey gel pen from them, but it was slightly glossy on the paper, like acrylic paint is, so I didn’t like it on my watercolour sketches
i was planning to buy qor’s py150 while slowly replacing all my staple colors with daniel smith! im really more drawn to qor’s nickel azo compared to DS though thats why!
I have not tried this brand. I liked the orange & purple mixes but not the green as much, it looked a little brown but maybe your brush still had a bit of red. I always like limited palettes though, especially colors I do not have, so thank you very much. :)
I love QOR. I have around 28 colors and find the vibrancy and luminosity hard to beat. The only thing is I find it's hard to control, especially in wet on wet applications. For that reason I rarely reach for them as a whole palette, but only when I don't have a specific color in another brand☹️. I reach for my M Graham and Dan Smith most of the time. I do use nickel azo yellow a lot though, especially for glazing since it's so transparent. What do you think?
Do you know how big is that brunch in terms of diameter? I see it's a size 5, but I have a Size 8 Escoda Versatil and it is way smaller than that. I am trying to buy another Versatil with similar brush strokes as shown in the video. Thank you!
I am not sure if this is the right place to comment this... Yesterday I was at a Blick art materials store (Southern California) and they had a 40% sigh next to Daniel Smith Watercolor 15ml. I looked online and their price is $1 cheaper than Jackson's. Yes I bought 14 colors.
I really like my QOR for my expressive work, but I find them really hard to control. This is one of my favourite trio's, but I also use Phthalocyanine blue instead of ultramarine
Jiang Li, I find them extremely hard to control, that's why I don't reach for them much. I love their vibrancy and luminosity, but they don't work for the way I paint ☹️. I thought I'd love them and bought a butt-load too.
I have the yellow and magenta, but my ultra is W&N. Do you think they run a bit differently than others? The paint seems to form little tendrils, almost fractal like :-).
Wet on wet with QoR will have the paint dashing out, with those fractal-like pattern you mention. Those areas might need more work to make the colours blend more smoothly.
I'm always scared when you’re doing your color blends directly on your sheet, but in the end, it works well and your drawing is successful. Rather than finding a grey gelly pen to sketch windows , you can do your shadow after you draw them in white. Nice sketch Parka, I like it ! 🤩
Isabelle CADE, me too, I find watching the videos quite nervewracking until the last few moments when it all falls into place. Always amazed at how dark and vibrant Teoh goes on first pass, and so messy too, then it all resolves into something so readable and full of liveliness. But I am biting my lips until they are done!
I love their High Chroma set but feel hesitant to use them freely with other brands. They work well, but are unpredictable in tinting strength and behavior so I end up just using them on their own or diluted. Their Green Gold and Transparent Pyrrol Orange are gorgeous ❤️
Ana Marko: Oh I love transparent pyrrole orange! My daylillies are just finishing blooming (very late this year,) and that color was absolutely perfect for painting them! Awesome! Just love Qor!!
I got the eytchlab perfect sketch book it is made in some factory in china disappointed as they did not mentioned anything about it! Not recommended to you , because it is very overly priced
It just a sketch book with Fabriano artistico paper and a leather feeling of book cover, honestly its not magnificent like whoa. For price wise, this kind of quality at least 30% cheaper by other custom made sketch book company.I custom made a sketch book from taobao also from china, with arches paper, at least half the price of what i am paying for this perfect sketch book... same binding open flats
This trio is lovely!! Your limited palette videos are definitely the ones I rewatch the most. :D
Same here ;-)
Wow! The fact that the paint can be picked up without staining and the colors dry exactly the same tone is amazing to me! Great video Teoh!!! 😬
The buildings with the variegated colors is beautiful! Those colors are very nice! 👍😀 Thanks Teoh.
Ultramarine Blue and Quinacridone Magenta give the most intense violets and purples. Even replacing one of the colors with a violet won't get you the intensity that these colors can mix.
Thanks for the shout out! Fantastic video!!!
Oh yeah, this reminded me to add your YT channel link
I appreciate it! My channel got a nice bump in subscribers :)
this is just amazing the range you achieve with just these three colours is just absolutely beautiful!
Wow, I really like the colours this trio can make. So vibrant!
These 3 colors together are so versatile, what a stunning purple mix! I have mixed feelings about Qor because the binder is so unique, sometimes the paints just move too quickly and unexpectedly in a wet wash. I love them if I work more dry, or don't need subtle blending. Your painting turned out amazing!!! The amount of colors you can mix from just owning these 3 tubes is really inspiring for anyone - especially those that might be on a budget looking to get started with a small set.
Yeah, wet on wet with QoR can have the paint dash out too quickly
I’ve always love how Qor moves in water as well as the vibrant mixes it creates. I especially like it on the yellow building you did, it’s beautiful 😍
Thanks Teoh. I have 12 QOR colors. I like the nickel azo yellow and transparent pyrrol orange best. Just love the transparent orange. A little goes a long way with these paints.👍😊
So much going on in the the mixes. I love it! Inspiring.
Loved this video and the piece you did for it. QoR watercolors are so fun and very versatile.
Me too!!!!
Love your use of those colors
I already follow Jenny’s channel and love it, great to see you giving her a shoutout as she is the Queen of all things QOR related ❤️
Ahh, beautiful...I love the brown those shades made❤️
Love, love , love your mixing colors so beautiful!!!
Golden Paints (they make QOR watercolors) is very close to where I live. Its a nice little company with some great people who are serious patrons of the arts running it. Also good community citizens. Since I discovered them they are the only watercolors I use. The luminosity and intensity is amazing. I also love to visit the factory. They give away a lot of free stuff at their store and do tours. Give away a lot of free stuff too! Hmm...maybe its time to go and pick up a few more tubes!
Wow!! Gorgeous!! Love the vibrancy 😮
Every painter has his own customary color. He just liked a lot of colors when he was studying painting. As you progress, the colors you really need will be less and less. A relatively cool and warm color can complete a painting, which is no problem.每个画家都有自己习惯的颜色，刚才是学画画的时候喜欢很多种颜色。随着自己的进步，真正需要用的颜色会越来越少。一个相对的冷暖两种颜色就能完成一幅画，这是没有问题的。
This is my favorite primary trio you've tried so far. I NEED to go out and buy myself Nickle Azo Yellow
Some really good tips here! Thank you again Teoh.
I love QoR! I use Schmincke and Daniel Smith mostly (two or three holbein thrown in) but I do have a huge collection of QoR colors as well, and they never disappoint me. They disperse so beautifully!
You've inspired me to experiment with a limited primary palette, so I'm going to try Hansa Yellow Medium, Quinacridone Magenta and Ultramarine Blue 👍
Thank you for highlighting this trio!
There ultramarine and quin magenta are my absolute favorites, so vibrant and they just run across the page
These paints are so vibrant and pretty woah
Beautiful! I have never tried that brand before. You made them look luscious. Thank you!!
What beautiful colors!
I have the introductory and high chroma QOR sets and love them! Best on 100% cotton paper. Fun to use lots of water on 300# 100% cotton paper and let the paints do their magic. Love QOR.
I have a 12 pan set of split primary Qor paints that I ordered from Wet Paint. I have to say that I like these paints much better than the set of Schminke Horadam paints that I also got from Wet Paint. When Golden created this 12 pan set, it did a really good job with picking colors that suit the split primary palette. The colors are vibrant. But, I don't know if the pan colors are just made with tube colors or if a different manufacturing process was used.
Amazing sketch and color.
I love Qor, and I'm surprised that not everyone is enthusiastic about them!
My favorite brand of watercolor!
A beautiful shape indeed. I'm so inspired by your technique here .
I used Qor almost exclusively (until I got the Daniel Smith colors from you) and I love them. The are still the foundation of my paints, but I wanted a broader range of earth tones. The Qor do blend well with the Daniel Smith. I love the transparent colors - quinacridones, Nickle Azo yellow, transparent oxides etc. they are especially vibrant.
You should try the following: put down a fairly wet wash of a paint which is based on Gum Arabic (like Daniel Smith). Then drop in some Aquazol-based paint (QoR). You'll see that the Aquazol agressively pushes away the Gum Arabic. You can get the most crazy effects with this.
Thanks for another really informative video. 😊🇨🇦😊
Teoh, you can usually glaze over the white pen lines to tone it down with a wash.
You probably can
This combination is actually very very versatile! Look at those vibrant colors with only 3 colors! I was curious of Qor watercolor but they’re expensive where I live, so I didn’t know which colors to buy first that go nicely with each other. I think these colors are great.. thanks for the review, Teoh!
I have recently started using Qor in my classes. Very impressed with the brand.
I really like it!! Nice sketch
Love these colors, Teoh...And, this little lovely piece of artwork.
Thanks :-)
Yeah Jenny is great! Love the Cor watercolors.
LOVE this sketch!!! 👏👏👏
This was a really good one :) Thanks
The only Qor tube I bought was Terre Verte. It is a very soft greyish-green. It does not re-wet as well as my M. Graham paints.
My personal favorite trio. Brand and color included
You use QoR?
Teoh Yi Chie yep I got the 24 color set for Christmas and fell in love. I'm almost out of the colors in this trio because I use them so much
Really amazing video
Hi Teoh, you mentioned getting a grey gel pen in place of the white. Sakura Gelli Roll has a great opaque grey gel pen I’ve been using lately. If I remember correctly it’s in the souffle line, so it is matte. I tried another grey gel pen from them, but it was slightly glossy on the paper, like acrylic paint is, so I didn’t like it on my watercolour sketches
Thanks!
i was planning to buy qor’s py150 while slowly replacing all my staple colors with daniel smith! im really more drawn to qor’s nickel azo compared to DS though thats why!
Gorgeous.
I have not tried this brand. I liked the orange & purple mixes but not the green as much, it looked a little brown but maybe your brush still had a bit of red. I always like limited palettes though, especially colors I do not have, so thank you very much. :)
By the way, Aquazol is a watersoluable plastic, we don't know how long they will last. Many plastics break down over time.
I love QOR. I have around 28 colors and find the vibrancy and luminosity hard to beat. The only thing is I find it's hard to control, especially in wet on wet applications. For that reason I rarely reach for them as a whole palette, but only when I don't have a specific color in another brand☹️. I reach for my M Graham and Dan Smith most of the time.
I do use nickel azo yellow a lot though, especially for glazing since it's so transparent.
What do you think?
Let us know if you find a grey gel pen please.
Sakura Gelly Roll probably has one
Very cool 👏👏👏
Pretty nice
Do you know how big is that brunch in terms of diameter? I see it's a size 5, but I have a Size 8 Escoda Versatil and it is way smaller than that. I am trying to buy another Versatil with similar brush strokes as shown in the video. Thank you!
Different companies use different brush sizing difference. An Escoda Versatil size 8 or 10 should be similar to this size 5 Nevskaya Palitra.
What coloured pens/markers were you using, please? Thx!
not seen blue trees
Yeay LCP vid! Ps try QOR again :)
I am not sure if this is the right place to comment this... Yesterday I was at a Blick art materials store (Southern California) and they had a 40% sigh next to Daniel Smith Watercolor 15ml. I looked online and their price is $1 cheaper than Jackson's. Yes I bought 14 colors.
I really like my QOR for my expressive work, but I find them really hard to control. This is one of my favourite trio's, but I also use Phthalocyanine blue instead of ultramarine
Jiang Li, I find them extremely hard to control, that's why I don't reach for them much. I love their vibrancy and luminosity, but they don't work for the way I paint ☹️. I thought I'd love them and bought a butt-load too.
I have the yellow and magenta, but my ultra is W&N. Do you think they run a bit differently than others? The paint seems to form little tendrils, almost fractal like :-).
Wet on wet with QoR will have the paint dashing out, with those fractal-like pattern you mention. Those areas might need more work to make the colours blend more smoothly.
I'm always scared when you’re doing your color blends directly on your sheet, but in the end, it works well and your drawing is successful.
Rather than finding a grey gelly pen to sketch windows , you can do your shadow after you draw them in white. Nice sketch Parka, I like it ! 🤩
Isabelle CADE, me too, I find watching the videos quite nervewracking until the last few moments when it all falls into place. Always amazed at how dark and vibrant Teoh goes on first pass, and so messy too, then it all resolves into something so readable and full of liveliness. But I am biting my lips until they are done!
@@lindyashford7744 Lol! Me too!
You did very well with this, but I don't like the way it runs. Thank you!❤
I love their High Chroma set but feel hesitant to use them freely with other brands. They work well, but are unpredictable in tinting strength and behavior so I end up just using them on their own or diluted. Their Green Gold and Transparent Pyrrol Orange are gorgeous ❤️
Ana Marko: Oh I love transparent pyrrole orange! My daylillies are just finishing blooming (very late this year,) and that color was absolutely perfect for painting them! Awesome! Just love Qor!!
I got the eytchlab perfect sketch book it is made in some factory in china disappointed as they did not mentioned anything about it! Not recommended to you , because it is very overly priced
Is the quality not good?
It just a sketch book with Fabriano artistico paper and a leather feeling of book cover, honestly its not magnificent like whoa.
For price wise, this kind of quality at least 30% cheaper by other custom made sketch book company.I custom made a sketch book from taobao also from china, with arches paper, at least half the price of what i am paying for this perfect sketch book... same binding open flats
Not a fan of these Qor paints. They also are harder to reactivate in pan form.
Yeah, I agree. Something seems off with them, the tones are too plastic(?) glarey(?) Not to mention for the ridiculous expense I expect much more.