So nice to come home to a long relaxing video from you! -I guess Transparent Ochre is still weird. it's really just a transparent yellow oxide, I have no idea why it's such a weird texture. Mine turned browner in the pan, I swatched it again and it had changed color. I can't recommend that one. -I believe Naples Yellow Reddish is meant to be a premade light skin tone. I know someone who uses it, Irit Landgraf here on TH-cam, but she doesn't use it for portraits. She just likes that color (I think she actually prefers the Lukas brand). -I always just check the Schmincke PDF color chart for pigment info (I think I downloaded it from Jacksons? Or Schmincke's website). It says Maroon Brown is PBr7. - I agree with others here that Schmincke's version of PR206 strikes me as particularly nice. It just jumps off the dotcard. And it's more useful than PO48 as a mixer. -I have Transparent Brown, but it's not super transparent. In fact Schmincke classifies it as semi-transparent. It does not mix to grey with ultramarine or cobalt blues, and I got so mad at it I dug it out of my palette. I'm shocked at how good it looks here. Maybe if I just use it straight I will like it. -I have the Burnt Umber and I find it slightly difficult to rewet, too cool, and a very insipid color compared to Daniel Smith. Would not buy again.
I could see myself putting together a 6-color mini palette (in one of these small tin boxes that hold 6 half pans) as such, to resemble 19th century watercolor illustrations: raw umber for yellow, maroon brown for orange-red, indian red for red-purple, burnt umber for brown, green umber for green, and sepia brown as blue-black. These vintage illustrations can look rather unique today.
indeed, I am also in the process of choosing a similar limited palette dedicated to this artstyle. I use them with similarly colored ink so transparency is important. Transparent Pr101 is kinda the star of this palette, I use either Schmincke Transparent Sienna or Rembrandt Red Iron Oxide.
PR206 is my new favorite. It's actually really nice mixed with Ultramarine (PB29). They have a pretty good range. I think... I will end up collecting all the pigments I didn't tested myself. A few of the earth tones are quite interesting like the Titanium Gold Ochre and Transparent Brown. The more unusual ones that are maybe not as popular as the standard PY42, PY43, PBr6 and PBr7.
@@JayNathanWatercolor I've been thinking about getting a pan of it to see if I like it. Collecting everything would be too expensive for me. I also have only the colors in tubes that I use often. Getting a 15ml tube of one of the cobalt greens would be quite expensive and I don't think that I would use them that much. Maybe one day I will have a tube because I need a larger quantity for a project. Similar with the Indian Yellow that I purchased this year. I needed a larger quantity because I was painting a few paintings with a limited palette. They are now at my workspace and look nice on my wall.
@@JayNathanWatercolor I am in love with this pigment, it mixes beautifully with earth tones, currently using the Daniel smith version to paint some brown orchids but I think it would look lovely in landscapes also
Would like a tube of the PBr33. Loving the granulation and those subtle pinkish reddish yellowish brownish hues. Atleast that’s what I can see from this screen.
I really like the transparent versions they offer, with Transparent Brown being my favourite. It’s great for mixing and if I had to choose just one brown this would be it. I also love Mahogany Brown with its beautiful granulation. Great choice for those who want to replicate the super granulating colours.
Transparent Brown, Pr206 and Gold Brown look quite lovely, I am quite interested in trying them out. Transparent Sienna is still a favorite, I have been using it for years. I'm close to finishing the tube now so I bought a Rembrandt Red Iron Oxide to try because it is very affordable and it's very similar.
same! i really like the PBr33 but not sure how i feel it being in my main palette forever. it's currently in my western palette but i find myself reaching for PO48 much more. lol. thanks for this vid!
I have collected several Schmincke colors adhoc, without much of a plan. I just haven’t warmed up to them yet. I have the Mahogany Brown (very beautiful) and the Green Umber, just because it is unusual. It’s good for stone walls, but it also mixes well with lots of things just to tone down and give subtle granulation. It doesn’t much affect the color of mixes.
I like the Yellow Ochre in this range swatched out here, but I'd have to see it up close and try it out. I would normally go for Daniel Smith to be honest. The Transparent Sienna looks very tasty indeed - although I do like the Daniel Smith Quinacridone Sienna. I don't have many Schmincke colours, but I do have the gorgeous English Venetian Red in my Earth selection. The Madder Brown is too red for me, but I imagine it might be useful for autumn leaves and some urban sketching cafe scenes at night. . The Jaune Brilliant is quite opaque, just like the Naples Yellow. Watercolour artist Javid Tabatabaei often uses these colours to spectacular effect. I have a Mejello version of the Jaune Brilliant, which I use to mix with transparent colours to create pastel tones - which I've been experimenting a bit for flesh tones too.
Really useful earth comparison, so good to see how they paint out and what colour shifts they go through. I am adding an earth selection to a a palette with space for more, and apart from the ubiquitous yellow ochre I have very few earths so far… it seemed the logical next type of colour to add to my collection. Would love to know what you would recommend as a bluish addition to a basically yellow, orange-red, and deep red brown selection of earths…. Nice video.
Naples yellows are useful in portraiture and life studies, In other types of paint you sometimes find a greenish variety as well as deep and light variations. Can be used for a variety of skin tones not just Caucasian, so very useful. Seems to be hard to find the greenish tones in w/c paint, which is a shame, in this brand there is a green earth you could use to mix or as an undertone. I like the madder brown with a touch of quin red maybe as a first layer, as an Alazarin crimson substitute, or on its own it will lean to warm or cool depending on how you use it. I like it a lot.
Thanks for this video :-) Which are more representative of the actual colours, the swatches at the end in the better light or the swatches while you are painting them? The Gold Brown looks very different in both versions. The Gold Brown at the end of the video is very saturated and vivid but I am not sure whether it actually looks like that in real life.
Schmincke Madder Brown is one of my top paints EVER. It is the softest most beautiful and smooth pr206. It’s a top paint for me of all paints, brands, pigments… it’s angelic! . Schminckes transparent earth tones are what I chose for my Schmincke palette. The trans ochre is very very strange straight out of the tube, it’s chunky and whipped looking. Pretty gross. also weird after it dries. but I like it any way. I like their trans ochre, Sienna, umber, and brown along with madder brown.
I have the Yellow Raw Ochre and Burnt Umber. I prefer the Holbein Yellow Ochre and Da Vinci's Burnt Umber. The Naples Yellow Reddish looks similar to Holbein's Jaune Brilliant #2, at least on my screen. I'm kind of sitting in the dark though, since it's pouring rain and I didn't turn the overhead light on, so who knows. lol Forgot to say that Mahogany Brown is lovely. I'll add it to the list. $$$
The Naples Yellow is one of my alltime favourite colors. I love the mixes you can get from it 🤗
So nice to come home to a long relaxing video from you!
-I guess Transparent Ochre is still weird. it's really just a transparent yellow oxide, I have no idea why it's such a weird texture. Mine turned browner in the pan, I swatched it again and it had changed color. I can't recommend that one.
-I believe Naples Yellow Reddish is meant to be a premade light skin tone. I know someone who uses it, Irit Landgraf here on TH-cam, but she doesn't use it for portraits. She just likes that color (I think she actually prefers the Lukas brand).
-I always just check the Schmincke PDF color chart for pigment info (I think I downloaded it from Jacksons? Or Schmincke's website). It says Maroon Brown is PBr7.
- I agree with others here that Schmincke's version of PR206 strikes me as particularly nice. It just jumps off the dotcard. And it's more useful than PO48 as a mixer.
-I have Transparent Brown, but it's not super transparent. In fact Schmincke classifies it as semi-transparent. It does not mix to grey with ultramarine or cobalt blues, and I got so mad at it I dug it out of my palette. I'm shocked at how good it looks here. Maybe if I just use it straight I will like it.
-I have the Burnt Umber and I find it slightly difficult to rewet, too cool, and a very insipid color compared to Daniel Smith. Would not buy again.
I could see myself putting together a 6-color mini palette (in one of these small tin boxes that hold 6 half pans) as such, to resemble 19th century watercolor illustrations: raw umber for yellow, maroon brown for orange-red, indian red for red-purple, burnt umber for brown, green umber for green, and sepia brown as blue-black. These vintage illustrations can look rather unique today.
indeed, I am also in the process of choosing a similar limited palette dedicated to this artstyle. I use them with similarly colored ink so transparency is important. Transparent Pr101 is kinda the star of this palette, I use either Schmincke Transparent Sienna or Rembrandt Red Iron Oxide.
madder brown PR206 is probably my favorite paint ever it is PERFECT for skin tones and makes really nice browns when you mix it with green.
I’m so glad I’m not alone!! Me too… I absolutely love using it beside indigo!!
PR206 is my new favorite. It's actually really nice mixed with Ultramarine (PB29). They have a pretty good range.
I think... I will end up collecting all the pigments I didn't tested myself. A few of the earth tones are quite interesting like the Titanium Gold Ochre and Transparent Brown. The more unusual ones that are maybe not as popular as the standard PY42, PY43, PBr6 and PBr7.
I’ll give the PR206 a proper try some time and see if I like it. The titanium gold ochre is really nice 😊
@@JayNathanWatercolor I've been thinking about getting a pan of it to see if I like it. Collecting everything would be too expensive for me. I also have only the colors in tubes that I use often. Getting a 15ml tube of one of the cobalt greens would be quite expensive and I don't think that I would use them that much. Maybe one day I will have a tube because I need a larger quantity for a project. Similar with the Indian Yellow that I purchased this year. I needed a larger quantity because I was painting a few paintings with a limited palette. They are now at my workspace and look nice on my wall.
@@JayNathanWatercolor I am in love with this pigment, it mixes beautifully with earth tones, currently using the Daniel smith version to paint some brown orchids but I think it would look lovely in landscapes also
Would like a tube of the PBr33. Loving the granulation and those subtle pinkish reddish yellowish brownish hues. Atleast that’s what I can see from this screen.
I really like the transparent versions they offer, with Transparent Brown being my favourite. It’s great for mixing and if I had to choose just one brown this would be it. I also love Mahogany Brown with its beautiful granulation. Great choice for those who want to replicate the super granulating colours.
Transparent Brown, Pr206 and Gold Brown look quite lovely, I am quite interested in trying them out. Transparent Sienna is still a favorite, I have been using it for years. I'm close to finishing the tube now so I bought a Rembrandt Red Iron Oxide to try because it is very affordable and it's very similar.
I use a lot of PR206 myself, W&N usually. I prefer it to Venetian reds and similar reddish PR101, because it's transparent.
I’ll have to try it instead of my usual opaque earth red some time. Maybe I’ll grow to love it.
It's been discontinued and will disappear from the market, so it might be worth keeping an eye on that if you use it a lot. :)
WN PR206 for the win, it is really beautiful. I stocked up so when it eventually disappears I will have some.
same! i really like the PBr33 but not sure how i feel it being in my main palette forever. it's currently in my western palette but i find myself reaching for PO48 much more. lol. thanks for this vid!
This is the section with the most colours I want to try I think. I have the Indian red, it’s a lovely paint
According to the Schmincke Colour catalogue, Maroon Brown is PBr7.
Great! Thank you. For some reason I couldn't find the catalogue 🤣
I have collected several Schmincke colors adhoc, without much of a plan. I just haven’t warmed up to them yet. I have the Mahogany Brown (very beautiful) and the Green Umber, just because it is unusual. It’s good for stone walls, but it also mixes well with lots of things just to tone down and give subtle granulation. It doesn’t much affect the color of mixes.
I like the Yellow Ochre in this range swatched out here, but I'd have to see it up close and try it out. I would normally go for Daniel Smith to be honest.
The Transparent Sienna looks very tasty indeed - although I do like the Daniel Smith Quinacridone Sienna.
I don't have many Schmincke colours, but I do have the gorgeous English Venetian Red in my Earth selection.
The Madder Brown is too red for me, but I imagine it might be useful for autumn leaves and some urban sketching cafe scenes at night. .
The Jaune Brilliant is quite opaque, just like the Naples Yellow. Watercolour artist Javid Tabatabaei often uses these colours to spectacular effect. I have a Mejello version of the Jaune Brilliant, which I use to mix with transparent colours to create pastel tones - which I've been experimenting a bit for flesh tones too.
Really useful earth comparison, so good to see how they paint out and what colour shifts they go through. I am adding an earth selection to a a palette with space for more, and apart from the ubiquitous yellow ochre I have very few earths so far… it seemed the logical next type of colour to add to my collection. Would love to know what you would recommend as a bluish addition to a basically yellow, orange-red, and deep red brown selection of earths…. Nice video.
Naples yellows are useful in portraiture and life studies, In other types of paint you sometimes find a greenish variety as well as deep and light variations. Can be used for a variety of skin tones not just Caucasian, so very useful. Seems to be hard to find the greenish tones in w/c paint, which is a shame, in this brand there is a green earth you could use to mix or as an undertone.
I like the madder brown with a touch of quin red maybe as a first layer, as an Alazarin crimson substitute, or on its own it will lean to warm or cool depending on how you use it. I like it a lot.
Thanks for this video :-) Which are more representative of the actual colours, the swatches at the end in the better light or the swatches while you are painting them? The Gold Brown looks very different in both versions. The Gold Brown at the end of the video is very saturated and vivid but I am not sure whether it actually looks like that in real life.
Schmincke Madder Brown is one of my top paints EVER. It is the softest most beautiful and smooth pr206. It’s a top paint for me of all paints, brands, pigments… it’s angelic! . Schminckes transparent earth tones are what I chose for my Schmincke palette. The trans ochre is very very strange straight out of the tube, it’s chunky and whipped looking. Pretty gross. also weird after it dries. but I like it any way. I like their trans ochre, Sienna, umber, and brown along with madder brown.
I have the Yellow Raw Ochre and Burnt Umber. I prefer the Holbein Yellow Ochre and Da Vinci's Burnt Umber. The Naples Yellow Reddish looks similar to Holbein's Jaune Brilliant #2, at least on my screen. I'm kind of sitting in the dark though, since it's pouring rain and I didn't turn the overhead light on, so who knows. lol Forgot to say that Mahogany Brown is lovely. I'll add it to the list. $$$
The Madder Brown is very, very beautiful. I do not know whether it is an earthy rose colour or rosey brown colour.
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