#watercolour swatches

[kiff-art]

Trying out the Koi Water Colors during a cozy afternoon 🎨🥰

[sabrina-bee-art]

My 2023 watercolour palette extension. The first image is photographed, the second was scanned with my crappy old scanner. The difference is pretty huge with some pigments, especially Brilliant Opera Rose! The scanner couldn't handle it's brightness at all! (I am currently saving up for a proper art scanner, so we'll see how that changes the colours too.)

All pigments are Schmicke.

The blank spots without labelling have yet to be filled and the blank but labelled spots are reserved for pigments I have in my older palette setup as pans but are running low. These new ones are all tubes and I'll crack the dublicates open as soon as the pans are empty.

my 2022 watercolour palette

generally i'm pretty happy with this selection. there are some pigments i would like to experiment with in the future (ofc lol). i do think the Lukas pigments are a little chalky compared to the Schminke ones which is fine since they are student grade watercolours. i do notice the difference when i'm painting though.

[lycomorpha]

When I'm at art fairs, people seriously love looking through my big swatch book of handmade paints.

So I've made some teeny miniature ones for the Bookface Art Fair this weekend (Rising Sun Art Centre, Reading, UK.)

They're tiny and fkn delightful and I love my paint babies so much 🖌️💖

[bmpmp3]

11 fish

[artchiu]

My watercolor/gouache palette!! A video about it here. ✷

[melissaesme]

Trying to put together a travel palette for my next trip away and I'm really struggling to narrow down to 12 colours that gives me the vibrancy that I love but with the versatility that I need!!

What's your top 12?

[andibenet]

So, Holbein has 24 new granulating watercolors. Currently, they're only available in Japan (North American release late summer/early fall).

I was initially really excited to play with these. I use Holbein's pre-existing colors and really appreciate the vibrancy of their watercolors. (They're also much more affordable if you import rather than by from a US-based distributor.)

These are all vegan-friendly based pigments and with 24 colors, I was hoping this could be a good starter set to recommend for people who like the granulating look. Holbein prides itself on how finely ground it's pigments are, so you can get very even, flat washes easily. These present something quite different, with 20/24 including new pigments to their line.

It's got a nice range of colors with a saturated blood/wine red being the biggest exception. I think the only one I could say I hate is the sakura/cherry blossom; it looks like Pepto Bismal with a chalky texture (probably from the Chinese/Titanium white pigment).

Excluding the pastel set, Holbein's existing sets all include ivory black—derived from bone char and the lone animal-based color in Holbein's entire watercolor set. This one, is entirely vegan.

I'm still in the playing stage, but I'm kinda disappointed. They're all convenience colors (having 2 or more pigments), and, unfortunately, easily turn into muddy colors when mixing. They all have some degree of staining, so if you do a lot of lifting work, this could be difficult.

It feels like these colors are intended for painting quicker, rather than building up colors. As previously mentioned, four of the colors can be made with Holbein's existing colors. Manually mixing made much more interesting colors (while having added control over were pigments can seperate).

Useful Links

🎨 Pigment Information 🎨

  ❥ 🇯🇵 Holbein’s Granulating Colors: https://holbein-shop.com/?mode=grp&gid=2973105  ❥ Holbein’s Watercolors: https://holbeinartistmaterials.com/watercolors/ ❥ Dr. Oto Kano’s Holbein Database [archive]: https://web.archive.org/web/20240318041505/https://otokano.com/colors-by-brand/holbein/ and YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@otokano ❥ Kimberly Crick’s Pigment Database: https://www.kimcrick.com/pages/pigment-database-swatch-card-color-charts-for-watercolor-paint-ink-gouache-acrylic and Rubber Stamp (https://www.kimcrick.com/collections/rubber-stamps/products/swatch-card-rubber-stamp-for-watercolor-ink-acrylic-markers-for-universal-art-medium-color-chart-organization-select-mounting-option) ❥ Art is Creation Color of Art Pigment Database: https://www.artiscreation.com/Color_index_names.html

📦 Importing 📦

  ❥ 🇯🇵 Sekaido Online Shop (https://webshop.sekaido.co.jp/)       ❥ 🇯🇵 Holbein Granulating Watercolors: https://webshop.sekaido.co.jp/product/A009183   ❥ Buyee: https://buyee.jp/?lang=en 

[pattokarts]

Swatching my new paints from MaimeriBlu with the Princeton Neptune size 10 🥰💙

[music: Out Getting Ribs (Slowed) - Feeling Blew]

[eggthew]

rot has moved to the underside of the front of my brain. should go for a walk but its windy and bad sensory day

[joysdisorder]

swatching . . .

gouache on calico fabric 🖤

insta : @ joysdisorder

[crimsonglow-art]

Having time to comfortably do a watercolor color chart for myself was refreshing. I last did one of these in college.

If anyone knows of any good watercolor tutorial videos, let me know. I would love to get some practice back in after so long.

[sybils-pride]

Over the past week or so, I have experimented with Tuxedo (Iron oxide), Abyssinian (caput mortuum), and Tabby, Brindle & Cypers (raw umber). Tabby, Brindle & Cypers need a bit more experimenting, and I might not make all three, but I'm definitely having a blast!

New pans should arrive soon, and I've got a few more pigments incoming as well. Hopefully next week I'll be able to make some big enough batches to finally get started putting them up on Ko-fi!

[viralarcadian]

found this fantastic indie watercolour brand called shimmer drops that specializes in metalics and colour-shifting pigments while also being as green as possible w materials, and by god do i Yearn but they're an aussie brand and shipping fees for even a few colours would be horrendous

[chaotictomtom]

FUCK YOU DUUUDE drawing him because mike's line saying he's a bomb ticking away 🧠🧠🧠 constantly in my brain it's been month of thinking about doing this anyway pondering on writing down said quote or not idk yet

[bmpmp3]

more doodles of me genbu lite design im working on <3

[huberink]

Testing out paintstones! Handmade, eco-friendly watercolour paints🎨