Yay! I'm so glad you finally built your own custom palette. I can't wait to see what you come up with with the colors. Thanks so much for the shout out! I'm glad the class was helpful 💜

I use toothpicks when I'm filling pans. Wastes way less paint than mixing with anything else.

“Now these are just my TUBE paints” me: *spits milk out* thAT MEANS SHE HAS MORE- Holy cow. Now she’s the true watercolor god

Am I the only one who thinks people underestimate yellow and hate on it way too much

Yum, a new palette! Love the colors you selected, can't wait to see what you'll create with them.

That’s so funny- that Winsor and Newton crimson is also the only paint I still use from them 😂 I love their gouache but I find their watercolors to be dull compared to DS. But that crimson is lovely :) This was so satisfying to watch and very informative. Enjoy your gorgeous new palette!

If you haven't made it already, I would love to see a video about what you like so much about naples yellow, and how you use the colour. I'm really interested since it's a pretty unusual colour to love, and I would love to better understand what you see in it❤️

Skillshare looks pretty amazing but I don't have the means to keep up with it. I mean the two months is cool but afterwords I won't have it cause I can't pay for it so. I have to stick with KZfaq for now

I think we both know me long enough to know that I'm a big fan of custom watercolor palettes, so I'm hype that you've made yourself a new setup! It's soooo pretttttyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy. Part of the reason that I made my palettes easy to swap paints in and out is for exactly the reasons you talked about; worrying that you'll have chosen too many colors that are pretty but don't work together, worrying you'll have missed a color you really need or like, etc etc. That's why so many of my palettes are easy to both adjust the paints as well as the color chart without having to jus totally rip apart everything. Also, undersea green is soooo goooooooodddddd.

Fantastic video. I just bought a ridiculous amount of paints (28 tubes) because my local art supply store was having an annual sale. And, of course, the Daniel Smith rep was there on Saturday (a total enabler), with a bunch of paper, brushes and a huge bag of tubes of paint for people to sit down and try. I played for almost an hour, and then had to go home and swatch everything out. It took me hours, and then, of course, I had to go back on Sunday, and buy some more colors to fill out areas of color that I had neglected. What a JUNKIE I am, though I guess there are worse addictions to have. Anyway, found you through Denise and you are great! Thanks thanks thanks!

Thank you so much for sharing your skill with us all. I appreciate the time you have devoted for free. I am sorry for some of the remarks about how many paints you have and such. You explain at the very beginning that you are given many to try out, and some are gifted to you. I feel it's none of my business how many you have or how you got them or who will get them in your will. I'm just thankful that you are sharing your knowledge and are willing to answer our questions. I'm 68 and don't have that many tubes, but I'm getting them one or more at a time. I'm not jealous of you(even though I too would like to have more} I'm happy you have them and they make you happy and you are giving freely your gift of knowledge to us. Thanks again.

Beautiful selections! I like to decant my paint into pans or half pans rather than into a palette, because I can then easily change them out of a portable palette and experiment. But a nice open palette like this is soooo inviting... I may have to actually commit and set another up.

honestly i need a warm and cool of each color along with yellow ocher, burnt umber white and black.

this video was not only very informative and super entertaining to watch, but also had the only skillshare ad that ever made me even consider it at all. Great job, honestly

I just love listening to you talk while wathing your videos! I just feel really soothed and relaxed! All the stress just disappears!

Personally I need to have transparent Brown oxide by Daniel smith. It's never missing from my palette.

Thank you so much for this amazing video! I really appreciated all of the advice you gave, and watching the swatches as you talked about colors was exactly what I have needed after a long week of working retail and traveling around. I especially loved the scene where you sprayed water into the circles of color on the palette. It was so magical and calming to watch the colors bleed.

Quinacridone Pink or a similar colour is very much a staple in my colour palettes. I'm currently going through and creating my own palette and realised I love very bright and vibrant tones that can be neutralised down. Even my more earthy tones are going to be brighter using things such as green gold, quinacridone gold etc. I am loving Denise's class so much!

I loved watching this, you were really generous with information as always and I agree in liquid color has the best information on pigment it’s always fun to watch her videos! Just a little tip for colors that separate when pouring you can mix them with a tooth pick or a pin it works really well without wasting paint.

I am absolutely living for these art videos

I love my blues and lavands, so in every palette i MUST have at least one blue and one red hahaha Besides that i keep my colors very cool toned and keep everything on that cool blue~cool green area.

I do a square where one time I use colour 1 more than colour 2 and vice versa. I also make the boxes bigger and create a gradient to see what the paint looks like watered down

It’s 1am, I have a baby sleeping on my chest and I’m watching watercolour videos... why do I do this?

Thank you so much for the tips on creating the color sheet. I’ve used the method of creating enough small pools for each of the colors I’m mixing it with so many times now!

I'm so glad to see Cascade Green made it to your perfect palette! It's an amazing color, that no matter how I try to mix the two pigments together from separate tubes of PBr7 and PB15 I just can't make them create the same magic as Daniel Smith's mixture. Same with Rose of Ultramarine. The granulation is so beautiful :) For my perfect palette I couldn't narrow it down this far, so I used a case with 60 spaces lol. I've recently discovered the pleasure of mixing Rose of Ultramarine with Serpentine Genuine, finding that I could make a whole painting with just those and be happy. I love the combo for both florals and even mixed together for making skin tones.

Thank you so much for this, very well taught! I've recently begun working with watercolor to quickly "sketch out) my ideas for glazing pottery. So in trying to understand nuances in watercolor, you have also helped me to understand a logical way to organize my over abundance of glazes! I can't wait to make my first favorite color palette .. both with watercolor AND on clay:D

I cannot go without opera pink 💖

I’m in shock. I new to watercolor and recently acquired some of the professional Winsor & Newton watercolor tubes- but I had NO idea you could just let them dry out like that in a palette. I watched another video where someone built there palette and I was so confused when she kept squeezing the colors in all the wells

Such a fun video! I wouldn't know where to begin to do something like this. You approached this in such a good way!

This was so helpful. I'm learning to paint and getting overwhelmed, but I realized I need to focus on manipulating the watercolora first even before worrying about making an image. This was very practical, thanks!

Interesting choices. I prefer the blue heavy palette. Especially since I like making seascapes. No color charts. Not yet, anyway. Just getting into watercolors. Learning a lot. Torn between my love for oils and the fun of watercolors. Thank you for sharing!!!

Your voice calms me while I do homework You inspire me to paint more :)

oh my, when you pushed the colors out of the tubes were sooooo setisfying :D

OMG. That’s insane! Your collection is bigger than the selection at my local Michaels!

I always wondered how the best way was to make all those combinations!!! This was so helpful!!! Thank you!

Fascinating! Can’t believe how many tubes you have. Wonderful palette!

I do botanicals and I ADORE sap green. I use Winsor & Newtons, but I haven't played around with a huge amount of brands. I just find it behaves so well and I feel like every green I mix with it is so dimensional

I love the gradients, textures and appeals this video gives :D

for colours i know get muddy easily i usually have two wells for them, so two white, two yellow, etc, that way you’ve always got a clean version

I just got the palette she's using and omg it is amazing! Way bigger than I thought. So worth it!!

That's awesome. I like you choice of colors. I have a few in common with you with my current favorite pallet. I chose Daler and Rowney (DR) Quin Magenta, Daniel Smith (DS Quin Rose, DS Rhodonite Genuine, DS Pyrrol Scarlet, DS New Gamboge, Winsor and Newton (WN) Naples Yellow, DS Hansa Yello Light, WN Davy's Grey, DS Serpentine Genuine, Grumbacher (Gr) Davy's Grey, DS Jadite Genuine, DS Pthelo Blue, DR Coerulean Blue, DS Mayan Blue Genuine, DS French Ultra Marine Blue, Gr Payne's Grey, DS Hematite Genuine, WN Ultra Marine Violet, DS Amathest Genuine, DS Piemontite Genuine, WN Van Dyke Brown, DS Pearlescent Shimmer. I think I'm going to add a Hooker's Green and an Indian Red. I haven't ever had the patience to sit down and make a color chart, but I am going to try this weekend to make one like yours. Thanks for the video! I'm looking forward to the next one.

Cannot wait to see what creations come from the colors in your new palette! They remind me a lot of a scene or earthy still of a Miyazaki film! 😍

You always seem to make these videos right when I need them! I’m looking into making a custom palette for myself at some point in the near future!!! I already made myself a collage of pictures of the colors I’m looking at investing in and everything! 😂 (I’m saving for more Daniel Smith and M Graham tubes) I really like the colors you chose for this! And I agree, I always find earth tones the prettiest!

I love this watercolour video of you Arleebean

I learned with a limited pallet of about 10 colors for nature paintings and I am only just recently understanding why people would need so many colors. Love seeing your process and look forward to continuing to build my own skills and collection as i expand my subjects and style. Love that pallet and hopefully will get one soon

this video and your voice are really calming

Goodness! I've been wanting to do this too! Just a tin of my very favs! I think this is where we ultimately go next after compiling our collections LOL Thanks for inspiring

The pallet you use is the exact same that I have, i love it!

wow watercolour collection goals 😮

I find building the right palette for individual style preference to be so hard. Especially cause there are so many colours and options out there. Your palette looks amazing, love how you set up the mixing grid

My must-have colours are Transparent Yellow by Sennelier, Quinacridone Purple by Schmincke and Perylene Maroon, also by Schmincke

I've watched this 3 times... Don't judge me. This video is SUPER helpful as I pair down my 36 Pan set of White Nights down to somewhere between 12 and 18. Thank you very much.

The color I ABSOLUTELY have to have is vermilion because I love that color! Also you💙💙

Great palette. Thank you for sharing.

I never liked Naples Yellow until I saw all your mixes with it on your chart. Thanks for the eye-opener!

Really enjoyed this video...thank you for sharing. In the past year I've gone back to watercolors after a very long absense. This video helped make some sense out of how to decide on a palette. ( I could swatch all day long!......; )

I love charts. I have made myself a colour chart reference book of every brand and colour I own. It's a work in progress as I still have a couple of Charts to finish. It's called my little book of happy. I'm planning a video about this book. 😀

Wow! Can't wait to see what you're going to paint with those colours 😍 for me painting mixing charts is so relaxing and therapeutic that i tend to do the square version so that they can take longer to paint :3 Always need a granulating colour in my palette, usually potter's pink, cerulean blue, cobalt blue or cobalt teal, i need to have one of those at all times 😍😍 and py150, that yellow is a must xD A big hug, Francisca

This video is so useful. thank you

For a small amount of colors I like to make a full square because then I can see what different amounts of colors look like too. This helped a lot when I was starting out.

Thank you so much. Really pleasant and clear!!

Your chart is beautiful!!! Qor's Quin Violet is a staple in my palette!

Holy,, thats a lot paint tube.. im really jealous cause i only own.. 12 custom picked tubes.. hahaa awesome.. you have qor.. theyre really expensive.

i cannot live without a quinacridone rose/permanent rose in my palette! apart from the pinks, which are near and dear to me, i also use it for a wonderful variety of purples (which is why i also like having a good selection of blues). your palette made me interested in venturing into some more yellows i dont have, and buff titanium, because im seeing some mixes on your chart that could be skin tones and thats always a Struggle™ for me haha.

That color chart is absolutely life changing.

I really thought I had commented on this video months ago, but I guess not! I love the color choices for your palette, they're so soft and earthy :) I also took Denise's class on Skillshare, and it was a wonderful resource. The color I I love most is Qor's Green Gold, as it's a wonderful mixing color, making vibrant but earthy oranges and greens. I prefer to do my mixing chart as a part of my swatch cards. In the project section of Denise's class, I posted pictures of my swatch cards for nearly all of my colors, so about 36 I think? They're 4x6 pieces of watercolor paper gridded out into rectangles. I take my main color, and do a large swatch at the bottom, and then I use the other spots to swatch mixtures of my main color with the other colors in my palette. I like to mix the swatches with more of the main color, so that I don't get duplicates on the various cards. I paint them wet in wet (so that I can look for any granulation), and then when they dry I add a glaze on half the square to get an idea of the color at it's most saturated. I used to make a big color chart like you did, only I made the full chart with different mixing ratios, but I find my small card method easier to use and store, though it does take more time. Oh, I also wanted to mention that I recently got Transparent Red Oxide from Daniel Smith (I was spurred on by one of Oto's color showdown videos) and it makes an even darker black than my Burnt Sienna (Da Vinci) when mixed with Ultramarine Blue (also Da Vinci), with gorgeous granulation. You may want to check it out! It's a transparent version of PR101, and I replaced Burnt Sienna with it in my palette because the mixtures are so much richer. I'm adding the swatch card to my project now, so check it out if you're interested :)

Bought the exact Pallete holding thing. I love ittt

I became confused doing a color chart and skipped a color 🤪. Love Denise Soden. Great teacher. I’ll check out your classes as well.

0: that violet and crimson is so pretty!!!!!

Gosh. What an inspiring video. Thank you. Subscribed.

I have that same watercolor palette from amazon, it works amazing! I want to get it in blue next 😊

that palette with the removable mixing tray is a godsend, take my follow for that alone

Its really lovely to see that your palette is quite a different mix of brands, although Daniel smith and Qor did have an extra lil punch with its colours! I'm now curious about the Qor brand as i already know of Daniel smiths quality! :) Also its so satisfying to see these colours come together, your chosen colours really do mix so well!

I only use 8 colours for my watercolours and my oil paints. I use Alizarin crimson,Cadmium primary Yellow,ultramarine blue,tittanium white,intense black,Silver,gold and Magenta. I love you,re watercolour pallet Arleebean 🫶🏾👍🏾👋🏾😁

this is so satisfying 🙈😆

I do the whole square, and do the darkest and lightest versions of each mix. Some kind of magenta is my favorite; I need something pink to make my favorite mixes.

Lovely palette! I have yet to find a colour that I rely on all the time but I also do not have a consistent style yet. I created a square colour chart that has 1:3 mixes on each side of the diagonal so one half has mor of the main colour and the other has more of the mixer. I mixed it up a few times though but it is still nice to look at.

DS Quinacridone Gold (old formula PO49) is definitely a staple. It mixes the most stunning greens and oranges! Glad I was able to get extra tubes, but my heart goes out to new painters that might not get to try it for themselves :(

I always find it fascinating to see what colours other people choose for their palette. I haven´t made a dream palette yet because I have such difficulties choosing limited number of colours, I8 wouldn´t cover all my favourites. I know you don´t NEED 7 blues og 6 greens in your palette but they are all so useful and beautiful :)

Thank you for recording at 60fps. The paint looks so juicy.

I know this is am old video but I've been looking to create my own palette so this was soooo helpful!

My favourite colour(s) would be Cad Yellow and Sap Green from Winsor and Newton. I am very new yo watercolours so I only have Winsor and Newton! You have really inspired me to do more watercolour pieces.

This was amazing to watch and makes me want to dive in and starting purchasing wayercolors and take it back up. In highschool I decided it was my favorite painting medium. What you did proves one reason why. All you need is water? I always loved using a dryer brush to sap up wet areas or a really thick loaded brush with lots of pigment to darken areas. In school our teacher taught us how to mix each colr with white or black to make what he called tints and hues. So currently I am in confusion as to what brand to buy first? I like strong pigmented color. If I knew what was the highest pigmented wayercolor I would go with that. I would also lile to learn how to use some of the liquid additives to a watercolor art piece? That masking fluid has me uber curious? I love the way you made this pallet! You might just be the one to get me to try Skill Share. 😎

Amazing video!!!

I have made 3 full color charts but I think I’m going to use your method next time . My son bought me a premium Skillshare membership for Christmas 🎄 so I’m on my way to Denise’s class now 🙋🏻‍♀️ !

Thanks for your work arleebean! You’re my kinda WC painter :) I also hate wasting paper/time/paint doubling up swatches, I even geeked out for a few hours developing a swatching method so that I could fit all my swatches into a flooscap notebook. I did it in Microsoft excel. I found that 12x12 and 18x18 swatches ended up too large for a notebook. I almost had to do math... it was hard 😂

Very helpful! Thanks so much

wow, squeezing paint from a tube looks soooo satisfying....

I like to make round swatch cards i love to mix colours and i love layering water colours i only use 5 colours for all my paints. I use Alizarin crimson,Cadmium primary Yellow, ultramarine blue,tittanium white and mars black. My extra colours are Silver,Gold and magenta. I love magenta. Great cart chart Arleebean

Woah, nice color choices ! If only I could afford lol

I don’t know why but I enjoyed this video so much

Absolutely beautiful palette! Thank you so much for sharing!! I would love to do skill share so I can learn how to paint faces from you & do Denise’s classes too! I wish I could!! May I ask, would you ever create online classes separate/ independently from skill share? Thank you so much for sharing all you amazing tips!

Hi, what are your thoughts on Da Vinci Watercolor paints?

Eye candy ohmahhoodness 😻

I need to start saving up and buying the tubes instead of premaid pallets cause i barely use the colours given at times

I do usually do the whole thing. Lol and Naples yellow.. mauve.. ultramarine blue.. Payne's gray.. cadmium red.. sal green.. those are my go to colors.

I really love green, especially willow green, not many brands have a willow green, sometimes i make my own using other brands mixed together.

with my yellow colors, i use a tissue or paper towel to soak up the areas that get kinda muddy after each use. :)

Lovely palette! I mostly use transparant pigments, when do you usually use Naples yellow and buff titanium? Thank you

I don't have a huge collection of watercolours yet but it very quickly expanding. I think i'd like to make a new pallet soon as i am now a bit more understanding of what i want out of my colour selection, but i hesitate because the one and only colour chat i made took me hours to finish. That was a full square with one half at mast strength and the other tinted out. If i do make a new colour chart, i think i'll try this half grid, because i really don't think i can sit there all day do a full one.