You’re such a talented artist, but also as a teacher and reviewer. Definitely a hard worker to be as skilled as you are. Even though I have too much paint, I am constantly falling in love with things you show me! You hypnotize me.

What do you think of van Gogh's watercolors?

I will be diving into more of the DaVinci paints that arrived just this morning! I look forward to your indepth reviewing process and see what you make of them!

Hello!! So I found something I thought you would be interested in. I know you're a fan of PO49, I know you said you wouldn't be making your own paints but I thought you would be interested in it any way? This is literally the only place I could find it besides a couple 100$ tubes of DS. www.guerrapaint.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=305

In Liquid Color I've come across ur channel for the 1st time., Extremely beautiful portraits 🎨😍😍😍😍and lots of helpful information. Thanks alot👍👍👍 I want to know ,hv u tried Fiber castle water color pallettes? And can u share info abt watercolor paper and those two brushes that u were using in this video? I've checked ur description box below but for some reason I'm unable to figure out. 😅🙈 And can u guide us about ur favorite top 10 affordable yet professional watercolor papers and water color brushes starting from affordable to expensive promising brands??? And can u share

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Thank you=)

Thank you

She has the time stamps in the discription

Thank you Daniel!! I gotta keep you on your toes haha :)

Wtf, Luis? XD

Cajita Del Dibujo qué pequeño es el mundo🤯

DaGarabatos si 😂 no pensé encontrar a un conocido en un video mientras buscaba marcas de acuarela

😭😭😭💜💜💜 thank you so much!

I agree. I just stumbled onto this video half asleep, but the animal portraits certainly woke me up and claimed my full attention. (Not a fan of snakes or other bald animals, but even he is beautifully done.) I hit the notification channel and hope to get a lot more of your videos as you are the only animal portraitist I've ever come across and as I enter the world of painting, botanical illustration and animal portraiture are strong interests of mine. Thanks so much for your video. It's a sweet treat. 😊 💐 🦒 🐈 🐕 🐘 🐓 🐦‍⬛ 🦜 🦚

Thank you! The green was a mixture.

Thanks! It was a behemoth to take on!

Ahhh! I hope to tour their facility someday!

I just love their cobalt violet. It is transparent and granulates enough to look great!

(Following your suggestion, Steve) about 18 months ago, I started collecting M Graham tubes as my first artist-grade watercolors. I bought them over a period of 12 months from a dozen different stores across three states, and online, and created 3 different-sized pallets from them. Whether I've been in California, Oregon, Seattle or Sydney, every single one of them is as sticky and gooey as the day I bought them. So now they stay put in my studio. ;)

Thanks Steve! I can now store my MG palette vertically during the drier months of the year without issue. The main problem for me is that if you want to swap colors in fullish pans, or god forbid scrape it out of a porcelain palette well, you'll be there forever haha. I guess they just want you to be committed ;)

@@InLiquidColor LOL! yep!

Here in Northwestern Ireland, about 1 hour from the ocean, I've found that some M. Graham paints set up just fine (Burnt Sienna and most earth colors, Perylene Maroon, Transparent Red Oxide, Hooker's Green, and surprisingly Phthalo Green, and a few others)... Other paints are tacky but still safe to cart around without kid gloves (almost every blue I have from them, though Anthraquinone Blue and Ultramarine set up a bit better, Nickel Azo Yellow, Quinacridone Rust, and most of the reds)... And then there are a small group that are dangerously tacky (Terra Rosa, Cobalt Teal) and some actually separate from the binder even if I mix it with a toothpick (Cobalt Green, Cobalt Violet, Cobalt Blue). I've done some research into this, and from what I've found most people have had their nightmare experiences with the more dense pigments such as the Cobalt and Cadmium pigments. Because the pigments are so dense, they seem to separate in open-pans, and sink to the bottom while separating from the binder almost entirely. Since the binder is so humuctant heavy, it never really dries... Which prevents the pan from setting up, altogether. My personal nightmare experience happened just a couple of months ago, after using M. Graham since late 2016. I had just put Cobalt Green into a new palette. I made sure to shake the tube and kind of squish it around to mix any separated binder that occurs from sitting too long in a shop. I also only filled the pan 3/4 of the way, and then stirred the poured paint with a toothpick just to double-insure the binder was well-mixed in. I let it set in a dry room-temperature place, out of the sun, for several days. It didn't really set, but that happens with some MG paints from my experience... So I decided to glue it into my palette and let it finish setting up there, hopefully to at least a tacky state, just as I have several times before. A few days later I noticed a very thick transparent-yellow goo sitting on top of the paint... the binder! I tried to mix it back up with a toothpick, but it just got stuck to the toothpick and caused a huge mess. So I thought, just let it lie and when you paint with it, you can sort it out with a crappy brush that is wet and won't pick up too much pigment. One week later I re-opened the palette... and the cobalt green had exploded everywhere and coated several other pans of paint. It was like a horrible sticky green bomb went off. This palette was sitting undisturbed or moved in a room no warmer than 50 degrees (F) at any given time, completely flat and out of sunlight, and the pan had been setting up for a couple weeks! Maybe I got a bad tube of Cobalt Green. That's totally possible. However, both Cobalt Blue and Violet have had separation issues in the last couple of years I've bought M. Graham. They haven't exploded like Cobalt Green, but now I'm pretty gun shy. I can put up with semi-tacky paint, as long as it's safe to cart around. But exploding paint is another issue! I love love love M. Graham. I was hoping to carry them around as my main plein-air palette this summer in Montenegro and Croatia... but I'm just so gunshy that in more extreme heat/humidity they will have repeated bad reactions! Someone suggested carrying little sachets of silica gel to soak up excess moisture. I'm going to give it a try. But I've also got a contingency store of Da Vinci paints I just purchased and an extra palette, just to be safe.

@@AlphaGeekgirl Yep, they'll always be sticky/gooey. Thats fine with me. My main concern is whether they run or move in a travel palette. They never have for me but there are reports of it. I've been trying for 4 years to track down the reasons by talking to various people. I'm not convinced humidity has anything to do with it.

That is *LITERALLY* what I did!!!

What a great tip! I'm going to try using the silica I used to dry flowers & leaves to harden my M Graham watercolors. I live in a similar marine climate, but only the MG Cerulean and MG Nickel Azo Yellow don't make a mess on the palette :)

Excellent tip, Peter! I'll give this a go with some of the misbehaving M. Graham paints that I love, and see how it fairs. Right now I'm in the Northwestern part of the Republic of Ireland, about 1 hour from the ocean. But this summer I'll be in Montenegro and Croatia--which is where the real test will begin as I practice plein air painting daily! I don't even mind spraying my paints before using, or carting some ox-gall around, if the paints get a little dry... I just REALLY want my super-pigmented M. Graham paints, if I have the choice! Brilliant idea, mate! Should have thought of this before, as I use silica "sand" to dry-preserve flowers.

Thank you!!! The time stamps are provided but it's helpful knowing short descriptions!

I have to admit, I do like that my initials are the same as Daniel Smith as well ;) I'm glad the video was helpful!

@@InLiquidColor my current studio main pallet is, Sennelier: Primary Yellow , French Vermillion, Cinerous Blue, French Ultramarine, Pthalo Green Light, Sap Green , Burnt Umber, Paynes Grey M. Graham: Viridian, Dioxazine Purple, Burnt Sienna, Yelllow Ochre, Neutral tint, Quinaeridone Rust, Indian yellow, Mineral Violet, Turquoise Daniel Smith: Hansa Yellow Deep, Mayan Orange, Cobalt Blue, Deep Scarlet, Pyrrol Red , Burnt Sienna Light Mission Gold: Sepia, Opera, Lemon Yellow, Van Dyke Green

Thank you so much Heidi!

Yea, i had the same problem with m gram. I just gave up on the mess getting all over everything after setting for months.

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I'm on board for that! I hear Southwest goes to Hawaii now 😁

Thanks you Chrissie! So glad you enjoyed it.

I'm so glad it was helpful! I too went from Reeves straight to DS! There was no turning back :D

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Thank you so much for the kind words! It means a lot to me.

Thank you so much for all of your support!

I will say that I am constantly impressed by how much artist give to those who support them on Patreon!

I only have a few Kremer colors so it's not enough to make a full assessment, but I've heard good things! I did hear a out the new White Nights colors. Thanks for your kind words!

Thanks for the thoughtful comment! I do think Sennelier has something special when it comes to glazing but that's a good video idea! I also found W&N transparent colors are also very good at this.

​@@InLiquidColor That's good to know, thank you for your insight! I would love to see that video if you do find time to make it :)

Mikey Finger you’re so right about Denise’s humour is just the best.

Keep in mind I chose the subjects accordingly to try to make each brand shine, but yes! They are so bright!

Oh neat! Thanks for sharing!

Thanks for the kind words! It always rubs me the wrong way when video come out saying "this is THE best" or "use THIS not that." The reason there are so many options is because there is a market for them. All I can do is share what and why I like something and let others form their own opinions based on that. I would never want a viewer to come to me and say "You told me to buy this and I hate it"

Schmincke Perylene Violet + Perylene Green is a favorite neutral mix for me :D And speaking from personal experience - buying 15ml tubes fixes the "untouchable" feeling of Schmincke, once you have enough paint at your disposal you enjoy them more. Jackson's have them in more or less acceptable price, some U.S. online shops have ridiculous pricing :(

Ana Marko yes they are crazy expensive here in the us, the pans I have I got during a sale from Jackson’s. I’ll have to try their perylene green when I find another sale!

Well, for example Daniel Smith is very expensive in the US, imagine ordering it from halfway across the globe :(

​@@creativesea.design I live in a country where the only halfway-decent brand available is White Nights, which is restocked once in 4 months so... I feel this pain :D

There perlyene green is stunning, I love adding it or Moonglow from DS for shadows and deeper tones

I bought it for €30 and i loved it so mutch! Still paint with them half a year later and theres still enough left in the tubes! 10/10 would recommend!

Faith Bartelse oh it is much cheaper in my country so are you lucky

Thank you my dear friend!! I'm lucky have you in my life.

Thank you 😁

Absolutely. Schmincke and Holbein in particular we're absolute no gos before Jackson's made them available to us! And even W&N is expensive in brick and mortar stores here.

Yes if you look at the final scans for LG and W&N the speckling was a problem for both brands to some degree but much worse for MG

i read somewhere that this was a problem in some batches of arches when using finely ground synthetic pigments. i had the same problem with wn perylene green and winsor (pyrrol) red. ive switched to using canson heritage paper and havent had a problem since @@InLiquidColor

I have been sticking those cute stickers on my sketchbooks too!

Thank you so much for the kind words Linda! I'm so glad you appreciate the content :)

Thanks Cassie! It was really important to me to make sure I added that grain of salt to the DS section so that you all know I don't blindly follow them. I see their downfalls, and still find reasons to love them too :)

Amaya, you should read Peter's post above--he packs silica with his Sennelier paints to get them to behave in heat while traveling. I'm going to test his tip to see it it will tame the exploding MGraham watercolors :)

@@everartokelli Ahh great tip off! I should have thought about that--I use fine "sand" silica to preserve flowers in an almost pristine state! I'll take a look at Peter's post :)

@@empress_craft No problem! The comments are as helpful as the video, it's always nice to learn what other artists are doing :)

Oh no! I'm so sorry that happened. My QoR Cobalt green ran out of it's half pan too after being dried for weeks! What a jerky color!

The Winsor & Newton Cotman is very affordable, but I think Denise was referring to the WN Professional line which is pretty expensive even with coupons. You can buy the Daniel Smith introductory sets online at Michael's, though I would compare the coupon price at Michael's to the online art stores like Blick, Jerry's and Cheap Joe's for the best deal. I think you'll enjoy the upgrade :)

@@everartokelli I was speaking of the Professional ones. They have both Cotman and Proff options in store. The DS would be alright online if it didn't include shipping. But I havne't tried those other sites! Maybe that will make a difference. I will check those out. Thanks!! :)

@@Chill1332 Good to know, I've never seen the Professional series at my local store and the online store says out of stock. It would be great to get a deal, there are a few WNP colors I love like Cerulean and Winsor Violet.

@@everartokelli Yeah. I have realized that their in-store products are not consistent between stores. Heh...Every time I vidit a different town I always have to check out their art stores. A lot of times I find different things that I know aren't stocked in mine. I will keep those colors in mind!