It’s videos like yours that allow people like me (who can’t afford art school) to still be able to study art and learn so much. A big thank you from Texas!!!

Thanks for doing this video, Teoh! Some YT watercolor artists equate low-tinting strength with bad paint, but there are so many reasons to use these gorgeous colors! One is that they are often low- or non-staining, another is the granulation and textures an artist can achieve, and the wonderful mixes. They're often essential for making a natural looking painting. I like to use Potter's Pink, and I've gone back to using viridian on some palettes, because phthalo green takes over and can be hard to manage. I'm also a fan of ceruleans and cobalts for landscape and urban sketching.

Granulation is also the reason why I keep colors like Viridian in my palette. If I paint a tree for example it's nice to have some slight green "sediment" in my mix for the bark, it almost looks like moss and makes it appear even more natural.

The colors I use with low tinting strength are the cobalts; cerulean and cobalt teal. I love cobalt teal and can’t live without it.

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Tinting strength has also a lot to do with how deep the pigment will be absorbed into the paper, meaning if it will dye or not the paper. Usually colours with low tinting strength can be lifted with no problem while colours with a good tinting strength can't be lifted or they leave a coloured patch on the paper. Great video as always!

One of your best tutorials. Well done. Simple and to point. I often use half pans for hi strength and full pans for most used blue..ie cerulean( one of my favorites for sky. Thank you.

I have a tube of cerulean blue chromium which I rarely use. I know that many artists tend to use it for sky colors; but, when I paint skies I tend to use French Ulramarine with a lot of water mixed in. If I am going to paint a very small painting, then I will most likely use the Cerulean. My first introduction to Daniel Smith watercolors was when I purchased Susie Short's Essential 7 set. The set contained 7 15-ml tubes of paint. Even though I have many more tubes of paint now, I still use those 7 paints most of the time.

I learned a lot watching this. When you swatched the low strength colors I was thinking I needed to not use those, but then you mixed them and made some really nice colors. You almost convinced me I didn't want strong colors when it was so much trouble to make the skin tone. Now I agree there are reasons to use both kinds but I will be trying to use mostly strong colors just so I don't have to buy them as often lol. Thank you very much for this lesson!

This is very useful. 👍 😀 Really helps me understand the differences. Thanks Teoh.

Wonderful demonstration!

Good information, thank you Teoh. Low tinting strength colors are like pastels.

Thank you for another great video. The more I learn, the more I realize I don't know:-) I often use a combination, with several layers of low-tinting color in the more detailed areas.

I use raw umber by schminke, ultramarine violet, cobalt and cerulean colors, burnt Oker, burnt sienna. The reason is that I love the atmosphere you can create using them. I love granulation and this is a something that low tinting colors have more than more modern high tinting colors

Best tutoring, thanks Theo

Excellent lesson, Teoh. Thank you.

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I have Cerulean Blue Chromium on its way to try. That will be the Teoh pigment in my palette. Looking forward to that granulation.

It seems like colors that have low tinting strength either contain white (as in the nickel yellow and cerulean blue) or are hghly granulating (viridian green). When I tested the mineral based and highly granulating primatek dot sheet from Daniel Smith, most of the colors had very low tinting strength. This was also true of the Primatek paint set that I bought. The more synthetic colors like quinacridone red and phthalo blue seem to be much stronger.

The 3 color challenge please ,just a video suggestion 😇 I love this kind of videos 💕

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I hope that before the holidays, you do just one video regarding art supplies for very young children. I am guessing you might have some experience by now!

Ive been thinking of buying a pallete of the kremer pigments. I was wondering how you would rate the pigments on tinting strenght?

So helpful. Thank you! Do you find that tinting strength also related to how staining a color is? And/or do you also consider level of color staining when putting together a palette?

Could you perhaps show some of us beginners on a budget how to take the Daniel Smith essentials pack of warm and cool primaries to mix up a full range of colors for building our first palettes? Including some earth/flesh tones?

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How can you tell before buying if it’s low tinting? I’d love to find a high tint but light lemony yellow. Have a couple of nice ones but they disappear in mixing. Poor things.🤭

Thanks for sharing your experience. Is there any effect in the quality of artwork, if I will put my paint in my pallete and then use it late?

danielsmith is a pritty big investment not sure if the color go up in price by series like oils that are water based

I had not seen your videos on Oil or Acrylic media..........

My watercolor is low tinting strength :c I discovered this today q

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