Brand by Brand: Sennelier | Watercolor Palette Series
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Hello everyone and welcome to our limited palette series: Brand by Brand. In this series, we’re going to be building limited watercolor palettes, one brand at a time.
In my Skillshare class, How to Set Up a Custom Watercolor Palette, I share my basic palette “recipe” that I start with when setting up just about new palette. However this series is going to diverge and expand on that basic palette recipe, allowing me to feature unique colors specific to each brand. The goal is to introduce you to a functional 12-color palette from each brand, while putting emphasis on some special colors you may not find elsewhere.
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Very informative. Fun to watch these being swatched out. Your color charts could be framed as art! I love honey based paints in general (Sennelier, M. Graham, Mission Gold, Renesans) but my little 12 color pan set of Sennelier has long been my go to for a compact plein air set. It's just a reliable brand that never fails me. When I pull it out after not having painted with it for a while I'm always pleasantly reminded of its rich hues and easy rewetable nature. Thanks Denise. Nice video!
Thanks Steve! I'm glad it was enjoyable :) I've been meaning to get my huge one of my palette from last year framed but haven't gotten around to it yet 😂 hoping it'll survive a second move!
@@InLiquidColor I agree with Steve, above; your colour charts are a work of art in themselves. I am brand new here and watching you paint the charts and listen to your soothing voice is so relaxing. I am a bit dyslexic and any paint charts are a mystery to me. I have just 'plunged' into Sennelier, the 12 set of tubes, and am new to a number of the colours but they are all beautiful and I am enjoying {I'm a bit of a beginner} using them. Thank you for your super videos.
Sennelier’s lemon yellow is the only lemon yellow I can use in my pallette, as it is the coolest I’ve tried. It’s wonderful !
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"Could your color charts BE any prettier??" - Chandler Bing
You do know how to flatter this girl :D
@@InLiquidColor i had the same thought. Your color charts are legit works of art, lady.
Denise, I just need to let you know, that your videos are soooo soothing in a time where the world is in such a bad place. Your knowledge, your voice, and your creative mind are helping me more than you know. So, thank you
These swatching videos are pure magic. Relaxing and informative.
The yellow Sophie and French vermilion are my favourites too. They’re unique in their intensity and painting their swatches is a joy.
Love this series! Their Cobalt Green, French Vermilion and Quin Gold are beautiful 😊 Those Cinerious Blue mixes look incredible though, never would've thought 👀 Glad you featured this color
Wonderful selection Denise. Sennelier were my first love and though I have a number of colours from almost all the artist grade ranges I always stick with Sennelier's Ultramarine, Turquoise Blue, Dioxazine Violet, Caput Mortem, Yellow Light, Brown Green (PY129), Transparent Brown, Scarlet Laquer and Rose Madder Lake on my main palette. Been looking forward to this one and really enjoyed it. Thank You.
Finally 😍 I bought the full line a month ago since I loved my 14 colour custom palette I had as my first professional pallet
This was so interesting. I’m so intrigued to see your take on Sennelier. A Sennelier pre-made set was how I first got into professional watercolours and they’re still the foundation for my small selection.
Love Sennelier. They’re my go-to as I like to work in my layers and the glazing of the paint really holds up to that.
My favorites of their colors are their Venetian Red, Forest Green, Caput Mortem, and their Payne’s Gray which I think is so soft and lovely.
Great video as always! I recently got the full sennelier range as a birthday present, and I instantly fell in love with the cadmium red purple (makes amazing mixes with the forest green!) and their neutral tint! My favourite pigments including PY159, PR209, PB60 and PR101 are also really great in the sennelier version. I am currently experimenting with their multi pigment ochres, which are really fun to try and honestly performing much better than I initially thought.
So glad to see you pop up on my feed. Your videos always inspire me
Sennelier is my favourite brand, I will miss the ease of buying them when I move this summer. My favourite colour by itself would probably be the Phthalo Turquoise. As a mixing colour, caput mortum. I am currently working on a colour chart for all of my watercolour paints and the mixes caput mortum makes are stunning 😍
Yay! I am a Sennelier gal. Love that Viridian ♥️. Their Chinese Orange was custom mixed for Matisse, so that is a "not to be missed" color. I really love their Ultra, Indigo, and Neutral tint, too. Lookung forward to picking up a few of these colors--esp that Forest Green! Happy moving day 😁
Wow! Fascinating factoid! I love that!
That's such a cool fact! I LOVE their Chinese orange but I have the old version, so I felt like i couldn't include it due to the PO49 in the mixture - but I'm a huge fan
Ahh, this was so nice to listen to while sketching! I'll have to come back and rewatch the whole series when I add my second palette later this year.
Hi Denise, I hope your move will not take too much energy (as the first one already did...), but I know it will affect you anyway. So I wish you a smooth transition and a lot of help. I'm happy to see another video of you. They have become less frequent, so when there's a new one I'm eager to see it. Thanks for making me remember that I have some Sennelier. I should use them more and experiment.
Take care.
I must join in and say your color charts are amazing and works of Art in their own right! I have only used samples of this brand, I just thought them a bit overrated and just wanted to spend my money on more attainable paints. I know their soft pastels (which are at the top of many “best of” lists) are the basis for all of their pigmentations in their paints 525 different “colors”! Such a wide range for sure. I hope you are doing well and cricket is getting excited about your move! You have a real knack for sharing what is best about all the brands you feature, nicely done!
Hanging out soooooo badly for your next one!!! I LOVE LOVE LOVE this series!!!
I bought a base 24 set from Sennelier and while I loved the paints and their clarity and brightness, I also don’t do a lot of botanical work, mostly portraits and I felt the colors lacking in earth tones and neutrals. I was looking for more colors to add to my palette for mixing and just to see if I could find more uses for it as I really love the paints themselves. You introduced a lot of beautiful and unique colors that could definitely be used to mix more naturals. I’m very grateful for this video as the palette is too beautiful to be left unused. Thank you for saving so many of my paints. The way you describe the colors and what they mix into really helps me visualize more options and broadens my use of what I have, or by purchasing minimal new paints. Thank you as always.
I'm a Sennelier fan. I love all of the colors you chose, plus I would add French Ochre and Chinese Orange (similar to Quin Burnt Orange). I'm glad you included Yellow Sophie. I bought a tube because I had to know what a color called Yellow Sophie looked like, and I was not disappointed. Sennelier, of course, makes an ideal French Ultramarine, and Scarlet Laquer is another very beautiful red.
Great swatches! I use a couple of those in my palette and enjoy them very much.
i love sennelier, i have the 48 half pan palet and some other colors, i love the sennelier blue and the cold ochre, but my favorite of all is neutral tint
Such a thorough informative swatching method with charts. 😊☺️
Cool video. Loven that nail color.❤️❤️❤️
Te pastel purples on this palette are my life!!!
I never expected to love Cinerous Blue as much as I do either, but it's actually a really useful paint and I even have it on my main palette now!
Great video. Your color charts are the BEST! Glad to see you back. Hope all is well.
Thank you Chris! It's good to see you around as well! All my best.
I recently nabbed a dozen or so Sennelier colors - I'm feeling pretty proud of myself that I picked pretty similarly to you. I wasn't trying to make a full palette, tho, but fill so gaps in my tube paint collection. You have a few picks I already had in M. Graham or Daniel Smith, and as a disabled single Momma, I just can't convince myself to double up unless there is a really good reason. (Right now my really good "reason"--i.e. excuse--has been granulation, lol)
I loveeee sennelier!! They are definitely my favorite brand, second choice is maimeri blue! Love Schmincke and Daniel Smith but to be honest they don't even compare for me hahaha
Denise I know we’re focusing on sennelier paints but I can’t help to notice your awesome painted fingernails! They are lovely!
Ok back to show! lol
My favorite Sennelier colors that aren't just my favs in EVERY brand but are specifically my favs in their Sennelier form are their Green Earth which stays wet and can subtly chill out reds, their French Vermillion that you showed, their caput mortum which is unique, and their light gray which I use more than I would have expected.
I use their caput mortuum too! 😊
Sennelier LIght Grey is a staple and I use it all the time. I've also found their Warm Grey to be great for old stone buildings, especially when mixed with Sennelier Raw Umber, another fave.
Of all the brands of watercolors I have, I always come back to Sennelier. Apart from the quality of the colours, they work very well on paper. My favourite colours are Cobalt Green, Cobalt Violet, Golden Pink and Cerulean Blue. For more savings I have replaced where I could the Sennelier by Jacksons which are very similar or even the same as the Sennelier. The only color I think is failing is the Sap Green which is too opaque and dull.
Sennelier paint is wonderful for glazing , which is why botanical artists love it. My favorite colors are caput mortum which blends beautifully with greens for that purply green so many plants have, and Sennelier orange which when diluted has a pale coral cast-perfect for that sunrise yellow/pink that is incredibly hard to mix. My only complaint with the brand is so many colors contain two and three pigments and i prefer single pigment colors. On the whole, this brand handles well (slow flow rate), mixes well, and glazes beautifully.
I think those are all very fair assessments!
😊thank you for the information on Sennelier !
Hope you are keeping well as we are trying to do here in Australia. I’m quite new to watercolours but am now addicted. If you have a suggestion of basic colours you can’t do without, it would be soooo helpful. The amount of colours, reviews, brands are driving me crazy. I’m finding that I’m doing too much research and not enough painting. I’m really our for bang for my buck, if you know what I mean. Thanks for taking the time to do what you do. ✌️
I am so glad that PR209 is here! 🤣 its my favorite red :D
Lemon Yellow, Sennelier yellow light, Indian Yellow, Cobalt Blue , Pthalo Blue, Ultramarine Deep, Opera rose, Cad Red, Aliziran Crimson lake, Burnt Sienna, Raw umber , Sap Green, all sennelier colors, this is my go to Pellet and i feel like I can tackle any subject with this Pellet.!
What I love about your videos is that you choose colours taking the brand specialties and strengths into account. Gorgeous picks!
You included there four of my favourite Sennelier colours (French vermillion, Helios purple, Cinereous blue and Tr brown). I am also in love with Sennelier's Payne's grey, Cerulean Blue red shade and their PR206 (Garance brune in French, but I forgot the English name).
That's the whole reason I wanted to do this series! :) Each brand has different strengths and it's important to know that heading into palette building :)
@@InLiquidColor indeed! More people should watch them because they're pretty objective and very informative.
I'm tempted to make this my Sennelier go to palette. 🤭
I love sennelier paints, super vibrant and pretty and really affordable in Europe.
They're pretty affordable here too! When I first started I lumped them together with Schmincke, but they're no where near as pricey.
Can you add Holbein to the series?
Denise, first of all I would like to thank you for your informative and well done videos. I really like to spend my coffee break browsing your channel and watching your clips, it's always interesting and I can see that you really know what you're talking about and have lots of experience with different brands. I like that a lot!
Second: I know it's a bit wrong here but I just come from watching your yellow ochre video over at "Sadie Saves the Day" and I wonder if I may ask you for an advice... I'm still quite new to watercolor but have decided to go with artist quality paints right away as I think they will go a long way and I would like to stick with a line instead of changing to better paints when I get better (and having to do the process of getting to know my paints twice). I went with Sennelier and I actually do like my paints a lot. So far I usually don't have any problems with the way most of them behave. Not so with yellow ochre, I find this one hard to reactivate. I feel like I have rub my brush in the pan quite a bit to get the pigments working. Can you recommend a yellow ochre from an other brand that is similar to the Sennelier in terms of shade and mixing ability but is easier to reactivate (I like to buy tube paints and fill them in pans)? I would be very grateful.
It's my birthday today, but unfortunately I'm not having a super great one, maybe because of the atmosphere brought by the pandemic. But I understand the situation and the need to cooperate. Your video on Sennelier is honestly a treat and a reliever. You have a voice of an angel and I am a great fan of everything you deliver as an artist. Thank you, Denise. I'm Allan, from the Philippines.
Aw, thank you so much Allan, and I'm so sorry to hear your birthday isn't going particularly well. Things have been so stressful here as well, I can only hope that we all get through this. Happy Birthday, Allan, and I hope this passes as quickly as possible 💜
@@InLiquidColor thank you so much, Denise. Yes, we will all get through this. 🙏 And I'm happy to see artists here, of course like you, continue to produce contents even in stressful times. This inspires me to continue my weekly content upload. Again, thank you.
I was surprised to see that Sennelier came out more intense than Schmincke, as I feel like the common opinion is that it's the other way around and most feel that Sennelier is the least pigmented out of artist quality paints, but oddly don't feel the same about Schmincke. I was even more surprised to see no one else in the comments found it surprising like me lol! Anyhoo! It was fun to see that your choices are almost identical to the ones I would have made :) Your top row would have been my exact picks and contain some of my absolute favorite sennelier paints! For the blues though I would have gone for the traditional Ultramarine and Phtalo Blue GS, And The Forest green I would have definitely swapped for their indanthrene blue PB60 which I adore and would mix great dark greens or their PY129 for an all around great greens mixer. The Raw Sepia is an excellent choice - it's just the most glowing near black dark color I've come across in any range. I laughed so hard with the Cinerius Blue pick. I remember out conversation from about 2 years ago I think where I said I didn't get it at first too but then started using it as a cerulean dupe and found it made the most amazing light greys with earthy red that I liked better than the Jane's Grey mixes. The Sennelier 24 pan set was my first serious WC paints purchase (skipped the student grade part) and I did most of my experimenting with color mixing with that unusual color selection in it, as I had no other paints, so it was a literal 'happy accident' of experimenting with a color I had no idea what do with. To this day it's my main if not only use for this color, but it's a pretty good one haha! It took some time but I see you too came around to the mix in general and the color too ❤
Hi! I know this is an old comment but since you used them, can ı ask something? Because I can not decide between W&N Professional 12 Color and Sennelier 24 Color...Do you have any idea about Sennelier's lightfastness? And are they good for portraits and illustrations?
@@crookshankspaw2829 you can easily find lightfastness info in the Sennelier color charts and on their website. I found that except for one pink shade, most colors in that palette (and I think even in almost the entire range) are lightfast. But in all fairness unless you intend to sell or exhibit your art 100 years from now, you should decide for yourself whether having a pigment be lightfast for 100 years vs 50 years would really make a difference for you. Basically, when it comes to artist quality paint, what determines how lightfast the paint is, is mostly the pigment itself. Meaning, that if you’re looking at the same pigment in 2 different artist quality paints, their lightfast rating are pretty close if not similar. For example, ultramarine PB29 will be very lightfast in nearly any artist grade line of paint - Sennelier, W&N or any other. I think the formula itself matters more. You could compare the pigments offered in two specific palettes you had your eye on, and go by the pigment selection (and how lightfast are the pigments offered in those specific palettes - if you decide that’s what’s important to you), you could get one small pan from both brands and then decide on a palette based on which formula you get along with better, and since were talking two great artist grade paint lines, you can do what I did years ago and go for the best value for money, which for me was the 24 pan Sennelier palette that I at the same price of 12 pan palettes from other Brand. Regarding portraits and illustrations - it depends on the style. Sennelier paints can be softer in the first layer but are well known for their glazing ability, meaning you can layer them and then they are glowing and can get intense, so it is said that they are great for portraits and art works done with layers but less so for one layer illustrations. But it’s all personal preference. I know some that enjoy them very much for illustrations as well. Hope this helps
@@palmirafarkash1492 Thank you so much for taking time and giving your own information:)
@@crookshankspaw2829 Happy to help!
This range of coloris is bases on honte hence luminosity
Confined to the house gives us more time to do our watercolours. I love the delicacy of Sennelier, the only color I don't like is their Sap green. It's opaque and dull.
Silver lining! Lots of that painting time :D
I hate their sap green, too. I thought it was just me. It's like....yuk.
Would you talk me thru on how u actually make your chart and how much paint/water ratio to use, which colours mixed with which, please. Only after you have moved homes though!
I think there is a typo at @14:23 saying Blue Sennelier is PB15:3 instead of 6.
Aside from that, this video is just so perfect for me! I was very curious about mixing abilities of 4 specific pigments, and you have included them ALL in this palette. I am very thankful even though you had no idea and picked them on your own. I was looking at Yellow Sophie, PR242 called Geranium Red in Schmincke and White Nights (new addition), PR209 as I want to use it as my middle red instead of PR254, and Blue Sennelier. Thanks!
You're correct that is a typo. Thanks!
Hello Denise! I only really have a few Sennelier paints, but my two absolute favorites are Turquoise Green (PG50) and Brown Green (PY129). I'm a landscape painter, so I find those two particularly useful, although Sennelier's naming is quite confusing. Turquoise Green is basically Cobalt Turquoise, and it makes for lovely color notes as well as some muted cooler greens. And Brown Green is more commonly referred to as Azomethine Green Yellow, which is good for quick earthy mixes. Only downside I found with them is that they remain too soft because of honey. Makes them easy to reactivate, but my country has quite some shifts of temperature and humidity, so those colors are tacky all the time, which is why I don't use this brand much. Thanks for the video, and hope you're doing well :)
Thanks Bruno! Glad to hear your thoughts. If you do want to travel with them, the extruded pans aren't tacky, but I too have a hard time justifying buying pans over tubes in most cases.
Thanks Denise. I have the 12+6 pan set, only because I always wanted to try them but way to expensive. It was a week on Amazon for 20 bucks. Blew me away. I loved the lemon yellow and ultramarine deep so much I got them in tube form for my daily working pallet. I will get the french vermillion and cinerous blue next when I run out of the m Graham and Turner. The 12+6 is a great way to try out the sennelier colors. Their earth tones are a bit weak for me. They are wonderful paints if you like the vintage softness of watercolor and very little shift for the most part.
Whoa! That is quite the deal. I definitely agree with the softness and keeping mostly away from the earth colors.
I also got the same set when it was $26 back in October or Nov on Amazon. I love them but barely ever use them as their my most precious set i own haha I need to pull them out and get them dirty :)
@@burningwiththesun That's a great deal too! I couldn't wait to try them and agree they are my most precious set too. Now I have tin I will just buy the tubes to replace the colors I use. The tubes are reasonably priced at Blicks and when on sale on Jerry's artarama. Da Vinci is way more expensive.
@@annettefournier9655 agreed :) I just bought 4 individual tubes as well as have the compact 8 pan mini set that was just $20. The tubes I got are neutral tint (I love qors but it's staining so this is my go to when I don't want staining), Helios purple (I have a sennelier dry pigment jar of Helios red sitting in my Amazon cart so when I saw the Helios purple I said okay makes sense I get a tube of this lol), rose dore madder lake (because I never heard of it), and Sophie yellow (also because I never heard of it and a commenter on another video stated it was their favorite color)
@@burningwiththesun Nice. Oh you reminded me I have to make a note about that Helios purple. It's lovely and more lightfast than the QOR permanent Alizarin crimson I have. Though I do have M Graham Quin rose, it's not the same as a cool alizarin crimson.
I LOVE your videos🧡 Can I please ask something? Do you have any information about Sennelier's lightfastness and do you think they are good for portraits and illustrations? And are they toxic?
I can not decide between W&N Professional 12 Color and Sennelier 24 Color... Any recomendation?
I do use Sennelier and my faves are Forest Green, Venetian Red, Ultramarine, Dioxazine Purple and Yellow Ochre. I also really like their Sennelier Yellow, Sennelier Orange, Phtalo Turquoise and Olive Green. I have yet to explore the full potential of all of these colours though! Can't wait to get to mix them more.
Thanks so much for sharing!
Forest Green is a great mixer and Olive Green is gorgeous.
Their burnt sienna. It's almost as orange as winsor and newton but is a pbr7.
Thank you for this video! I bought Sennelier some years ago when there was much marketing about their new paints with honey. I am not a huge fan, I find them chalky and when I a month ago went through all my paints accumulated over the years and did colour charts to choos a agood beginners palette for my daughter I noticed that some of the Sennelier paints, compared to colours w the same pigment in DSmith, winsor/newton, Schmincke, seemed to sink in further into the paper ( used Arches) and that they also looked duller, more matt and some of them chalky. So now I only use those paints when doing simpler work, like colouring in stamped images etc, I am not going to use them for my more serious work anymore. I know Billy Showell uses them and I have seen stunning work made by her using the Sennelier paints. But that only underscores my view that a true master, like Billy, could use any inferior paint, even the cheap kids paints, and do materpieces. I have seen her use cadmium reds, normally a colour if blended so easily turns to mud, she made the painting just glow and the wash was just perfect. So to an expert these colours works just fine. I would hesitate to give them to someone who is beginning their watercolourjourney though!
Hmm what colors did you use and did you use their professional line or their la petite colors? I didn't like the student grade paints, but their professional line shouldn't be chalky for the most part. Again, I stay away from pastels and their earth tones, but I've found their spectral/mixing colors really lovely when used in layers (layers is the key word there). All that being said, I don't grab for these first, but I'm surprised to hear about chalkiness issues overall!
the chalkiness may be due to the age of your paint supply; i have a tube of Senn. Cobalt blue that is at least 10 years old and is hard as a rock, it may be the honey is a newer component
How long did this take you Denise? WoW!! TFS and be safe also!😘✨👍🏾 These and the DS are my favorite brands.
I've gotten pretty quick at the charts themselves... editing on the other hand... it's a three day process!
Denise, do you have a suggestion for what color(s) may be used from Sennelier to sub for Daniel Smith’s Quin Coral? I suppose I could always just add the DS Quin coral to my Sennelier palette, but I was hoping to stay same brand in this particular palette. Thanks!
Sennelier has Quin Red (pr209) same pigment as DS quin coral (pr209). I have both and DS quin coral leans more towards neon brightness to me, and Sennelier is slightly more red/pink leaning and a tiny tiny tiny bit less orange/warm, compared to DS quin coral. However, the Sennelier version can get more saturated than DS, and doesn’t bronze over when painted at full strength. The DS quin coral does bronze over , look shiny, when painted at full strength. They are incredibly similar. I like both equally depending if I want to paint the color full strength (Sennelier) or if I want a thin super luminous glaze (DS)
Thanks for the video, Denise! We miss you. 💜 Quinacridone Red is actually one of my all time favorites and ends up on every personalized palette I make. I carry a small metal palette of absolute favorites to utilize with others, (such as my Schmincke and QOR palettes,) where Sennelier's Quin. Red lives as well. Their Forest Green was my go to before I got the DS Perylene, and the Sennelier Red is close to, if not definitely, my favorite warm red out of all of my paints. I like their caput mortuum, and I use their brilliant pink, (a long with Holbein's Shell Pink.) I've been curious about the Cinereous forever and am glad to see you swatched it here. Xo
Nice
I have one question: since their pans and their tubes are made differently, if I purchase the same color in the tube version, will it react differently on my paper or even have a different color/granulation?
I haven't use them extensively enough to be able to answer this, unfortunately. I have both tubes that I've "dried" (they're still sticky) into pans and the extruded pans, but I don't have much overlap aside from ultramarine.
I found that some (I emphasize - some, not all) of the tube paints dry more textured on the paper - looks somewhat granulating but isn't. The Pans dry more smoothly and therefore also have more glow to them and glaze better. I personally much prefer the pans and wish I knew about this difference, as I have many tubes I would have gladly substitute with pans. I will say that it's not in every tube paint though - The Py129 tube for example is stunning, all of the yellows without exception are great in tubes as well. I also adore the French Ulramarine as well. I mainly have issues with reds and pinks. The Rose madder lake (PV19) and the Helios Purple (PR122) which are maybe my favorite versions of these colors are quite granular from the tubes, and the red orange as well. I Have the same issue with their PB60, which I reluctantly ended up purchasing a pan in addition to the tube I already had because it bugged me so much and is a very essential color in my pallete. My pan pinks, reds and blues are absolutely fabulous and I believe the pan versions of my problem colors would be fine just as my PB60 was. I also have a Permanent Magenta tube (PV19) which the honey keeps separating from the paint to the point I can't actually use it - it's the only tube I've had issues like that with, so I don't know if it's an issue with my specific tube or if it's this specific paint, but the color itself is stunning, I would have just preferred the pan instead. Hope this helped.
How do you make a color chart? I just make it the way how I normally make it btw sennelier seems very cool I’ve never tried it tho
I have a CZcams video linked as well as a mention to a class that takes you through it in real time.
By the way, I just wanted to mention a more useful way to make a colour chart (personal preference here of course). I have seen people make a lighter shade of the mix in the same square as main, just like you did for the original paint squares, but now for all of them. And that way they have free second set of squares to use for a swatch shifted to the other colour of the mix. This way you can show double the options using the same amount of space. Even though it is personal preference, since you are doing such nice educational videos it might be a good idea to try and show your viewers more without adding much more work.
I have that type of chart in another video, but I prefer the look of this one personally and I don't want to change it half way though the series. Thanks for sharing!
I’m always torn between putting my naples yellow with my earth tones or with my yellows... any help?
Hah same. I end up putting it in the yellows though, as well as yellow ochre. I place colors of my palette by this logic: Cool hues, Mid hues, Warm hues, Earthy hues. So Burnt Sienna ends up being close to reds, Caput Mortuum to violets, etc. Where to place a Potter's Pink - now THAT'S a tough call 👀😃
I have the same struggle!
I fixed this issue for myself by puting earthy colours with others instead of separating them all together. So I would say Naples Yellow, Yellow Ochre, and Warm Browns go to the end of Yellow side. Perilene Maroon, Caput Mortum and other reddish hues go in the middle of reds. There are some green leaning Browns like Raw Umber that I would put with greens. And so on. Makes colour mixing easier as you clearly see where the compliments for those colours are, since it can be tricky to pick compliments to earth tones.
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Are you a witch and didn't tell us Denise? I was just rewatching some of your videos and one of them was the Sennelier 24 half pan wooden box
Haha, just good timing I suppose! :D This one has been looong overdue!
Not a big fan because of all the mixes in the line, most of which seem unnecessary. I enjoyed the video though. 🙂
That's fair! They do have a lot of multipigment paints, but they have plenty of singles too if you look for them :)
@@InLiquidColor I tried recently when they were on sale at my local art store. When high-end brands are on sale, I jump on it but I only buy single pigment colors. I figure they can be used alone or to beef up my cheaper colors. I usually get 10 tubes consisting of the 6 split primaries, 2 neutrals (warm & cool), and 1 color that's exclusive to the line. There were only 2 single pigment yellows that would work for a split-primary palette, Lemon Yellow (PY3) and Yellow Lake (PY150), and even that wasn't ideal. You were right about the siennas and umbers which are notoriously weak. It made choosing between them impossible. So I basically gave up and bought only 2 colors of which I was running low, Rose Dore Madder Lake (PR255) and Turquoise Green (PG50). *Complicated sentence structure on that last one. Mom was a elementary school teacher so I'm not allowed to end a phrase with a preposition. 😄😄😄