Watercolor Palette Tour | All the watercolor palettes I own
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- čas přidán 10. 06. 2018
- A tour of all the watercolor palettes I am using right now. I don't tend to keep palettes that I don't use, so these really are all the palettes I am using right now.
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+ Jackson’s metal watercolor palette (48 half or 24 full pans) www.jacksonsart.com/empty-met...
+ Empty half pans www.jacksonsart.com/jackson-s...
+ Empty Full pans www.jacksonsart.com/jackson-s...
+ Dan's Etsy shop www.etsy.com/uk/shop/penholde...
+ Kremer’s Ready made paints (US) shop.kremerpigments.com/en/re... (EUROPE) www.kremer-pigmente.com/en/re...
+ Mijello 20 well palette www.jacksonsart.com/mijello-f...
+ Jackson’s 28 well palette www.jacksonsart.com/jas-palet...
+ Royal & Langnickel Small Folding Palette amzn.to/2LF90GZ
+ Sennelier's Full Range Box Set www.jacksonsart.com/sennelier...
+ Holbein Paints www.jacksonsart.com/holbein-w...
+ Medeen metal watercolor box (48 half or 24 full pans) amzn.to/2t2xen8
+ QoR watercolours www.jacksonsart.com/colour/wa...
+ Daniel Smith watercolours www.jacksonsart.com/daniel-sm...
+ Monster palette (50 wells) www.aliexpress.com/item/Super...
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Just a handy tip! If you want to "renew" your stained enamel palettes, you can actually buy white enamel in a spray can and refinish the palette! Make sure you go outside where there is plenty of ventilation. Spray the enamel in thin layers, and let them dry between. Then let it "cure" for 24-48 hours. Ta-Da! Like new :)
Thank you for this fab tip!
Great idea thanks !
I live vicariously through all y'all's paint collections. So great. Your growth is wonderful to see as we progressed through the palettes.
That's 100% okay because I live vicariously through you for being near Daniel Smith ❤️
I only have one thing to say, and that is dammmmnnn!! OK and Wowsers!!😍👍👍👋😲😄
Ooh thanks for sharing. I love seeing people's palettes and their thought process of their palette evolution.
this is so fun to see. I love seeing what palettes artists use.
I love your idea both to create cheap palette sets for each brand, and also to group by family within that brand . Thanks for sharing!
you dont have to be a you tube artist to have way more paints than you need .i have been painting for 26 years mostly acrylics .but watching all you you tube artists got me buying watercolors like crazy .i love color and learning .ill give whati dont use to my family when im gone.i feel truly blessed.if i sold my art i could buy every paint on the market
"Hello otters" ! Yes, I love it... :-D
What a glorious collection! Thanks for showing them to us :)
You are so welcome, thank you for watching :D
Thanks for sharing! It is so fun seeing other artists systems!
You're so welcome, thank you for watching!
I loved seeing your growth as an artist through the palettes you used, it's really interesting! Having specific plastic lightweight palettes for the color ranges was really satisfying to watch too XD
so glad you enjoyed seeing my palette journey! Thank you for watching the video.
“Keep in mind that I’m a CZcams artist and so I have a lot more paints than [any sane person should ever have]” =>.
lol I think I am still guilty of not mixing my colors all the time. I certain don't mix my colors much on the palette. I love mixing the colors on the paper directly :D
I have to many, so many that I can not use them all before I leave this earth. So I am a collector. I have learned to live with it.
This is such a pleasant video to watch. All of the colours are amazing. And i like the way you put your palettes and swatch carts together. Another great video Oto!
So glad you enjoyed the video! Thank you very much for watching.
Oh what a nice collection!
this was very very satisfying to watch!!! Especially how organised the Holbein and Sennelier set ups are!
So glad it was fun for you to watch. Thank you so much :D
This was nice to watch! I really enjoy your setups for each palette, especially for the larger ranged brands that were separated by color or pigments
They are so handy to have! Thank you so much for watching :D
Love this! Really helpful. Thank you so much.
(I love the idea of writing info right on the palette, too)
Great video! Thank you. I use the Meeden black metal boxes and I super glue thin magnetic strip tape under the pans so they don’t move around. Usually magnet strip tape with a magnet power value of 3 (I’m sure different companies have differ value scales for how powerful they rate their magnet tape) is more than strong enough to keep them in place.
Thank you for sharing, but especially explaining the reason for the choice of palette and the various pros & cons . . . In a nut shell great video
so glad the video was useful to you!
What a great collection! Thanks for sharing your collection :)
you're so welcome, thank you for watching :D
Love your voice Dr. I lot am a very messy painter, and brand new to watercolor and feeling scared!!
I love how you put together the palettes for the large Sennelier and Holbein sets. Nice to see all the colours they offer.
Yes it's really lovely to have all the colors to hand, especially fun for when picking color palettes for paintings :D
Soooo many colours! What a nice walk down watercolour memory lane! I can't believe that teacher tried to discourage you from painting, though. They should be spreading the watercolour love, not scaring you off! I'm so glad you came back to it. 💜
ha ha yeah I guess SOME art teachers need to work on their own resistance issues before teaching art. Ah well, I'm very thankful to have since found good teachers and a passionate community of really lovely people, like you!
Yes the pans in the meeden slide about. I got full pans and put a magnetic strip on the bottom of the end pans or when I want to space one. My paint tray where the pans sit is not as loose but easily removable. 😁💜
16:10 thats an easy fix, you have tob bend the lip FIRST than click in the pan starting with the solid end and clicking it into place owings art shows how to do it, as do i and others.
I have a few paints that won't stop moving around no matter how much I bend the lip, before nor after placing the pans. Any idea why that could be or how to fix it?
@@Lemu_with_a_shirt bend the lid BEFORE putting in the paints. if its easy to get the paints in the arent bent far enough. you should bend them really far forward so that its hard to get the paints in. they should be a tight squeeze. if its easy to do its not bent forwrd enough.
@@ColoringKaria but sometimes I can hardly get them in, and when they are in they are very loose, that's my problem.
Thanks for sharing! And what a great idea to use the cheap plastic palettes for housing specific paint ranges! It might solve a problem or two that I have :)
It's certainly solved a lot of headache for me when I am trying to find a specific color. Hope it helps you with your problem!
Thanks for sharing this. I can tell you were in computer science by the way you label everything. I have loads of palettes myself but I find it counter productive so I am currently trying to lock my palette and actually paint more instead of experimenting with more palettes.
ha ha ha that's funny, I guess it is a comp sci thing? What you are doing is a great thing. We can waste so much time searching for the perfect palette and forget to paint. Totally been there.
My watercolor teacher in high school had me use a limited palette of 10 colors. I used Grumbacher Academy & stuck with it for 8yrs getting the most of the decent quality paint. I am now upgrading to Da Vinci & decided i wanted 32 of their 120 paints lol. Im going to phase them in so i can experiment with the new colors as i get them rather than flooding myself. Even though the Academy paints were pretty good i LOVE how easy the DVs are to rewet. I never realized my paints were semi dificult to rewet till i tried "professional" ones lol
I use two metal palettes and what I do to remove stains is use a little Master's Brush cleaner soap. It picks the stains up. I love this palette tour. I've only been painting for a couple years (and sporadically at best), but I already have little stories with certain brushes or palettes. I loved hearing about your palette (and painting) journey! :)
Wooo I've not tried that soap. Would you recommend it for brush cleaning as well? Yes, I love that palettes have stories to tell ❤️Thank you for watching the video :)
I normally wash my brushes with water, but every so often I will use this soap and once clean, I will roll the brush in the soap, form a point, and let them dry like that. I read the Master's Brush conditions brush fibers and helps maintain (or regain) a point. You just rinse the brush in clean water and get the soap out before you paint again.
Im so early 😊 you have such a nice variety❤
Thank you for watching the video!
Oto Kano np 😂
This video was very pleasant to watch IDK there is a greater satisfaction to see all this colors exist haha- I wish they would sell bigger empty pans. I don't use huge brushes but my heart sinks a little when I see my 8 round brush struggle within a fullpan.
Have you checked out Kremer's ridiculously large metal empty pans? shop.kremerpigments.com/en/ready-made-colors/kremer-watercolors/watercolor-boxes-und-pans-empty/6820/watercolor-pans-full-size-/-big-metal
I didn't even know they existed! Thank you for sharing the link :D!
you are so welcome! They are really well made, well worth the money.
this is a great idea! And a very brave of you to share this. Cause i get so much hate i am too scared to do a palette set up share.
I keep all my palettes so I still have all my palettes. LOL
what?! you get hate because you use different palettes? that's ridiculous, i'm so sorry..
i get hate for having so many artists paints when i am a beginner artist (but like oto kano, i do youtube videos and reviews so OF COURSE im going to have lots of paints)! so if i did a video with all my many many palettes it would be a MESS! I dont think i am brave enough for that.
Karia I'm so sorry to hear that you are the target of petty people's opinions but I'm sure that if you ever decide to post a collection video (which would be fantastic!) the negativity would drown in positivity :)
Thank you Karia! I can totally understand your fear. It's ridiculous that you have to worry about it at all tho :/
ColoringKaria You should still keep doing what you do. You don’t have to defend yourself to people who don’t understand that everyone has to start somewhere. I have always admired your honesty, straightforwardness and all the research that you put into your videos. Don’t let small minded people limit you.
Love palette videos ❤️ they provide a very nice look at how the artist approaches their work and what they find fascinating 😊 Did I miss the Lunar and Mayan paint family comparison videos? 👀 Loved the Perylene one and am looking forward to Quinacridone swatchdown 😁 DS Quinacridone range is both beautiful and very confusing...
No you haven't missed those comparisons yet, they are coming up! :D
Yaay looking forward to it! 😊 If Daniel Smith released more sets all hell would break loose 😂 I'd buy Quinacridone and Lunar set in an instant ❤️ Fortunately for my wallet, this hasn't happened yet.
Do you have the swatches of all your paints as well? I would love to see this kind of informative video. Btw love your videos everything is so helpful, thank you!
you can try a magnetic strip on the metal palettes and magnets on the pans to prevent moving tho since i tried the mijello palette i think im sold lol
I stick to ceramic and porcelain just because I love the sheen and texture as well as the way the paint lies on the surface. Easier for me to judge paint consistency on porcelain❤️🔥👍🏻🥇
I know this was made a while ago but for the meeden pallet you didnt like the pans being able to slide around but you can take the pans out and bend the metal tabs in and then pop those pans back into it so they're nice and stationary. I dont know if that helps perhaps you have already learned that by now but just in case I thought I would tell you
I know this is an old one but I felt I needed to give you a heads up and to anyone else watching. The Meeden water palette.
Some half pans are smaller than the average half pan I always have trouble with the high end watercolour paint and there can be such a difference in sizes. Also, you haven't bent the metal clip thingy lol far enough forward. You are also using a 48 pan set to hold 18 paints the pallet are meant to be full that way you don't have the pans swimming around. Hope this helps.
For pans that move around in the metal palette box buy a roll of adhesive magnetic tape and stick on bottom of pans. You can find it on Amazon
I found this video at such an ironic time for me as an artist 🤦🏽♀️ , I am finally at the place where buying big extravagant pallet is not necessary . Of course I now have way to many !
I’m very guilty to this as well.
V I’m starting to think we all want success with our creative outlets and that translates to purchasing everything that could help our cause .
I have 7 or 8 metal palettes and what I don't like is that it feels like my paints are hiding. With the plastic ones everything is out in the open. They also take up less space because it's only 2 sections instead of 3.
All those palettes look amazing and the Holbein 108 set is goals. I wonder how the Sennelier full tube set matches up to the Holbein one? Anyway I wish when I was beginning that I had not bought cheap sets. If I had gone directly for good materials like this. It would have made learning so much more fun.
I so wish all people starting out can hear you! I so agree, buying cheap paints is false economy. The Sennelier set is a good set too. I haven't counted, but it feels like there are more reds in the Sennelier set? But again, don't quote me on that one. Maybe I will do a comparison video :)
I have enjoyed ALL your videos!! I do have a question about why you think so high of Holbein watercolors? How do they compare to M.Graham or Da Vinci? Thank you so much!!!
Quick question, how do you get the paints to stay put on the mijelllo palette? I have the 33 well mijelllo palette and once the paint dries, it falls out of its well and I have to figure out which colour it is to put it back in its well. It's extremely frustrating!
As far as the pans moving, you do need to bend the metal tabs quite far then click in the pan. If you don’t want to for spacing or whatever reason, you could use wall tack (putty to hang posters on walls) or magnets. Thanks for sharing!
Just when i was thinking about selling most of my tubes and just focus in 12 or so pigments so i can really "master" them....i come across this and now i want 120 as minimum.
My palettes are white plastic ice cream lids and ceramic dishes.
Fyi for the meeden palette and any other palette that the pans slide. This works for every single one. You have to push the metal side in and them put thw pan down forat on th we aolid metal part and then "click" it into the metal piece that can bend. Thats the trick w those. I actually got that from lindsay The frugal crafter. Hope this helps someone! Have a great day !
Maybe a piece of magnet would keep the half pan in place in your Meeden palette
I subscribed the first time i saw your channel, it has everything for a watercolor lover😍. You have huge collection, would you recommend any color for landscapes from holbein?😊
They have a good range of colors that are often chosen as the classic landscape colors. Have you ever used Holbein before? It can be a strange beast if you are used to paints like Daniel Smith and Sennelier. Holbein has no ox gall in them so they stay put pretty much where you put them.
Oto Kano i havnt used them, i want them cause they dont move, it would be completely different experience😂. One more excuse to buy color😄. Thanks will surely buy them😁
QUESTION: When you use the little inexpensive plastic palettes, do you worry about the paints being housed on both sides? That's one reason I have avoided them... I'm worried about the dry paints falling out OR wet paints dripping, (or even the mixing areas dripping, as I do often use my palette box mixing areas, and save the paint in it sometimes) and I don't always take time for the palette to dry before putting it away. I love the idea of lots of inexpensive little ones for different brands or different uses. Right now I keep a full pan of every color I have in one big wooden box (but with a magnetic sheet on the bottom) and remove pans to a different palette box as I want to use them in a group. Also, I use (when I want a large divided area) a large white ceramic deviled egg plate I found at a thrift store as a mixing palette.
I've never had that problem. I mostly use Daniel Smith and Holbein and they are both very good at keeping stay put. I do always leave my palettes to dry over night though.
Oto Kano thanks!! Maybe I will just try one and see! I love the idea of using an inexpensive palette and setting up different color sets. I almost hate committing to 12 or 18 because i like changing them up. I do the same thing and pop the blobs out and just squish them back into another pan of color, so have some strangely lumpy pans here and there :-)
I know what you mean, I am constantly changing the colors in my palette!
Love seeing people's palettes! 😍 Have you ever used/tried the Holbein metal palettes? I realy like those, but they are sooo expensive. (They may not be in Japan, though.) I personally hardly use any plastic palettes because they stain too much and it bothers me. I must admit that I'm a palette hoarder, I like special editions, but I always tend to use the same few ones. My absolute favourites are actually procelain plates, haha. The small 12-half-pan Medeen palette I bought was a failure. It rattles when I use it, and I've got the same problem as you do with the pans not snapping in securely no matter how much I bend those clamps down. I originally bought it because I wanted to put my basic set of Daniel Smith paints into 6 full pans and use them as a limited palette. But I find that I always pull the pans out when I want to paint, because that rattling and sliding around of the pans drives me crazy.
Anyway, thanks a lot for sharing! I enjoyed your video al lot! 🌺
THANK YOU! I am so glad you had the same experience with the Medeen palettes. Yes, it doesn't matter how much you bend that thing, the pans are going to rattle. So annoying.
Not used the Holbein metal palettes. I just checked out their prices in Japan and it seems very reasonable. Reasonable compare to their over seas price. The 26 well ones are only about £10!
WHAT! 😳 Only 10,- pounds!!! Wow, that's a steal. They usually sell them on e-bay or Amazon for about four or five times that price. Although the one you discoverd might be the aluminium version? I bought the enamelled steel palette years ago at Jacksonart and I remember paying about 70,- or 80,- £ which was a huge investment. But I really like that palette. It only has 24 wells and 5 mixing spaces, and it's quite heavy. Pity Jacksonart seem to have stopped stocking them since quite some time.
Found a link to my version, and it's about the same price I bought it all those years ago: www.amazon.co.uk/5-5x12-Holbein-Enamelled-Folding-Palette/dp/B001NARKNG
Oh, and yes, those Medeen palettes! 😡 They're just not worth it. Waste of material and money. They might look the part, but they're clearly not the same as the originals sold by Schmincke, Sennelier and others. (Although I do think those companies buy their palettes from them same place and just print their logo on them. I believe that palette-maker is called FOME and originates in Italy. I couldn't find a link, but I remember having discovered them quite a while ago while I was looking for a heavyweight palette similar to the old W&N palette.
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?
you can totally do that. That's what watercolors are designed to do.
Dr. Oto Kano Thank you
The pallet that you said you keep on your desk at all time that you got from jacksons. I have a couple of those. I love them. I don't use them to mix in either. I went to Ikea and I got a couple of beautiful (and inexpensive) square white plates. I love just them for mixing. I got a larger one and a smaller/medium sized one. I enjoy mixing on these plates. You can really see the true colors on them and no staining. Thank you for sharing all of your lovely palettes. I'm a bit green as I would love to have that many...lol I'm too much of a novice to have that many all though, my collect is growing a bit. As envious as I am of all of those yummy pallets I am glad that I am sticking to the basics for the time being as I learn to mix colors better and get what I can out of the cool primaries and the warm primaries. When I graduate in a level or two I am sure that I will go a bit crazier and start accumulating more and more brands and colors!! Thank you so much for sharing all of these pallets. BTW, I am curious when you say you retire them. I noticed that you said that you will add certain colors to other pallets, but what do you do with your retired pallets? Do you stow them away, give them away, or sell them? I was just curious since you said that you retire fairly quickly. Thanks again!!
With the old retired palettes, I clean them up and store them away for future use. (Unless I am retiring the palettes themselves because they're all worn, beyond help or just wasn't working for me. In which case I either bin, or pass them on.)
Magnetic dots on the pan solves the sliding problem.
I’m afraid! I have 43 artist grade palettes😱Am I in trouble.?
Can you recommend me your favorite cheaper paints
Abigail Adebisi I'd go for White Nights
Meda Halmaciu would the sonnet watercolors be good
Abigail Adebisi Yes. I believe they would. They are transparent, well pigmented and have a nice flow. I think the difference is they lack more expensive pigments but as Otto mentioned too many colors can be overwhelming for a beginner. So on this idea instead of lots of cheaper paints I would get a good quality 20 color palette and master those.
Abigail, I've heard lots of great things about Van Goghs and White Nights. I haven't used them myself though. It also depends on what's cheap in your country. What country do you live in?
I can second 20. It is a good upper limit for a beginner's palette.