I like your discussiuon of pigments and paints. As far as the lines in the painting, (The dark lines) I don't like them myself, but I know a lot of people do that. At the most, only minimal lines.

Talks too much!

I really appreciate how you use a plastic water brush instead of fru-frah Princeton ( no hate I LOVE synthetic Princeton) or Silver black velvet ( one day I will own a round in that brand 😍🤣) . Very inclusive. ❤

Here in the beauty community (which I am also part of ) we hate the word obsessed 🤣. I love Japanese stationery and art supplies. I love the Holbein gouache , Gansai watercolour but the Holbein watercolour other than 1 tube I stopped after hearing a lot of their shades have white in them. That’s my bug bear.

My watercolour paints dont even have pigments info or any other info, just basic colour names 🤣 But i love them

Art has no rules! That’s what makes art so incredible ❤

I have a full set of their watercolors. They are great for illustration for the ability to control the paint and detail. I use them with paints with better flow for effects .

Br12 is not lightfast, it's a neon color. B and AB refer to neons.

Personally, I preferred it the art piece without so many lines. I like some of the lines, but this many I feel like covers up the gorgeous paint you used. :)

I value your opinion, you tell it like it is lol. I want to ask your opinion on something. Small preamble: 2 years ago I suddenly and unexpectedly lost sight in my right eye. Hideous thing to happen to an artist. Anyway, I am working hard to relearn and adjust. I’ve learned a few things but I digress… so question is… would a paint by number kit be a horrific idea? It won’t be true art, I’m aware.. but good practice for hand eye coordination?

As always, Pete, your video was informative and fun to watch. I honestly can’t say which way I like it best, with or without the lines, It’s actually two different paintings all together. Often I feel the same after I’ve put lines in my art, but then later, glad I did; it’s art. 😊

Their rose madder is made with genuine alizarin crimson which is actually fugitive so their star system is inaccurate at best if not misleading but I use these in sketchbooks so i don’t worry about lightfast qualities anyways just had to point that out . . .

What brand is the diarylide yellow? I am working on a 25 best of all set. I have exactly 25 qor colors and using full pans they fit perfectly in the Earth 6 set tin with space for a travel brush.... I have 1 more of those tins and they fit in my travel roll nicely so im going to use it for the 25 holy grail of all brands...i have way to many colors and i cant seem to narrow it down, lol. Thanks for the video.

I was still using my crayons in secret in junior high and high school. I bought higher grade supplies as I could afford them. My favorite media now are watercolor and making scale miniatures, but I dabble in just about everything except oil paint (too stinky and my cats are too nosy). My hubby thinks I have way too many supplies now... but you can bet I still have my Crayolas (crayons, markers, colored and WC pencils). When I was in the hospital in junior high, the first thing I asked for was my crayons and coloring books. I have quite a collection of crayons for someone that does collect them as a thing to collect dust. I actually use them. I have everything from kiddie to professional supplies stashed everywhere (at home, at work, in my bag, usually have stuff in the van that won't die in extreme temps). Heck, just a pen or pencil and a scrap of paper is enough to doodle. You don't need anything fancy to create. I share supplies with my students. Life's too short and brutal to live without art (and music, and theatre, and dance, and...). I agree with the others, waaaaaay too much gatekeeping. Art should be enjoyed, in creation as well as the sharing after it's created. Do what makes you happy!

I am sure that I commented on your video however, it was late last night here in the west, and it’s quite possible that I did not hit the send button. My comment was witty and worthy of your excellent video. Too bad it got lost in the ether. oh I remember part of it. The paint swatches look like they’re wearing blindfolds and they are about to be executed. Perhaps they are going to be part of an astonishing painters work of art which he will execute for the benefit of all of us, or perhaps he will not be pleasedand he will line the color swatches up and execute them by firing squad good grief it was late at night. Maybe it’s just as well that I didn’t hit the send button. Ha ha.❤❤❤❤

I like using single pigment colors when I try to recreate specialty colors. Take Schmincke's "Haze Indigo" as an example. I found a site where I learned that I need two parts PB29, three parts PG26 and one part PBr33 to mix it. To have those single pigment colors is cheaper than buying all the glorious mixed colors 🙂 Even if the self-mixed colors are not exactly like the bought ones; for me "close enough" is sufficient. Otherwise I'm with you, I don't care if a color is mixed or pure as long as I like it. As for your painting, this time I liked it best with the line work half-way done. Let me watch again tomorrow and that may change 🤣I especially like the bright orange details, like a volcano ready to explode. Thank you for the nice evening entertainment (it's half past nine pm over here) 🥰

You need to take that Veridian Hue and bury it in a shallow unmarked grave. 😂

I’ve never used these paints. I wonder if these are something between the Gansai Tambi and traditional WCs? Those shades, Rose Madder and Crimson Lake are gorgeous!

Thanks for your honest opinion

Hoo boy, there is no shortage of gate keeping in the artistic community. But here comes Pete to batter the gates down and invite more people in. 😉😄

I take single-pigment more as a shopping list determiner, things to use either as is or mix. The blended pigments are convenience colors, colors you use a lot of and are time-savers to have. You can reduce the number of tubes in a given line needed that way.

I had to laugh at your hatred for phthalo green. I have come to agree :D

P.s. I find your line work interesting and appealing, keep on

Appreciate your thoughts on Holbein. I love their coloured pencils and soft pastels, I have not tried their watercolours yet. I will go through the paints I have already in other brands before I decide if I want Holbein too. Thank you

The Prussian blue swatch looks a bit like Cookie Monster!😲

D.S. Lunar Black. I could paint an entire piece of paper with varying amounts of water and Lunar Black and just stare at it for hours. It is a fascinating pigment to me and the granulation is amazing. Awesome used in big rocks with other colors. Weird, I know.

Got to the end… The lines are part of your style and design…if every artist did everything the same way art would be very boring. I love to see what you are doing! Everyone just looks at colors (single pigment or blends) differently. I just bought most of Schmincke’s new colors…and didn’t check to see that “brilliant” colors in their line often means a fluorescent ingredient or pigment has been added. Sure the colors are great…but fluorescence destroys the lightfastness. But…how many people even care about that if the color is wonderful…

talking of “game changing” stuff - Pete, if you want to get rid of phthalo stains on your palette, use a plain white eraser and just… erase them. It works like magic! No scrubbing, no toothpaste, no nothing… just a plain plastic eraser. Also, French speaker here and Jaune Brilliant is pronounced in a way more akin to John Brilliant ( imagine this was a guy called John, who happened to be a brilliant person) than how you are currently pronouncing it. It means brilliant yellow 😊

I wanted to check I wasn’t misreading Holbein information…they use letters rather than the usual indicators. Light fast ratings of 3 stars for Absolutely Permanent, 2 stars for Permanent, 1 star for mostly durable. T = Transparent, N = Non Staining, E = Easy Lift, H = Hard Lift, X = Granulating, B = Semi-Transparent, K = Semi-Staining, O = Opaque (with usual circle to indicate level of opacity), S = Staining, I = Intense. It looks like the series ranges from A-F, in a box or square. (Series indicates the number of time other things are added…So A would be the pure pigment. Then each time they add something, like iron to darken the color, that mix is then indicated by the next letter. So a color with a letter F would be a color mixed after six additional changes to the original paint mixture (A). So if you were making a tints or pastels, a whitening agent would be added six times to arrive at the paint color with a Series F. Or a tone as from a cool red, a darkening agent or black would be added six times to get a very dark magenta. Not all lightening or darkening additives have to listed…as for tints or tones…but a second pigment, like a orange added to a green to get an olive green, would be listed as a pigment in the mix. Once you have a good olive green color, then tinting or darkening agents would be added (as series) to give you a full range of olive greens.

On your chart you seem to be indicating Granulation with a triangle… Of course you get to do what you want…but if you want us to understand you might want to use the same indicators that most paint companies use…? Granulation is typically indicated by “G” or “Y” (yes it granulates, or “N” no granulation. I think the Y or N option are generally used for natural earth pigments…but companies have their own rules, I guess.

Hi Pete, some of those colours are very nice, I might try some and see if they’re a “game changer”😂. Dee

I have the Holbein Permanent Violet PV23 (Blue Violet) which is highly preferable to the Mineral Violet you have. Also I have the Bright Violet (Red Violet) BV7 and BV15. This was very informative for me as I'm in the limbo of figuring out price as opposed to my favourite colours. Myself I prefer the painting before you added the lines, but you do you.

I may get some yuck for this but me and Holbein Watercolors don't get along. I tried so hard to love them, use them and enjoy them. Still not sure what it is. The only color I purchased a 15ml tube of is their Cerulean Blue PB35. It is beautiful and much brighter than Winsor+Newton's version. Maybe I should give them another try after seeing your video! ETA and that once you began swatching the Mineral Violet, that's when I remembered why I didn't like some of the colors. Like WHY mix 3 colors for purple? Don't know why it bothers me so much 😆 when I use the same kind of colors too 😅

On 99% of your pieces I like the additional line work. On this one for some reason, I preferred the texture of the dry brush effect with the brighter colors. Happy Monday!

The lines you add usually brings in a little more dimension to your drawings and to me look more interesting. The colors by themself are Ok too... if you are into minimalistic look and feel. In the end you can't please everyone... the only person you need to please is you, is what you want to express in the end ;) :). At 54:48 - what you have on the paper seems to be reflected with what you have in the palette :D.

I don't own Holbein yet. I don't know why. I own almost every other paint. Maybe that is why. Lol. I like the extra pen work, but it did dull the color. I think it made the whole thing richer in the end.

Lmao 🤣 😂😂😂😂 at being in the woods and not having their swatch on the huge card! I seriously could not stop laughing!! Thank you 😊

I'm not a fan of watercolor markers...on watercolor paper. I can't avoid streaks. But I do like them on marker or Yupo papers where I have time to move the paint around. I still can't get even washes or smooth blocks of color, but I like the textured look I end up with. That being said, I'll use to doodle or sketch, but am not comfortable using them for finished pieces. Plenty of other watercolor media for those. 😊

I have the 14 pan set of mono pigments and I love it. The paints activate very easily which is a blessing and a curse because it makes layering difficult without disturbing the already dried layer below. Not a deal breaker but just need to learn how to use them differently than other watercolors. They’re like a hybrid between watercolor and gouache.

Hi Pete, I agree wholeheartedly with you. Selling paints that small and charging what they do is a huge no from me. I think they’re using eyeshadow pans and they cost next to nothing. I’m sure they’re very pretty but it’s still a huge no. Dee

They came out with five colors and didn't want to change the packaging Lol Don't blame them, so they put in an empty pan 😂

This was so helpful, thank you!

I love that you shout out other creators and help elevate the community!!! I loved the intro to the video, lol, jumping against the wall. The abstract work looked great!

Just spring for the 48. You'll be glad you did!

I purchased DS Lunar Black. Pbk 11. It's gorgeous and will granulate every color you mix with it! It's a seedy granulation and I love it. I just got it a week ago 🎉

I had to wait to get these. They were out of stock for a month. I paid more, but I have them! The Graphite colors are Amazing! I have the 48 and Art Neuvoux, and Sumi. Sumi colors are a little redundant but hey, it's collecting 🎉

I have all but one six set and one new color. Kuretaki Gansi Tambi watercolors are gorgeous and a joy to use!

Who? I’m grown, I don’t have time. It’s the “faddies” who think everyone knows the latest whatever or whoever. They can’t help themselves. As for watercolor markers, I have Tombows & various Faber Castells. Love using them. Ya just gotta know they are at their best on pulp paper where the marker liquid won’t get soaked into the paper too quickly.

When you rant, you have Larry David energy and I’m here for it 😂

Hi Pete, the comment I left yesterday, vanished so I'm going to try leaving it again lol. I completely understand what you mean about pan sizes. I prefer half pans personally because when I was a student it was what I could afford, and I got used to them over time. Then there is the smaller pans for smaller hands side of things. You said you like unique palettes; I think you might appreciate the colours in the Art Nouveau Dragonfly palette from Deep Deep Light watercolours.