Are these the best colors of Daniel Smith watercolor paint? Swatching the Angela Fehr dot card. 

Question. You mention that the Aussie Red Gold is not recommended as a mixing color since it contains multiple pigments. Recently I watched a video made by the owner of Daniel Smith. It was a really interesting video, almost an hour long, and he went into how the different lines of paint are created-which sounds sort of boring but those ended up being the most fascinating parts of the video for me. Which is why I remember something he said about Moonglow, which contains three pigments. According to Mr. DS (I am forgetting his name now), during the manufacturing process of this paint, the gum arabic is mixed in with the pigments before the pigments themselves are mixed to create Moonglow. He was talking about how the muddiness comes from mixing multiple pigment paints that were made in a different way-the pigments were mixed together, then the gum arabic was added. Because each individual molecule of pigment is surrounded by gum Arabic in the DS formulas, they mix like single pigment paints. I am a beginner so I don’t know anything from experience. Can you speak about this-has this been your experience when mixing multi-pigment DS watercolors? Thanks!

Angela, congrats on getting DS recognition & having your own dot card. Exciting. It seems like it was only a year ago that Daniel Smith allowed you in their family. It was such a big deal, I remember writing them to and. asking them to support you. So happy for you

This is one of the most excellent watching videos I have seen. I think it’s probably because they’re your own colors and you actually use them often. So thank you. I also have a few of these colors already. I love my cobalt teal blue, lavender. And Aussie red gold. I really want to get the hematite burnt Scarlet now and exciting colors and I can’t wait to see how they will mix.

Beeee-uuuuuuu-teeeeee-ful range of colours! I adore & use bright colours but also like earthy colours together! Thanks I don’t have about half these colours-joy of DS massive range!-I’ll try ‘em!

Though I've commented before saying I am not nearly as fearlessly loose as you, I was surprised by how many of your favs are mine also! Ten of your 18 are "musts" for me too. The more I get to know you as an artist, the more I believe that I am and will be even more so in the coming future, be painting more and more expressively. I am only 18 months into my journey and have so much growing to do (what a thrill it is!), but my heart mist definitely feels a real connection with you even though I am so very early in my artistic journey. You have and continue to inspire me like no other artist does. I just love that and always come to your videos and also to your posted art when I am needing inspiration. Thank you so much for always being that bright spot from which I am able to borrow from. I am sure it is because everything that you paint and I am quite certain that everything that you do outside of your art, is led by your heart. I think that is where I feel the connection to you lies. Blessings to you, my lovely Canadian artist connection. XX

wow you have great taste!

I also draw pictures. Your video has become a study. 👏👏👏✨

What a great palette on your dot card! So many wonderful colors (and many are my faves). I love hearing your thoughts on each one too. Thanks for another great video!

These are beautiful colors but not common in traditional or purest palette. I checked with my collection of watercolors and found 12 of the colors. I used following to substitute the 6 that I don't have: sub W.N. Raw Sienna Mars Yellow; Paul Rubens Lavender Violet Lavender; M. Graham or QoR Cobalt Teal Cobalt Teal; QoR Venetian Red Venetian Red; Turner's Burnt Umber or Daniel Smith Piemontite Hematite Burnt Scarlet; mixing Perylene Green and Hematite Zoisite Gen.

I always like the colors you combine in your paintings very much and these swatches are so pretty. Hopefully they have your dot card next time I'm near Seattle!

Congratulations on having your own Dot Card, Angela! That is a milestone indeed!

I love this. Thanks for the info.

Love your videos! And so happy to discover you live in BC!

I needed this video, for lots of reasons. Feeling a bit bored with my standards. I’m out of Raw Sienna, so I’m excited to replace with Mars Yellow! Have u ever tried DS imperial Purple? It gives either a good dark purple or diluted, great blue/pink! I need to watch video on brushes too, mine are old. I want a good Dagger brush? Not sure if that’s the right word, but it looks so Fun to use! Great video! Thx Angela! 6:46

Your palette is not for my style.. but thanks for sharing your ideas...

Brilliant selection of color! Really.

Oh yay! What great fun! I am a bit confused about when you're coming to Seattle? The graphic said 2021 but you said workshops in 2020.

Well LA DE DA Angela...aren’t you special? Well,guess what? You are !! That is so awesome girl! Big hugs, and I totally agree. Color Rocks. Maddy

Congrats on the DS dot card! I don't know how you pick only 18 :) Looking forward to when you come to DS Seattle in 2021. I was also surprised how much I loved DS Lavender, it has lovely grey undertones and it's more versatile than I ever imagined.

I love my Daniel Smith watercolors so lovely

I am a DANIEL SMITH virgin and am putting together my very first set of colors and found this video very informative. You have a couple or more of the ones I had also selected. I don’t recall seeing the zoisite on the Daniel Smith swatch cards. I’m sure I haven’t memorized every single name, however, that one does not seem familiar at all nor does how it’s swatches. It has phenomenal texture. I have swatched the entire Daniel Smith set to help determine what my first 12 to 18. colors will be. I was committed to only buying 12 to get started and am already up to 14. After this video, I expect I’ll be adding a couple more. I wonder if the zoisite has been phased out. Thank you for taking the time to do this swatch segment of your 18 colors.

I love how vibrant and bright these colors are. I too enjoy colors that granulate so would definitely pick those to use!

This was so very interesting! I really enjoyed it. Thanks for taking your time to make this excellent video!

Why would you put opera and moonglow on your palette of 18 favorite colors? They are fugitive, so you only really have 16 colors to choose from when painting art work you plan on framing.

Angela, do you put a lot of thought into warm and cool colors in your palette and avoid mixing them? I hv a palette w/warm on one side and cool on the other... trying to avoid making muddy colors and then getting discouraged.

Thanks for explaining detail on each color. I LOVE Daniel Smith colors. Awesome that you are recognized by them with your own dot card.

Fantastic to see the names, watch you paint them, and see how the colours move and work with water on paper, will ALL these fabulous colours. Adding a few to my Santa List, now. (y)

Thanks for sharing this but many of these colours don't really appeal to me and I wonder what I'm missing? I do recognize the value of having what another artist calls 'mouse colours' on a palette in order to make more intense colours pop, but, one of the strongest reasons I've fallen in love with watercolour is because of the pure, singing transparent colours (usually quinacridones & phthalos) that remain brilliant and let the light of the paper shine through the paint. I bought both Lunar Blue and Moonglow months ago and although the granulation is spectacular, I have not had any occasion to actually use them. It could be that I will learn to love these colours in time however, as I only began painting approx. one year ago so I'm not very sophisticated yet.

Angela, Congratulations on your new swatch card! I often watch your beautiful videos. What brush are you using on this video?

Thank you so much for this video. I have a couple of Daniel Smith colors and intend to stock up, per your recommendations. I am viewing you from Kernersville, North Carolina, USA.

Is your workshop really in 2021? or is it in 2020?

Thank you of the Daniel smith sample you sent. I can’t remember when I’ve won such a beautiful gift. I love it Linda

Hi Angela. I know its 2yrs later. I'm a fearless artist community member. Can I have a free dot card? Evelyn has my address and I need some inspiration. Maybe your dot card will help? Thank you.

Congratulations on working with a great watercolor paint company! 🎉

Hi Angela! Rose of ultramarine in MG are one pigment but what is cool is that in DS perylene violet and quin magenta have the same mass tone so my mixes would be similar so I removed rose odmf ultramarine. I love tourmaline genuine (black) it mixes super clean and my aunt loves it who has taught for over 65 yrs, yep.Love love love dark Mayan blue and the Mayan orange. I can't live without quin burnt sienna and burnt orange. I use DaVinci cobalt green hue and mix a little white with it and who can forget Wisteria? Miss you!🤗

I just swatched the 238 dot card. I wish I would have done this before I bought a lot of my paints. I really enjoyed this video because made me understand the reasoning behind some of the colors I thought were a total waste. I’d love to see more videos like this one.

I will be interested and look forward to seeing you create paintings using these colors on your dot card alone. Those will be really helpful demonstrations.

I do love watching swatching, (okay, that’s a weird rhyme). Perhaps you might get time in your busy future to re-record the swatching process? I would really like to see that. I loved the accidental cat face that appeared in the first mixture using Opera Pink and the teal blue, upper right corner of your chart.

11:35 “this is why I don’t swatch” 🤣😂🤣 I just love you being YOU Angela! What a wonderful display of favorites. Congratulations on the dot card. 🎉 Many blessings!

Oh and I took and started a palette with all the DS.textured paints I have and I am going to love it!

Any idea why we can only order the dot card set that has 238 colors if they now have :80 colors?

Thank you Angela Fehr for giving a talk about your favorite colors while you created your swatch card. I use Daniel Smith and a few colors from Holbein too. Great information - thanks.

PLease.. I have seen other people show this dot card.. so.. What is the use of this card?

Beautiful colours! I have some of those colours but I use single pigments with top lightfast properties. Now that I have all the pigments I need, I'd probably start collecting some of your colours for my sketchbook just because they're so beautiful... ❤

It's now 2022 - are these still your favorite choices?

Congratulations on your new dot card! The colors you’ve chosen are beautifully “outside the box”, IMHO. I mean that in a “good” way! I predict Daniel Smith will have a difficult time keeping them in stock!!! ❤️

I went to Blick website, no sign of dot card...🤔

Love seeing your dot card and hearing your thoughts about each color, what you mix it with, etc. Looking forward to your workshop at Daniel Smith in January 2021!

Wow, I just decided to take the plunge and pick up a few Daniel Smith watercolors. I agonized over which ones to get. I'm glad to see you several of the ones I chose are on your list. This is super helpful.

Well...if, hypothetically, I paint a painting using opera pink and my buyer rightfully wants to frame it and hang it on a wall....and, it fades awfully. What should be done😞

Love all of these colors and how they interact. I may make a pocket pallette of these and try out a spring plein air outing as our azaleas are in full bloom now and that only lasts a week!! Thank you so much for sharing!

I would never give an artist a thumbs down just because I disagree with your opinion. I believe that Dan Smith is a professional line of paints but they are so overrated. I have over 40 colors so I am not just “spouting off!” From ignorance. There are so many other paints that are wonderful and NOT Overpriced! I have become a DaVinci convert. A California company that has so many extraordinary paints! So much more affordable than DS too! I also like the mission gold line of paints from Korea over the DS lines of paints. If you feel like you need to spend more of your money! You presented your line of choices well and I congratulate you on your success. Thank you for sharing your opinion on choices and I wish you a pleasant day.

link doesn't work. where is a list????

Thank you! I love to be reminded of some of these beautiful colors!!💕

I vote to add a red. However, I have not seen your work. From your chosen colors, my guess would be it has a delicate look to it. I'll take a look. I just dropped in today. Thanks.

I notice that you do not have a real red in the mix. You are not a big red lover, I would say?

Congrats on your dot card! Even though Moonglow is made up of 3 pigments, so glad it made the cut......it's one of my all time, favorite colors. I only wish the pigment numbers were written on your swatch card along with all your chosen colors. Thank you, this is a very useful video!

Thank you

☀️❤️~ Love your Paintings! ~ This answers so many questions! I want to set up a new Palette ~ I think I am going to try Daniel Smith Watercolors ~ It can be confusing with so many to choose from!

Oops-and now you need an actual metal box of this collection cuz it’s different from their others!

So gorgeous! These colours are so scrummy! I think I want these too! Just to look at cos I am only a beginner at water colors!

Beautiful colors! Most of these are not the ones I have. I love Daniel Smith!

Wonderful to see these painted out. I love daniel smith paints, but there are so many to choose from and experimenting can get pricey. I will have to get the dot cards and try. Cheers!

You have beautiful skin!,,,,

Lovely mixes! And so unexpected. It’s so fun and satisfying to see the granulation.

Thank you ever so much for the DS demo I have been wanting too try Watercolour however coloured pencil is challenging me right now.

have you tried painting hematite with a piece of magnet?

Gorgeous colour choices! May I please ask where you sourced your circular palette that holds sixty colours?

Does Daniel Smith sell your palette dot card?

Love your demo - thank you 🙏

This is going to be so helpful to me. Thank you.

thank you it is so interesting

I am wondering how to use the Daniel Smith watercolor mixing set. I brought six colours and then the ground, it came in a set. My question is do I just mix the colour and then the ground and put in a pan? Please can you guide me. Thanks, I have learned so much from you, thanks for you teaching us and sharing your knowledge with us.😆

Delicious colours

Awesome to have your dot card!!

This is so special..congrats.

Congrats on your own dot card 😊

Beautiful colours!

I"m happy to say I have 6 of the 18 already in my palette! And I've earmarked about 6 more for my family to order for me for Christmas! Thank you-- wonderful color choices!

Thank you!

This is a beautiful collection! Congratulations, Angela

Love them all - except opera because it’s highly fugitive.

Hi Angela. I know its 2yrs later. I'm a fearless artist community member. Can I have a free dot card? Evelyn has my address and I need some inspiration. Maybe your dot card will help? Thank you.