My Universal Daniel Smith Watercolor Palette 2023-2024 

Thank you for watching the video! What do you think of my choice of colors? Which color would you recommend me to add?

love this palette love your vid ❤❤❤

I love Daniel Smith Bordeaux. It’s amazing for mixes.

I just love your channel!❤

Now i am inspired to make my own pallet

I love my cotman watercolor brushes...they are underrated for sure..I specially love the small rounds for details because they don't wear out like the aqua elite (does anyone else notice that their hair frays at the ends after a few uses??? )

Cascade Green is perfect for rivers and streams.

I totally agree with you about the cobalt blue and indanthrone blue, but my feelings about Naples yellow is totally opposite. The great news is everyone is allowed their preference. I have been putting together a small DS palette myself and it was interesting to see what colors you chose that were the same and where our differences were. Gives me some other colors to consider. Thanks for the video!

It's hard to tell on camera, but I think Daniel Smith's 'Raw Sienna Light' might be a fairly good match for the Naples yellow. Lovely juicy colours, and I too also looove just looking at Green Gold, its my fave DS colour, also love their Cascade Green. Thanks for the video! :-)

A new color I picked up is Holbein Jaune Brilliant #2. It’s similar to Naples but more peachy and makes gorgeous sunsets!

I, also, heavily dislike ultramarine. Something about it is very ugly to me. This was very interesting! Thank you for uploading.

Ypur feelings toward ultramarine blue reminds me of how much I hate yellow ochre despite many artists loving this color 😅 in the end it's whatever works for you 👏🏼 I've seen an artistic her own lightfast moonglow if you interested, I think it was Kimberly Crickart 🤔 And I absolutely agree with shire green, I tried their dot card and was so frustrated of how little pigment got out 😤

Great video, thx! I agree with you on French Ultramarine /Ultramarine. I think I will try the cobalt blue instead! I like W&N Naples Yellow Deep, which is single pigment PBr25. In the Daniel Smith I like Burgundy Yellow Ochre or Verona Gold Ochre, both PY43, although I am wanting to get the Mt Amiata Natural Sienna. Not sure if any of these DS would replace the White Nights Naples. I like the purples you have, as well as Ultramarine Violet, which I'm tempted to use instead of PB29! I'm also going to try Transparent Yellow Ochre. I love the Transparent Red Oxide, and have a total crush on Quin Burnt Scarlet. I like your palette. I'm also going to test out Quin Lilac (PR 122) vs Quin Rose.

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An alt to your DS Burnt Umber might be Burnt Umber, Cyprus. My fav is A. Gallo but several brands have the shade and it’s a beautiful warm brown.

I love Daniel smith colours! I’ve been experimenting with schmincke lately but they don’t have a quinacridone rose and that is my favourite shade 😢

Have you tried neutral tint instead of paynes grey? I love it for mixing and shadows

You might try Raw Sienna Light by DS to be similar to the White Knights Naples Yellow. I'm not sure though. I recently bought the R.S. Lt. so as to have something comparable to W&N Raw Sienna but not so difficult to rewet.

You could try Burgundy yellow ochre in place of Napels yellow( S2) of Monte amiata neutral Sienna (S1) as suggestie s

Have you tried Roman szmal pyrole red? It is stunning!

What is the brush youre using? It's so pretty

I absolutely love the version of Indian Yellow made by A. Gallo. I got a sample and after using it I completely fell head over heels. It’s so luminous and clean. I definitely recommend.Their Indanthrone Blue is also stunning!

spray the schmincke dot with some water so it’ll get softer and you’ll be able to remove with a palette knife if you have one :) would you mind sharing a list of colours for easier reference for us? :)

And could the second volle not be Hansa yellow light? Py 3?

I don't like ultramarine blue either

Dear Tatiana in Denmark. I have just found your channel, and found a little clue that I have been looking for years. To find the perfect sky, "Cobalt blue DS and White nights Naples yellow. " schnap friend, not many of us clear and opaque sky people! I have been wanting to find a clear blue sky, without granulation, without a greeny mix. I wanted the opaqueness to make the clouds, and the glow from within. The opaque quality when mixed makes granulation finer, less prominent. I have similar in many brands, but not yet the right one! My journey started with ultramarine to find the finest, which is "Schmincke's Ultramarine finest", then I searched through the cobalts. I was going to try the indanthrone washed out, with an opaque. I have a lot of testing to go, but could I ask you to do this for me please? As you mention your cobalt blue with the White nights naples yellow; Could you please make a quick mix of them for me? for your non green sky, opaque, yet thins to clear and glowing, liftable. and send it to my email please? elizambday@yahoo.com.au. I am very happy to send you something in the mail for your time. I know what colours and brands you would like. ;) I have a real lot, and sometimes finding the unicorn is on a random channel mentioned briefly. Some people talk about Pbr7 to mix with blues to not go green, but really that is a huge amount of colours, and tones, names and brand differences. Jane Blundell is a friend of mine here in Australia, and she briefly mentioned Pbr7 in her list of colour mixing. I know she uses buff titanium, which is too granular for my skies that I want and see here in Australia. Some people only add reds and oranges to their skies for sunsets, then yellows that never meet the blue. Some people have this huge glow, back lit from clouds. Some would say, okay try a raw sienna. I have tried jarosite, a lovely colour found in some handmade paints which is like a raw sienna, and a cream colour mixed, clear yet opaque. As for evening skies, and Autumn, this is a whole other story, new colours a new adventure. Night landscape with flowering trees, would be a theme. So opaque, the granular comes from the simple tree branch in any dark burnt umber. The DS serpentine Genuine, the new fresh leaves. The flowers in a kind of violet mix a bit like Quin Lilac. Then we have cherry blossom branch simply, against the sky. Change the flower, keep the sky. repeat! Change the violet mix to a buff titanium colour or your Naples and white, and we have almond blossoms. Change the flower, we have magnolias. So, it is just my thing. I can't call it florals or landscapes, but it is more like Van Gogh's work, with his almond blossoms in a kind of oriental style. It is more like a statement of negative space....the gorgeous sky. Then do all that again for evening, and night. repeat! In Australia we can have a minty green lower sky in some evenings. Eg a bluey turquoise with lemon, thinned with water. Greys, and Indanthrone blue Payne's grey with big clouds, with purples when we have storms floods and rain. When we have fires, our skies are burnt orange. Night time in Australia. Another sky again. I did have some white nights. I didn't like the consistency in the pans, they were always sticky to touch, never dry, so I gave my set away. The colours seemed too bright for me. Is Naples yellow a sticky colour from the tube, does it dry in the pan where you live? So, really I don't have my favourite sky mix yet! (I still have a lot of guessing to test all these colours, I can't do them all. I can figure out my best choices, and just mix away. There are too many combinations, that simply aren't working for me. I don't have DS cobalt blue, but I do have other ones. The cobalt is the easy part. The other colour is the mystery! In kindred spirit, Eliza Most Beautiful Day is Today! 13th of May 2023 11:54am Dulwich Hill, Australia xx