Three of my favourite granulating watercolours and using granulation medium with acrylic ink. 

Moon glow is so lovely, but has a fugitive pigment and the red disappears. OMG Sodalite Genuine, obsessed.

Moon glow is fugitive can make your own with french ultra, veridian green, and quin coral.

Thank you for sharing this. I love the granulating textures. It's beautiful.

Thank you for a very informative video. The effects achieved with the granulating medium are beautiful.

I've never seen granulating medium used before. Very informative and fun :)

Thank you so much! Your tip about granulation medium and ink just solved a problem I've been fretting over. :) Also, just love these watercolors.

Jury's out on Moonglow (and Shadow Violet) at the moment due to Kimberly Crick's lightfast testing (there's a video on here showing that the red pigment fades in thin washes)... but you can mix your own versions using single pigments which are more lightfast, and it's really fun to experiment. Any granulating pigment mixed with a non-granulating pigment will separate and give interesting effects, sometimes with really surprising results. I love the ink texture you achieved here. I've never used granulation medium - and now I'm going to try it! Thanks.

Such a helpful video! Thanks so much!

Ingrid, I really enjoyed your presentation. I've been experimenting formulating my own granulates, and have had some success. I'm now playing with super granulation. That's a bit trickier. Your presentation was helpful.

Really amazing. Thanks

Fascinating thank you.

I’m watching in storm Domingo after Ciarán, in the Pyrenees. Great tutorial, I have a couple of these but more Schmincke granulating colours. I have Moon Glow and the Primatek set is in my basket! Great techniques, I don’t think I swatched mine big enough. Thanks. Jo in France 🇫🇷

I have moonglow color…just gorgeous..learning painting and this color gives me goosebumps…it’s mysterious, moody, beautiful

The final test with watercolor, ink and granulating solution looks like what you’ll get out of a yupo paper!

Great idea! I can already see myself painting a fish. I think the texture looks like the skin of an octopus. Thank you 😊

I love Moonglow, and was really sad to find out about it having a fugitive color in its blend that causes fading of the red tone. I'm going to have to check out the umber now.

I ordered the Moonglow already, but based on this I added the Raw Umber Violet, too! So excited to make my super-granulating palette video and this will feature!! Thank you :)! (Also, it must be wild to get comments on a video from a year ago, I wonder how that is? :) !)

Interesting, I recently bought some acrylic ink and some granulation medium, but I'd never thought of combining them.

Very informative video. Thanks for sharing paint choices and what you liked about them. This inspired me to check out your webpage, and realized what an accomplished artist you are! I love that you shared your sketchbook, and as a new watercolourist, you have given me lots of ideas of what to include in a sketchbook and I now realize how valuable sketching and trying out colours, shapes and perspective can be! Thank you for this valuable insight as well as this video! 🌈

New subscriber ! Nice to find someone from Uk . Just getting into watercolour. X

Wonderfull

The texture you get with the acrylic ink and medium is the same as one may get when doing lithographs on zinc plates with watered down lithographic tusche. They call it peau de crapaud.

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Hello Ingrid did you use waterbased ink on the right hand demo or is it acrylic based please? Also I like the texture you get with that paper what make is it? Thanks so much

I see a owl sitting on a branch with the granulation ink added...🎨😷

I should not watch this because I have no self control with buying art supplies.. especially DS watercolor.. lol but I'm going give in to he impulse anyway

Could you list the products you’re using, didn’t get the name of the first watercolor tube, something violet... and what brand of acrylic ink are you using as well?

Hi Ingrid! Thanks for this video - just chanced upon it, as I was searching inspiring videos on granulation. I love the DS range too, and acrylic inks. I'm really looking forward to departing from my usual floral art and photo-art, and try something a little different. Maybe some landscapes! You've given me a boost, and I feel really inspired to get started.... Thanks again! :O) btw, I live in Scotland now, but I clocked your accent, as I originally come from High Lane between Stockport and Buxton.... are you from somewhere around there? Cheshire, Derbyshire, York, Lancs?

Can you graduate any watercolour of Daniel smith by using the ink and the granulating medium?

I love your content, and appreciate your talent. Please can you upgrade your camera equipment though? It’s just too foggy and low quality to see the colours properly. I’d have subscribed in a minute otherwise. Hope you don’t mind honest feedback. Thanks.

Pity Raw Umber Violet is not available in 5ml tubes. Btw, Moonglow is not lightproof

Thank you Ingrid for the lovely demo. Is Sodalite color close to cobalt blue? Have you also tried Kyanite blue by any chance?

Did u use acrylic ink or watercolor ink in this video? Loving this ❤

Ingrid where did you get that ceramic palette?

I would like to a get the palette. What brand is it.

Very interesting but could be better nearer the paper focus on the granulating painting

The Raw Umber Violet looks rather like Aquarius Caput Mortuum.

Such a shame that D S ‘Moonglow’ is fugitive 🙁

Perchè non provare acquerelli cinesi e forse coreani MUNGYO e SUPER VISION ???

Thank you. I'm interested in Raw Umber Violet and I got an idea of sorts. Unfortunately, the production quality of the video is a big impediment. You should show it to someone knowledgeable who could help you fix the problems. From what I can see, it was recorded at too low a data rate and too low a resolution. This could be due, unfortunately, to an obsolete camera or phone. Maybe the problem has been made worse by too high a compression rate before transmitting to RU-vid. What you could immediately fix: - Zoom in on the painted area from the start. Leave some edge, but narrow the view down to the essential. - Provide enough lighting (cool white) and make sure it's diffuse and placed so that the shadows of your hands and arms do not spoil the view of the "raison d''être" of your video. - Make sure that auto-focus is off, then manually focus on a sharp mark on the paper and leave it at that. - Same for camera color balance: set to manual, then select a setting matching the lighting. You can verify this with a gray piece of cardboard (about 50% gray), and record a few seconds of video at the same distance and zoom that you will use for the video. your properly color-adjusted screen should show the true gray color and shade when playing back the recording. Just trying to help... 🚑😊

Moonglow is a terrible color to use. Sadly Daniel Smith has suggested that the Primatek range are highly lightfast, and they have taken advantage of the myth believed by many artists that mineral pigments are always permanent. Not true. Moonglow fades so fast it needs to be treated like Alizarin Crimson as a color that does not belong on an artist's palette. Some Primatek colors are okay, but Moonglow, Sicklerite, Rhodanite, and Tiger's Eye are very untrustworthy. Sodalite is another color with problems. It tends to darken in the tube over time and this darkening effect seems to be irreversible. Fresh it is a beautiful blue, but old tubes become quite blackish. If it darkens in the tube then I would never trust the color in the artwork to not also darken with time. While I like the idea of the Primatek range, seeing the results of independent testing has put me off trusting them and I have increasingly been getting more Schmincke colors as replacements.

Can you just tell us you've been using these colours a lot lately a few more times?😂😂😂