Until I saw your mixing chart and painting of stones, I’d had lukewarm reaction to these sets. The chart was an eye opener to what can be done with just the five tubes! It was also good to see that fresh and dried in pans paint move equally well. Your reviews are so informatively unique! Thank you!
I love these muted colors. Excellent for landscape. I ended up buying all the super granulating colors because the different ranges are all useful for different reasons.
I don't understand how you do the mixing part, can you please explain what exactly you do there? Also I would love to see the other ones of the same Schmincke sets from the granulation ones!!!
I mix on paper the two colours that cross in each square…maybe it’s easier to understand if you watch my other video about blue and greens by Paul Rubens… I have also reviewed the Shire and Volcano trio, you can find them in my channel. Thanks a lot!!
The amazing thing is that the color disappeared from artist's ranges for more than a hundred years then for whatever reason made a comeback in the last 10 to 20 years. The pigment was originally developed in the 17th century for the ceramics industry and it was sold as an artists color as well as a house paint color under the name Pink Color, but it was commonly called Tin Chromate in the pigment and pottery industry. When pink-ish violets made from cobalt became available Pink Color sales in artist color ranges started to decline and then when brighter pinks based on coal tar dyes became available in the late 19th century artists stopped buying Pink Color and it disappeared. When Winsor & Newton reintroduced it a few years ago they renamed it Potters Pink because potters had continued using it all along. We can be grateful they did reintroduce it because it is a fabulous color and it makes me wonder why 19th century artists rejected it. Sometimes fashion has no logic.
You are a well of knowledge!! I use it a lot in urban sketching for walls. Here in Italy it’s a color that you easily find…I couldn’t stay without it!! Thank you so much for your incredible information:)
@@WatercolorElisabetta I am in Sydney, so greetings from the other side of the world. When watching your videos, you have an accent that I could listen to all day :) I love your passion for watercolors. I wonder if you know that Italy has a connection with the invention of modern transparent watercolors? Prior to the 15th century all waterbased paints were similar to gouache. They needed to be opaque to cover the surfaces they were used on. This is the sort of paint the ancient Egyptians painted their tombs with or painted onto papyrus. It is also the sort of paint cave people used to paint bison on the walls of caves. This kind of paint is very ancient, perhaps the oldest of all paint types. Transparent watercolors were not possible until the development of non absorbent papers which started in Europe after the 13th century, especially at Arches in France, and at Fabriano in Italy. Albrecht Dürer's Godfather became the largest publisher in Germany. He had 24 printing presses, and his most important work was the Nuremberg Chronicle which is still famous. When Dürer became apprenticed, it was to Michael Wolgemut whose studio was employed making the woodcut illustrations for the Chronicle. As part of that process Wolgemut used the novel invention of using transparent pigments mixed with gum Arabic to hand tint the woodcuts with simple thin color washes, green, blue, red, etc. It was in working on these woodcuts that Dürer learned how to make and print woodcuts. He also learned Wolgemut's tinting method. After his apprenticeship he wanted to visit Giovanni Bellini in Venice, and he also wanted to record his journey there. He did this by expanding the colors Wolgemut had been mixing with gum Arabic, making them thicker, and stronger for painting, and experimented with painting pictures using them without any woodcut. These experiments, and then the landscapes he painted on the way to Venice were the very first modern watercolors ever painted. So we can thank his desire to visit Bellini in Venice for the invention of transparent watercolors, as well as Arches and Fabriano for providing the papers for him to work on. Many people assume that watercolors are very ancient, and do not realise that it is only gouache that is very ancient, but watercolors were invented only in the years 1494 and 1495 by a German artist travelling to Italy. I hope you don't mind my passion for watercolor history :)
@@artistjoh this is absolutely great! First of all thank you for your words about my accent, I'm always afraid it's a drawback but I'm realizing is not. So thanks! I feel reassured. Also, you must know that I teach History of Media in college so I'm quite passionate and curious about history! I remember seeing a film when I was little where Leonardo prepared his colours with eggs and the painting started to rot (I was very disgusted by the scene). :D I find your story about the birth of watercolor quite interesting and it is maybe a coincidence but it is I think the same year of Discovery of Americas and right after when Queen of Spain Isabella ordered the expulsion of Jews. What a period!! Such a great impact on today's world. Thanks again, Elisabetta
