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We need more videos like this instead of people showing a palette of 50+ colours. This was a fantastic tutorial of what you can achieve with a limited palette. And wow! Those pictures! What a talent. Thank you🤗🇬🇧
I’m so glad you liked it. I think the limited palette really simplifies decision-making when we’re painting. I feel more creative with less colors. Thank you for your kind comment.
@@JackieHernandezWatercolor …I totally agree. I admit I’ve been influenced by so many art haul videos and now I’ve got so many watercolour paints I’ll never use in a lifetime, so I recently sorted out what I use from what I don’t use, and I now have 12-14 colours that do everything I want. It feels so freeing, like you said, I feel more creative. 🤗
When we’re new to watercolor, we think using the right color or brush will make us good at painting. Far better to just have these 6 and learn to mix. But we just don’t believe it.🤪
Thanks to YT algorithms, your excellent video found its way to me. You have an excellent delivery and explain things well. Watercolorists LOVE videos on color, so a series where you would take each of these colors and show how they can mix others, in depth, would likely do quite well. Your paintings are very fresh looking. The birds are award winning!
Oh no. Well, maybe you can make a smaller palette with just your favorites. I started with a big round ceramic palette but never filled all the wells, so I moved down to my small tin palette. No more pressure to fill all the wells.
I’ve done the opposite. I bought tons of professional watercolor paints and now have to much stuff. Good problem to have but now I curate limited palettes so I’m not overwhelmed.
Love your colour choices. As a big fan of a limited palette, I wholeheartedly agree with your recommendations. Your watercolours are stunning, and I was delighted by the way you presented your colour swatches and mixes on a painted palette. ❤ And yes, my icon is a painting of a watercolour palette, too. 😅
I watched this video at least 5 timex by now 😅. It's really helpful and very informative. I also really appreciate you pointing out, how you've used the specific colours on a real examples, not just a mixing swatch. I'm excited to see more videos like these! xx
Wow! You are an amazing teacher! Your explanations and examples are informative, interesting and approachable. I love all of your nature/Foliage/ landscape paintings, they are stunning!
I just discovered your channel and I'm so glad I did!! ✅ *Subscribed.* ☺️ Sennelier has a lovely non-granulating Ultramarine Blue and also an Ultramarine Deep. They go on very smoothly and a graduated wash is a cinch.
That’s good to know. When I first started painting I avoided French Ultramarine because of the granulation. But as I got more comfortable with how it behaves, I’ve become obsessed with the color.
LOVE this! Thank you sharing your talent and wisdom with us in a beautifully edited package! Start your own online school and I’ll so be there with my painting supplies and an open wallet! 😍
Thank you for this video! I love how you show us in your finished paintings how you use those colors. So many people say “use a limited palette” but no one has every broke it down like this before. I hit subscribe! 😊
I fall in love too easily with colours & need to be more disciplined - this is another really helpful tutorial. I’m going to have a play with new gamboge which I never really liked - but you’ve made me think again! Also, it’s great to see so much of your work- which is fabulous. I LOVE those pink parasols - you see a beautiful world, thank you for sharing it!
I don’t use New Gamboge often on it’s own, but I’m addicted to it for mixing. I actually added another half pan of it to my palette, because I’m always contaminating it with blue or green. I’m glad you enjoyed the paintings. I was nervous to share, since some of them are sketches or early paintings. That pool painting took me three attempts to get the colors right. 😊
Wow the work you put in painting with limited palette really paid off. Your paintings are so harmonious and really pleasing to the eye 😍 I was already planning on buying a set of better quality paints and this helped immensely. Thank you!
May I just tell you how much I learn from and enjoy your tutorials!!! I have been binge watching them and have learned more from you than any other artist. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge and recommendations.....you are awesome!
Thank you! What you see in those pans is all I have left of the original 5ml tubes of Hansa Yellow Light and Pyrrol Scarlet. I won’t be refilling those. I’m going to look for a different cool yellow or maybe a yellow-green color and a different warm red or possibly a pre-mixed orange.
This is soooo helpful!! A plethora of the most useful insights and tips all packed in a dense but so easy to follow (logical, I mean) video. It is fast paced, almost too fast paced to take in all the info but still not overwhelming and still easy enough to follow. Depending on where anyone is on their creative journey and knowing their colors and more, anyone can watch this video once of five or ten times or even more without it getting boring due to the stunning pieces of artwork you showcase as examples of This is one of those essential videos that you can use time after time as a guideline or reference point. After seeing all those gorgeous pieces and seeing this one video of yours, I immediately hit subscribe. Can’t wait to explore more of your videos, the way you explain things really resonates with me so thank you! ❤
I have a mad love for payne's grey. I use it instead of indigo. It's an amazing color in my opinion and makes a good alternative. I've been wanting to try that neutral shade for a while now.
Payne’s gray is one of my favs as well, but I sometimes have trouble with it because it is very intense and it stains easily. I haven’t tried neutral tint or indigo yet, but I wonder if they might give more the results I am after. Maybe I will make use of that link today. 🙂
OMG, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU! Finally, I have found someone to break it down so simply to the basics! I'm trying so hard to learn watercolor but it's so confusing, when it doesn't have to be. So happy your channel came across my feed!
Your very welcome. I’m glad this was helpful. If you ever have questions or suggestions for a tutorial, please let me know. I love watercolor and I want to help more people enjoy this hobby.
This is so insightful! I just bought my first artist grade watercolors and am glad to see I bought a good set that has all the basic necessary colors. I'll put off the rest because it's been one of my goals and I really want to learn how to mix colors. Subscribed!
This is INCREDIBLY helpful! Thank you! In December I bought several different MaiMeri blu watercolour tubes. …there were just far too many blues I loved!!! 😬😂. I’ll have to look up the pigment numbers that correspond to the Daniel Smith colours, to see which of my primary red, blue and yellows are warm and cool. Thank you for this great tutorial!
Your welcome. Painting each of your primaries side by side might help you decide which are warm and cool too. Also, as far as mixing, single pigment paints are the way to go. If you have any with multiple pigments, they may not work as well for mixing.
I truly wish I had seen this video when I was starting out! I hope many who are new to watercolor see this and heed your advice. Thank you for this, I may need to go back to basics. 🌻
When I first started experimenting with watercolors, I bought multiple tubes of various colors without realizing I didn’t know what and how I wanted to paint. I still have way too many tubes and pans, but I’ve since moved to curated limited palettes (mostly single pigment colors if possible) that consist of split primaries (with a C and M in my blues and reds) and a few convenience colors. I LOVE Indigo, I just wish it didn’t lift so much, and Ultramarine’s granulation can sometimes be frustrating.
Jackie, I enjoyed your "feeling uninspired" video. I have to put it on my replay list. It's so easy to do nothing or veg out in front of the TV when feeling uninspired. Have a technique in your hip pocket, that's a great piece of advice. Thanks!!
I have to say this video is SO HELPFUL! It's not the first one like this I've watched, but I think this one might have been the best so far! Thank you!
This is excellent, Jackie. I actually prefer a limited palette for these reasons: it forces you to think about colors and mixing, so you learn more, and, too many colors can be overwhelming or you become dependent on them. Cheap watercolors or paper are a waste of money. I figured that out when I bought the Daniel Smith Essentials set and switched to Arches paper. Huge difference. Watercolor (even good ones) won't move well on cheap paper and that will give disappointing results.
So true!! We owe it to ourselves and our art to use good quality supplies. Sometimes I think student-grade supplies hold beginners back more than anything else. Thanks for watching!
I am brand new to watercolor and so happy to discover your page! This was incredibly helpful and I loved seeing examples of how you used these colors and mixes. You're a great teacher (and your art is beautiful), thank you!
Your welcome. I’m so sorry it took a while to respond. I just realized RU-vid held your comment for review for some reason. I’m glad I found it. I hope you’re having fun with watercolor so far!
This is so useful .. I'm happy I found your channel. I was actually looking on building a high quality palette, as a beginner, to not overspend with lower quality products that I would not like to use in the future. This video was so right out of my alley!!! Thank you and I hope your hard work here will eventually pay off and keep you motivated to continue
I enjoyed your video very much, as it’s highly informative about limited colors and mixing with a limited palette! However, recently, even though I’ve been painting with watercolor the past several months ( was painting with dry pastels previously), I’ve learned about problems with light fastness and fugitive colors/pigments. Have you had any problems with any of the Daniel Smith colors? How long do you keep your paintings? What other brands do you use? Love your paintings!
Most of Daniel Smith’s colors (and I think all the ones I have), have excellent lightfastness ratings. This is the only brand I use (except my Turquoise Blue which is Holbein). This truly is the set I started with and have added to selectively. Sorry I can’t speak to other brands.
Hi Jackie - just found your channel, what a wonderful, timely video. I am new to watercolor, and this is just what I needed to quell that first rush of crazy enthusiasm and over-buying. I loved that you integrated your commentary on each color with examples of it in your work. Deeply effective and fun way to learn at so many levels at once. Subscribed, and looking forward to watching your content. ❤🙏
Welcome. I am so glad the examples and explanations were helpful. You’re at such an exciting time in your journey and I’m glad I get to be a part of it.
@@JackieHernandezWatercolor Thank you, Jackie. Yes, it really is exciting, and RU-vidrs like you are making something I've never thought I could do, doable. 🙏
Such a great video, especially with all your beautiful samples. I recently did a video about using the same 15 student grade colours for over a year, but I have very limited understanding of what are good colours to use together, I’ve basically just been making it up as I go. And I chose my colours on a day when the shop had very low stock levels, so my colour choices were pretty restricted. Despite that, I’ve loved using the limited choices and fumbling my way through colour mixing. I will save this video for future reference, when I feel a need to upgrade.
Wow I just love your style of painting. Vibrant harmonious colors and your artistic talent. Gorgeous! 🥰 I do challenge Neil degrasse Tyson….the Bible tells us everything we need to know about the universe and the best way to live as our Creator intended 😀 That quote sounds so condescending imo. Gods not like that and the universe is not a being but Gods creation 🙂✝️🥂
A blue wirth green in it like Phaltho blue is warm not cool. French ultramarine is cool not warm. You can tell just by looking at them. This is some bad info that has been circulating lately. It’s wrong.
Daniel Smith describes French Ultramarine as a “warm” blue and Phthalo blue is a “cool” blue. Blues with a green-bias are cool. Those with a violet/red bias are warm.
@@JackieHernandezWatercolor we didn’t learn it that way in school when studying color theory. I’m not saying you’re wrong, but I’d be interested to know what their reasoning is.
