Part 3: Watercolor Paints | Do Not Be Afraid of Watercolor Series
Welcome to the Do Not Be Afraid of Watercolor Series. In this video we learn about the paint you need to be successful on your watercolor journey.
Watch the video for details and then find your shopping list in the description below. Let’s get started!
PAINT BRANDS:
Van Gogh — Great for beginners
Windsor Newton
PAINT + PAINT COLORS
Windsor Newton Aqua Green neutral-tinted
Windsor Newton Blue
Cerulean Blue
Cobalt Blue
Ultramarine Blue
Permanent Rose
Bright Rose
Bright Violet
Pyro
Red Cobalt
Violet Viridian
Turquoise Blue Green
Windsor Newton transparent yellow
Burnt Sienna Rossi
Yellow Ochre Catio
Deep CAD Yellow Light
Lemon yellow
Full Video Transcription:
Good morning, everyone. Hi, my name is Paul Valdez
and thank you for joining me in the Do Not Be Afraid of Watercolor Series.
Today, we're going to focus on watercolor paints in general.
Then I'll show you what brands and colors I use. There are so many brands out there Windsor, Newton, Daniel Smith, Holbein, Sennelier, a Rembrandt,to name a few. Some of the top brands.
And I've used all of those at one time or another. A lot of top brands also have a student grade, and they're just fine if you don't want to shell out, a lot of money at the very beginning when you're learning how to do watercolor. Van Gogh is a brand that I recommend to a lot of my students. It's a decent paint for the price.
I also encourage you to get tubes. Rather than pans or cakes. These are the three size of tubes. Most water colors, come in 37, 15 and 5 milliliter tubes. I use a lot of certain colors as you see in the corner.
And what I do is I'll take a little bit of this and I'll squeeze it out and then I will give it a spray. And what I'll do is I'll use my palette knife to then mix it. Make sure that the water and paint are all mixed and get it nice and creamy again so that I can be ready to use it at any time.
When you attend a workshop with a different artist, a lot of them will actually encourage you to buy a particular brand of watercolor paint and that does get expensive but it actually gives you an opportunity to experiment and try different brands and see what you like.
PAINT + PAINT COLORS
There are so many colors out there. I have 20 in front of you and I'll show you my palette so it's just a representation. So this is what I have here. Starts with the Windsor Newton aqua green, neutral-tint which is just a grey tint for that. You can use to tint everything will go through that later.
Windsor Newton blue, cerulean blue, cobalt blue. Ultramarine blue. Over here we start with permanent rose, to the right is bright rose, right violet, pyro, red cobalt, violet, viridian, turquoise, blue green, Windsor Newton transparent yellow in the corner.
And then coming down we have burnt sienna rossi and a yellow ochre, cad yellow deep, cad yellow light and lemon yellow.
Well, that's it for today. Hope that helped a little bit. I would ask if you would please make sure that you share this video if you know of anyone that would like it and subscribe and I will talk to you later. Thank you.
