New paint set for Christmas. It’s Steve Mitchell’s landscape collection for MaimeriBlu, an Italian watercolor company. I love the earthy colors and the combinations they make.
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End results! The left one will be filed, the upper right one will be shoved outside for a year for fading test, and lower right one is just a mix text for texture/separation.

In the end this palette required 27 single pigment common colours + white gouache. I think it's the minimum required for a decent palette, mostly via the advice of Kim Crick. The exception being Opera Pink.

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I think, ultimately I'd say MaimeriBlu is the opposite of Winsor and Newton. W&N is expensive, incredible quality control, you know exactly what you are getting, and replicable result every time. MaimeriBlu is the opposite of that, and I like watercolour precisely because I live for the serendipity.

Anyway, this is all personal taste. I do recommend everyone to be making their own pans out of tubes though.

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Some swatch comment.

So I primarily got Daniel Smith because I like granulation, and avoided MaimeriBlu due to its reputation of being too artisan (or less politely, notoriously unreliable). I wish I did it the other way round. The MaimeriBlu has the powerful layering of texture that's nothing like any other watercolour I used. Damn. A bit late now. Oh well, there will always be next time.

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Les trois premières couleurs à acheter en #aquarelle : les trois primaires… Oui mais quelles sont les primaires chez les différentes marques ? Voici les réponses chez #Blocks, #DalerRowney, #DanielSmith, #Isaro, #LukasFarben, #MaimeriBlu, #QoRWatercolors, #RoyalTalens, #Schmincke, #Sennelier, #WhiteNights et #WinsorAndNewton

➡️ https://peinture.nissone.com/2022/02/quelles-couleurs-primaires-a-l-aquarelle/

Quelles couleurs primaires à l'aquarelle ? - Blog artistique de Delphine M.

Guide pour retrouver les couleurs primaires dans les différentes gammes et marques d’aquarelle. Comme on le sait, on peut obtenir toutes les couleurs dont on a besoin ou presque rien qu’avec les trois couleurs primaires. Il est donc conseillé, notamment quand on commence et qu’on ne sait justement pas par où commencer, d’avoir dans sa […]

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