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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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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I wonder how others feel about Rembrandt watercolours? I got my first set professional from them 5 years ago. It served me well, but eh... It's a bit weird regarding to its approach to pigments. Or is it just me lol.
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Regard to Daniel Smith Genuine minerals range. The amethyst and the piemontite gave the best layering, but the jadeite and serpentine are not really worthy of its price. Sometimes it even feels like, I'd get better texture by scraping some ground dirt off the driveway*.
*I've done it before, the result was amazing.
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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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This is the more indepth choices I made. [https://www.kimcrick.com/pages/top-lightfast-watercolor-pigments] is a superb guide, I added all the Daniel Smith mineral genuines for the texture, as well as Opera Pink for specific needs. The Opera Pink will be the end of me. I'm missing a good PO48 and a good Pbk26 due to availability, but it shouldn't be a huge issue until Halloween.
There are some really good UV database (see @LanaArts), but south hemisphere sun is brutaller by a lot.
A list of lightfast pigments that I highly recommend for watercolor painting. These colors are what I use most often in my palette. They are versatile for a wide variety of subject matter as well as capable of creating unique granulating and color separating mixtures for visual interest. It's important to me that these
🐱Orange🧡Braincell🐱
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