{"id":307,"date":"2017-05-04T09:47:04","date_gmt":"2017-05-04T14:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/twillpower.com\/thrums\/?p=307"},"modified":"2017-05-04T09:47:04","modified_gmt":"2017-05-04T14:47:04","slug":"daniel-smith-essentials-watercolor-set","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/?p=307","title":{"rendered":"Daniel Smith Essentials Watercolor Set"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Along with steadily filling up the pages of my sketchbooks, my student-grade Cotman watercolor set has been fast disappearing. My\u00a0original original set had ten 8ml tubes and I added three. So far I&#8217;ve emptied five. Several tubes haven&#8217;t appealed to me yet, like white and black. I&#8217;ve been using yellow ochre and burnt umber, but I&#8217;m never happy with the results, probably because they&#8217;re opaque. Opaque muddies the waters, so to speak.<\/p>\n<p>So, with the thought that\u00a0I needed more paint, and I was leaning toward transparent colors, and I wasn&#8217;t using five of the original ten colors, I realized I was in a perfect situation to experiment with artist-quality paints and consider some new colors. So, I purchased Daniel Smith&#8217;s Essentials set.<\/p>\n<p>This teeny set (each tube is 5 ml) has six transparent colors in a split primary palette: two each of red, yellow, and blue. Each of these colors is either warm or cool, which means that instead of &#8220;yellow,&#8221; there&#8217;s a yellow with a hint of green and a yellow with a hint of orange. This makes one cooler and one warmer. It&#8217;s a curious thing that with these six colors, so many combinations can be made.<\/p>\n<p>As it turns out (with the exception of purple), mixing cools with cools and warms with warms gives a crisper, more vibrant color. Crossing the warm with a cool gives a duller color. Mixing three together gives a neutral brown or green\/gray. And when I bravely mixed all six? A steely gray. After having a little fun painting a glazing grid (top left) and doing some initial mixing of greens and warms with warms and cools with cools, I found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.danielsmith.com\/Docs_pdf\/Some-Thoughts-on-Color.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">this wonderful handout from the Daniel Smith company<\/a> on this exact set. I set up a color wheel and gave their mixing a try.\u00a0Someday I&#8217;ll write about the paint as far as painting a sketch and not dabbling with color wheels and charts.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-304\" src=\"http:\/\/twillpower.com\/thrums\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0545.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I also purchased this Mijello Bulletproof Glass Palette&#8211;which isn&#8217;t glass nor bulletproof. It&#8217;s some type of plastic. I like my other Mijello Fusion Palette a lot&#8211;a super lot! Strangely, however, even with using a limited palette, I mix like crazy and wanted a bigger mixing area. Right now, I only have my Daniel Smith colors in it.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-305\" src=\"http:\/\/twillpower.com\/thrums\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0546.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here are the two, side by side:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-306\" src=\"http:\/\/twillpower.com\/thrums\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0547.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"954\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Along with steadily filling up the pages of my sketchbooks, my student-grade Cotman watercolor set has been fast disappearing. My\u00a0original original set had ten 8ml tubes and I added three. So far I&#8217;ve emptied five. Several tubes haven&#8217;t appealed to me yet, like white and black. I&#8217;ve been using yellow ochre and burnt umber, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[380,384],"tags":[356,376],"class_list":["post-307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-watercolor","tag-art","tag-watercolor"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3wmm6-4X","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}