Which Cool Blue Do You Prefer? | #watercolor #blues #shorts

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[liul]

Prussian blue is one of my favorite colors all together

[mar-k]

I think I can tell which one you prefer from those tubes at the end!

[rachelvasquez]

Thank you for teaching color mixing. This is so helpful!😊

[Tastykake]

Prussian blue has such depth tho i love it i use it so much...
I really love these kind of informative videos. They really are the only way i can learn about art. Im a 40 year old woman who has spent all of my adult life in abusive situation, and i can finally focus on art. Like ive always wanted to, but never could. I do a little bit everyday. And these videos are how i am learning the technical part of it all. It means so much to so many of us that artists are willing to share their knowledge and skills with us...❤❤❤ thank you! From the bottom of my heart!

[nadeaner.cowley]

Prussian blue is fugitive tho:( many artists have made videos about Prussian being fugitive. Unfortunate since it's a beautiful color:(

[daydreamerjim]

God this one's so hard. Prussian Blue is such a beautiful colour and I love more muted tones, but there's such a liveliness to the colour mixes of Phthalo Blue 🤤 I'd probably say Phthalo Blue is my fave to mix with but Prussian by itself

[SK-gktx]

LOVE granulating colors. I prefer BOTH, 😁.

[whatifitnt]

Prussian Blue… I love the granulation 💗

[bellas_undead]

I love both blues, but I do prefer Prussian blue more. Plus, if you mix Prussian blue with gamboge, you get Hooker’s Green, which I use for nature settings.

[handmadehearts]

Kris your phthalo blue tube looks quite used. The Prussian blue tube looks new. I guess the phthalo blue 🔵 is your favorite?

[Grognardlass]

I use both. As you said, they each have their characteristics. Have you mixed them with a Cerulean? Delicious mixes.
I’m trying to put a larger palette full of colors I love together, but the whole cool vs warm thing just sends my head spinning.
Just no.
I feel I’m making mixes intuitively, trying not to be too concerned about the pigment numbers in the moment. I also feel like I’m in an endless sea of swatching tho — my favorite thing to do — but I want to move on so I can just paint for the fun of it. Looking at the swatches does make me happy. Thanks for this 🌺🦩

[uttampreetsingh]

Please explain about this codes too... What its mean 27,

[silvanacecchini]

I absolutely love your videos. I’ve been painting in watercolour for a long time, yet I learn something new almost every time.

[SomethingImpromptu]

Both wonderful pigments. I can’t really pick favorites between them, because I find them quite different & both have strengths & weaknesses. If I want to create a really vibrant, staining flat underwash & then create texture over it with a very granulating pigment, like lunar black, then pthalo blue or a quinacridone is ideal IMO. BUT If I want a vibrant, powerful cool blue neutral enough that I can mix both purple & greens with it (limiting myself to that one blue for easier color harmony) then Prussian blue is really nice. I like the mixed you can achieve with both. If I’m going as bright electric lime green as I can then I’d choose pthalo.

It’s interesting to me how different Prussian Blue seems on acrylics than watercolor, at least based on my experiences with Golden fluid acrylic Prussian Blue. Moreso than with most colors. In watercolor I feel like it almost has a dye-like character, where it’s just such an overwhelming blue (I definitely prefer using it as a mixing color, whereas for a pure blue for skies or water or something like that I’ll go with cerulean, cobalt, or an ultramarine, in some cases even a watered down indigo— something a little lower-key)… But in the acrylics I’ve tried of it, Prussian Blue has reminded me more of Indanthrone Blue in watercolor. It has this very soft, smokey, mystical, mysterious sort of quality & I can really enjoy it in its own.

Honestly based on my experiences I never would’ve thought to characterize it as a cool blue; I’ve always felt it was so deep, like a denim blue, & well-suited to mixing purples moreso than greens. But maybe it’s a quirk of the brands I’ve happened to try or something. It looks warm to me in mass tone, cooler in dilution. But both great colors.

[cylianmariette]

i love prussian blue :-) they worked really well when i try to sketch something and use blue for shadow underpainting ❤

[sujanithtottempudi]

I think prussian blue can be mimicked by cobalt blue if iam not wrong...but no substitute for pthalo blue. so i would go with pthalo blue for brighter greens

[cheryllapham]

I love Prussian blue but worry that it can be transient, so I use Mayan blue instead. I keep phthalos off my landscape palette because they’re too powerful and staining. I tend to mess up when I use it for Plein air. However, for pouring, phthalo is incredibly vibrant and transparent.

[TaraSueSalusso]

I have them both and use them very frequently, but I have to say I like the Prussian blue best.

[Lea-zflm]

I like both but have a penchant for Prussian blue 😊

[NicoleLan]

I adore Prussian Blue but I think you're about to hear from a lot of people who say it is NOT lightfast, in a strange way