PART 3 - Blues: Color Swatches of EVERY Daniel Smith Watercolor

An opinionated artist's explorations of 200 watercolors made by Daniel Smith. In part three I make color swatches of the blue paints using the color sample dot cards. I also share interesting pigment tidbits and my thoughts about the colors as we go.

Hopefully, this is helpful if you are befuddled by all the color options (and how similar some of them are... spoiler alert, some are nearly identical), want to see how the colors look in action, or are looking for a relaxing half hour of color conversation.

What are your favorite Daniel Smith colors? Share in the comments!!

Paintbrush: an old one from 15 years ago that is no longer manufactured. But it is a filbert shape, which I love for color swatching.

Music licensed from Artlist:
Birds Eye View // Steven Beddall

[elaineg]

This series is SO helpful, Thank you! There’s an artist on etsy that gets the “original” lapis and makes it the way it was made “in the olden days”..it’s QUITE a process and after reading the whole procedure, I can understand why he had a DOT pan for almost $30. He’s in the Netherlands and according to my best friend, (retired art professor), he’s the only one making it from “Fra Angelico” in the same way it was made by “Cennino Cennini”. The shop is Dirty Blue Shop. Liz said when her daughter goes to the Netherlands this Summer, she’s going to try and get some. I was just surprised at the process and wonder what all these others are selling and how they’re actually processing it. It’s MUCH more pigmented than DS.

[laurahale]

I just now found these, so I'm bingeing! Thank you Claire, they're really helpful.