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| New Daniel Smith colours. Photo from Daniel Smith (http://www.danielsmith.com/content--id-871) |
It takes a little while for new colours to arrive in Australia but here they are - the new Daniel Smith colours released in 2017.
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| Daniel Smith Aussie Red Gold, Rose Madder Permanent (note this also has PR202), Quinacridone Lilac and Wisteria. |
I've photographed my painted swatches but getting accurate colour reproduction is not easy. The Aussie Red Gold is more orange than it looks here - rather like a PY110 yellow - you can see it better in the photograph above. It's a lovely 3-pigment mixed orange-yellow that really glows. It uses the same pigments as the Art Spectrum Australian Red Gold. It creates extraordinary greens when mixed with blues - I've shown some mixes in little videos on Instagram (Janeblundellart)
Quinacridone Lilac PR122 is known as Quinacridone Magenta in many brands, Purple Magenta in Schmincke, as is a very welcome DS colour by all those who like to work with a CYM palette is PR122 is a fabulous primary red. It painted out beautifully. While I prefer to use Quinacridone Rose for the job of mixing gorgeous purples, I am really glad to see this pigment in the DS range.
Wisteria is made with PR122 and white.
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| Daniel Smith Lavender, Raw Sienna Light, Burnt Sienna LIght and Payne's Blue Grey. |
Raw Sienna Light is a single pigment PY42 yellow earth. It looks a little warmer in the flesh than this painted sample. (See photo above again)
Burnt Sienna Light is a mix of PR101 and PO48 - transparent red oxide and quinacridone burnt orange. It was released as part of the Alvaro set in 5ml tubes but is now available in the larger 15ml tubes. It looks a little more earthy in real life than this photo.
Payne's Blue Grey is fairly accurate in hue. It uses the same mix of pigments as DS Indigo - Indanthrone Blue and black. Many Payne's greys are made with Phthalo blue and a black pigment.
New colours are always fun to explore. Happy painting :-)
I bought the Quin Lilac and Rose Madder Permanent as the rest are mixes that I can mix myself. Love the Lavendar and Wisteria.
ReplyDeleteI really like the Quin Lilac as I've been hoping for a good magenta and none of the other D.S. colors really pleased me. I was going to buy the Schmincke until Daniel Smith released this. I may be substituting this into my palette in place of the Quin Rose, I haven't decided yet.
The Rose Madder Permanent is three pigments: PR 209 Quinacridone Yellow Red, PV 19 Quinacridone Red, PR 202 Quinacridone Magenta. I think it is still too pink.I think it lacks that slightly coral undertone. I've looked into mixing just a tad of Quin Gold but I still haven't hit it just right but am close. Closer than when I was trying to mix my own from scratch. I may try it with a tiny bit of some of the other yellows.
I was working with Rhodonite so there would be granulation and some lifting. I tried mixing in a bit of Monte Amiata and then tried it with a tad of Verona Gold but I never got it quite right.
I like the look of the Raw Sienna light and may try that next.
It does rather depend which version of a rose madder you start with - the DS or the W&N as they are very different. I'll show them both in my next blog post.
DeleteI am also pleased that DS now has a PR122. I have that pigment in just about every brand as I was using it as my cool red, but since I almost always have a crimson, I switched to Quin Rose simply because I prefer the colour on its own - I see more 'rose' colour in the world than 'magenta' colour so it made more sense to me as a cool red. Whether magenta is better for you may also depend whether you use phthalo green BS or YS - PR122 neutralises with YS.
Thanks for that info on the PhthGr.
DeleteI wanted to try a stripped down palette of CYM but couldn't find three I liked. I think with the PR122 I can now. I want to use it to mix with rather than a straight color.
The Rose Madder Genuine I've been using as a control is Schmincke as that was the only one I could get at the time. I think I may have a small half pan of vintage W&N in rose madder genuine but I'd have to look. Tonight I played a bit and I think I have something I like by adding just a tiny bit of Permanent Yellow Deep. I'll work out some proportions later. It doesn't quite granulate like the RMG but it does appear to lift OK.
I may still play with the primateks and see if I can come up with something using rhodonite as a base but for now, I'm happy to have the new PR122 and Rose Madder Permanent.
Do you happen to know if the new Raw Sienna Light makes a green when mixed with blue? I seem to recall you (or someone) saying that for sunset skies using Raw Sienna instead of Yellow Ochre would prevent the sky turning green. I really like the new Raw Sienna Light but not if it's going to go green in my sky when it hits a bit of blue.
Raw Sienna Light will go greenish - it is a yellow pigment after all. Not a strong green, but greenish - I have posted a photo up on Instagram and you can see the greenish greys or greyish greens. If you use a raw sienna made with a PBr7 raw sienna pigment it will tend to go grey rather than green - certainly that's what DS raw sienna does with ultramarine.
DeleteThe only Schmincke Rose Madder I have is the hue - I'd be interested in what the Schmincke genuine version looks like compared with the W&N and the DS - I didn't know they even made one!
DeleteI bought it a few years ago, possibly from the UK or even amazon.de I don't remember, but I believe it may have been old stock. It is a whole pan, not a tube. Compared to the new Daniel Smith Rose Madder Permanent it has a warmer tone with maybe the slightest orange in comparison, but only slight. It also granulates nicely. I'll look to see if I have anything else that is genuine rose madder. I've bought a few vintage palettes off the internet, some with paints inside. I know I lucked into a few older New Gamboge, probably PY153, but don't remember on the rose madder. They would all be whole or half pans, no tubes.
DeleteI'll make some swatches of what I find and put a post on my blogspot and leave you a link. Can't guarantee true colors what with the internet and monitors but you can at least compare across.
All I can say is that while the new Daniel Smith permanent version is very pretty, it lacks that slight yellow/orange undertone that the genuine has and the granulation. To me it just seems to be a colder pink than the real thing.
Have a look at my next post with the DS Rose Madder Genuine and the W&N Rose Madder Genuine - so different!
DeleteBeautiful colours and u have done so many swatches of most of the brands it is a bench mark for me to choose colours from ur blog . . .
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