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Counting down the last few days until the FREE Watercolor 101 Webinar with Molly Murrah!

Deborah Burns — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 23:34:52 +0000

Molly Murrah Watercolor 101 Webinar - Spring

I talked with Molly Murrah again last night about the FREE Watercolor 101 Webinar with creativeLive and sponsored by DANIEL SMITH, to find out more about the first week’s class coming up on Friday, July 30, 2010. The first week’s class (of 5 weeks) is “Why Watercolor?”

Molly will be talking about why watercolor is such an incredible art medium to work with. She will talk about its’ unpredictability, its’ transparency, luminosity and how exciting it is to paint with watercolors. The surprises that happen when painting with watercolors are thrilling and the tension between control and surprise are part of what makes painting with watercolors so much fun!

Molly Murrah painting - from the previous webinar

Molly will be talking about setting up a workspace and palette. She’ll briefly go over watercolor paints, brushes, and other ancillary supplies that are helpful in watercolor painting. In the coming weeks she will be going over the supplies in more depth.

Week 1 – Why Watercolor?
Week 2 – Paints and Colors.
Week 3 – Papers and Brushes.
Week 4 – Drawing and Composition.
Week 5 – The Fun Stuff!

Molly will share photos of paintings by different watercolor artists’ and talk about them, their techniques and what makes their work interesting and beautiful.

Molly Murrah at the creativeLIVE Video Studio for last Springs' Watercolor 101 Webinar

So if you have been wondering about trying watercolors, are self-taught (and learning like me) or are interested in learning more about watercolors from another artist/instructor, this live webinar will be a fun and cool way to do it!

Be sure to sign up, remember the Live Webinar is FREE!

Come for Fun, Information and Inspiration!

I’m getting excited for Friday, are you?

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** Photos courtesy of Molly Murrah

DANIEL SMITH Cadmium Orange Hue Watercolor with Video!

Deborah Burns — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 23:34:15 +0000

Cadmium Orange Hue Extra Fine Watercolor by DANIEL SMITH

We’ve done it! Safe, Vibrant Cadmium Hue Watercolors!

Our DANIEL SMITH Cadmium Orange Hue Extra Fine Watercolor (the best watercolor for Artists’) is A deep, radiant orange that leans slightly towards red, with all of best qualities of Cadmium Orange but better!

We have developed our New Cadmium Hue Watercolors to replace our cadmiums with safer formulas that provide all the density and richness of classic cadmium colors. Our hues are virtually identical in color to their namesakes, but cleaner in mixtures and stronger in tints, a little goes a long way. Our Cadmium Hues working properties (staining power, semi-transparency and excellent light fastness) are also nearly identical to those of the low-soluble cadmium colors we previously offered.

Click here to view the embedded video.

You’ll notice on the tube that our Cadmium Orange Hue is labeled as a mix of three pigments, but because of a process called “co-precipitation“, the three pigments are essentially melded together and the result acts as a single pigment. In this case, it is not true that 1 + 1 + 1 = 3, but rather 1 +1+ 1 = 1. This is a reason why our Cad Orange Hue is brighter than a mix of multiple pigments would usually be.

On our DANIEL SMITH Color Map, you can see how far out on the peripheral our Cadmium Orange Hue (#177) which means it is very bright, because of it’s higher chroma.

Our Cadmium Orange Hue has an excellent lightfast rating, is a semi-transparent, and low-staining, non-granulating watercolor.

ASTM Lightfastness Rating: Excellent
Transparency: Semi-transparent
Staining: Low-staining
Granulating: No

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DANIEL SMITH Cadmium Red Scarlet Hue Watercolor with Video!

Deborah Burns — Fri, 28 May 2010 23:57:37 +0000

Cadmium Red Scarlet Hue Watercolor by DANIEL SMITH

We’ve done it! Safe, Vibrant Cadmium Hue Watercolors!

Our DANIEL SMITH Cadmium Red Scarlet Hue Extra Fine Watercolor (the best watercolor for Artists’) is a warm red with a bit of orange that has all of the best qualities of Cadmium Red Scarlet, but better!

Click here to view the embedded video.

You will notice on the tube that our Cadmium Red Scarlet Hue is labeled as a mix of three pigments, but because of a process called “co-precipitation“, the three pigments are essentially melded together and the result acts as a single pigment. In this case, it is not true that 1 + 1 +1 = 3, but rather 1 +1 + 1 = 1. This is one reason why our Cad Red Scarlet Hue is brighter than a mix of multiple pigments would usually be.

On our DANIEL SMITH Color Map, you can see how far out on the peripheral our Cadmium Red Scarlet Hue is (#179) which means it is very bright, because of it’s higher chroma.

Our Cadmium Red scarlet Hue has an excellent lightfast rating, is a semi-transparent, and low-staining, non-granulating watercolor.

ASTM Lightfastness Rating: Excellent
Transparency: Semi-transparent
Staining: Low-staining
Granulating: No

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Buy One, Get One FREE Limited Time Special on DANIEL SMITH Watercolor Sticks in Indanthrone Blue and New Gamboge, with “How To” Tips Video Painting Pansies

Deborah Burns — Thu, 27 May 2010 15:09:34 +0000

Indanthrone Blue & New Gamboge Watercolor Sticks with Pansies painted from them

For a *Limited Time* we are having a “Buy One, Get One FREE” Special with our DANIEL SMITH Extra Fine Watercolor Sticks, The Best Watercolor Sticks! So two of our wonderful Watercolor Sticks: Indanthone Blue & New Gamboge for the price of one…a great way to try them out or add to your collection. [ Sorry, this *Limited Time* Special ended July 21, 2010 ]

Our Watercolor Sticks are made by hand from the same pigment as our DANIEL SMITH Extra Fine Watercolors, they are just pigment and minimal binder, no waxes or clay, so the pigment releases cleanly into luminous color. You can paint with them just as you would with pan watercolors, PLUS you can draw with them expanding your Artistic Expression! These are VERY portable, perhaps for some journaling, or for Plein Air!

I have a video here so you can see a Demonstration with tips on using our DANIEL SMITH Watercolor Sticks as I paint out some Pansies using our Indanthrone Blue and New Gamboge.

Click here to view the embedded video.

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Remember this is a *Limited Time* Special, so don’t miss out!

[ Sorry, this *Limited Time* Special ended July 21, 2010 ]

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Luscious Summer Colors in our New Fuchsia Watercolor Triad by DANIEL SMITH!

Deborah Burns — Thu, 27 May 2010 05:19:31 +0000

Fuchsia Watercolor Triad by DANIEL SMITH

Enjoy a bounty of Fuchsia Flowers to add to your summer palette with our new Fuchsia Triad by DANIEL SMITH: Artists’ Materials!

Our Fuchsia Triad is made up from our Extra Fine Watercolors: Quinacridone Fuchsia (of course!) Cobalt Violet and Terre Verte, a great way to add more colors to your existing palette at a great price. Our Fuchsia Triad is $18.95 which means you save $12.83 when you buy the Triad rather than the tubes individually, this special includes FREE Shipping and is for a Limited Time only!

You can watch video of the individual colors (Quin Fuchsia, Cobalt Voilet and Terre Verte) and see the line drawing of our Fuchsia Triad Painting Project at this link.

	Cobalt Violet, embodies the softness of flower petals with its slightly granulating texture and lustrous finish. With a truly transparent quality, this light purple radiates in light washes. This delicate pigment comes alive at full strength and, because it is completely non-staining, highlights can be added and strokes reworked. Combine with Terre Verte for a useful neutral for shadow and shade.
	Quinacridone Fuchsia, is a necessary watercolor for painters who embrace color. Enjoy a brilliant, slightly violet, red. Never bashful, Quinacridone Fuchsia remains strong even when mixed with water. Your light washes will be bold and, at full strength, few paints can compare to the uncompromising richness of Quinacridone Fuchsia. Completely transparent and satiny smooth, this radiant watercolor is sure to become a staple on your palette.
	Terre Verte, is a deep, moody green with a slight blue bias. This rich color is a nice counterpart to flashy floral subjects. Set off your bright flowers with a deep green backdrop of leaves and add strength in shadows with just a touch of this rich pigment. Try mixing Terre Verte and Quinacridone Fuchsia for a full range of unique hues from deep grape to midnight green.

9 Square Paintout for the Fuchsia Watercolor Triad by DANIEL SMITH

This 9 Square Paintout shows the 3 pure colors on the diagonal: Cobalt Violet (CV), Quin Fuchsia (QF), and Terre Verte (TV). The 3 adjacent squares on the lower left are the 3 mixed together in pairs on a palette then painted in the squares, example: Cobalt Violet with Terre Vert on the lower left corner square. The 3 adjacent squares on the upper right are the 3 colors allowed to mix together in pairs on the square, example: Cobalt Violet into Terre Verte – upper right corner square.

…..CV….CV&QF…CV&TV

CV&QF…….QF……QF&TV

CV&TV….QF&TV….TV….

Click here to view the embedded video.

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Have ”Fuchsia Fun”!

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~Deborah Burns

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DANIEL SMITH Cadmium Red Medium Hue Watercolor with Video!

Deborah Burns — Fri, 21 May 2010 20:30:09 +0000

Cadmium Red Medium Hue Extra Fine Watercolor by DANIEL SMITH

Our DANIEL SMITH Cadmium Red Medium Hue Extra Fine Watercolor (the best watercolor for Artists’) is a true stop sign red with all of best qualities of Cadmium Red Medium, but better!

We have developed our safe, vibrant New Cadmium Hue Watercolors to replace our cadmiums with formulas that provide all the density and richness of classic cadmium colors. Our hues are virtually identical in color to their namesakes, but cleaner in mixtures and stronger in tints, a little goes a long way. Our new Cadmium Red Medium Hue, is just slightly different since Cadmium Red Medium is naturally a little brownish, and we did not want to replicate that muddiness. Our Cadmium Hues working properties (staining power, semi-transparency and excellent light fastness) are also nearly identical to those of the low-soluble cadmium colors we previously offered.

Click here to view the embedded video.

You will notice on the tube that the Cadmium Red Medium Hue is labeled as a mix of two pigments, but because of a process called “co-precipitation“, the two pigments are essentially melded together and the result acts as a single pigment. In this case, it is not true that 1 + 1 = 2, but rather 1 +1 = 1. This is a reason why our Cad Red Med Hue is brighter than a mix of multiple pigments would usually be.

On our DANIEL SMITH Color Map, you can see how far out on the peripheral our Cadmium Red Medium Hue (#178) which means it is very bright, because of it’s higher chroma.

Our Cadmium Red Medium Hue has an excellent lightfast rating, is a semi-transparent, and low-staining, non-granulating watercolor.

ASTM Lightfastness Rating: Excellent
Transparency: Semi-transparent
Staining: Low-staining
Granulating: No

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DANIEL SMITH Catalog Cover Artist Joel Patience: Turning Lemons into Lemon Yellow Watercolor!

Deborah Burns — Wed, 19 May 2010 21:05:34 +0000

Artist Joel Patience holding a copy of his Watercolor "Gelati Stop" used on the Cover of the DANIEL SMITH Summer Catalog

A remarkable thing about Joel Patience, our DANIEL SMITH Art Supply Summer 2010 Catalog Cover Artist, is that he never intended on becoming an Artist, and only picked up a paint brush about 5 years ago. Five years later, and Joel has been selling his Art, has a brand new Artist website [ JoelPatience-Watercolors ] AND now, Joels’ watercolor painting “Gelati Stop” is on the cover of our DS Catalog!

In 2004-05, Joel became the victim of two car accidents within months of one another that left him, along with other severe injuries, with only limited use of his hands. Joel’s wife Dale suggested the two of them take a watercolor painting class as an activity that they could do together, and that might help with rehabilitating Joel’s hands.

Joel told me that as it turned out, watercolor is great as a hobby, low impact and compared to other hobbies, not to too expensive. So they signed up for a watercolor painting class offered by Joan Archer, near their home in Edmonds, a small town 20 miles north of Seattle. Every Tuesday night then became a “date night” for them both, and Art Therapy for Joel as they learned to paint with Watercolor. Time spent watercolor painting helped him slowly regain full use of his hands, and Joel turned the lemons that the accidents left him with into Lemon Yellow Watercolor!

These watercolor classes lead to meeting a diverse group of professional women (mostly) who then became good friends. This “core group” of watercolor friends began painting and traveling together, and eventually they took a trip to Italy together. Joel sold his first painting, still-wet-with-paint, while on that first trip to Italy to two vacationing ladies who were watching him painting. Joel is now planning his 3rd trip to Italy with Dale and his painting group, AND learning Italian!

Joel Patience's watercolor painting: "Gelati Stop" on the cover of the DANIEL SMITH: Artists' Materials Summer 2010 Catalog

Joel used to do drafting professionally as an urban planner, and today likes to do fairly involved sketches before working with his watercolors. Joel often paints landscapes that include buildings, so this skill helps a great deal as you can see in Joel’s DS Catalog Cover painting “Gelati Stop“. This scene is from one of the beautiful Cinque Terre Villages in Italy. When he isn’t plein air painting, Joel will often do a field sketch, take photos and work on paintings later. Joel only paints from his own experiences (except for commission work) so every painting has a great memory. He sometimes enjoys including a little “funny” or visual joke in the paintings, which he calls a “divertimento” (Italian for: “amusement, entertainment, enjoyment…laugh”) in his paintings, although “Gelati Stop” is one without a divertimento.

I met with Joel last month in charming Downtown Edmonds at the Starbucks (where else!) across from the Edmonds Fountain, so we could see his work on display nearby at Semantics Gallery which recently began representing Joel. We also strolled over to the local Coldwell Banker Real Estate office to see a large collection of his work on display for the month of April. A couple of weeks later we met again at the Seattle DANIEL SMITH Art Supply Store after he had finished up with an interview with “Chat with Women” Talk Radio Show. Joel has been giving multiple interviews recently sharing his story, and you can watch his very interesting King 5 TV interview here.

It was fun meeting Joel, and hearing his inspiring story of how he has turned two tragic, life changing accidents into a wonderful new professional opportunity. Joel also told me that one of the best things is the relationships he has developed along with this new passion. I asked Joel what his favorite DANIEL SMITH Watercolor color is, and he told me it is Cobalt Teal Blue…a perfect color for the sunny blue skies ahead for Joel!

Grazie Joel!

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DANIEL SMITH Yellow Cadmium Deep Hue Watercolor with Video

Deborah Burns — Fri, 14 May 2010 01:03:11 +0000

Cadmium Yellow Deep Hue Watercolor by DANIEL SMITH

We’ve done it! Safe, Vibrant Cadmium Hue Watercolors!

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Our DANIEL SMITH Cadmium Yellow Deep Hue Extra Fine Watercolor (the best watercolor for Artists’) is a rich, warm yellow with all of best qualities of Cadmium Yellow Deep, but better!

We have developed our New Cadmium Hue Watercolors to replace our cadmiums with formulas that provide all the density and richness of classic cadmium colors. Our hues are virtually identical in color to their namesakes, but cleaner in mixtures and stronger in tints, a little goes a long way. Our Cadmium Hues working properties (staining power, semi-transparency and excellent light fastness) are also nearly identical to those of the low-soluble cadmium colors we previously offered.

Click here to view the embedded video.

Cadmium Yellow Deep Hue is labeled on the tube as a mix of two pigments, but because of a process called “co-precipitation“, the two pigments are essentially melded together and the result acts as a single pigment. In this case, it is not true that 1 + 1 = 2, but rather 1 +1 = 1. This is a reason why our Cadmium Yellow Deep Hue is brighter than a mix of multiple pigments would usually be.

On our DANIEL SMITH Color Map, you can see how our Cad Yellow Deep Hue (#180) is further out on the peripheral than Cad Yellow Deep (#37) which means it is brighter (higher chroma) more vibrant… better!

Our Cadmium Yellow Deep Hue has an excellent lightfast rating, is a semi-transparent, and non-staining, non-granulating watercolor.

ASTM Lightfastness Rating: Excellent
Transparency: Semi-transparent
Staining: non-staining
Granulating: No

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Why Replace Cadmium with Cadmium Hues? Introducing our New DANIEL SMITH Cadmium Hues for Watercolor!

Deborah Burns — Tue, 11 May 2010 15:10:52 +0000

Introducing Four New DANIEL SMITH Watercolor Cadmium Hues

Why replace Cadmiums with Cadmium Hues?

We wanted to make better, safer alternative colors for Artists. We have made our New DANIEL SMITH Watercolor Cadmium Hues better than the Cadmiums, with increased opacity and greater vibrancy, with out the potential toxicity concerns associated with Cadmiums.

Cadmium paint colors, were developed in the early 19th & 20th centuries to replace earlier, impermanent (fugitive) yellows, oranges and reds, and improving Artists’ palette of colors. Now after development, beginning in 2000, we have produced some more great alternatives and improvements to Cadmium watercolor paints – our Cadmium Hues. We wanted to make sure they met our high standards, and we had them perfect for our Artists!

Here at DANIEL SMITH, we are all about making the Best Watercolors for Artists so we are constantly developing new colors and improving others (if needed) for our Artists.

We now have 4 new Cadmium Hues:

Cadmium Yellow Deep Hue - Blog post with Video
Cadmium Orange Hue - Blog post with Video
Cadmium Red Scarlet Hue - Blog post with Video
Cadmium Red Medium Hue - Blog post with Video

We earlier introduced our Cadmium Yellow Light Hue (Reference Catalog 2007-08) and Cadmium Yellow Med Hue (Reference Catalog 2006-07). These are called Cadmium “Hues” because they are not made with Cadmium metal compounds. Instead they are new, alternative pigments substituting for the Cadmium pigments.

These 4 new Cadmium Hues are special because they are more opaque, dense and even more important, more vibrant than the original Cadmiums. They are more vibrant because they have brighter chroma than Cadmiums, and you can see that by their location further out on the peripheral on our DANIEL SMITH Colormap. Three of our new Cadmium Hues are essentially identical to their Cadmium counterparts, and the 4th, Cadmium Red Medium Hue, is just slightly different since it is naturally a little brownish, and we did not want to replicate that muddiness.

Slide show of our 4 new Hues:

Click here to view the embedded video.

Because of the way these pigments are manufactured, a process called co-precipitation, they are essentially single pigments, even though on the label they are listed with what looks like more than one pigment. In this case, it is not true that 1+1+1= 3, but rather 1+1+1= 1, essentially a “single” pigment due to the co-precipitation manufacturing process. This is one reason why the New Cadmium Hues have brighter chroma and increased opacity, than the regular Cadmiums paints have.

You can see on our Colormap, that the colors further out on the peripheral of the Colormap sphere are more vibrant (higher chroma) than those closer towards the center. You can see for yourself where some of the Cadmiums are and, where our New Cadmium Hues are on the Colormap. Put your mouse on the number (the number in ( ) when you are at the Colormap) to see the name of the color and notice its’ location on the Colormap. I have listed the number of each Cadmium and Cadmium Hue color below in ( ) so you can more easily find them.

Cadmium Yellow Light (no location on Colormap)
Cadmium Yellow Light Hue, #16 (ref-cat 2007-08)
Cadmium Yellow Med (discontinued)
Cadmium Yellow Med Hue, #30 (Ref-Cat 2006-07)
Cadmium Yellow Deep, #37
Cadmium Yellow Deep Hue, #180 (NEW)

Cadmium Orange, #44 (discontinued)
Cadmium Orange Hue , #177 (NEW)

Cadmium Red Scarlet, #52
Cadmium Red Scarlet Hue, #179 (NEW)
Cadmium Red Med, #53 (discontinued)
Cadmium Red Med Hue, #178 (NEW)
Cadmium Red Deep, #93 (discontinued)

We have worked hard to manufacture better Cadmium Colors for our Artists by developing our New Cadmium Hues. We know that once you have tried them for yourself, you will see that these are an improvement on the Cadmium watercolors!

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Mary Shea: “Arrivals and Departures” Art Opening this Saturday at the DANIEL SMITH Seattle Store Gallery

Deborah Burns — Thu, 06 May 2010 23:18:48 +0000

"Arrivals & Departures" by Mary Shea at the DANIEL SMITH Art Gallery

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~Special Event~

Gallery Art Opening at the Seattle DANIEL SMITH Art Supply Store

Saturday, May 8th

3pm to 6pm

Show: now through June 6th

“Arrivals and Departures”

Paintings, Monotypes, & Pastels

Mary Shea

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Artists Statement:

“I began this airport series two years ago because I wanted to include the figure in my work again. I had a sketchbooks from a recent year in which I flew across the country at least five times and did a lot of waiting and drawing other people waiting in airports. I used the sketchbook drawings as the starting point for these paintings and prints.”

“I like how airports look. Even the windows and chairs, the long corridors and the vast spaces hold familiar emotions that I recognize when I start to draw.”

-Mary Shea 2010

Prior to writing, this I walked the gallery now hung with Mary’s lush and gorgeous paintings. While enjoying the paintings, I was struck by how Mary has transformed what most would consider a mundane subject, the tiresome limbo of waiting at an airport, into one of expressive beauty.

The opening is this Saturday, and the show will be up through June 6th.

Next time you come to the Seattle Store, be sure to visit the Gallery! The paintings can be viewed during regular store hours, except when the Gallery is being used for one of our scheduled workshops or demos.

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