New Winsor & Newton Supplies

Last month I won three tubes of Artist quality Winsor & Newton watercolors, a Series 7 W&N brush and a spiral bound 5" x 7" sketchbook of 300gsm cold pressed watercolor paper. Really, I never win anything and since I won two gifts of paint in one month I'm taking it as a sign to keep painting and putting myself out there. Hey, my motto is Just Add Water Silly after all. ;o)

The three colors included are French Ultramarine, Alizarin Crimson and Burnt Sienna. I have been jonesing to try W&N Burnt Sienna since I found out it's transparent. I don't really love my Daniel Smith Burnt Sienna and I find DS Quin Burnt Orange too, well, orange, lol. 

The information about these colors is in the 1/2 pan painting below. I found that the French Ultramarine worked much like the Daniel Smith and Schmincke. I don't have Alizarin Crimson in my palette. When I went to create a palette I originally didn't add any fugitive colors. Aliz.Crimson is slightly fugitive but I've learned from a good friend, Tracey, that if you mix permanent colors with fugitive colors it makes the fugitives much more permanent. I'll be adding this color along with the Burnt Sienna to my palette.

The Burnt Sienna is the best find EVER. Yes it has a little less strength than the Daniel Smith Burnt Sienna or Quin Burnt Orange but the best part about it is it's NOT too orange AND it's TRANSPARENT!! I was so surprised to fall in love with this color. As I've mentioned above, Burnt Sienna and it's ilk have been the bane of my existence. Until now I hadn't found one I liked. It's such a great mixer so I really wanted to love a Burnt Sienna, now I do!

I used only the three colors above to paint these blueberries. It worked well as I could make a Payne's Grey with Burnt Sienna + Ultramarine. I could also make a version of PB60 (Indanthrone blue) with the same colors. I achieved a reasonable purple with Ultramarine + Alizarin Crimson.

These are great professional paints and I'm thrilled to have discovered the Burnt Sienna, it was love at first sight & meant to be. In fact, I've already emptied the tube! My full pan is only half full because I have use so much of my new Winsor & Newton Burnt Sienna. I'll have to save my pennies for another tube. I never want to be without this color!

I'll be putting up a review of the Series 7 No. 4 brush and the W&N watercolor paper that was part of this set very soon.

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