What's Inside: Holbein Botanical Art Set
Yuko Nagayama's "You Can Paint Vibrant Watercolors in Twelve Easy Lessons" was my very first watercolor book and I picked it up thinking the lessons would be doable with any watercolor set. The art books I owned at the time, mostly about drawing, all start with recommended supplies but very few would name particular brands, and so I didn't expect it would matter so much with following Yuko's lessons. All I had was a Winsor and Newton Cotman Sketcher's Pocket Box and I set off with the apple exercise, all eager and optimistic.
As you can probably predict from the gist of my first paragraph, I was wrong. I have written a review of the book in another post, but long story short, I decided to reduce my variables by purchasing a Holbein watercolor set. I'd previously heard many great things about Holbein and the set that seemed most sensible was the Botanical Art Set, which I got from ArtWhale.ph for Php 2,500.
Because I really only use it to follow tutorials from artists who use Holbein, I'm destashing them in my filled palettes, available from my Shop here. Don't get me wrong, Holbein is amazing, but right now, I am doing Anna Mason exercises and she references Winsor & Newton and Daniel Smith, and I'm scared my Holbein will just dry up before I use them all up. If you have books from Yuko Nagayama and want to focus on following her technique, an idea is to just get Holbein and get those color decisions out of the way ;-)
The box set contains 24 colors in 5 mL tubes.
Permanent Magenta (Quinacridone Violet) PV19 |
Yellow Ochre PY42 |
Raw Umber PBr7 |
Burnt Umber PBr7 |
Ivory Black PBk9 |
Titanium White PW6 |
Turquoise Blue PG7 PB15 PW6 |
Peacock Blue PG7 PB15 |
Cerulean Blue PB35 |
Ultramarine Deep PB29 |
Prussian Blue PB27 |
Permanent Violet PV23 |
Leaf Green PY154 PG7 |
Permanent Green No. 1 PY3 PY53 PG7 |
Viridian Hue PG7 |
Hooker’s Green PG7 PY110 PY150 |
Sap Green PY150 PG7 PR122 |
Olive Green PY150 PG7 PBr25 |
Carmine PR 83 |
Opera (Quinacridone Opera) BV10 PR122 |
Vermillion Hue PO73 PR254 PY110 |
Permanent Yellow Deep PY74 PY83 |
Imidazolone Yellow PY154 |
Lemon Yellow PY3 PW6 |