 Hello there, my name is Sandy Allnach. I'm an artist and paper crafter here on YouTube And this is the third in the series today on Daniel Smith watercolors I'm going to talk about the Prima Tech paints and some of their properties But before I do let me just give you a disclaimer Which is that out of the paints that you see here the ones on the left are the ones I've invested in so I've Spent quite a bit of money on these and already loved them and then Daniel Smith Came alongside and partnered with me to provide more paints so that I could test some things out for you and share them with You my opinions in these videos are still my own The Prima Tech paints are 37 or 38 of the colors within the Daniel Smith line that are made from these natural Minerals I am so amazed that they could get paint out of these natural minerals a lot of paints are synthetic A lot of colors are but these are all natural from the actual rocks And this is a set of six It's a starter set that you can get and just try out a few of them and see what the properties are That they have a lot of them will have Granulation to them that is unique to these kinds of paints others will have more of a glittery look You can mix these with all the other paints that you use so you can get just whatever colors you want if you like Just the glittery look I'll tell you which ones have some of that glitter in them But I'm going to run through and just do some swatching This is with heavy pigment and less water so you can see what they look like pretty full strength And with just a little bit of blending as it goes down that when I put a little too much So I was struggling with trying to get enough water in there to get it to move But I wanted to see what they looked like and I also wanted to see the glitter content When it's heavy color versus when it's light color So now I'm going in with a lot more water and just really soft washes So you can see you get a really soft look with these things as well You don't have to just use them all heavy and that sort of thing and then after they dried I wanted to be able to compare how much granulation there is when it's light color and heavy color And you know do you get more glitter when it's heavier or when it's lighter and We'll take a look at that in just a second after it dries But this is the whole collection of primatex spars I know and I will have this chart on my blog so you can check it out But I wanted to point out which ones are the glittery ones So let's kind of take a nice close look in here So you can see what the shimmer and shine looks like on just some of them So the red fuchsia genuine has some sparkle in it I had a heck of a time trying to get the sparkle to show the bronzeite is gorgeous and Right next to it is the burnt bronzeite Absolutely beautiful colors with lots of sparkle and as I said you can mix these with other colors So there's a number of uses I can see for a lot of these and here's the amethyst This is the one that's in the starter set. So you'll get glitter on that one There's fuchsia, which is a very pale greenish teal kind of color I'm sure it's called fuchsia instead of greenish teal But this one's kyanite and I want to use that to do some night skies and The suga light or suga light would be great for a cloudy sky I think this is the chart we just painted and the hematite is the heavily granulated one and the amethyst Genuine has sparkle both in the heavily pigmented and the lighter Pigmented types of washes and this is a terribly painted chart. I apologize for that But I was tired But I wanted you to see that when you mix that purple with any of the other colors and you can see in the Previous video how I did this chart. It carries the glitter with it So it will make other colors sparkle if you get one of these and mix it with it I'd like to show you a sample painting It's just going to be a quick speed painting and I'll talk through it a little bit But I wanted you to see the kinds of colors that you would get from the primatex. These are Granulated colors in many cases a lot of them are just much more naturalistic colors But they're a little duller than you might get out of other pigments So other ones might be brighter stronger flatter or that sort of thing But these will give you a really I don't know it feels to me like a gritty look There's just something about them that I I find really appealing So that's one of the reasons why I've invested in a lot of the primatex because I really loved the look that they have here So I've painted a little bit of rhodonite for the undercoat on the grapes a little bit of Mayan blue in the background and then a little jadeite just to start the leaves out a little bit I'm going in now with the amethyst now This is the one that has a little bit of glitter in it and as I'm looking at it from an angle and up close and everything I can't really see the glitter Until it dries and if you get some of these colors Don't worry if it doesn't immediately show up to your eye Once it dries if it's one of the paints that has glitter in it will show up definitely and you'll be able to see it so that's one of the things that I discovered about them and they tend to have a little more of a bold glitter look when there's darker color when it's richer color if it's really soft and pale It's super subtle So I'm going in with a little bit of dry brush and then throwing in a little bit of water to blend a few things to add some definition to the grapes and Keeping it as loose as I can if you know me in my art here on my channel I Struggle with loose so water color has been a real wonderful exercise for me in just loosening up the creative muscles and Letting myself get crazy and paint So I'm mixing in a little more of the pinkish color the rhodonite Because I wanted these to have that that really bright color as well and show you you can get that the rhodonite is the only like Really really bright color within the primatex. The others are much more subtle types of colors And here I decided to add a little bit of brown in there, too because the pia muntite. I think it's called I thought would add a little bit of That grittiness to it if I mix a little bit of that with the green I'm only mixing them really on the paper as you can see I'm not mixing a whole lot on my palette so I Wanted to just give you an idea of what these pure colors can do but you can definitely mix them Come up with all kinds of things and I will be continuing to do more of that as time goes on But just so you know my channel is all different mediums So I will be showing love to lots of mediums here Not just Daniel Smith and I'm not going to be giving up all of my other watercolors as well I want to be able to play with all the toys because all the toys are so much fun I'm taking little breaks in between here that I'm not showing you just for letting some of this air dry because There's some areas where I wanted the sharper detail like this and if I put it over wet paint It would all just mush out and bleed into the wet paint So as I wanted to add more of this detail onto the leaves It was helpful to wait until they were kind of dry but I'm going in with the pia muntite and a little bit more of the jadeite to add more detail on the leaves just give them a little more definition a little more sharpness and Occasionally I'd hit it with my heat gun just to make sure Things were good and dry before I started on my next layer and now I wanted to add much more definition using the amethyst on the grapes and just add some heavier shadows and Just kind of squinting at it as I paint just so I can see which areas are Have some definition and which ones are a little more on the mushy side and where I wanted to loosen it up at There's part of me that wishes I had stopped at the last stage because I liked when it was even softer In terms of the shapes, but I liked the contrast so I guess I'm glad I I kept it going And then I would occasionally stop and throw some Paint spatters on there, but here you can see the actual glitter within the paint It took me a bit to figure out how to film this so I could show you the actual glitter But you can see how well it shows up when you're doing a painting itself not just on swatches So here are the two videos that were earlier in this series if you missed out on those You only landed on this one You'd like to see more about the dot charts or making swatch charts for your watercolors and then another watercolor video That's just for fun and I will see you guys later on be sure to subscribe if you'd like more from me And there's all kinds of information on my blog including stills of all the charts and everything in these videos. Thank you much. Bye. Bye