Daniel Smith Burnt Yellow Ochre

Daniel Smith Burnt Yellow Ochre

Jul 09, 2022

Here is another single tube exploration: Daniel Smith Burnt Yellow Ochre. Hake, Rigger, Squirrel mop, scraper, towel. 11x14 Stonehenge Aqua. I've been starting to explore DS Watercolors, not to replace a palette...I don't think it would suit a fast and loose palette currently...but one or two tube paintings might greatly benefit from the brand. I'll elaborate...and I think I'll make up some words to describe it. I've played around with their Goethite, Van Dyke Brown, Moonglow, McCracken Black. This pigment (or pigment mixtures) have interesting properties that I enjoy.

Granulation: Here, with the burnt yellow ochre, there is some granulation, not as exciting as the other tubes I mentioned, but it seems to help add diversity to single tube paintings, especially adding interest in light washes.

Tonal Range: The tonal value range is quite large in this fast and loose painting. Very exciting and promising!

Tonal shift: After the wet in wet stage and during the dry off, there wasnt too much of a tonal shift/ lightening taking place. That's always exciting to see during a watercolor dry off.

Liftability: With a towel in the wet in wet stage, there did seem to be slight staining. I think that this would be a 2 out of 4 on their stainability chart. I do like to be able to lift completely back to the white of the paper during the wet in wet stage.

Liftability: of dry paint at the end. Re wetting some areas with a small rigger and using a paper towel, I was able to easily lift back to some semblance of "White."

Scrapability: I think I am definitely making up words at this point :) but I found that this scraped well in the wet in wet phase and backfilled very well! The scraped marks were very dark tonally and almost resembled later stages of truck work with the rigger. Very cool!

Hope you enjoy! Andrew Broussard

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