Denise's Da Vinci Watercolor Palettes
Da Vinci watercolors are crafted using the finest quality natural gum arabic and the highest concentration of finely-milled pigments. Carefully crafted in small batches in the United States, Da Vinci watercolors can be used straight from the tube or dried in pans to experience beautiful vibrancy, excellent dispersion, and remarkable rewetting properties.
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In October of 2018, I released my first collaborative project with Da Vinci Paint Co. Since then, I have carefully curated several palettes and custom watercolor colors with them. You can find each of those projects below.
Denise's Earth Friendly Watercolor Palette
Denise’s Earth Friendly Da Vinci Watercolor Palette is a carefully curated non-toxic, vegan watercolor palette containing 24 hand-poured half pans. While watercolors tend to produce less waste than other paint mediums in general, this palette allows artists to further reduce their impact on the environment by intentionally avoiding the use of cadmiums, cobalts, manganese, and nickel pigments.
Denise has carefully researched each pigment included this set, focusing on their environmental impact while simultaneously striving to create a balanced mixing palette. The set includes some of her favorite primary colors, but is also joined by some eco-friendly alternatives including a cerulean blue hue and a brand new version of sap green that she worked together with Da Vinci to create that maintains a nice glow while avoiding the use of nickel azo yellow. The color selection is rounded off with a wide array of both transparent and opaque earth tones that she is well known for using in her animal portraits.
A full mixing chart of all 24 colors has been created by Denise to help demonstrate the array of colors that can be achieved through this versatile palette. It is designed so that there are two combinations of each color pairing.
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Denise's Wildlife Palette
Denise’s Wildlife Da Vinci Watercolor Palette is a carefully curated watercolor palette containing 12 hand-poured half pans. This set contains a single primary trio followed by nine earthier colors that can be mixed or used straight from the pans. This set was crafted for artists like Denise who paint wildlife by featuring her most used palette staples.
This set does overlap with her larger Earth Friendly Palette, but contains a few new colors ideal for painting natural subjects and is a more affordable, compact travel option.
A mixing chart of all 12 colors has been created by Denise to help demonstrate the array of colors that can be achieved through this versatile palette. Each color intersects at two points on the chart. One of the mixtures is in masstone while the other is the same mixture diluted.
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Denise’s Embrace Opacity palette includes a carefully curated selection of earth yellows, oranges, and reds along with complementary shades of blue, teal, and green. Titan Buff adds a beautiful range of pastels while Lilac adds a surprising level of versatility.
Denise's custom colors, Denise’s Gray and Stormy Blue can stand on their own or be used with any other color in the palette to create moody, atmospheric mixtures.
Denise's Embrace Opacity Palette
Many new artists are encouraged to avoid opaque watercolors because they can cause muddy mixes, so it can take years for artists to discover the beauty in these often overlooked pigments. While some craft-grade watercolors can be opaque due to chalky, low-quality fillers, the professional watercolors in this set contain naturally larger and denser pigments than those found in transparent watercolors. This quality makes these colors useful for creating soft, velvety textures and results in a unique painting experience that one can’t find in transparent watercolors or gouache alone.
A mixing chart of all 12 colors has been created by Denise to help demonstrate the versatility of this unique palette. Each pairing intersects on the chart twice. These boxes show two different ratios of color, though there are many more possibilities!
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Denise's Moody Trio
Denise is very pleased to announce that the Da Vinci Paint Co. invited her in the fall of 2018 to be part of their Trio Collection! The "Moody" Trio contains Perylene Green, Rose Madder Quinacridone, and French Ultramarine. You can find it and other Da Vinci Trios available on Da Vinci's website using the link below.
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