![]() ![]() For example, when painting hand, granulation may make the hair look puffy. Depending on the subject matter that you paint, you may or may not want granulating. One of the main characteristics of Primatek colours is the granulating nature of the paints. Interestingly, when you add more Rhodonite Genuine to Hansa Yellow Medium, you can get a rather nice red colour. Rhodonite Genuine can mix with Hansa Yellow Medium to produce a nice orange. If you want an even and flat wash, you have to be more careful and laying down the paint. The mixture is quite patchy though because of Mayan Blue Genuine. The resulting green is a bright yellow green. This green was mixed with Mayan Blue Genuine and Hansa Yellow Medium, a really versatile neutral yellow. Here's a sketch I coloured with the six colours, and also another Primatek that I have, Sodalite Genuine (top right and bottom left). But compare to other earth tones like Burnt Sienna, Burnt Umber, Van Dyke Brown, Transparent Brown, it doesn't look that special on its own. Piemontite Genuine is a nice shade of brown. Notice that the wash is quite thin? Even thought the colour is suppose to be black or at least a dark colour, you can still see the white of the paper very clearly. Hematite Genuine looks like some dried charcoal bits suspended in water. This is a really beautiful shade of blue. Notice how the pigments stay together as well, and they can almost block out the white of the paper. You will need a to use a lot of paint to build up the colour. Mayan Blue Genuine is another colour with low tinting strength. And notice how the pigments can tend to stay together.Īmethyst Genuine is a vibrant colour with high tinting strength. ![]() You need a lot of paint to build up the colour. ![]() Jadeite Genuine's tinting strength isn't that good. With Rhodonite Genuine you can get pink in concentrated form. You usually get pink by diluting other reds. Rhodonite Genuine is as pink as it can get. If you get the 15 ml tubes, they can be really expensive! Best to try them in smaller tubes first before you get the large tubes because who knows, you may not like the colours.īelow are the colours swatches I've created from the six colours. #How to you pronounce hematite series#Some of these Primatek colours are from Series 4 and 5. Series 1 is the most affordable and Series 5 is the most expensive. Instead of pigment code, like PY175 or any alphabets and numbers, you'll see the name of the pigment instead. The colours included are Rhodonite Genuine, Jadeite Genuine, Amethyst Genuine, Mayan Blue Genuine, Hematite Genuine and Piemontite Genuine. The Primatek colours that I have are from the Daniel Smith Introductory Primatek set. You can also read more about Primatek at. If you want to check out all their colour swatches, you can find it on Jane Blundell's website. LOL.Ĭurrently, there's a total of 38 colours in the Primatek series. Many of the names of the colours in this series are really difficult for me to pronounce. Primatek is a series of watercolours from Daniel Smith that are made from natural mineral pigments and sometimes semi-precious stones. ![]()
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