#daniel smith paint

[pixierainbows]

look what Pixie just get, !! very good new watercolor paint , for gift art !

so exciting and also a little intimidating

[thedreadqueen]

I just uploaded a new design to my redbubble shop: this lovely franken-lady! Available in shirts, stickers, and more.

[janiemoe]

I got the most expensive tube of paint (at an overpriced art store, because it's much cheaper online, oops) I've ever owned for Xmas, and it makes me want to cry, it's too beautiful. It's by a brand called Daniel Smith that boasts of finely ground minerals and possibly magic? I think magic is involved. I still stand by my statement that all you need is a decent range of high quality paints and an understanding of color theory to get great results, but this tube of paint is killing me. I opted for Shadow Violet (the swatch in the link doesn't do it justice). It initially looks like a murky grey in it's most opaque/wet form, but when it dries... Oh god, a shocking array of colors appear. Hints of violet, light green, dark blue, burnt orange... like dragonfly wings. If you let it sit on your palette for a bit, it separates, and and appears to be orange (which you can use as such) and if you scrape your brush against the bottom of the pan, you get a beautiful dark turquoise. I want to dip myself in a massive vat of it until I'm completely covered in paint, like that chick in Goldfinger. I am ranting about paint on the internet on a Friday evening. I don't care.