Please note the pigment classification PR108 that Hazel mentions is Cadmium Red, not Permanent Rose,which is PV19, apologies from Hazel!

This is without doubt the best, most comprehensive education about watercolor you will ever get in 90 minutes!

This is the best education you can possibly get about color in watercolors. It's amazing how much Hazel knows about every color, what colors go together to produce just the effect you need. She even knows what all the colors are made of and how they affect how they act on paper.

I went to art school in the 80s. We had one afternoon of color mixing and my colors were muddy. Tutor wasn't impressed. I asked if he could give me some guidance on color mixing. He laughed. "You thought you'd come to art school and someone would teach you HOW to paint?" So here I am 30 years later and someone IS 'teaching me.' 😁😍

I could listen to Helen Soan and watch her paint every day. I have every one of her books and all of her dvd's...obviously, she is my favorite watercolorist and I have learned soooo much from watching and reading what she shares. She IS wonderful and passionate . So happy to see videos with her. Would love to see her actually painting in your videos. Thank you!

An incredibly useful interview, my sincerest gratitude from an eighty year old desperate to learn and deeply interested. Thank you Jillian Zimbabwe❤

Thank you for sharing your expertise with us. Hazel, I love your illustrations of figure painting and will practice.

Few artist use color homony better than Hazel! Everything she paints just harmonize together for a beautiful 😍 eye catching affect. Its stunning!

Outstanding presentation. I took a whole page of notes. Looking forward to getting Hazel’s book.

@joycewicks6890

3 ай бұрын

Amazing interview. Just got her newest book and couldn’t put it down. I was able to find her book Essence of Watercolor on eBay. Ordered and excited to get this one too. I am loving learning about how to mix and paint with a limited palette. ❤️

I have just bought this book plus 4 more of Hazel's books. They are all excellent. Her knowledge is amazing and the information in the books is so extensive. They are the best watercolour books I have bought or read.

Mind blown. Thank you, Hazel!

I discover Hazel books and im soo impressed for all the wisdom as a professional artist and teacher she have. Thank you Hazel for share all you knowledge with us... I highly recommend all her books!!

Thank you so much for this interview! You are right, Hazel knows everything! So interesting!

Superb, absolutely superb! Book Bought! Thanks, Hazel, encouraging as always 👍.

This book, and her Schminke palette, have totally changed how I paint.

It's not limiting, but it gives class, elegance, and calmness... I really love it!

Fascinating interview. I watched it after buying her book 'Light and Shade in Watercolour' which is outstanding. I've just ordered this one too. There are a lot of watercolour artists that I admire, but Hazel Soan has officially become my watercolour guru. She gets it, she is at one with watercolours! And above all she helps other people get it too! Her range of subjects is very interesting. Many artists tend to veer towards one genre of painting such as landscapes, but Hazel can do a full range which is really impressive and inspiring. Her style and enthusiasm makes me want to try my own paintings, and experiment, and yes fail along the way a bit rather than staying safe within step by steps and copying other people's paintings. I've gone from feeling nervous of watercolours as I've found them more difficult than oils, to feeling enthused and optimistic about the journey ahead. Thanks Hazel!

Best hour I have spent, love Hazel's work ..thankyou xx❤

I also have Hazel’s palette by Schminke, and love it (I have some Daniel Smith and Windsor & Newton watercolors as well)

I purchased Hazel's Schminke palette in 2017. I have other of her books. I have a love of her paintings. And I just bought the new book last night. I shall verb along. Thank you.

I just bought your book "Art of the limited palette". And after reading and looking for an hour I can really say this is going to change everything for me trying to learn abot watercolour painting. THANKS, just THANKS! ❤💛💙

@suel4269

8 ай бұрын

It’s so full of important information that I wish I knew when I started 6 yrs ago.

I haven't painted in probably a year. Lately, I've had the desire to pick up my brushes but haven't done it. Listening to this interview brought that much needed motivation. Just ordered the book and looking forward to painting again.

Windsor and Newton have good information online. There’s a list of their watercolours which indicates which a transparent or opaque, which pigments are in each and which are granulating.

@Psalm_27.4

Ай бұрын

Good to know! Thank you!

I have Hazels palette by Schmincke and love it. Thank you Hazel

So inspiring, got that book.

I love this ! I’m a pigment nerd who started off buying way too many paints 6 yrs ago.

This is so helpful! Thank you! I understood and learned so much!

Looking forward to this. I own her book on painting people quickly, and I have looked at several others.

This interview is so good. Fantastic Information that I didn't know. The questions people asked are great as they were ones I would have asked. And and Hazel answered and explained things clearly. I will no doubt refer to this video again. But I will look into buying the book at some point when my budget allows. It is rarely that I buy new books, I usually buy used or use my local library but this book sounds like it would be worth it. Maybe I can get it for a Christmas present. 😁😉 I edited my comment as I forgot to say a big Thank you for uploading this video. I Really appreciate it. Well done!

I'm so excited! I wish I was home so I could paint along! ❤

Thank you so much for this interview!!! so valuable information!!! I would like to buy the book, but it is not available in Amazon anymore. Is it going to be available anytime soon?

I love this and hope to get the book. I struggle with color(getting the exact color I want) and want to paint only in a limited pallet. But I need to know what primaries go with what primaries well. I am also going to make a color chart, off of colors I favor, so maybe I could discover this on my own. I recently painted a bird picture that came out well using mostly two colors: Venetian red(warm deeper light red) and Cerulean Blue( I think I put a Yellow Ocher there too) . I like to choose what colors I need to use beforehand, and to decide on the composition too. Also would you suggest picking your favorite Primaries to start (in addition to choosing a warm and cool of each primary)? I have no problem seeing what is a warm color primary and which is a cool primary .

Better still order the book from your local bookstore and support small businesses rather than a sweatshop

12:24 It’s worth pointing out that Schmincke’s artist grade Alizarin Crimson is not lightfast. Schmincke rates it’s lightfastness 1 out of 6 (where 1 is the worst) on their color chart. Additionally, most brands have an alizarin crimson hue that is lightfast, and use a combination of pigments to replace the fugitive PR83. I don’t know why the myth that it’s lightfast keeps spreading. Virtually every manufacturer clearly states that it’s not lightfast on the paint tube, color chart and website.

Ps..i am not writing this all down...i intend to watch this daily for weeks...and even after will be refreshing information stored..lol

@marjoriejohnson6535

8 ай бұрын

Ps...unless I can find a person willing to read the book for me .......

Before doing any real art projects, every art teacher should know these concepts to pass on to their students. Every teacher should teach students specifically how too swatch out each watercolor from its most intense value to its lightest value, and explain how to use different levels of water to achieve dark to light values. ADDITIONALLY, the teacher should provide students with color mixing exercises with their limited palette. I believe that students would experience much more success with color harmony in their pieces after doing these two processes.

The knowledge Hazel has is amazing & she makes color so interesting. Best video on color I've ever seen. I just wish there was more Hazel & less moderator. If she would have just been quiet & patient Hazel would have given all the answers to the questions in her explanations of her paintings...the constant Interuptions from the moderator was annoying & uncalled for. Holding the questions to the end...there would be very few because they would have all been answered....it would have been a more interesting & shorter video. Hated all those Interuptions.

Please, can I ask a burning question that has nothing to do with limited palettes? What do artists do while they're waiting for their paints to dry? Because THAT is where I almost always fail. It feels so good to be painting and watching the pigments blend on the paper that I just don't want to stop, so I almost always end up with muddy, overworked paintings. To stop and do housework for example for half an hour or more, takes me out of that great zone. I''ve tried to do two or three paintings together but that really didn't work either.

@teripittman

6 ай бұрын

I have two different notebooks I can use. It really doesn't take that long to dry. Maybe try a high cotton paper?

@juicedgoose

Ай бұрын

Oil pastels are great if you need to keep going until the picture is done.

Which book of Hazels would a beginner start with? Thank You.

Do these principals translate to acrylic painting?

If you were to used just one transparent colour would it be and why.

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sylvie CANU Good morning, I am interested in your book which looks magnificent, does it exist in French? thank you for your reply. Your interview is very interesting, I can translate into French, it's great I am a beginner in watercolor, I learned a lot thanks again

How do you know which three colours work together? How you choose which three to use??

@suel4269

3 ай бұрын

She mentions that in her book.

@pegsmith8401

3 ай бұрын

@@suel4269 thank you Sue. I wanted to buy this book but lost the piece of paper I wrote it on and I couldn't remember the name. Now I can order it. Thank you again!!!!!

@suel4269

3 ай бұрын

@@pegsmith8401 I got mine on eBay.

Min 45,27 Joseph Handprint? Is it HiS name ?

@bronwynhull5611

4 ай бұрын

Is this really a name?? Jospeh Handprint?? I cant find him anywhere.... i think its a transpcript error. Sounds like Handrprint? is there anyone out there that could set me srtaight??

bonjour, Je suis intéressée par votre livre qui a l'air magnifique, existe-il en Français ? merci pour votre réponse.s Votre interview est très intéressant, je peux traduire en français, c'est super Je suis débutante en aquarelle, j'ai appris beaucoup encore merci

Oops mc kracken black broke the rules....

I love Hazel Soan but I wish you would find some artists who work in gouache, and not just in landscape or still life please! I feel that gouache urban sketchers are being ignored unless they're into watercolours, and it's upsetting. What's wrong with us? Why doesn't anybody like us?

@Studio56forCreatives

7 ай бұрын

Thank you Gina for your comment. I hope to be able to present a gouache artist interview soon.