Setting up a new watercolour palette from ShinHan
I recently returned from holiday with a stash of new art supplies. We travelled to Malaysia, Taiwan and to South Korea which afforded me many opportunities to browse art supply shops, granting me the joy of getting new materials and the even greater joy of seeing lower prices than I’m used to at home.Among the new treasures I collected was a set of ShinHan ‘Profesional Water Color’ paints. It comes as a set of 13 tubes, so I also picked up a small travel palette and a set of half-pans to slot into it (also ShinHan brand).ShinHan is a Korean company and so the prices for their paints and other gear were pretty reasonable for me when converted into either NZD or GBP.
You get a good range of colours in the set. I’m still a little new to watercolours so I'll be trying to use these as a range of limited palettes at first, but I think there’s enough in there to get some good options.The colours labeled on the tubes (and their actual pigments) are:White - Titanium White - PW6
Black - Lamp Black - PBk6
Brown - Brown Iron Oxide - PBr7
Red - Naphthol Crimson Red - PR17
Vermillion Hue - Benzidine Orange/Permanent Red BB [FIAT] - PO16/PR48:1
Yellow Ochre - Yellow Iron Oxide/Diarylide Yellow HR - PY42/PY83
Permanent Yellow Deep - Diarylide Yellow HR - PY83
Lemon Yellow - Hansa Yellow Light/Titanium White - PY3/PW6
Yellow Green - Hansa Yellow Light/Phthalocyanine Green BS - PY3/PG7
Viridian Hue - Phthalocyanine Green BS - PG7
Ultramarine - Ultramarine Blue - PB29
Prussian Blue - Phthalocyanine Blue BGS - PB15:3
Violet - M Methyl Violet/Rhodamine 6G - PV3/PR81
I’ve put a little out into the pans for now. The advice I received was to mix them around in the pan with a pin or needle while pouring to avoid air bubbles, which seems to have worked.I’m now experimenting with watercolours over some pencil sketching, working out the right ratio of shading vs. painting to follow.Follow me over on Instagram for some in-progress shots of these paints in action!