Jane Blundell's guest appearances

Jane Blundell

Birgit O'Connor and The World of Watercolor Painting

Journaling With Nature

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John Muir

Tom Hunt

Danny Gregory

Kelly Johnson

Julie Johnson

Tony White

Marley Peifer

Eric Masterson

Jean Mackay

Tania Marien

Angela Hennessy

Rosalie Haizlett

Kim McNett

Eva Nichols

Ingrid Butler

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Jane is recognised as one of the art world's foremost authorities on colour and colour mixing. She teaches workshops on watercolour technique and has collaborated with Daniel Smith Artists’ Materials to create the Ultimate Mixing Palette. She even has a colour named after her - Jane's Grey!Listen to hear more about:How to understand pigment characteristics and use them to your benefit in a painting.Pigment numbers and what they mean.Why watercolour is Jane’s favourite medium.Jane’s favourite colours for painting skies.How to customise your colour choices to reflect the colour palette in your particular part of the world. Working with triads to achieve colour harmony. The power of phthalo green as a mixing colour and what it can do.Jane’s thoughts on primary colours.Colour families and their characteristics. Insights from Jane’s course Mastering Watercolour.The Daniel Smith colour named after Jane.Jane’s project to swatch every professional colour in the world.Jane’s website (www.janeblundellart.com) and her blog (janeblundellart.blogspot.com) are invaluable resources for anyone who is interested in learning more about colour. Learn more about Jane’s collaboration with Daniel Smith Artist' Materials to create the Ultimate Mixing Set. To accompany her palette, Jane has created a book called The Ultimate Mixing Palette: A world of colours. You can order the book as print-on-demand from Blurb.com.To take Jane’s Mastering Watercolours course, click here.Jane mentioned the book Nature’s Palette: A colour reference system for the natural world by Baty Patrick. Glossary of watercolour terms:Staining – Colours that absorb into the paper and are difficult to lift off once they are laid down. Non-staining – Colours that can easily be lifted off (with a clean brush or paper towel) after they have been laid down.Granulating – A textured effect that happens when certain coarse pigments settle into the grain of the watercolour paper.Non-granulating – Colours that have fine pigments and leave a smooth, untextured finish on the paper. Opaque – Watercolours that will cover a black line when used thickly.Transparent – Watercolours that will allow other colours to show through.Fugitive – Colours that fade or change over time. Pigment number – a number on the back of a watercolour tube which identifies the pigments used to create that colour. You can have single pigment colours or multiple pigment paints where several pigments are used to create the colour. -----------------Sign-up for Journaling With Nature's Newsletter to receive news and updates as well as the Nature Journaling Inspiration List each month! You can support Journaling With Nature Podcast on Patreon, Your contribution is deeply appreciated. Thanks for listening!

Jane is recognised as one of the art world's foremost authorities on colour and colour mixing. She teaches workshops on watercolour technique and has collaborated with Daniel Smith Artists’ Materials to create the Ultimate Mixing Palette. She even has a colour named after her - Jane's Grey! Listen to hear more about:<ul><li>How to understand pigment characteristics and use them to your benefit in a painting.</li><li>Pigment numbers and what they mean.</li><li>Why watercolour is Jane’s favourite medium.</li><li>Jane’s favourite colours for painting skies.</li><li>How to customise your colour choices to reflect the colour palette in your particular part of the world. </li><li>Working with triads to achieve colour harmony. </li><li>The power of phthalo green as a mixing colour and what it can do.</li><li>Jane’s thoughts on primary colours.</li><li>Colour families and their characteristics. </li><li>Insights from Jane’s course Mastering Watercolour.</li><li>The Daniel Smith colour named after Jane.</li><li>Jane’s project to swatch every professional colour in the world.</li></ul> Jane’s website (<a href="http://www.janeblundellart.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.janeblundellart.com</a>) and her blog (<a href="https://janeblundellart.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">janeblundellart.blogspot.com</a>) are invaluable resources for anyone who is interested in learning more about colour. Learn more about Jane’s collaboration with Daniel Smith Artist' Materials to create the <a href="https://www.janeblundellart.com/the-ultimate-mixing-palette-a-world-of-colours.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ultimate Mixing Set</a>. To accompany her palette, Jane has created a book called The Ultimate Mixing Palette: A world of colours. You can order the book as print-on-demand from <a href="http://Blurb.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Blurb.com</a>.To take Jane’s Mastering Watercolours course, <a href="https://www.janeblundellart.com/mastering-watercolours-online-course.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">click here</a>.Jane mentioned the book <a href="https://www.bookdepository.com/Natures-Palette-Patrick-Baty/9780500252468?ref=grid-view&amp;qid=1632046804019&amp;sr=1-1" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Nature’s Palette: A colour reference system for the natural world by Baty Patrick</a>. Glossary of watercolour terms:Staining – Colours that absorb into the paper and are difficult to lift off once they are laid down. Non-staining – Colours that can easily be lifted off (with a clean brush or paper towel) after they have been laid down.Granulating – A textured effect that happens when certain coarse pigments settle into the grain of the watercolour paper.Non-granulating – Colours that have fine pigments and leave a smooth, untextured finish on the paper. Opaque – Watercolours that will cover a black line when used thickly.Transparent – Watercolours that will allow other colours to show through.Fugitive – Colours that fade or change over time. Pigment number – a number on the back of a watercolour tube which identifies the pigments used to create that colour. You can have single pigment colours or multiple pigment paints where several pigments are used to create the colour.  -----------------Sign-up for <a href="https://www.journalingwithnature.com/newsletter" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Journaling With Nature's Newsletter</a> to receive news and updates as well as the Nature Journaling Inspiration List each month! You can support <a href="https://www.patreon.com/journalingwithnature" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Journaling With Nature Podcast on Patreon</a>, Your contribution is deeply appreciated. Thanks for listening!

Episode 56: Jane Blundell – A world of colours

Jane's website is JaneBlundellArt.comFor a transcript of this episode, or to subscribe to updates, visit specialtopic.net

Jane's website is <a href="http://JaneBlundellArt.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">JaneBlundellArt.com</a>For a transcript of this episode, or to subscribe to updates, visit <a href="http://specialtopic.net" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">specialtopic.net</a>

01. Colour - Jane Blundell

Color

Jane's Ultimate Mixing Set - now available from Daniel Smith : Jane: "I have often been asked what colours I recommend for people to buy to get started in watercolour or to upgrade to artist quality watercolours so I created this palette to address that question. It is intended as a universal palette, suitable for any subject. It is also suitable for anyone from a beginner to an experienced artist. It is rather a Goldilocks palette - not so few colours that you have to spend the whole time mixing everything together, nor so many that you lose track of what you have and how to mix them. Too many colours in a painting leads to a lack of colour harmony.   My goal was to find single pigment colours that would mix together efficiently so that most colours could be produced by mixing just two pigments. Many people find that if they mix too many pigments, they end up creating 'mud'. With this set, generally two, but at most three colours may be needed to create any hue you want. The palette colours are also useful alone. The set is painted out using Daniel Smith professional watercolours. Alternative brands are given below.   The Ultimate Mixing Palette is not intended as a limited palette but as a basic set to work with. You only need to buy 14 tubes of paint. You may wish to buy other colours for convenience, or you may choose to create you own custom-mixes of convenience colours with these original tubes by making up an orange or a purple or some greens if you work with them a lot. You should find you can make pretty much any hue you choose. " More info  Website Janes Book Janes Grey  New watercolors from Poland that Jane is trying Roman Szmal Aquarius watercolours 

Jane's <a href="https://www.janeblundellart.com/the-ultimate-mixing-palette-a-world-of-colours.html?fbclid=IwAR0FyLk06yJjCWXwDX54jI0UL4nxv00NSF-rLM6yud2_UkcU8CR09eHB4IA" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ultimate Mixing Set</a> - now available from Daniel Smith : Jane: "I have often been asked what colours I recommend for people to buy to get started in watercolour or to upgrade to artist quality watercolours so I created this palette to address that question. It is intended as a universal palette, suitable for any subject. It is also suitable for anyone from a beginner to an experienced artist. It is rather a Goldilocks palette - not so few colours that you have to spend the whole time mixing everything together, nor so many that you lose track of what you have and how to mix them. Too many colours in a painting leads to a lack of colour harmony.  My goal was to find single pigment colours that would mix together efficiently so that most colours could be produced by mixing just two pigments. Many people find that if they mix too many pigments, they end up creating 'mud'. With this set, generally two, but at most three colours may be needed to create any hue you want. The palette colours are also useful alone. The set is painted out using Daniel Smith professional watercolours. Alternative brands are given below.  The Ultimate Mixing Palette is not intended as a limited palette but as a basic set to work with. You only need to buy 14 tubes of paint. You may wish to buy other colours for convenience, or you may choose to create you own custom-mixes of convenience colours with these original tubes by making up an orange or a purple or some greens if you work with them a lot. You should find you can make pretty much any hue you choose. " <a href="https://janeblundellart.blogspot.com/2018/09/the-ultimate-mixing-set.html?fbclid=IwAR0-VEThz1YydvWHv6HAFVx0Vmiqcbvemmi5YkAWfJNalmCzbfO926fl_wM" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">More info</a> <a href="https://www.janeblundellart.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Website</a> <a href="https://www.janeblundellart.com/the-ultimate-mixing-palette-a-world-of-colours.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Janes Book</a> <a href="http://danielsmith.com/janes-grey-half-pan-watercolor/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Janes Grey </a> New watercolors from Poland that Jane is trying <a href="https://janeblundellart.blogspot.com/2019/03/roman-szmal-aquarius-watercolours.html?fbclid=IwAR3UitB13n1eqkkuBcUPgb9oXxlIK0tA2RqVIdj6RZ1Wv-eOAqAbnkMBhPo" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Roman Szmal Aquarius watercolours</a>

#032 Video: Guest interview with Jane Blundell - All about color