Swatching of 'Deep Forest' Palette, from Deep Deep Light Watercolours

Sharing my first swatch and test of these nature-inspired, handmade paints.

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Hello!

As some of my subscribers will know, I recently become a brand ambassador for Deep Deep Light Watercolours. You can read more about my interest in these paints and an unboxing video here:

Unboxing of Deep Deep Light Watercolours

In this post I share my first swatch and test of these paints, using the Deep Forest palette. (Thank you to

Sarah Lovell

for suggesting this one!)

‘Deep Forest’ half pan paint set and Pith paper bundle.

Each paint is tested on three paper types:

• Pith paper 200gsm (from their paper bundle set)

• Daler Rowney smooth heavyweight paper 220gsm

• Cass Art smooth hot pressed watercolour paper 300gsm

Here is a description of the palette with information about each of the colours, taken from the Deep Light website:

Deep Forest is our love for wild forests. We have been lucky to live in and around unspoiled and truly wild forests. With birds, wild animals, and forest treats – berries and wild sorrel in summer, fresh buds in springs, and mushrooms in autumns. And forest has always been a place we have honored and it is like a temple for us. If you don’t honor the forest, you can get lost, you can be eaten by wolves, and the night can fall earlier than expected. That is what forest people tell their young children. What we know for sure – the forest is the place we, humans, could survive for a long time. And it has so beautiful colors we couldn’t resist mixing them! Our Deep Forest set has 6 colors, all designed by us, granulating and wild, they come in a tin for 6 with a hinged lid.

Six Deep Forest colors are:

• Cloudberry (yellow of cloudberries and chanterelles)

• Cranberry (red of cranberries and autumn leaves)

• Very Pery Billberry (muted violet of bilberries and night sky after sunset)

• Paynes Grey Blueberry (greyish-blue of blueberries and autumn sky)

• Wan Dyke Bark (grey-brown of barks and bog waters)

• Forest green (warm dark green of deep pine forest and moss)

Image from deepdeeplight.com

Swatch and testing video:

Swatches on Cass Art 300gsm paper

Of the three papers, my preferred was the Cass Art 300gsm, as it didn’t buckle as much as the other two and the slight texture of the paper enhanced the granulation effect of the paint.

I’m looking forward to working with these paints and sharing some time-lapses of new paintings!

Giveaway

Keep your eyes peeled here and on Instagram for a giveaway of Deep Deep Light watercolours. If you don’t already follow me on Instagram, you can find me here: https://www.instagram.com/emmaillustrates/

I’ll be creating new swatch videos and sharing them here in The Creative Flock over the coming weeks. If there is a particular palette or colour you would like to see, please let me know in the comments.

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