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

Sharing my second swatch of these nature-inspired, handmade paints.

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In this post, I share a swatching of Deep Deep Light’s Floral palette, a set of 15 floral-inspired paints from the Deep Light range.

You can buy the set here - https://deepdeeplight.com/product/floral-set/

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VIDEO: Swatching the Florals palette

I used Cass Art smooth hot pressed watercolour paper 300gsm to test these paints. This heavyweight, smooth paper is currently my preferred for watercolours, although I do also use my Pith sketchbook and loose paper for small studies.

Page from my nature journal - Pith Kabosu sketchbook

Close-up of the poppy painting

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

We love wildflowers. It is not a secret. We collect them for teas, for air purification, to draw, and just to enjoy their fragile yet strong being. We love to follow how the seasons change and flowers in nature are the best signs. Some blossom, some fade, and some are in buds. Even if it feels like late spring by flowers we can see it is already early autumn.

We have put together a set of our existing colors – 15 subtle, light, bright and delicate colors that will be a perfect companion in your floral watercolor adventures. We love painting meadows, gardens and forest – tiny humble flowers of all colors and these are our choices:

• Baltic meadow set – a set of 6 colors for spring meadow flowers – light cowslip yellow, light forget-me not blue, bright red swamp cinquefoil, dark wine red color of our wood cow wheat, bentgrass mustard yellow-green and meadow green

• Gold ochre – beautiful warm natural yellow

• Mayan red – bright pinkish-red that is perfect in all mixes

• Ultramarine rose – light granulating soft pink

• Ultramarine violet – granulating violet that is so common in flowers

• Masha’s green – bright spring green and greens in the sunshine

• Solstice fern – most loved green by you

• River – dark green-blue with a unique granulating effect for shadows

• Deep blue – warm blue for garden blues like delphiniums

• French ultramarine – another classic, granulating blue with a slight red tint

Image from deepdeeplight.com

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

This is the first swatch in the series, from the Deep Forest palette:

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

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