When flowers are in bloom and produce markets are bountiful – that’s the time to bring out your brilliant yellows, fiery oranges and bright reds to paint the colors of summer. In this Thursday Live presentation on Zoom, John shows us how to use a CIELab graph to plot and compare similar colors. The graph’s horizontal axis represents colors from red to green, and its vertical axis represents yellow to blue. Each of the DANIEL SMITH watercolors falls into one of the four quadrants on the graph.

Click here to learn more about CIELab and how to use our interactive Color Map to compare your favorite hues.

Then John swatched sixteen different watercolors and several of our Brand Ambassadors joined in to paint and experiment with some of these joyful tones!

• Aureolin (Cobalt Yellow)
• Cadmium Orange Hue
• Cadmium Yellow Light Hue
• Organic Vermilion
• Lemon Yellow

• Mayan Orange
• Mayan Yellow
• Cadmium Red Scarlet Hue
• Bismuth Vanadate Yellow
• Aussie Red Gold
• Hansa Yellow Light

• Perinone Orange
• Hansa Yellow Deep
• Pyrrol Orange
• Permanent Orange
• Cadmium Yellow Medium Hue