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W&N: The Best Build Of Watercolour Pigment For Artists

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Winsor & Newton Artists' Water Colour conduct keep been voted the best artist-quality watercolour paints inwards 2 dissever polls.

However in that place is a dorsum story!

The Two Polls

My master Nov Making Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Mark Poll (POLL: Which are the best artist-quality watercolour paints?) inwards the side column ran into problems really quickly.  It started to lose votes as well as was horrible to spotter so I moved it to the bottom of the column

I so gear upwards a instant Poll. This was the spider web log post POLL #2: Best professional person watercolour paints.  This meant moving really fast to gear upwards the website to host the instant poll which I consider I had all calendar month to laid up!  This is it Which is the best construct of watercolour pigment for artists? - and these are the links to the 2 polls

Then the commencement Poll recovered so I moved it dorsum upwards as well as permit the instant poll expire on every bit well.  The intention is that the latter volition run all twelvemonth round.

The Two Answers

What's interesting is that the 2 polls came upwards with the same answers simply non the same numbers!

So we're going to conduct keep 2 charts as well as I'm going to ponder on what's going on.  Particularly since the final result diverged from the initial indications which is strange every bit that doesn't ofttimes happen.

First Poll

The commencement is the master poll - which started to larn a lot of votes for Winsor & Newton partway through the calendar month - causing a major difference from the master indications.  I hit promise that enthusiasm for the construct wasn't generating repeat votes from the same people.......

Blog Poll: Number of respondents: 103
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This commencement nautical chart indicates that the laissez passer on 3 brands of watercolour pigment are:
  1. Winsor as well as Newton Artists Watercolour Paints (42%)
  2. Schminke Horadam Aquarell (14%)
  3. Daniel Smith Watercolour Paints (12%)
Second Poll

The instant is the poll on the novel website - which tends to larn to a greater extent than American visitors.  It is nonetheless far to a greater extent than example of the initial indications on the Blog Poll with Winsor as well as Newton as well as Daniel Smith beingness much to a greater extent than evenly matched.

This nautical chart indicates that the laissez passer on 3 brands of watercolour pigment are:
  1. Winsor as well as Newton Artists Watercolour Paints (25%)
  2. Daniel Smith Watercolour Paints (23.1%)
  3. Schminke Horadam Aquarell (13.5)
Blog Poll: Number of respondents: 52
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Other watercolour paints which proved pop were:
I every bit good ran roughly other poll with as well as it's really apparent that piece watercolour artists may conduct keep favourite brands they every bit good similar trying dissimilar brands.  In both polls, a really high percent of artists had tried to a greater extent than than 3 brands.
  • Original Poll - 82%
  • Second Poll - 97.5%
Reasons for trying dissimilar brands of watercolour paint

There is 1 argue which people repeat over again as well as over again for sticking with one particular brand of watercolour paint.  Artists - both professional person as well as amateur - similar to survive really certain of a consistent as well as first-class character over time. 

Limitations every bit to availability are no longer an obstruction to trying a novel pigment since fine art supplies went online.  However in that place is soundless a vogue to become with brands you lot know you lot tin larn a from a local supplier.

The reasons people conduct keep given me for trying dissimilar brands of watercolour paint are every bit follows:
  • trying dissimilar (new) colours
  • having dissimilar 'favourite' brands for dissimilar colours (or subjects)
  • finding colours which mix good with other colours
  • trying a construct they hadn't heard of if they knew others favoured it.
Hopefully this poll as well as the novel website volition allow people to position those brands which are favoured past times others.  

In relation to geographical bias, I'd aspect quite a few European painters mightiness desire to explore Daniel Smith as well as the M. Graham paints as well as mayhap American painters mightiness similar to explore the novel Sennelier watercolours?

Conclusions

I propose that the lessons to accept away from this poll are every bit follows
  • Artists similar to crusade dissimilar brands of watercolour paint
  • The 3 brands which attract the virtually back upwards are:
    • Winsor & Newton (global)
    • Daniel Smith (in the USA?)
    • Schminke (in Europe?)
  • A smaller grouping of watercolour paints conduct keep meaning numbers of fans - as well as these may good survive worth trying
In addition, if you lot examine the colours produced past times the dissimilar brands - every bit I conduct keep been doing for the novel website, in that place are roughly really clear indications of which brands perform ameliorate inwards relation to dissimilar dependent area matter.  See the analysis of the colours of the dissimilar brands on Which is the best construct of watercolour pigment for artists?  I'm soundless completing this exercise - simply it's really apparent already that the dissimilar brands conduct keep completely dissimilar color ranges.

Another Poll

I'm thinking of running the same poll for crude paints.  Tell me if you lot retrieve that's a practiced consider or not.















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