M Grahams Unbox and Swatch
Channel: Becca Hillburn: Comic Artist 
Date: 10/07/2018

In this Unbox and Swatch video, I compare several professional brands of watercolor to help shed some context on M Grahams claims of superior color and clarity.  

Note:  All watercolors in this review were purchased by me, in an attempt to find better, more economical watercolors for my comic art palette.

M Graham Introduction, Information, and Swatching: 0:00
Multi brand introduction: 10:16
Brand Color Breakdown: 11:49
TUBE SWATCHING
Color Swatching: M Graham: 14:24
Color Swatching: Sennelier: 17:44
Color Swatching: St Petersburg White Nights: 19:53
Color Swatching: Qor Watercolors: 20:52
Color Swatching: Mijello Mission Gold: 22:44
Color Swatching: Holbein: 24:46
Color Swatching: Daniel Smith: 25:46

Setting up an M Graham Dry Palette: 26:46

Dried Tube Swatch Sheet, Discussing Color Selections: 38:26

Tube Color Lifting Test 44:30

HALF PAN SWATCHING
M Graham: 50:49
Discussing how the half pans swatched: 54:32




More Information About:  M Graham
https://mgraham.com/artists-colors/watercolors/
https://mgraham.com/about/

Made with blackberry honey- a very traditional humectant- hydrophilic, so absorbs water from the atmosphere to stay moist, reactivates quickly for even fluid washes, allows for stronger, truer colors

Oil paints, gouache, watercolor, mediums
70 total colors
Available openstock and in themed 5 colorsets: Basic, Cobalt Mix, Quinacridone Quintet, Landscape, Jewel Tone, Cityscape, Summer, Desert Southwest, Marinescape, New England, Pacific Southwest, The South- Amazon has more of these sets than Blick
Available on Amazon, Blick (https://www.dickblick.com/products/m-graham-artists-watercolors/), Cheap Joe's (https://www.cheapjoes.com/m-graham-artists-watercolors.html)
Also available in a 10 color set: https://amzn.to/2rZHwV0
.5oz
Basic 5 Color Set: $36.84 on Amazon: https://amzn.to/2IFQcGx



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