DMP has a new video up
https://youtu.be/Ss29sazXd80I notice that he is using a very neutral stain color and palette background color - practically gray!
Is it just me or is this new stain and palette color completely different from the very warm, white and burnt umber color he used to use for
making palettes:
https://youtu.be/CODlWL6HqzM and staining canvases:
https://youtu.be/Ax9Z9--2KwA) ?
Funny thing is, he mentions his new stain color at about 12:33 and talks a bit, but he does not mention it is new and it almost sounds like he always used that color!
Anyway, I like the new stain color better! I wonder if he just added some ultramarine blue to his old mix...
EDIT: This is not a new stain color, it is likely Geneva Foundation Canvas Stain - the videos I posted re making palettes and staining (using burnt umber and white) do not correspond to Geneva's products and are out of date.
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His color doesn’t look as warm.
The other thing that makes me think it could be just a camera setting is the fact that in some shots at
I just don't know...
I suppose someone who knows him could ask!
I was never too keen on the old stain... not worried, I just thought it looked far too brown... even though I had planned to go par for the course like a good student, with that white - burnt umber.
As a novice looking to do things properly, I've been toying with buying primer, plain acrylic, etc. in brown or gray, and using it consistently on the palette and the canvas, something easy, requiring no remixing, not smelly.
So when I saw this... I got very enthused, and I hope NOT for no reason (thanks for the warning, sometimes "relax, it ain't happening" is the best advice to avoid greater disappointment later)
Hopefully, you all can understand my excitement and eagerness (as well as curiosity) at seeing what I think and hope is a new, more grayish stain color (which I think is preferable)... if it is true he is now "shifted" in his thinking on pre-stain color, there is a slight chance it might be available from Geneva Fine Arts, (as well as gray palettes) if not yet... perhaps very soon!
[It's also exciting to see a new video from Mark, it has been so long!]
Well, I'm going to hold off buying acrylic primer until I get to the bottom of this. Fingers crossed...
I'm still excited.
**EDIT**
More excited. I just realized that the video @Dustin_Cropsboy (and THANK YOU!) linked to, shows that the stain now available from Geneva is DEFINITELY NOT the same as the old burnt umber white one shown in the old - "How to" videos (canvas and palette) I linked to in the OP.
Those videos I posted are out of date.
I think the canvas and palette in the recent video is showing the neutral Geneva stain, and I suspect the palettes (when available again) will be the same very neutral color!!
Now I know where I'm getting my canvas stain from... (and a palette when available)
again Thank you Dustin_Cropsboy !!