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Daniel Smith has announced their new 2019 colors. I find it rather ironic that in the grayest month of the year, they release 8 new colors, 7 of which are … gray

Awe man, I got so excited and then…..pass.

Thanks for sharing, Tracy. That grey titanium is very interesting, and may consider adding that to my Cheap Joes cart. But…that’s my last order for a while (right!!!).

~ Carol

You are the voice of reason, Monichetta. I do have buff titanium in a wc stick, and, yes, I can mix up a color similar. However…

Cheap Joes doesn’t have grey titanium to purchase online yet, so I’ve been saved from the DS marketing gods…for now.

It’s not often that Virgil and I agree on something. But, we are on the same page with this new introduction.

Using the Artist Names exemplifies our ability to mix our own greys very easily because that’s what these Artists have done. I don’t mean to be criticizing the Artists, but Daniel Smith for their silly marketing hype about something we all can do on our own.

And… if you painted elements in each of these greys and then stood back 10-15′ away from the painting, you’d be hard pressed to observe differences.

The being able to buy a convenience mix of “Janes Gray” is kind of nice, obviously you are just paying for the convenience of mixing two colors together, and having someone else figure out how to balance it. The fact it’s $12-18 though, that is an expensive convenience, but if you are constantly buying new tubes you won’t be using as much of the other two colors, so its a non issue. The others seems like non starters, they just aren’t mixes I’d be making on my own, this one mix is probably more popular than paynes gray or neutral tint, never understood why it’s not been sold before.

It is also nice that it’s not some unknown lofty artist, but one of our own.

We need to have some new colors – Charmed Turquoise ( perhaps pure PB16 ), Virgil Violet, Indraneel Indigo, Roth Red. Monichetta could be its own color, it just sounds cool, perhaps a PR101 variant.

I would love to have my “pthalo black” mix ( pthalo green and Perelene maroon, plus a bit of Pthalo Blue, mixed soas to be perfectly neutral which takes me hours to get just right, just a bit off and it has a green or red lean to it. )

Though lots of grays, most are all granulating and similar, and mostly just leaning this way or that way, what I would prefer is a color that is true neutral, and you can mix in other colors to adjust that. Or more staining. The titanium variant at least is different than anything we’ve had before – and we have a new primatek.

I am…disappointed, sigh. First the leaky, overpriced sets, and now…gray, gray, gray, gray, and more grey. Their marketing department needs a bit of…inspiration.

So Marialena was right all along?

I like greys, so more are always nice to see but I certainly disapprove of the naming and price.

Daniel Smith is always too pricey for me and the colours I have dry and fall out of my palette sometimes, so I’m sticking (pun intended?) to M Graham and various other brands.

Grey titanium has encouraged me to add buff titanium to my wish list though, as it looks like a slightly grey buff titanium. But I won’t be getting it from Daniel Smith.

The primatek one is nice, but not special enough to waste gemstones over imo.