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I really love your watercolour mixing videos. I have umpteen tubes in various brands because I don’t know how to mix everything. This is very, very helpful!

Hi Nichole. I just did the exact same test with my French Ultramarines. I was wondering if your DS French Ultramarine was mislabeled at the factory and it's their regular Ultramarine. Because mine is very saturated and leans more violet than my Winser and Newton French Ultramarine. And my W&N is my all time favorite in French Ultramarine because once its dried, it just appears brighter, cleaner and less dull. You know how that dull appearance happens when some pigments totally dry? A reason why I adore Cobalt Blue. I love my MGraham Ultramarine too because it doesn't lose as much of it's vibrancy either and sometimes you just need a more non granulating Ultramarine. I don't like granular flower petals or on baby's skin. I painted realistic infant portraits for several years. Now retired from that. PS, my Holbein French Ultramarine is the most violet and most granulating of all. My Schmincke French Ultramarine runner up. Still the most vibrant to me after all is dried is my W&N. Sooo beautiful !

As a new artist, I am confuse about everything you are saying. But it’s probably because I don’t really listen to most artists because they say these things but they don’t explain the reasons like you are. At the same time other artists do a lot more things. So now that I am paying attention which gets me confuse. Thank you for this video .

I have some of my pencils at my desk in the pastel boxes. There are stacked. Love them.

I am so with you. I don’t mind spending a lot on a set of oil pencils but I want them to be oil pencils not wax with 1% oil in casing. Hence a room full of pencils.😂😂😂

As I told my sister, I could do any drawing and coloring with about 36 pencils. But the little girl in me wants BIG boxes and lots of colors! And I have enough OCD to want my pencils in their box AND in the right order. Maybe one day I will outgrow that❤❤❤

HOw do you then use the daniel smith dried color? Wet the brush and pul some t the flat palette?

And they have low granulation in granulating colors.

These pencils do not appear in any other set - they are exclusives.

When you paint on hot press you have to adapt your painting style, including how much water and paint you use. Cold press methods don't work very well on hot press, which is likely why you had trouble - a lot of the work that cold press kind of does for you is a more manual job on hot press. Most complaints I've seen about hot press come from people using cold press methods on it, which means you often get work you're unhappy with as you feel the paper was 'bad'.

This is the most useful review I’ve seen in a long time. You provide so much objective information to support your subject opinions so there’s a lot to work with in drawing our own conclusions. Really excellent.

Thank you that was very helpful. Love the onion 😊

Thanks for this. I had difficulty trying to replace the rubber. No other site explained and showed what you have to do, yours did. Thanks again!

The price has already gone up by $20 or so. The picture of the cherries is gorgeous, btw.

Hi, i just started watercolour painting for about a year. I use Winsor and Newton Cotman when i first started, then i switched to Daniel Smith (which i love). I paint florals and after watching your vidoes on Mijello watercolours, i plan to buy them. I did some price comparison and found Mijello very affordable, compared to Daniel Smith. Do these Mijello pure pigment colours work well with florals? Thank you.

I’d like to see how it works with oil pastels.

Not a beginners set for the reasons stated but I have to chime in to say that I’ve never seen another artist’s palette so closely match my own intuitive love for golden hour/evening colors as Jean Haines Master Artist Set. If an artist is able to control their values to allow for enough light in their painting this set is magical. (Substituting Quin pink for Opera pink)

Thank you for this test, very interesting. I love them, too. So much fun with it. Like Gouache. I am looking forward to your Lightfast test 😊

I think you where full of crap

Any update on lightfast testing?

None of the yellow ochre’s / ochre is transparent no matter what brand like your showing, they go on opaque and muddy my water. I hate Ochre of any brand and throwing them all away. I’ll use Burnt Sienna.

Hi, I'm sorry to hear what happened to your old palette. I have a question about the accident: did you successfully saved the watercolours pigments when the ceramic went in pieces (to move them in a new palette)? Thx for your attention

Hi Can you please tell me which are the other companies that offer PR 242 ? I couldn't find information and if you can help me that will be great. Thank you very much.

Lovely and Thank you!

Yellow ochre with pyrrol red is *gorgeous*!

I think that pan area is fit for full pans. 12 exactly what do you think ? Thank you I really enjoyed your expertise and color mixing.

Thank you for the informative video

Whyyyyy does the titanium white have a cadmium/lead warning, I haven't seen other gouache brands have this ;_; It feels so unnecessary.

What colors did you put in this? I am in the process of setting up my own Quiller-style palette up, and I am still making my decisions on colors...

I haven't had any wax bloom issues with what few Lightfast pencils I have, but I use mine with my Lumis since I have more of those and find the range of values the Lumis to be a bit better than the Lightfast. Either set seems to compliment each other well. I have also used them with my Polychromos pencils too without any issue since Polys are a lot brighter than the Lightfast pencils. Wax bloom is a weird topic for me because it really bothers some people but I find it doesn't particularly bother me. It can always be removed with a layer of blender pencil or a wipe from a tissue. Perhaps this isn't such an issue to me because I've been more of a colorist than an artist the last few years. I think it's probably because of that, but even when I was an artist I don't remember it bothering me. Either way, nice review, I like that you were honest about everything you had issues with here because a lot of artists just like something and will just rave about it instead of properly listing the cons

Me interesa aprender a manejar el kit, pero en el traductor no me da español, que puedo hacer

Thank you so much, this was very helpful. I especially loved to see the flow comparison demo vs qor and daniel smith, because i actually own some qors and find how 'flowy' they are a bit hard to work with when trying to paint very detailed areas with controlled gradations. For me, having less flow without my direct intervention (ie dragging my brush to gently feather out an edge) is very appealing :) . I think i may take the plunge with mijello after all.

Thank you for the review of these. I haven't seen the M. Graham acrylics come up on the other channels I watch. I was given a tube of the Indian Yellow at my local art store yesterday and I'm trying to decide whether to start getting into acrylics now or give the tube away. 😅

Thank you for the review. These are lovely=3

What is the width of the eraser. Is it 7 mm (0.7 cm ) or 5 mm . ?

Do you want to give your emptied wooden box to me ,im very much interested

I have the primary set of Daniel smith and I wanted some fun colors. I almost got this set but then I went with the mezzi godet palette. Such a fun palette and just what I wanted!

Does anybody know, whats the 2nd color on the right, next to the Mid Ultramarine? That blue that is like Cobalt, and has 2 darker blues on the right and on the left of it and it's darker than t he mid ultramarine. Just count 2 colors, after the mid ultramarine, on the right,the 2nd, what's that please?

Hello there. Im still learning and I would like to buy a good white. Want to try the one you are showing but I went to Blick (online) and saw 2 whites. One reads: Schmincke Soft Pastel - White 001D and the other one is: Schmincke Soft Pastel - White Pearl 910H. Which one should I buy? What's the difference?

The polychromos are brighter but there's a reason for it..I don't know the exact reason but I believe it's why with the various test thrown at them, are the reason why.. Derwent Lightfast and Caran D' ache may appear more muted, ( although I would call it 'more natural') but both brands give insight of the pigments they've used. I suspect FC uses dye to give these 'bright colors'..I loved your authentic voice and opinion in this review!!

What press paper is your favorite?

I just did mine and it works so far.

Just saw this looking for a brand to buy. Thank you for always staying real and telling the truth. With everyone getting sponsors or getting kickbacks it's hard for artists to decide. What's the truth and whats an infomercial is often lost.

Yeah seems like there’s not a high enough pigment load for a ‘professional’ range, and they try to hide it with brighteners which is so not cool. I’m glad I tried a better brand first, it blew my mind first time I used the good stuff.

Holbein is the best gouache. Hands down!

I realize this video was made quite awhile ago, but... I really appreciate your comments on the individual paints before they were applied onto the paper, as to how they re-wet and their appearance on the palette. That's not something we normally get to see or hear in color comparison videos, and it really affected my decision in which one I'd like to buy and try. Many thanks! 🙏☺️

Mmm ... nope. Thanks for the review!

It's a great product use the erasers all the time.

Just bought the set of 100 lightfast and the 100 Inktense, set of 72 cromaflow also have a couple sets of artists studio, drawing a set 72 watercolour, couple sets of academy pencils coloursoft pencils nive to use.

You are not a vegan. There is no such thing as a vegan. If you use electricity, internet, water, wear clothing, use transportation, use soap, etc you are not a vegan.