I am the odd duck, I like a plastic box.I paint at the beach often and the metal boxes always get rusty. So far my fave set up is the Portable Painter. I use Daniel Smith paints and the PP comes empty so you add whatever you like.
I am with you on the plastic box. Not a fan of noise of metal boxes. I have this watercolour set and think the box is really high quality plastic, would be better if the plastic palate won't stain.
I have this set. I added Holbein’s Payne’s Grey and Ultramarine Deep from tubes I have. Plus a 1/2 pan of white gouache. That balanced this set out. Happy to have had the extra space. You can use the removable lid for water.
Hi Emily. I have the list of Artist Steve Hanks color pigment choices. Ivory Black (PBk9) is not as opaque as other blacks and mixes well with other pigments. In fact many paint colors are made with it. Did you know that one of the pigments Steve Hanks never went without on his palette is W&N Ivory Black? Pigment PBk9, a warm black. Like other carbon blacks, it is very lightfast, and semitransparent. It mutes down colors like, pinks and corals so beautifully! If you look at the pigments used to make your Daniel Smith Indigo, you will notice it is made with a Black pigment in it. PBk6, Lamp Black & a blue. Lamp black PBk6 is a very lightfast, very opaque, heavily staining black pigment, soot from lamp burned petroleum, gas or wax. It is a cool black. I love Schmincke Paynes Gray Bluish. Its also made with a black and blue pigment. Sepia and Van Dike brown are usually made with black pigments also. I'm a watercolor portrait artist painting mostly infants, in super realism. Retired. ;-)
Emily, take all of your pans out of you Schminke tin, and squeeze the metal bars closer together. Then reinsert your half pans by pushing one side in and then snapping down the other side. Those are adjustable. If they loosen over time just take them out squeeze the bars and pop in the pans. Hope this makes sense.
I think they had this in the box to make it look like a bento box. It signifies part of japanese culture, the traveling with a bento box. Box is cute though. 😍
The high price is for the US market. My daughter bought the 18 pan set with a blue hinged lid for only $65. She was in Japan so could buy at Japanese prices! I have the 24 pan set too but did not pay a high price. Holbein has only approved venders in the US . One Japanese EBay seller told me he had tp pull his pan sets coz Ebay was not an approved vender. However, you can find used sets from time to time on EBay and these venders are in the US.
The price is INSANE. For 1/3 the price, you can get three times as much Holbein paint in tubes. The box looks like it's more trouble than it's worth, even if it was FREE. Plus, I hate plastic palettes.
@@lizadivine3785 I have tried this a lot of times and it has never worked for me. Neither has the glue. The only thing that works for me is using the palette until it stops beading
Beautiful painting! I got the largest palm box with 36 colors and I absolutely Love it, although I think it’s too large for plein air. If you’re looking for a great plein air palette at a more affordable price I’d go with the travel set from QoR. It’s compact but very usable and has a great selection of colors for just about anything you could think of to paint.
I have the larger palm box and it sits on my desk full time. I have more than 20 high end palettes I switch out depending on what I’m painting. but I bought this to have them as tests to see if I want to buy tubes of them when it runs out. There are many that are my favorites. Vermilion is one. Leaf green. I love this palette it’s a staple when I paint. When it runs out I won’t get another but I Will buy some of the tubes. If you want to test out Holbein and have a large assortment of colors it’s nice to splurge on this IMO
Great review!! You are so right…it’s really pricy for what you get!! Your plein air painting…so beautiful!! The scenery is just awesome. You are so fortunate to have this fantastic view to paint. I’m in Delaware….still looking for some great views… lol. Always looking forward to watching and learning from your tutorials. Thank you!!
Not sure if anyone has mentioned this but you can hang the palettes off the sides of the Holbein palette. :-) (also, loved to see one of my sketchbooks in use! Let me know when you need a re-up!)
Beautiful landscape painting! Emily, can you do a video on your top picks from brands you recommend? Its hard picking colors when you want to upgrade to professional paints. One way to go is to drive inspiration from your favourite artists’ palette. I do always read the entire description of every video to know the colors you have used but would love to know your top picks.
What a beautiful painting, Emily! Had no idea your part of the US was so stunning! Will have to visit. This was my very first set of watercolors-- in the red box. The red box is beautiful, but a total pain! Ridiculously difficult to open, and I could never figure out how to close it so that the top didn't slip off. That said, I LOVE the paints. I've tried Sennelier, Daniel Smith, WN, and Derwent. But I always come back to Holbein as my signature paints. There's something about them - their transparency, and ease of lifting. I'm not particularly in love with granulation, so that's another reason I prefer Holbein. So, I just removed the half pans from the red, plastic box, and placed them into another, similarly sized tin (with a thumb hoop), and they are great! Holbein is much better on an enamel palette, but great on porcelain-- very noticeable difference - they seem dead on plastic. I think I also stuck magnetic tape on the pans, too-- if I remember, they moved around a lot in that red box, which was super annoying. I also made another palette with full pans from Holbein tubes. I like the brush a lot, but I don't use it very often. It's great when you're out and about with a small WC notebook. The color selection in this set could be tweaked- I'd switch out the Viridian and the Prussian Blue (great colors, but rather something else). Someone below mentioned liking the plastic box when at the beach- hadn't thought of that! These paints make me want to paint in a way that the other brands don't. They call my name! Ha! Happy Painting! Thank you so much for your review! I loved it!
Hullo Emily, I clicked the Thumbs UP as you did a lovely job on this video! I did not want to click the down button because I know there are so many better options for small palettes with expertly curated paints! The quality of this video is so well done by you! I know that anyone who reads my comments knows I am a fan of DaVinci paints and Denise Soden's quality curated palettes. I do hope you give them a try and they will NOT break the bank when purchasing these professional quality paints! I can not believe that you must pay for a useless Black option in such a small palette and limited choices 1 nice yellow and I do not believe ocher is a good warm tone for mixing and 2 greens? What a rip off!
Watercolors are so fun. This box set is unique looking but it doesn’t seem worth it for the price. Wish Holbein would go back to selling their 1000 and 500 palettes that have been discontinued. Nice review by the way! 🎨🖌
I recently bought this from Jacksons UK for £70. I had been eying it for a couple years, havnt used it yet as I've wrapped it up for my special presant for christmas. It's my first set of holbein so I hope I like them
The price of Holbein products are only reasonable in the Asian part of the world, I got mine in Hong Kong. In USA, you are paying for their travelling fee.
I love Holbein. I have the 60 set of 5 ml tubes and I made my own palette with them. That being said though, I haven't found any premade pan sets I've liked from any brand. They all seem different quality from the tubes for some reason.
@@EmilyOlsonArt I do not actively use all 60 as I mostly do botanical stuff but I have all 60 in half pans in a tin palette. I adore the reds, yellows, greens, browns and some of the blues so I'd say those are my favorites. There's a couple oddball colors like the silver and gold which I don't have much use for. I'd say it's a very nice selection of colors for the price and the 5ml tubes will fill a half pan twice. I'm not sure why pre made half pans always seem kinda like watered down versions of the tube paints but that's just been my experience.
All around the same price in Canada, maybe more for Holbein set. But they look beautiful. So true metal box better. Thanks for the review. Your paintings are beautiful
I have a 12 color intro set of 5 ml tubes from Holbein (and a number of other individual colors) and I really like them. I bought it on Amazon 3 or 4 years ago for like under $25. It was a great buy! But I hope they changed the Alizarin Crimson pigment, since mine was the pigment that is known for fading and I love AC. I replaced it with Winsor Newton Primary Red. Sorry, I can't recall the pigment number. I think the rest of them were fine in LF ratings. This pan set that's being reviewed is certainly cool, but whoever's setting the prices for the U.S. market is a bit too confident with this set as upscale as it is. Is it actually Holbein or some sort of import/export middleman who are setting prices? Who knows?) But based on the price, this one would be a no-go for me.
Yeah, definitely overpriced for the N.American market. There are several much cheaper but sturdy and well designed 12-16 halfpan alternative 'field pallets' @ Dick Blick, Jerry's Artorama, Amazon or even Jackson's Art in U.K. Most of them have a functional thumb/finger ring or hole also. This Palm Box has an eye-watering price considering the limited mixing area and small total volume of paint. It seems to be a 'prestige' item rather than a practical tool for the field.
Have you tried the Qor half pan travel set? No finger ring, no mixing trays other than the lid and area between the pans but the colors and the pigment quality is outstanding.
You're a lovely presenter and artist! 🙂🙂🙂 The yellow ochre is too muted to be a good orange-based yellow. They should replace it with Cadmium Yellow. For that insane price, including those "hue" colours is criminal. Why they didn't add Cadmium red instead of vermilion is incredible. Prussian blue may be fugitive. I gave up buying ready made sets years ago. Best to buy individual tubes/pans to customise to your needs.
My Daniel Smith paints wasn't individually wrapped. I had some student grade pans that was wrapped. Also I find most pans are pricier compare to tubes.
You're right--not all pro pan paints are wrapped. Sennelier's 12 pan set isn't either. I wonder if the small packaging and extra plastic pieces (and extra drying/pressing time) for the pans makes them more expensive?
Holbein paint in tubes is so affordable I've always wondered why the halfpan boxes are so expensive. I can get a set of 12 colours like the ones in the vid for less than 60usd yet the palm box version would be at least 50% more. Great painting though!
I purchased a 24 half pan set by D Smith for $117 plus tax. It came in a strong tin and had an extra tin with 24 more empty half pans. So, This set doesn't impress me
You can definitely paint with these paints, but they don't include true primaries in the set. None of the 6 "primaries" in the box is actually a true primary. They're all a bit "off" the side they need to be on (e.g. vermilion is not a red, crimson is not a magenta, cobalt pale is not a warm blue, prussian blue is fugitive, ochre is essentially a brown etc). But hey, you can definitely paint with these just fine.
For users in the USA...you CANNOT beat the DaVinci paint company watercolor pallette of 12 FULL pans for $56. These are professional paints that are of the best quality you can get directly from the company. Forget the middle man and save.
Ooof! Good thing they have lovely paints, but essentially you ended up paying 10$ per half pan. Ouch. But a lovely painting, you are very lucky to live near gorgeous scenery like that. That little tab on the bottom just slides between your fingers if you were to hold it. And kudos- You got imidazoline right.
The problem i think US sell it to expensive … if u want to buy hollbein , buy it when u visit Japan u will amaze how cheap it is , in tube 5ml it came only $1 US
Hello Emily, Great review for the Holbein palm set. I am curious as to whether you have a tutorial on warm and cold colours? I have a hard time trying to figure them out. Thank you, Enjoy your day 😊
Hey Marika, I know your question was aimed at Emily and I would love to see a tutorial on this subject as well but in the meantime, you can go on to the handprint website and there is a chart on there showing which pigments lean towards which temperatures, as well as descriptions, history, etc. I found it invaluable (and still do!) when I started out with watercolours.
These don't look as bright as i thought they would be for the price point... have you used them more? Holbein along with M. Graham are the only paints that I do not own and I often wondered how they preformed. Thank you for such an honest review! I LOVE your videos, especially the pet portraits. I've tried to paint my mini aussiedoodle but he always seem to just come off looking "cartoonish". More practice I guess. 😊🥰
Holbein paints perform amazing BUT you have to buy the TUBES not pre made pans. Idk what it is about premade pans but they are never ever as good as the paint you get from the tubes. Please don't write Holbein off. Try the tubes and make your own half pan palette with them. That's what I did and I adore them.
@@AbraCassandraCrafts I have had the exact opposite experience. I find the pans to be far more vibrant than the tubes I have. I wonder why we have such different experiences! That said, I do love Holbein watercolors on the whole, but I think for the price she paid, it's fair to be a bit disappointed. I got the 36 set for the same price she paid for this 12 pan set, and that is just crazy.
Thanks for your comment! Overall I do love Holbein paints. If they were more vibrant, I don't think I would like them as much since most of the things I like to paint are more muted/natural colors. I struggle with brighter paints because they seem too bright/garish to me, so I tend to gravitate towards earthy colors rather than super chromatic colors.
This set is about $45 at Japan's Amazon. Sometimes even cheaper, around $35. Please do not review based on an overpriced tag, I think it's quite unfair.
Here in my place the same set of Holbein are almost similarly priced as W&N (Pro), Sennelier & Schmincke (around 80-90$) for 12 half pans. Can't say the same for DS, which is far more expensive compare to these other brands and its not even in the most convenient compact box!
There are two different Daniel Smith 12 half pan sets in the same metal palettes on Blick, each is $62 and the 24.half pan set is $117. Maybe you're in another country with different prices but check out Jackson's where those same two 12 half pan sets are $65 each.
I purchased the much larger version of this set (I think there are 36 pans?) for the same price you paid. I love it, but I didn't think I'd love that smaller one, and I definitely wouldn't have paid what you paid for it.
why is this set so expensive? a couple of years ago i purchased the 108 tube set for about the same amount at this little one. Have they gone up so much in price?
I feel like if you're advanced enough to justify spending this much on a simple travel set, you already have these colors. I don't know who the market is for this set.
I have to tell you Cheryl yay is Terrible aqua row I paid almost $200 they are junk I will check on Holbein and phmsrtinDo you wanna buy Apple Rall Bella Terrible not worth the money
I am the odd duck, I like a plastic box.I paint at the beach often and the metal boxes always get rusty. So far my fave set up is the Portable Painter. I use Daniel Smith paints and the PP comes empty so you add whatever you like.
I have a video about the Portable painter coming out soon! Yes, I’m a fan!
I am with you on the plastic box. Not a fan of noise of metal boxes. I have this watercolour set and think the box is really high quality plastic, would be better if the plastic palate won't stain.
I have this set. I added Holbein’s Payne’s Grey and Ultramarine Deep from tubes I have. Plus a 1/2 pan of white gouache. That balanced this set out. Happy to have had the extra space. You can use the removable lid for water.
Hi Emily. I have the list of Artist Steve Hanks color pigment choices. Ivory Black (PBk9) is not as opaque as other blacks and mixes well with other pigments. In fact many paint colors are made with it. Did you know that one of the pigments Steve Hanks never went without on his palette is W&N Ivory Black? Pigment PBk9, a warm black. Like other carbon blacks, it is very lightfast, and semitransparent. It mutes down colors like, pinks and corals so beautifully! If you look at the pigments used to make your Daniel Smith Indigo, you will notice it is made with a Black pigment in it. PBk6, Lamp Black & a blue. Lamp black PBk6 is a very lightfast, very opaque, heavily staining black pigment, soot from lamp burned petroleum, gas or wax. It is a cool black. I love Schmincke Paynes Gray Bluish. Its also made with a black and blue pigment. Sepia and Van Dike brown are usually made with black pigments also. I'm a watercolor portrait artist painting mostly infants, in super realism. Retired. ;-)
Yes, Ivory Black is quite useful especially when painting on the go. It's almost too much work mixing a good black when you need to work quickly!
Emily, take all of your pans out of you Schminke tin, and squeeze the metal bars closer together. Then reinsert your half pans by pushing one side in and then snapping down the other side. Those are adjustable. If they loosen over time just take them out squeeze the bars and pop in the pans. Hope this makes sense.
Totally! Thanks! I’ve just never taken the time to tighten it! 😂
Mixing black and yellow make gorgeous greens…so I tend to welcome black pans in these sets. 😊
That's a very Zorn way of thinking--love it! I'll try that next time I use the set!
You must work small or you will WRECK YOUR BRUSHES
At that price it should make your tea and clean the yard as well! Thanks Emily.x
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This sold in Japan for ~USD60.
I think they had this in the box to make it look like a bento box. It signifies part of japanese culture, the traveling with a bento box. Box is cute though. 😍
Ooh interesting!
The high price is for the US market. My daughter bought the 18 pan set with a blue hinged lid for only $65. She was in Japan so could buy at Japanese prices! I have the 24 pan set too but did not pay a high price. Holbein has only approved venders in the US . One Japanese EBay seller told me he had tp pull his pan sets coz Ebay was not an approved vender. However, you can find used sets from time to time on EBay and these venders are in the US.
That makes sense!
The price is INSANE. For 1/3 the price, you can get three times as much Holbein paint in tubes. The box looks like it's more trouble than it's worth, even if it was FREE. Plus, I hate plastic palettes.
Rub the plastic with toothpaste. Then remove it. It’s a charm.
@@lizadivine3785 I have tried this a lot of times and it has never worked for me. Neither has the glue. The only thing that works for me is using the palette until it stops beading
The price tag in Japan is only about 60USD. I think 120 is marked up a lot even with import and shipping.
Beautiful painting! I got the largest palm box with 36 colors and I absolutely Love it, although I think it’s too large for plein air. If you’re looking for a great plein air palette at a more affordable price I’d go with the travel set from QoR. It’s compact but very usable and has a great selection of colors for just about anything you could think of to paint.
Thanks Brian! The QOR set is on my list to try next! I do love their tube paints.
I love my 12 four pan da Vinci set. It’s metal box and has great colors, most single pigment, and transparent.
I have the larger palm box and it sits on my desk full time. I have more than 20 high end palettes I switch out depending on what I’m painting. but I bought this to have them as tests to see if I want to buy tubes of them when it runs out. There are many that are my favorites. Vermilion is one. Leaf green. I love this palette it’s a staple when I paint. When it runs out I won’t get another but I Will buy some of the tubes. If you want to test out Holbein and have a large assortment of colors it’s nice to splurge on this IMO
Thank you! Nice to hear a positive experience with the Holbein pans! I do love the quality of the brand overall!
Great review!! You are so right…it’s really pricy for what you get!! Your plein air painting…so beautiful!! The scenery is just awesome. You are so fortunate to have this fantastic view to paint. I’m in Delaware….still looking for some great views… lol. Always looking forward to watching and learning from your tutorials. Thank you!!
There’s beauty where you live! I’ll bet you have lots of quaint old towns, trees and streets to paint there!
Not sure if anyone has mentioned this but you can hang the palettes off the sides of the Holbein palette. :-) (also, loved to see one of my sketchbooks in use! Let me know when you need a re-up!)
Thanks, Rosi! ❤️🙌
This set sells for 8140 yen (including. tax) in Japan. That’s about $54 (USD) at March 2024 exchange rate.
Thanks….researching sets to finally get out and paint…..very hot and rainy here in west coast of florida…love your channel.
Thanks, Andrea! Hope you find the perfect set for you!
Beautiful landscape painting!
Emily, can you do a video on your top picks from brands you recommend? Its hard picking colors when you want to upgrade to professional paints. One way to go is to drive inspiration from your favourite artists’ palette. I do always read the entire description of every video to know the colors you have used but would love to know your top picks.
Absolutely!! Will do!
Great end to end review Emily. I loved especially hearing your endorsement for what you have on your palette and equivalents.
Thanks, Glenda, for the kind comment!
Thank you - great video . I’m really glad you saved me some money . I’ve been a Daniel Smith fan for years .
What a beautiful painting, Emily! Had no idea your part of the US was so stunning! Will have to visit. This was my very first set of watercolors-- in the red box. The red box is beautiful, but a total pain! Ridiculously difficult to open, and I could never figure out how to close it so that the top didn't slip off. That said, I LOVE the paints. I've tried Sennelier, Daniel Smith, WN, and Derwent. But I always come back to Holbein as my signature paints. There's something about them - their transparency, and ease of lifting. I'm not particularly in love with granulation, so that's another reason I prefer Holbein. So, I just removed the half pans from the red, plastic box, and placed them into another, similarly sized tin (with a thumb hoop), and they are great! Holbein is much better on an enamel palette, but great on porcelain-- very noticeable difference - they seem dead on plastic. I think I also stuck magnetic tape on the pans, too-- if I remember, they moved around a lot in that red box, which was super annoying. I also made another palette with full pans from Holbein tubes. I like the brush a lot, but I don't use it very often. It's great when you're out and about with a small WC notebook. The color selection in this set could be tweaked- I'd switch out the Viridian and the Prussian Blue (great colors, but rather something else). Someone below mentioned liking the plastic box when at the beach- hadn't thought of that! These paints make me want to paint in a way that the other brands don't. They call my name! Ha! Happy Painting! Thank you so much for your review! I loved it!
I love Holbein, too! You are right, though--they need a new box design. :)
The best palm set I got is the QOR: great choice of pigments and colors (split primary + Transparent pyrrol orange, Payne's Grey instead of black).
That’s on my list to try!
Hullo Emily, I clicked the Thumbs UP as you did a lovely job on this video! I did not want to click the down button because I know there are so many better options for small palettes with expertly curated paints! The quality of this video is so well done by you!
I know that anyone who reads my comments knows I am a fan of DaVinci paints and Denise Soden's quality curated palettes. I do hope you give them a try and they will NOT break the bank when purchasing these professional quality paints! I can not believe that you must pay for a useless Black option in such a small palette and limited choices 1 nice yellow and I do not believe ocher is a good warm tone for mixing and 2 greens? What a rip off!
Watercolors are so fun. This box set is unique looking but it doesn’t seem worth it for the price. Wish Holbein would go back to selling their 1000 and 500 palettes that have been discontinued. Nice review by the way! 🎨🖌
I recently bought this from Jacksons UK for £70. I had been eying it for a couple years, havnt used it yet as I've wrapped it up for my special presant for christmas. It's my first set of holbein so I hope I like them
They are great quality paints!
The price of Holbein products are only reasonable in the Asian part of the world, I got mine in Hong Kong. In USA, you are paying for their travelling fee.
I love Holbein. I have the 60 set of 5 ml tubes and I made my own palette with them. That being said though, I haven't found any premade pan sets I've liked from any brand. They all seem different quality from the tubes for some reason.
Do you use all 60 or have you settled on some favorite colors?
@@EmilyOlsonArt I do not actively use all 60 as I mostly do botanical stuff but I have all 60 in half pans in a tin palette. I adore the reds, yellows, greens, browns and some of the blues so I'd say those are my favorites. There's a couple oddball colors like the silver and gold which I don't have much use for. I'd say it's a very nice selection of colors for the price and the 5ml tubes will fill a half pan twice. I'm not sure why pre made half pans always seem kinda like watered down versions of the tube paints but that's just been my experience.
Love the review and seeing you go outdoors!!
Aw thanks Staci! And hello! 👋 Miss the TX gang!
Wow, US prices are insane. I'm in Japan right now and I went with holbein because it's cheaper than anything else.
All around the same price in Canada, maybe more for Holbein set. But they look beautiful. So true metal box better. Thanks for the review.
Your paintings are beautiful
Thanks, Carol!
I have a 12 color intro set of 5 ml tubes from Holbein (and a number of other individual colors) and I really like them. I bought it on Amazon 3 or 4 years ago for like under $25. It was a great buy! But I hope they changed the Alizarin Crimson pigment, since mine was the pigment that is known for fading and I love AC. I replaced it with Winsor Newton Primary Red. Sorry, I can't recall the pigment number. I think the rest of them were fine in LF ratings. This pan set that's being reviewed is certainly cool, but whoever's setting the prices for the U.S. market is a bit too confident with this set as upscale as it is. Is it actually Holbein or some sort of import/export middleman
who are setting prices? Who knows?) But based on the price, this one would be a no-go for me.
Yeah, definitely overpriced for the N.American market. There are several much cheaper but sturdy and well designed 12-16 halfpan alternative 'field pallets' @ Dick Blick, Jerry's Artorama, Amazon or even Jackson's Art in U.K. Most of them have a functional thumb/finger ring or hole also. This Palm Box has an eye-watering price considering the limited mixing area and small total volume of paint. It seems to be a 'prestige' item rather than a practical tool for the field.
Have you tried the Qor half pan travel set? No finger ring, no mixing trays other than the lid and area between the pans but the colors and the pigment quality is outstanding.
I didn't know they make one, I wanted to try this brand for quite a while.
That's on my list of palettes to try! I love QOR paints! I have a set of 5ml tubes that I use often.
I would love a review of that one!! It's been on my radar!!
You're a lovely presenter and artist! 🙂🙂🙂
The yellow ochre is too muted to be a good orange-based yellow. They should replace it with Cadmium Yellow. For that insane price, including those "hue" colours is criminal. Why they didn't add Cadmium red instead of vermilion is incredible. Prussian blue may be fugitive. I gave up buying ready made sets years ago. Best to buy individual tubes/pans to customise to your needs.
Totally agree!
Real Viridian doesn't look garish. It's softer, like Cobalt Turquois.
My Daniel Smith paints wasn't individually wrapped. I had some student grade pans that was wrapped. Also I find most pans are pricier compare to tubes.
You're right--not all pro pan paints are wrapped. Sennelier's 12 pan set isn't either. I wonder if the small packaging and extra plastic pieces (and extra drying/pressing time) for the pans makes them more expensive?
Holbein paint in tubes is so affordable I've always wondered why the halfpan boxes are so expensive. I can get a set of 12 colours like the ones in the vid for less than 60usd yet the palm box version would be at least 50% more. Great painting though!
I purchased a 24 half pan set by D Smith for $117 plus tax. It came in a strong tin and had an extra tin with 24 more empty half pans. So, This set doesn't impress me
Agreed! Can't go wrong with Daniel Smith!
Half pans are a joke. They wreck most brushes.
You can definitely paint with these paints, but they don't include true primaries in the set. None of the 6 "primaries" in the box is actually a true primary. They're all a bit "off" the side they need to be on (e.g. vermilion is not a red, crimson is not a magenta, cobalt pale is not a warm blue, prussian blue is fugitive, ochre is essentially a brown etc). But hey, you can definitely paint with these just fine.
For users in the USA...you CANNOT beat the DaVinci paint company watercolor pallette of 12 FULL pans for $56. These are professional paints that are of the best quality you can get directly from the company. Forget the middle man and save.
Sounds like a great set!
Ooof! Good thing they have lovely paints, but essentially you ended up paying 10$ per half pan. Ouch. But a lovely painting, you are very lucky to live near gorgeous scenery like that. That little tab on the bottom just slides between your fingers if you were to hold it. And kudos- You got imidazoline right.
YES!!!! I needed that affirmation (on the paint name lol)! Thanks for your comment!
I bought this on Amazon japan for like 30 us dollars，delivered to China
The problem i think US sell it to expensive … if u want to buy hollbein , buy it when u visit Japan u will amaze how cheap it is , in tube 5ml it came only $1 US
I love Holbein but I don’t buy their sets because they’re overpriced. I only buy the 60 ml or 15 ml tubes.
Hello Emily, Great review for the Holbein palm set. I am curious as to whether you have a tutorial on warm and cold colours? I have a hard time trying to figure them out. Thank you, Enjoy your day 😊
Hey Marika, I know your question was aimed at Emily and I would love to see a tutorial on this subject as well but in the meantime, you can go on to the handprint website and there is a chart on there showing which pigments lean towards which temperatures, as well as descriptions, history, etc. I found it invaluable (and still do!) when I started out with watercolours.
They do make student grade gouache and or acrylic gouache but there hard to find
Ooh I didn’t know that!
These don't look as bright as i thought they would be for the price point... have you used them more? Holbein along with M. Graham are the only paints that I do not own and I often wondered how they preformed. Thank you for such an honest review! I LOVE your videos, especially the pet portraits. I've tried to paint my mini aussiedoodle but he always seem to just come off looking "cartoonish". More practice I guess. 😊🥰
Holbein paints perform amazing BUT you have to buy the TUBES not pre made pans. Idk what it is about premade pans but they are never ever as good as the paint you get from the tubes. Please don't write Holbein off. Try the tubes and make your own half pan palette with them. That's what I did and I adore them.
@@AbraCassandraCrafts I have had the exact opposite experience. I find the pans to be far more vibrant than the tubes I have. I wonder why we have such different experiences! That said, I do love Holbein watercolors on the whole, but I think for the price she paid, it's fair to be a bit disappointed. I got the 36 set for the same price she paid for this 12 pan set, and that is just crazy.
Thanks for your comment! Overall I do love Holbein paints. If they were more vibrant, I don't think I would like them as much since most of the things I like to paint are more muted/natural colors. I struggle with brighter paints because they seem too bright/garish to me, so I tend to gravitate towards earthy colors rather than super chromatic colors.
@@sallygreenfield6991 Oh definitely every right to be disappointed. I certainly would be.
I love the premade pans they don’t perform different than the tube IMO
This set is about $45 at Japan's Amazon. Sometimes even cheaper, around $35. Please do not review based on an overpriced tag, I think it's quite unfair.
That makes sense! They are made in Japan. :)
Here in my place the same set of Holbein are almost similarly priced as W&N (Pro), Sennelier & Schmincke (around 80-90$) for 12 half pans. Can't say the same for DS, which is far more expensive compare to these other brands and its not even in the most convenient compact box!
That's SO interesting! Must just be a difference in supply chain or distribution channels.
There are two different Daniel Smith 12 half pan sets in the same metal palettes on Blick, each is $62 and the 24.half pan set is $117. Maybe you're in another country with different prices but check out Jackson's where those same two 12 half pan sets are $65 each.
Great reviews... 😊 using such a cheap box for their paints is just silly.
Hey Sunshine ☀️! What would u recommend that I would b pleased with? I’m the typ of person. Wut you pay wut u get.
I purchased the much larger version of this set (I think there are 36 pans?) for the same price you paid. I love it, but I didn't think I'd love that smaller one, and I definitely wouldn't have paid what you paid for it.
Good deal! That seems more reasonable.
@@EmilyOlsonArt Yes, but to be fair, I got it through a friend in Japan, where Holbein is so much cheaper.
the paint itself looks lovely, but I don't like the plastic box either. Especially for that price :O
Agreed!
Have you seen the Fraser price brass watercolor palette? I love it and nicer design in my opinion but doesn’t come with paint
Which purple do you keep on your normal palette?
Right now I have Holbein Permanent Violet, similar to Dioxazine purple.
That doesn’t look good. I think you were disappointed too. Lol. I got a schmincke palette with ceramic liner. It’s awesome. Heavy but so nice.
why is this set so expensive? a couple of years ago i purchased the 108 tube set for about the same amount at this little one. Have they gone up so much in price?
Could be production/distribution issues from these last couple years-not sure though!
@@EmilyOlsonArt I would bet sheer greed.
I feel like if you're advanced enough to justify spending this much on a simple travel set, you already have these colors. I don't know who the market is for this set.
True!
amazing
Thank you!
Yikes at the $$$ It is pretty though 🙃
No oxgall? Do they use honey?
Gum arabic, I believe
You can't send it back for a refund?
I doubt the company would take back as set of opened/used paints! But it's ok--I enjoy collecting new paints. :)
Omg. It's $139 now. Yikes.
Too pricy for the amount of paint.size n number of colors.i love the brand but i wouldnt buy that set.
I totally agree!
I have holbein, but I just do not love them.....
I'd love to know which paints are your favorite?
120 bucks?!?! yeah that little tab looks worthless for doing anything with
I have to tell you Cheryl yay is Terrible aqua row I paid almost $200 they are junk I will check on Holbein and phmsrtinDo you wanna buy Apple Rall Bella Terrible not worth the money
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Total rip off! Half pans are rip off to begin with, this takes the cake
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This is the worst review i ever watched.
You showed a face of a disgust many times. If i could push dislike button thousands times, i would
Bias or not .