Hullo Elvie, I have often wondered why any starter set has any greens? Having an extra yellow or another blue is so much more sensible. I know some consider Raw Sienna a yellow, but for mixing more robust greens, not the best choice. I have gotten better greys mixing Ultramarine Blue and Raw Sienna than the included Paynes grey! I have seen some very nice paintings made from Jackson's watercolors, yet this starter set would NOT encourage me to buy more paint. What do you think? You have quite a journey to get these paints to you is it worth the trouble? I am wondering if you ordered some ROSA gallery paints from Ukraine would they come faster with less troubles than from the UK or Jackson's? I have found the ROSA paints to be quite nice and I have recommended them when I am told that shipping from DaVinci in California is just to expensive and import taxes are to high as well! I know that Artists in the America's are quite spoiled, yes even Canadians have a lot of choices. I know a TH-camr who lives in Canada and she gets her sister to buy paints for her and they meet up and she pays for them! I suppose it is some violation so I will not mention names! but lower prices and no shipping, nor taxes. They are going to get together anyways, so I guess they take advantage of living arrangements! Oh My I had my string pulled or something, Eh? Thanks for a lovely video and I look forward to your future paintings with these paints!
Thank you for the wonderful comment, I find it really depends on the green added, usually they are good and help with creating some beautiful colours in the limited colour palette, this one however was quite restricting in the brown, red and green area and the black doesn't help push new artists into learning colour mixing. It was pretty affordable for how much paint you get and shipping wasn't to expensive, I bought it on special so could be worse. I have been looking to try ROSA watercolours, their sets are very affordable so its defiantly a brand I've been tossing up trying. I've got another video coming out very soon about the Holbein watercolour tester set which I had a joy using, and it is very well priced so that one I and glad I tried out.
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Hullo Elvie, I have often wondered why any starter set has any greens? Having an extra yellow or another blue is so much more sensible. I know some consider Raw Sienna a yellow, but for mixing more robust greens, not the best choice. I have gotten better greys mixing Ultramarine Blue and Raw Sienna than the included Paynes grey! I have seen some very nice paintings made from Jackson's watercolors, yet this starter set would NOT encourage me to buy more paint. What do you think? You have quite a journey to get these paints to you is it worth the trouble? I am wondering if you ordered some ROSA gallery paints from Ukraine would they come faster with less troubles than from the UK or Jackson's? I have found the ROSA paints to be quite nice and I have recommended them when I am told that shipping from DaVinci in California is just to expensive and import taxes are to high as well! I know that Artists in the America's are quite spoiled, yes even Canadians have a lot of choices. I know a TH-camr who lives in Canada and she gets her sister to buy paints for her and they meet up and she pays for them! I suppose it is some violation so I will not mention names! but lower prices and no shipping, nor taxes. They are going to get together anyways, so I guess they take advantage of living arrangements! Oh My I had my string pulled or something, Eh? Thanks for a lovely video and I look forward to your future paintings with these paints!
Thank you for the wonderful comment, I find it really depends on the green added, usually they are good and help with creating some beautiful colours in the limited colour palette, this one however was quite restricting in the brown, red and green area and the black doesn't help push new artists into learning colour mixing.
It was pretty affordable for how much paint you get and shipping wasn't to expensive, I bought it on special so could be worse. I have been looking to try ROSA watercolours, their sets are very affordable so its defiantly a brand I've been tossing up trying.
I've got another video coming out very soon about the Holbein watercolour tester set which I had a joy using, and it is very well priced so that one I and glad I tried out.