I still don’t think that I’ll buy these paints. I only like the Volcano Yellow and Red and the Glacier Turquoise. I think these are the only colours that I can understand. All the other paints are mixtures that we can mix ourselves or mixtures of beautiful single pigments that have been deliberately mixed into boring browns and greys. I do not understand that.
Your paintings are the best part of these paints. I feel underwhelmed otherwise by all of them. They have inspired me to buy a few granulating colors from Daniel Smith that I didn't already own. But I'm thankful that you bought these so I didn't have to.
Oh love the volcano and Lord of the Rings pieces very much. I also agree with the lack of darker tones of the colors. It might take ages to get them a bit darker than you did.
Some of them are very beautiful. It's a pity they don't rewet well. I was thinking about buying one of the sets, but after seeing this video I have changed my mind.I think it is better to get only the color tubes you like.The sets are very expensive and some of the colors are really disappointing. Great review as always. You make me happy every time you upload a video.
I'm glad it helped, and I think choosing individual tubes of favourite colours and mixes is the better financial choice! I have a whole load of these boxes now; maybe I should put them all on display, lol.
Your paintings turned out very cute! I think we should combine these granulating colours with other paints in a painting and don't use them on their own, more like a feature. I had a huge binder separation problem with the yellow and orange. I bought the 5ml tubes and there was only half of the yellow left after I filled a half pan. I was just unable to mix the paint and binder back together. I received two new tubes from Schmincke which were fine. I think people asked for yellow and red granulating colours and, as you said, there are not a ton of options. After the first disappointment that the yellow was not as bright as I expected it to be, I now like it a lot. I don't have rewetting problems with them when I put one or two drops of water in my half pans and wait a few minutes before I use them. Maybe you like them better when you use them more. Well, I hope so because they are so expensive.
The binder splitting away is an issue I had with quite a lot of them, though not with the yellow, weirdly enough! I am thinking I might mix in another yellow to make it brighter and more easy to rewet. Also the red!
I only got the shire 5mm set. I felt ripped off. I didn't like them. Other artists seem to rave about them but I had the same experience as you. I LOVE Schmincke so I was surprised and disappointed. Oh, well. I liked your video and paintings a lot, though, and appreciate your honesty.
That shire set is gorgeous! Even though it is quite a limiting palette it's still beautiful and it matches my feeling to your LOTR painting, that's my fave! I take it you don't like that yellow then? I could be mistaken hahaha! 3 art works in one video, ooohhh your spoiling us! loved this video, very informative and I don't think I'll be buying any of these, they are way out of my budget! I'll just have a go at mixing my own, but if I did have the ££ to buy them it would have to be the shire set for sure! :D
I'm still trying to decide if I have Buyers' Remorse; they were so expensive! 😱 And you are not mistaken, PY159 is a pigment I shall be avoiding as much as possible in the future! I like the bright greens in the Shire set, which will be a welcome addition to the other sets. I'll make one giant set of all colours soon. 😆
I love the camel. I don’t think I’d be interested in these sets. The colors just aren’t working for me. I would love to see something done with all the sets you have.
You are soooo adorable how happy you are with these paints. I ended getting some open stock (you can get the granulating dot card set now to try them out) so I didn’t buy full sets of them all. I actually REALLY love the shire set so I’m sorry your experience wasn’t as great.
good to have an honest review of these, see so many people raving about them in hauls, but not many showing them in practice, which is the good thing about your vids seeing them in use. they seem to be an expensive gimmick, or something pretty for people to gift, and not really that useful or nice to use overall
I bought the haze set (5ml) ,swatched them and now I have no idea what I can paint with these..my boyfriend said I should sell the rest I didn't put in halfpans. I wanted to buy the forest set,in my opinion,it's the best set,but I can't find it for good money🙁
I like them for my abstract horses…but you are totally right, the yellow and red suck… got most of these in half pans right away and the ones I loved in 15 ml tubes…
Oooh! I know that I’ll love this video. And no, I can’t tell your excited; your voice is not any more excited than your normally over-excited voice that we all love 😂
Oh man those looked difficult to squeeze out😵💫 I am also not so impressed with the yellow and most of those mixes of colors, especially the first row! I love your volcano though and the color does look a lot more vibrant straight from the tube. I think my favorite is the camel, I love camels and features/animals of deserts even if I don’t love the heat😂 I will probably not try these paints because I think I’d have am extremely hard time with them😆
These were SO difficult! The yellow is horrible, and I will probably mix it with a less annoying yellow in the future, lol. I do love a camel, they have such funny faces. ❤️
The colors are lovely but not well saturated which is a big bummer since they're so expensive. You said not good for beginners and I agree, but I think even the more advanced would need to have a specific purpose for using these because of low saturation and therefore not so reproduction ability. Very fair tutorial though, Becky! 🥰 Cheryl
Oh yes, that is for sure! They are extremely specialised and/or limited so unless one uses a lot of granulating washes, they are probably going to be totally unnecessary! Indeed I am wondering what the heck I am going to do with all of the boxes I have accumulated! 😂
I have a few of these sets. So far forest and tundra are my favourite. They work well, rewet easily and the tundra set has enough color variety. I noticed the shire set is impossible to work with. Once dried they are impossible to rewet, even fresh from the tube they barely "wet". I don't know how else to describe it. I love the colors in the shire set but they are too hard to work with even as n experienced painter.
Your paintings are so cute and I love your videos. As for the paints, I only got the colors ( in the entire range) that separate into two or more colors when dry which is quite a few actually. I love them for certain types of landscapes. They have their place in my palette for sure.
My shire set was separating too. I am ordering the deep blue sea and forest, next month I want haze and glacier. Eventually I hope to have all of them.
I’ve felt pretty meh about the paints, everyone says the yellow is awkward plus what you said about the low tinting. I love your paintings, though. The camel is charming and Gandalf all in grey with the luscious greens, it’s a cosy piece.
I don't know why the volcano red looks so weak in your swatch. It's ultra strong here. Same for the Volcano brown. Maybe they have separated in the tube? Maybe you're not using enough paint?
I bought a couple of the sets before these, the ones in the cardboard boxs but was REALY dissapointed, I didn't think they granulated much at all. I was SO dissapointed as I LOVE schminke. I found the super vision was FAR more granulating
I'm surprised that PY159 is in practically every color. Seems odd to me. The Shire Blue and Volcano Violet are pretty, but I wouldn't have any use for them. Thanks for another useful video Becky.
That yellow....aaarrggghh!! I will be avoiding PY159 at all costs on the future. These are definitely "boutique" sets, and I am hoping putting them all together will make them a little more useful, because individual sets are so limited.
?😅 thank you so much for this review I was going to buy these sets and then seeing the color swatches I've decided just to buy a few I very much appreciate this thank you again
I have been a subscriber for about a year, but I recently had the time to look at more of your past videos, and you are on my favorite channel for passing the downtime. I adore the camel. Do you ever sell your paintings, or do you collect them all? Kelli from Ontario.
Aw thank you, that's so kind! Right now I have my art in a large collection of sketchbooks and also folders with the clear pages. I am hoping to get myself organised with selling prints, and possibly originals as well - it's just quite a challenge to set up being that I'm doing this on my own and I haven't figured out the logisitics of running an online store yet. I'll get there soon! I hope, lol.
Thanks for the thorough review. I'm always curious about these sets, but they do feel "gimmicky" as you said. Some colours seem repetitive and you'd need more than one set to have a proper range. There'll be a lot of tubes left that won't get any use, and it seems a bit wasteful. A bit disappointing to hear that dark values are hard to achieve or that paints aren't economical. For something so expensive I expected a better product. So I think I'd rather invest in single pigments and use them to mix my own. Cheers for saving me $$$.
Patty- I'm not a green person so I don't think those sets that I've seen really appeal to me. I would however, would like to see the Ocean set. I am a serious blue person. 💙 Thanks for sharing. Your enthusiasm is catching.
I love blues as well! I have an earlier review which includes the Undersea set (is that its name? I can't remember!) and that's in the playlist if you can find it. 😊
I love the paintings much more than the paints themselves. A bit too wishy washy but could be useful mixed with "Regular" watercolours. Have great weekend, Becky.
Hi Becky! You did a wonderful job painting those pictures. I liked the paints you liked. The top row on your swatch sheet was not so good. I too don't like that yellow. But, you prevailed and conquered!
I think I’ll pass buying the tubes, only because I don’t like the fact that they are so hard to re wet. I wonder if there is a lot of difference between pans and tubes because I really like a couple of colours from the shire set 🤔 Thank you for the review! ❤️
I bought a few sets in the 5 mL boxes. I swatched them all from the tubes and only poured the five Haze colors into pans. I have not gone back to rewet these, but now I realize I must. Haze Pink is my favorite. I love the granulation, but if they don’t work well from pans I will likely not use them much at all.
This is the second time ive watched this video....Im still wanting these sets unfortunately my budget budget doesn't allow it at this time, ive just about saved up for princeton snap brush fir my metallics and intense wc paints so i dont use same brushes with my regular wc and get cross colors on wc paper even tho i rewashed good, arghhh now i understand the straving artist theme motto....i wish in usa you could buy the tubes separately, ive never ordered from jackson as its overseas market right? Do you think schmincke will come out with just individuals pans you could buy? I think id like to get the dot card to these sets to see if id enjoy them first....the lottery win bucket art list is getting longer and stronger...lol mikelle art mom👩🎨🎨✍
I'm pretty sure they released a 45 half pan set of all the colours, which is at Jackson's Art I think. They ship to the USA and you can switch to the $US option so that's really handy. There are some stores in Australia which are now selling individual tubes, but they are even more expensive than buying them as sets, so I just went with the wooden boxes because it worked out "cheaper" overall. But still ridiculously costly!
Wonderful paintings, Becky. I like your subject choices and I love how thorough you are in your reviews. I think if these paints were a little more saturated, the high price might almost be justified. 😛😬 I kinda wish they'd released fewer sets (or fewer colors in each set) since it seems there are similar shades throughout?
Thanks for another great review. I have only bought the red and yellow in 5ml tubes and the limited edited Ocean grey. I think I would prefer to use other granulating colours I already own or to mix my own. I only own a small selection of Schminke tubes and own lots of other brands including Roman Szmal, Daniel Smith, Qor, etc etc. I think that trying different brands is important so we know what best serves our purposes. Mind you I would love to try some of the White Nights granulating colours but have yet to find anyone that either has them or sells them to Australia.
I think the White Nights ones came out quite recently? If anyone sells them in Australia, it'd likely be Larry Post. But I think they're also hard to get due to where they are from. 😬
4:14 watch out when that happens. i've had that happen a lot with some colors and it's quite frankly shyte. it might not seem like much of an issue at first, but when you put down the color on the paper, the excess gum arabic will result in the paint slowly drying with a rubbery, shiny consistency that will not go away and shine through layers put on top
That is so true! I've experienced that as well, and I did my best to sop up excess gum arabic with a tissue before mixing the remains back into the paint. It's such a pain when paint splits like that - not just for these but other brands as well. And oil paints do this too sometimes....ugh!
I never like the sets but with the range of colours you have you could make a new palette from those colours and it would be fun to see. besides there's always need for a new limited challenge xD ps I mean the granulating ones.
I'm going to make one mega set of all 45 of them once I have reviewed the last set, Haze. That should be interesting to see how they all go together! I hope it makes them more useful in general!
I like shire green, shire grey and the volcano violet out of all of them and am interested to see the haze set now. I wonder how these would work with none granulating colors in a piece. I agree with Teresa's comment about your work being the best part. Thanks again Becky :)
Been waiting for this :D Schmincke did release a dot card for these sets (a total of 40). I had trouble reactivating the volcano yellow from the dot card; leaving a drop of water on it helped but I did still have to scrub to get it to work :/ Only volcano red and volcano red are single pigments, so between that and the other granulating colours being available generally unless people really want a convenience mix it'd be simpler to grab the individual ones and use/mix when wanted. Nice options for highlights and drawing attention but maybe not so much as a limited palette option :)
I love the painting you did on the Galaxy box. You have inspired me to paint over my bamboo box that holds pans and my watercolors. I love your reviews. And the paintings are so beautiful. Topped with your soothing voice, its like such a calming end to a day.
Thank you! I have also painted the other boxes (which I have a video doing in the playlist I hopefully remembered to include, lol). I will definitely paint these boxes as well, to have a full set of them. 😊
I am also not a fan of the PY159. I swatched these paints out from a dot chart and had a really hard time. I was suspicious that it was because they were dried dots and you have show that you can get brighter tones with the fresh tube paint. my favourite set so far has to be the Galaxy set.
I wish that I had never bought these paints. I thought that they looked interesting until I got them and swatched them. What a disappointment. I found them dull, dark and ugly. Doubt that I will ever paint with them unless I can figure out some way to mix it with some other color. I appreciate your efforts!!!
Yes, I have to admit that there are some tubes in various sets which are quite a let down; especially with the yellow! I think overall, Haze and Tundra are my two favourite sets.
Yes, they're very low tinting! I think granulating pigments do tend to be quite lightfast though, but I haven't done tests to know if they'd hold up or fade into nothingness, lol.
@@BeckyTregear I’m just obsessed with it to the point of making nothing recently because I recently learned about lightfastness lol. That’s how I found your videos actually.
Love your paintings Becky! I bought the Schmincke special edition three 5ml tube set. It has volcano brown, volcano violet, and volcano red. I agree with you they are rather weak in tone. I enjoy making my DIY granulating watercolors with the pigments I already own.
@@BeckyTregear if Schmincke did another special edition three 5ml tube box set of different super granulation colors I might be interested in trying those too. I can cope with paying around $15-20 US (from Jackson’s) for three tubes even if the paints are a bit weak. 😆
the only one i've loved for the longest time , from these three sets, is the desert green.. i surrendered and purchased it and love it so much!! thank also had bought a couple of tundra colors, and a glacier green.. it's so hard to justify the cost of these, and i do hope you'll enjoy them all ( or most ;-)) thx for the video and the information , becky.. norakag, here 👍👍
Desert Green is definitely one of the best colours in there; I love how it granulates and splits into the two pigments. I have no idea what I'm going to do with all of these sets, lol. 😂
Love your videos, they are always so much fun. Love the wooden boxes. Not sure about the paints, l think l like others from previous reviews more but it’s always so interesting to see your reviews. 😊🌸
Thank you! These sets weren't my favourites when compared with the other ones - that yellow pigment is so annoying! But I will combine them all into a mega set so that should make things interesting! And I need to paint on these boxes too. 😄
Love your paintings! The volcano yellow is best as a mixing color than on its own. I got the half pan of it as all the tubes were long gone when I bought mine. And yes it is weak on its own. I only got that and the red from the volcano set. Love the shire set and I am looking into a couple colours from the desert and forest sets.
@@BeckyTregear Well if you combine the different colors from the sets, things do get easier. And mixing them amongst each other might help as well. But yes, you got a ton of paintings to do. :D
I have a few of their super granulating colors- Volcano Yellow, Shire Green and Forest Olive. I use Volcano Yellow mainly in mixes, but not on it's own. I prefer a good Bismouth Yellow/PY3 for my pale yellows on their own :) Love your vids on the Super Granulating series! I also love how your volcano turned out. I'm a bit of a volcano nerd myself so I was excited you painted one lol. I also love that you're a Tolkien fan. The colors worked well in your style.
I have the tundra set with the small 5ml.tubes. I painted a couple of abstract landscapes with paint straight from the tubes. I like the way they turned out. Maybe it’s best to use fresh paint from the tubes for better results.
Yes, fresh paint definitely works better for these particular ones! All of the granulation paints really...but the yellow is definitely the most difficult!
as i live in germany, i was lucky enough to be able to buy a few of the supergranulation tubes open stock in an art supply store (and here, they are cheaper than daniel smith and windsor and newton) and tbh i was pretty excited about heavily granulating yellow and red! green too. granulating blues are less rare i think, what with ultramarine and such, so i didnt buy one of those since i already had some. and while i agree that theyre not the easiest to work with, i think these paints definitely have their place, its just that using JUST them in a whole painting is probably doomed to failure, or at least a frustrating painting process haha.
Haha yes it is very challenging using just the paints in the set due to the many limitations in colour palette etc. But of course I had to try for the video! 😂 That yellow though...I really don't like that pigment! 😫
Schminke is over rated. The prices are insane. Super granulating is definitely the latest gimmick. I agree with others who are saying we can mix a lot of those mixes ourselves why spend your hard earned money on difficult to work with weak pigments. I find Daniel Smith is doing the same thing with their primatek and mineral pigments. Tired of the "artist/professional" lines trying to make more money off us by limiting pigments we do want and serving up this stuff as new and exciting. I understand that some pigments go extinct because humans have used it all up but most are synthetic and replicable so why the hurry buy this before it's all gone. Bah! Creating urgency when it's not actually urgent. Anyway!!! I lava your camel! 😁 and Gandalf.
Oh yes, they are most definitely boutique and totally unnecessary paints! But someone has to review them, so here I am with all 45 tubes of them! 🙈 I am going to make a mega set with all of the colours and I hope they will make a pretty interesting palette. I do love Schmincke's general range of watercolours. I guess companies want to be raking in the $$ so we have to choose wisely (or foolishly in my case) as to which paints are worthy of purchase. ❤
@@BeckyTregear your not foolish! I really appreciate that the art community does reviews for those of us who are watching what we spend. I have the primaries which is what I base my opinion on but I can also learn vicariously through you. Technically yall are saving me a lot of time and money!
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I still don’t think that I’ll buy these paints. I only like the Volcano Yellow and Red and the Glacier Turquoise. I think these are the only colours that I can understand. All the other paints are mixtures that we can mix ourselves or mixtures of beautiful single pigments that have been deliberately mixed into boring browns and greys. I do not understand that.
Your paintings are the best part of these paints. I feel underwhelmed otherwise by all of them. They have inspired me to buy a few granulating colors from Daniel Smith that I didn't already own. But I'm thankful that you bought these so I didn't have to.
Thank you, and underwhelming is a fair statement! I am hoping when put all together in one large set that they will be a bit more useful and fun!
Oh love the volcano and Lord of the Rings pieces very much. I also agree with the lack of darker tones of the colors. It might take ages to get them a bit darker than you did.
My patience levels were reached so I didn't do more layers, hahaha! 😂
Some of them are very beautiful. It's a pity they don't rewet well. I was thinking about buying one of the sets, but after seeing this video I have changed my mind.I think it is better to get only the color tubes you like.The sets are very expensive and some of the colors are really disappointing. Great review as always. You make me happy every time you upload a video.
I'm glad it helped, and I think choosing individual tubes of favourite colours and mixes is the better financial choice! I have a whole load of these boxes now; maybe I should put them all on display, lol.
Your paintings turned out very cute!
I think we should combine these granulating colours with other paints in a painting and don't use them on their own, more like a feature. I had a huge binder separation problem with the yellow and orange. I bought the 5ml tubes and there was only half of the yellow left after I filled a half pan. I was just unable to mix the paint and binder back together. I received two new tubes from Schmincke which were fine.
I think people asked for yellow and red granulating colours and, as you said, there are not a ton of options. After the first disappointment that the yellow was not as bright as I expected it to be, I now like it a lot. I don't have rewetting problems with them when I put one or two drops of water in my half pans and wait a few minutes before I use them. Maybe you like them better when you use them more. Well, I hope so because they are so expensive.
The binder splitting away is an issue I had with quite a lot of them, though not with the yellow, weirdly enough! I am thinking I might mix in another yellow to make it brighter and more easy to rewet. Also the red!
I only got the shire 5mm set. I felt ripped off. I didn't like them. Other artists seem to rave about them but I had the same experience as you. I LOVE Schmincke so I was surprised and disappointed. Oh, well. I liked your video and paintings a lot, though, and appreciate your honesty.
Yeah they were a bit of a let down! 😭💔
Are we actually all addicted to the paints themselves... or all the cute tins and boxes they come in? 🤔🤔🤔🤔
I really wonder sometimes.....😂
Oh definitely boxes and tins! 😂
@@BeckyTregear I definitely think that’s my problem too! 😂😂😂
That shire set is gorgeous! Even though it is quite a limiting palette it's still beautiful and it matches my feeling to your LOTR painting, that's my fave! I take it you don't like that yellow then? I could be mistaken hahaha! 3 art works in one video, ooohhh your spoiling us! loved this video, very informative and I don't think I'll be buying any of these, they are way out of my budget! I'll just have a go at mixing my own, but if I did have the ££ to buy them it would have to be the shire set for sure! :D
I'm still trying to decide if I have Buyers' Remorse; they were so expensive! 😱 And you are not mistaken, PY159 is a pigment I shall be avoiding as much as possible in the future! I like the bright greens in the Shire set, which will be a welcome addition to the other sets. I'll make one giant set of all colours soon. 😆
@@BeckyTregear oohhh an artwork with ALL the colours would be amazing, look forward to it :D
I love the camel.
I don’t think I’d be interested in these sets. The colors just aren’t working for me. I would love to see something done with all the sets you have.
Thank you! Once I have reviewed Haze, I'll organise them all into a mega set with 45 colours. 😂
You are soooo adorable how happy you are with these paints. I ended getting some open stock (you can get the granulating dot card set now to try them out) so I didn’t buy full sets of them all. I actually REALLY love the shire set so I’m sorry your experience wasn’t as great.
I'll be putting them all together as one mega set, so I am sure they will all be a lot more useful that way! 😊
good to have an honest review of these, see so many people raving about them in hauls, but not many showing them in practice, which is the good thing about your vids seeing them in use. they seem to be an expensive gimmick, or something pretty for people to gift, and not really that useful or nice to use overall
I sure hope I can get some more use out of them! 😬
I bought the haze set (5ml) ,swatched them and now I have no idea what I can paint with these..my boyfriend said I should sell the rest I didn't put in halfpans. I wanted to buy the forest set,in my opinion,it's the best set,but I can't find it for good money🙁
I will be trying the haze set soon; I I hope I can think of something to paint for the video! 😂 I like the forest set too, but my favourite is Tundra.
@@BeckyTregear the only thing I can think of (haze set)-> mountains..that's it😅
I like them for my abstract horses…but you are totally right, the yellow and red suck… got most of these in half pans right away and the ones I loved in 15 ml tubes…
Do the half pans perform any differently to the tube paints? I'd be curious to know how the yellow activates!
@@BeckyTregear I’ll try it again tomorrow to see if it behaves better,….I have most of my stuff in full pans so I’ll check those vs my half pans too
Oooh! I know that I’ll love this video. And no, I can’t tell your excited; your voice is not any more excited than your normally over-excited voice that we all love 😂
I am easily excited over any and all art supplies, lol!
@@BeckyTregear Aren’t we all 😄😄
Oh man those looked difficult to squeeze out😵💫 I am also not so impressed with the yellow and most of those mixes of colors, especially the first row! I love your volcano though and the color does look a lot more vibrant straight from the tube. I think my favorite is the camel, I love camels and features/animals of deserts even if I don’t love the heat😂 I will probably not try these paints because I think I’d have am extremely hard time with them😆
These were SO difficult! The yellow is horrible, and I will probably mix it with a less annoying yellow in the future, lol. I do love a camel, they have such funny faces. ❤️
The colors are lovely but not well saturated which is a big bummer since they're so expensive. You said not good for beginners and I agree, but I think even the more advanced would need to have a specific purpose for using these because of low saturation and therefore not so reproduction ability. Very fair tutorial though, Becky! 🥰 Cheryl
Oh yes, that is for sure! They are extremely specialised and/or limited so unless one uses a lot of granulating washes, they are probably going to be totally unnecessary! Indeed I am wondering what the heck I am going to do with all of the boxes I have accumulated! 😂
@@BeckyTregear Gift boxes!!!!! 😂
I have a few of these sets. So far forest and tundra are my favourite. They work well, rewet easily and the tundra set has enough color variety. I noticed the shire set is impossible to work with. Once dried they are impossible to rewet, even fresh from the tube they barely "wet". I don't know how else to describe it. I love the colors in the shire set but they are too hard to work with even as n experienced painter.
It's that yellow pigment which is responsible, I'm sure of it! Drove me crazy. Tundra is still my favourite set. 😊
@@BeckyTregear Ah I see, so you could mix them yourself but with a different yellow?🤔
@@sumbae7668 I guess so! Would be fun to try that out. 😊
Your paintings are so cute and I love your videos. As for the paints, I only got the colors ( in the entire range) that separate into two or more colors when dry which is quite a few actually. I love them for certain types of landscapes. They have their place in my palette for sure.
Thank you, and I also love the ones which split into different colours. 😊
I love your “boeh” and “meah” expressions. They are so … expessive😂
My shire set was separating too. I am ordering the deep blue sea and forest, next month I want haze and glacier. Eventually I hope to have all of them.
@@jjsmakeupobsession323 They're fun to have but some colours can be very frustrating. That yellow in particular. 😩
I wouldn’t buy them as sets I think the colours are too similar. I have a couple of individual colours that seem to work well especially Tundra green.
Yes, buying individual tubes is a much better idea! 😆
I’ve felt pretty meh about the paints, everyone says the yellow is awkward plus what you said about the low tinting. I love your paintings, though. The camel is charming and Gandalf all in grey with the luscious greens, it’s a cosy piece.
The yellow is so difficult; it's the worst pigment in all of the sets, lol. Thank you!
I don't know why the volcano red looks so weak in your swatch. It's ultra strong here. Same for the Volcano brown. Maybe they have separated in the tube? Maybe you're not using enough paint?
Maybe I got a dud! 😂 I will do some more testing of it for sure.
I bought a couple of the sets before these, the ones in the cardboard boxs but was REALY dissapointed, I didn't think they granulated much at all. I was SO dissapointed as I LOVE schminke. I found the super vision was FAR more granulating
I haven't had issue with granulation, just rewetting with these new ones thanks to the yellow! 😫 I have yet to try Supervision.
I'm surprised that PY159 is in practically every color. Seems odd to me. The Shire Blue and Volcano Violet are pretty, but I wouldn't have any use for them. Thanks for another useful video Becky.
That yellow....aaarrggghh!! I will be avoiding PY159 at all costs on the future. These are definitely "boutique" sets, and I am hoping putting them all together will make them a little more useful, because individual sets are so limited.
?😅 thank you so much for this review I was going to buy these sets and then seeing the color swatches I've decided just to buy a few I very much appreciate this thank you again
You're welcome, I'm glad my video helped you decide which ones to pick! 😊
I have been a subscriber for about a year, but I recently had the time to look at more of your past videos, and you are on my favorite channel for passing the downtime. I adore the camel. Do you ever sell your paintings, or do you collect them all? Kelli from Ontario.
Aw thank you, that's so kind! Right now I have my art in a large collection of sketchbooks and also folders with the clear pages. I am hoping to get myself organised with selling prints, and possibly originals as well - it's just quite a challenge to set up being that I'm doing this on my own and I haven't figured out the logisitics of running an online store yet. I'll get there soon! I hope, lol.
Thanks for the thorough review. I'm always curious about these sets, but they do feel "gimmicky" as you said. Some colours seem repetitive and you'd need more than one set to have a proper range. There'll be a lot of tubes left that won't get any use, and it seems a bit wasteful. A bit disappointing to hear that dark values are hard to achieve or that paints aren't economical. For something so expensive I expected a better product. So I think I'd rather invest in single pigments and use them to mix my own. Cheers for saving me $$$.
I haven't yet made a big palette with all of the supergrans - it's on my To Do list! I am hoping I'll use them more when they're all in one tin. 😊
Patty- I'm not a green person so I don't think those sets that I've seen really appeal to me. I would however, would like to see the Ocean set. I am a serious blue person. 💙 Thanks for sharing. Your enthusiasm is catching.
I love blues as well! I have an earlier review which includes the Undersea set (is that its name? I can't remember!) and that's in the playlist if you can find it. 😊
I love the paintings much more than the paints themselves. A bit too wishy washy but could be useful mixed with "Regular" watercolours. Have great weekend, Becky.
I will see what they're like when I eventually make a mega set of all of them, lol!
Hi Becky! You did a wonderful job painting those pictures. I liked the paints you liked. The top row on your swatch sheet was not so good. I too don't like that yellow. But, you prevailed and conquered!
Thank you! That yellow is a real pain. 😬
I think I’ll pass buying the tubes, only because I don’t like the fact that they are so hard to re wet. I wonder if there is a lot of difference between pans and tubes because I really like a couple of colours from the shire set 🤔
Thank you for the review! ❤️
Yes I am also curious to know if the half pan paints would be easier than the tubes to rewet. Not enough to buy them too though, lol!
I bought a few sets in the 5 mL boxes. I swatched them all from the tubes and only poured the five Haze colors into pans. I have not gone back to rewet these, but now I realize I must. Haze Pink is my favorite. I love the granulation, but if they don’t work well from pans I will likely not use them much at all.
I've just been filming the haze set; that pink is really excellent! It's a great set, that one.
Prettiest camel ever! I just got the volcano violet - not bothered wasting my money on such low tinting paints. Thanks though Becky! Helen x
Volcano Violet is the best one anyway! 😂
This is the second time ive watched this video....Im still wanting these sets unfortunately my budget budget doesn't allow it at this time, ive just about saved up for princeton snap brush fir my metallics and intense wc paints so i dont use same brushes with my regular wc and get cross colors on wc paper even tho i rewashed good, arghhh now i understand the straving artist theme motto....i wish in usa you could buy the tubes separately, ive never ordered from jackson as its overseas market right? Do you think schmincke will come out with just individuals pans you could buy? I think id like to get the dot card to these sets to see if id enjoy them first....the lottery win bucket art list is getting longer and stronger...lol mikelle art mom👩🎨🎨✍
I'm pretty sure they released a 45 half pan set of all the colours, which is at Jackson's Art I think. They ship to the USA and you can switch to the $US option so that's really handy. There are some stores in Australia which are now selling individual tubes, but they are even more expensive than buying them as sets, so I just went with the wooden boxes because it worked out "cheaper" overall. But still ridiculously costly!
Wonderful paintings, Becky. I like your subject choices and I love how thorough you are in your reviews. I think if these paints were a little more saturated, the high price might almost be justified. 😛😬 I kinda wish they'd released fewer sets (or fewer colors in each set) since it seems there are similar shades throughout?
I have 45 of them now; they're going to fill one of those large tins almost entirely! 😂
Thanks for another great review. I have only bought the red and yellow in 5ml tubes and the limited edited Ocean grey. I think I would prefer to use other granulating colours I already own or to mix my own. I only own a small selection of Schminke tubes and own lots of other brands including Roman Szmal, Daniel Smith, Qor, etc etc. I think that trying different brands is important so we know what best serves our purposes. Mind you I would love to try some of the White Nights granulating colours but have yet to find anyone that either has them or sells them to Australia.
I think the White Nights ones came out quite recently? If anyone sells them in Australia, it'd likely be Larry Post. But I think they're also hard to get due to where they are from. 😬
Yes it is beutiful colors! But so difficult to paint with! I think it is enofh with some.
It's definitely a better idea to choose individual tubes, and not get stuck with the bad ones, haha!
4:14 watch out when that happens. i've had that happen a lot with some colors and it's quite frankly shyte. it might not seem like much of an issue at first, but when you put down the color on the paper, the excess gum arabic will result in the paint slowly drying with a rubbery, shiny consistency that will not go away and shine through layers put on top
That is so true! I've experienced that as well, and I did my best to sop up excess gum arabic with a tissue before mixing the remains back into the paint. It's such a pain when paint splits like that - not just for these but other brands as well. And oil paints do this too sometimes....ugh!
I never like the sets but with the range of colours you have you could make a new palette from those colours and it would be fun to see. besides there's always need for a new limited challenge xD
ps I mean the granulating ones.
I'm going to make one mega set of all 45 of them once I have reviewed the last set, Haze. That should be interesting to see how they all go together! I hope it makes them more useful in general!
I like shire green, shire grey and the volcano violet out of all of them and am interested to see the haze set now. I wonder how these would work with none granulating colors in a piece. I agree with Teresa's comment about your work being the best part. Thanks again Becky :)
Thank you, I was glad I could get paintings done despite the issues I had. Will try the haze set soon! 😊
Been waiting for this :D Schmincke did release a dot card for these sets (a total of 40). I had trouble reactivating the volcano yellow from the dot card; leaving a drop of water on it helped but I did still have to scrub to get it to work :/ Only volcano red and volcano red are single pigments, so between that and the other granulating colours being available generally unless people really want a convenience mix it'd be simpler to grab the individual ones and use/mix when wanted. Nice options for highlights and drawing attention but maybe not so much as a limited palette option :)
That yellow is definitely the most difficult one of the lot! It may be granulating, but isn't exactly practical for watercolour painting. 😬
I love the painting you did on the Galaxy box. You have inspired me to paint over my bamboo box that holds pans and my watercolors.
I love your reviews. And the paintings are so beautiful. Topped with your soothing voice, its like such a calming end to a day.
Thank you! I have also painted the other boxes (which I have a video doing in the playlist I hopefully remembered to include, lol). I will definitely paint these boxes as well, to have a full set of them. 😊
I am also not a fan of the PY159. I swatched these paints out from a dot chart and had a really hard time. I was suspicious that it was because they were dried dots and you have show that you can get brighter tones with the fresh tube paint. my favourite set so far has to be the Galaxy set.
Galaxy is a good one! Any of them really that don't have the yellow, lol. I hate PY159 so much after fighting with it in these paintings. 😂
Your painting of Gandalf is my fave. I like the Shire set.
Thank you! The colours from Shire will be welcome additions to the other sets when I combine them all. 😊
You made me save tons of money, way too light as colors
Glad I was able to help you decide! 😊
I really want the shire set but not cheap (hoping them come down a bit in price). i just prefer the blues in it compared to the others
Sometimes they go on sale at Jackson's; they're probably due for another one soon!
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I wish that I had never bought these paints. I thought that they looked interesting until I got them and swatched them. What a disappointment. I found them dull, dark and ugly. Doubt that I will ever paint with them unless I can figure out some way to mix it with some other color. I appreciate your efforts!!!
Yes, I have to admit that there are some tubes in various sets which are quite a let down; especially with the yellow! I think overall, Haze and Tundra are my two favourite sets.
@@BeckyTregear I got mine out and my yellow looks like taupe??? There’s only a couple worth keeping 🤨
I freaking love desert green and volcano brown together!
I'll try that combo!
these colors are so quiet. they are paler than pastel. they look like they are begging the sun to erase them. So weak. Thank you for the review.
Yes, they're very low tinting! I think granulating pigments do tend to be quite lightfast though, but I haven't done tests to know if they'd hold up or fade into nothingness, lol.
@@BeckyTregear I’m just obsessed with it to the point of making nothing recently because I recently learned about lightfastness lol. That’s how I found your videos actually.
Love your paintings Becky! I bought the Schmincke special edition three 5ml tube set. It has volcano brown, volcano violet, and volcano red. I agree with you they are rather weak in tone. I enjoy making my DIY granulating watercolors with the pigments I already own.
The 5 ml tubes would be much more cost effective! 😊❤️
@@BeckyTregear if Schmincke did another special edition three 5ml tube box set of different super granulation colors I might be interested in trying those too. I can cope with paying around $15-20 US (from Jackson’s) for three tubes even if the paints are a bit weak. 😆
the only one i've loved for the longest time , from these three sets, is the desert green.. i surrendered and purchased it and love it so much!!
thank also had bought a couple of tundra colors, and a glacier green.. it's so hard to justify the cost of these, and i do hope you'll enjoy them all ( or most ;-))
thx for the video and the information , becky..
norakag, here 👍👍
Desert Green is definitely one of the best colours in there; I love how it granulates and splits into the two pigments. I have no idea what I'm going to do with all of these sets, lol. 😂
@@BeckyTregear lol sell on ebay 🤩🤩🤩i've been doing that with my cookbooks and it does help replenish some of the funds lol
Love your videos, they are always so much fun. Love the wooden boxes. Not sure about the paints, l think l like others from previous reviews more but it’s always so interesting to see your reviews. 😊🌸
Thank you! These sets weren't my favourites when compared with the other ones - that yellow pigment is so annoying! But I will combine them all into a mega set so that should make things interesting! And I need to paint on these boxes too. 😄
@@BeckyTregear Yes those boxes need your art! 🥰
The paintings are still very nice!
Thank you ☺️
Love your paintings!
The volcano yellow is best as a mixing color than on its own. I got the half pan of it as all the tubes were long gone when I bought mine. And yes it is weak on its own. I only got that and the red from the volcano set. Love the shire set and I am looking into a couple colours from the desert and forest sets.
I think choosing individual colours is the wisest course of action - I am not even sure what I'm going to do with all of these sets, haha!
@@BeckyTregear Well if you combine the different colors from the sets, things do get easier. And mixing them amongst each other might help as well. But yes, you got a ton of paintings to do. :D
Excellent video; thank you!
I'm so impressed with all of your paintings - they're great! I like your favorite color choices, too.
Thank you - I need to set up all of the colours into a single palette now.
The Volcano Yellow and Volcano Red are two paints I would love to try. I didn’t know they weren’t easy to rewet.
They certainly weren't easy in my experience! 😂
@@BeckyTregear Maybe the pans are better? But I understand that they are made using the same formula.
I own the pans of those two colors and theyre amazing!
@@irenelopez4719 I recently got them. My excitment was dampened by the very difficult to rewet PY159. I was rather disappointed by it 😤
I am so jealous! The colors are fantastic. Shire is definitely my favorite. Your Shire painting is definitely frame worthy. I love it.
Thank you so much!
I have a few of their super granulating colors- Volcano Yellow, Shire Green and Forest Olive. I use Volcano Yellow mainly in mixes, but not on it's own. I prefer a good Bismouth Yellow/PY3 for my pale yellows on their own :) Love your vids on the Super Granulating series! I also love how your volcano turned out. I'm a bit of a volcano nerd myself so I was excited you painted one lol. I also love that you're a Tolkien fan. The colors worked well in your style.
Thank you! I think I'll be mixing that Volcano Yellow in with another more easily activated yellow in the future, just to make it less annoying, haha.
Thanks Becky, for separation problems shake the tube, it really works. Take care. X
I'll try doing that, thanks!
I have the tundra set with the small 5ml.tubes. I painted a couple of abstract landscapes with paint straight from the tubes. I like the way they turned out. Maybe it’s best to use fresh paint from the tubes for better results.
Yes, fresh paint definitely works better for these particular ones! All of the granulation paints really...but the yellow is definitely the most difficult!
Thanks!
Thank you for testing stuff that could potentially save us lots of money.
Like your creativity and skill with your artwork.
Enjoyed the video.
And thank you for your amazing support! 😊❤
as i live in germany, i was lucky enough to be able to buy a few of the supergranulation tubes open stock in an art supply store (and here, they are cheaper than daniel smith and windsor and newton) and tbh i was pretty excited about heavily granulating yellow and red! green too. granulating blues are less rare i think, what with ultramarine and such, so i didnt buy one of those since i already had some. and while i agree that theyre not the easiest to work with, i think these paints definitely have their place, its just that using JUST them in a whole painting is probably doomed to failure, or at least a frustrating painting process haha.
Haha yes it is very challenging using just the paints in the set due to the many limitations in colour palette etc. But of course I had to try for the video! 😂 That yellow though...I really don't like that pigment! 😫
@@BeckyTregear i don't actually know, is there ANY other granulating yellow pigment in watercolor? i also wish there was a more tinting one 😔
Schminke is over rated. The prices are insane. Super granulating is definitely the latest gimmick. I agree with others who are saying we can mix a lot of those mixes ourselves why spend your hard earned money on difficult to work with weak pigments. I find Daniel Smith is doing the same thing with their primatek and mineral pigments. Tired of the "artist/professional" lines trying to make more money off us by limiting pigments we do want and serving up this stuff as new and exciting. I understand that some pigments go extinct because humans have used it all up but most are synthetic and replicable so why the hurry buy this before it's all gone. Bah! Creating urgency when it's not actually urgent. Anyway!!! I lava your camel! 😁 and Gandalf.
Oh yes, they are most definitely boutique and totally unnecessary paints! But someone has to review them, so here I am with all 45 tubes of them! 🙈 I am going to make a mega set with all of the colours and I hope they will make a pretty interesting palette. I do love Schmincke's general range of watercolours. I guess companies want to be raking in the $$ so we have to choose wisely (or foolishly in my case) as to which paints are worthy of purchase. ❤
@@BeckyTregear your not foolish! I really appreciate that the art community does reviews for those of us who are watching what we spend. I have the primaries which is what I base my opinion on but I can also learn vicariously through you. Technically yall are saving me a lot of time and money!
@@SorrensSorrow Hahahaha.... I lava your camel..... I 👀 what you did there! 😂😂😂😂
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