Which watercolor brand is the best? Comparing seven different brands!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 4 ต.ค. 2024
- It's an EPIC watercolor brand comparison video! We will be comparing, swatching, and testing seven different brands of watercolors today! My beloved Daniel Smith's, QoR, Schmincke, Sennelier, Winsor and Newton, Mission Gold, and ShinHan! I even sacrificed some Arches paper, to really see what these watercolors can do! Which brand wins? Watch the video to find out! Come on in to my Northwoods studio and test some watercolors with me!
Happy creating!
*Correction- ShinHan DOES use the ASTM ratings system and anything with 3 stars and above is good to go!
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0:55 talking about pigment numbers and lgithfastness and the packaging of the paints
9:55 Swatching and testing
33:43 Picking a winner (sort of)
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Margret Morales: / @margaretmoralesart
Kim Crick
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Art supplies used today:
ShinHan Professional Watercolors:
amzn.to/3MeZviM
Mission Gold:
amzn.to/430pQbG
QOR:
Quinacridone Magenta
Amazon: amzn.to/3pAlSYm
Blick: shrsl.com/42bwx
Dioxazine Purple
Amazon: amzn.to/3VY5HzY
Blick: shrsl.com/42bww
Schmincke:
Ruby Red Deep
Amazon: amzn.to/
Blick: shrsl.com/42bx9
Juane brilliant Dark:
Amazon: amzn.to/3O6HDJt
blick: shrsl.com/42bxk
super granulating shire set
Amazon:
Blick: shrsl.com/42bx1
Winsor and newton:
scarlet lake:
Blick: shrsl.com/42bxl
amazon: amzn.to/41BShuO
aqua green:
Amazon: amzn.to/3M3RHA6
Blick: shrsl.com/42bxp
Sennelier:
emerald green:
Amazon: amzn.to/3BiyHct
Blick: shrsl.com/42bxw
cobalt violet light hue:
Blick: shrsl.com/42byp
Amazon: amzn.to/42yiDz2
Daniel Smith
Phthalo green yellow shade:
Amazon: amzn.to/3pCKVtT
Blick: shrsl.com/42byq
hookers green:
Amazon: amzn.to/3pAmOMe
Blick: shrsl.com/42byr
Winsor and Newton Designers Gouache Ivory black
amzn.to/3VVRHad
legion stonehenge kraft paper pad
amzn.to/3BoqvaG
My every day supplies:
Invisible Glove Barrier Cream (protect your hands from your supplies!): amzn.to/3Tl9JRC
Oil Painting:
Michael Harding oil paints (my favorite oil paints- the best of the best):
Six tube set: amzn.to/40vYN6Z
Ten tube set: amzn.to/3lcjVz2
Gamblin oil paints (my runner up paint and a little cheaper):
Nine tube set: amzn.to/3wY67e8
Winsor and Newton Winton oil paint (Best inexpensive but good quality paint for beginners):
Ten tube set: amzn.to/3JKEXPq
Liquin (thinning medium and speeds drying):
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Liquin for fine details:
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Liquin Impasto medium (for thicker texture):
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Gamsol (oderless paint thinner and cleaner):
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Watercolor:
Daniel Smith Watercolors:
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Arches Hot Press Paper:
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Pastel:
My favorite pastel surface is ClaireFontaine PastelMat:
Amazon: amzn.to/3iWcRWx
Blick Art Materials: shrsl.com/3w5on
Stabilo CarbOthello Pastel Pencils:
Amazon(set of 60): amzn.to/3wooZmq
Blick Art Materials (sets and individual pencils): shrsl.com/3w5ph
Panpastels:
Amazon (the set of 20 that I own): amzn.to/3R1cYN1
Blick Art Materials (individual pans): shrsl.com/3w5p0
Faber-Castell Pitt Pastel pencils:
Amazon(set of 60): amzn.to/3QWOF2M
Blick Art Materials (sets and individual pencils): shrsl.com/3w5pa
Stick pastels:
Prismacolor Nupastels (set of 36):
amzn.to/3JM9E74
Mungyo (good for beginners and cheap!):
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Pen and ink:
Favorite ink- Dr. Ph. Martin’s Bombay India ink:
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Favorite Dip Pen:
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Favorite fine liners- Sakura Pigma Microns:
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Favorite paper for ink Drawing- Strathmore 500 Series Bristol Smooth:
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I'm not a professional artist, but when it comes to artist grade watercolor paints, in my opinion I don't think one brand is "better" than another as they all have different properties so ultimately it just comes down to personal preferences. I always thought Sennelier was the "best" brand but I just find them too "gummy" and therefore hard to work with, though undoubtedly the colors are very beautiful and I do use them from time to time. Personally my go to paints are Winsor and Newton, and Holbein because of their consistency and vibrancy, and they flow and dry on the paper exactly how I expect/want. I like Schmincke for their super granulating range, and Daniel Smith for their specialty mineral colors which are unique. Isaro do some nice iridescent colors.
Oh absolutely! I totally agree with you! That's why I couldn't pick a winner in the end! :) Ultimately it comes down to whether or not you like the color, if id does what you want it to, when you want it to, and how lightfast it is! Thank you for watching!
I literally just love them all.🤣🤣 I have favorite colors in each brand. Like Holbein has my favorite Davy's Gray, W&N and Daniel Smith have my fave Quin Gold (I've been stocking up on DS Quin Gold and Quin Burnt Orange so I can have my favorite pigment to paint sunlight, PO48, loooong after it's finally gone), Sennelier has my fave Chinese Orange and Greenish Umber.......I could go on but I believe you get the point.🤣🤣
@@winterwoodsstudio Yes absolutely lightfastness would be an important factor for a professional artist ✨I didn’t know until quite recently that some artist grade paints can be fugitive 🤦♀️
@@mie... I think a lot of people don't realize that in the begining. I know I didn't! I thought, "these area artist grade! They must be the best paints ever!" When in reality, you really still need to check each pigment in the tube out!
I think different colors in different brands must behave differently. I had a set of QOR that I hated. It was a set of introductory colors. They were almost chalky. They were worse than some of the student grade paints I have. I even went back this morning and looked at my swatches of them and several of them are definitely not great (I did notice that several colors looked fine, re-looking at them). But the two you tried out looked fantastic, better than the Daniel Smith. Maybe I got several bad tubes or maybe some of their paints are just different. I would blame it on the paper but with some looking good and some terrible I don’t think it was that. I wonder if anyone else has had a similar experience with QOR or any other brands?
I loved the way those Schmincke granulating colors looked. I want to try some of those out!
Thanks for a really fun video!
Pigments can look completely different based on the size of the granule, how much heat was used in processing it, etc. That is how the same pigment can look completely different in different paints.☺☺
It's so fascinating, isn't it? Thank you for sharing!
Thanks for taking us on a tour of various watercolour paint brands that we might never come across on our own. My watercolours have been Winsor & Newton (nowadays it's just the professional paints - I dropped their Cotman once they moved their manufacturing from Europe to China) and Daniel Smith. Oh and I think I also have a single tube of Mission Gold orange somewhere - it came as a complimentary gift with one of my orders from Blick. I'm relatively happy with my two main brands but it's always so interesting to see what's available on the other side (especially whether the grass is greener LOL). Best wishes, Brian.
Well, you know, I had to hop the fence and check out the other side! :) some of the colors were truly gorgeous and I am sure I will use them a lot. But I do still love my DS! Thank you for watching!
Greetings from Germany, the German brand Schmincke has the lightfastness rates also on the packaging, these are the stars. 5 stars are the best. And the pigment numbers are always on the tube, oftentimes on the side and tiny. I find them to have a real good quality. The colours are more natural compared to Daniel smiths ones. I don’t kniw how to say it, like not artificially high chroma and bang in the face…. I hope you understand what I mean 🙈
Love your effort to do this giant comparison. I love Sennelier and M.Graham, both honey based reactivate like nothing real. Pigmented and wow. And Schmincke and Winsor & Newton. After so many comparisons and a hell lot of spend money I found these are working for me the best…. It is difficult to find the right thing sometimes…. So thank you for this.
I did find them eventually! I was all confused at the start of the video! not enough sleep lately maybe! I very much loved the Schminke colors I tried and plan to get some more! I would have loved to add more brands like M. Graham and Da Vinchi and Rosa and Roman Szmal, but I ran out of money! :) Maybe someday!
Thank you for the comparisons and opinions. I swatched my watercolor palette yesterday and put it in the thrift store box. It was a very cheap department store set, so not even student grade. I'm going to get a mid-level set of something in the near future. What I appreciate is seeing how the paint looks on the paper both wet and dry, without having to buy anything myself. I learned frugality as a hard and fast rule growing up, and that has not served me well as I've started doing more art.
I highly recommend that mission gold set I was testing for beginners or people who don't want to spend the big bucks! It works wonderfully, the pigments and the light fastness ratings are right on the tube and that set of 24 colors I was using was I think only $40 when I bought it? It's very high quality!
D Smith has a PR122 and that is Quinacr Lilac, also more Blue based
Oh that sounds lovely! I might have to try that one! Thanks for watching!
😊Hi Amy I am so excited to see this video! I think I can explain why your more messy at art, because there art supplies and we are so excited! Cooking not so much!😅 have a great day!!👍❣
That could very possibly be why :) I do get very into it and don't want to stop to clean up! Thank you for watching!
Pigments - for example PV19 - are sometimes used in many different colours so it isn’t safe to assume that two different PV19’s can be compared. They may be entirely different colours of pink/red/magenta/violet depending on how the pigment is milled/ particle size/ binders used
Yep! I know! That's why I said similar and not the same! :) At least, I know that you can get different colors form the same pigment, I just might not know the "how" behind it if you know what I mean. This was not a scientific analysis by any means. I was just having fun!
This always fascinates me!
Agree. It’s my favorite pigment as a permanent rose but it’s many other different colors too! How?!? So interesting.
@@winterwoodsstudiosome aren’t even similar, imo 🤷🏻♀️
hi! i’m not sure if you’ve found an answer already, but I know why the winsor & newton aqua green tube is just labeled as “phtalo!”
the reason is that the pigment is pretty new, so it doesn’t have an industry-standard pigment code yet, but it does come from phthalocyanine, which is where the other phthalo blue pigments come from :) winsor & newton just call it phtalo coz there isn’t a specific code, but the chemical compound is phthalo (not sure why they changed the spelling tho lol)
I believe this version of phthalocyanine originated in the automotive industry (so like car paint colors lol). - that’s also the reason why quinacridone gold (PO49) is discontinued. the pigment was mainly manufactured for the automotive industry, and art supply manufacturers bought the pigment to make paints. but since orange cars aren’t in demand, the pigment manufacturers don’t have a reason to spend money to make PO49 (especially since they can make cheaper, more modern orange pigments). and so there’s no more quinacridone gold left for artist paint manufacturers to buy and make paint with :(
Wow that's awesome! Thank you so much for the info! I wondered what was going on! Also, in case you are wondering, I reached out to a rep from Daniel smith about the quinacridone gold and whether I should stock up, because it's one of my favorites! And they said they purchased enough raw material to make the paint for decades and not to worry! I don't know about any other companies though. I might have to reach out to Golden, because I use their quinacridone gold to tone my canvases all the time!
Daniel smith paints shrink and dry like a brick, lol. They are beautiful just my hardest dried watercolor, I usually spray them prior to painting. Great for travel with no gooeyness.
Yep. I spray them too. They are definitely hard! Like hard, hard! I didn't realize they weren't all like that because it's basically the only brand I've used! :)
I just bought the Daniel Smith basics. I'd love to try out other brands but I paint as a hobby so it's an unnecessary investment that will have to wait lol. Great video! ❤
Thank you for the kind words! I'm glad you enjoyed the video! I started out with some very cheap watercolors and added more as I could afford it. Sometimes, that's just the way we have to do it, so I hear you! But you're learning and having fun, so that's what counts!
I got my new Schminke pan set of 24 and they rewet and paint beautifully.
I really think I might have to get a schminke pan set... They really are beautiful colors!
I suggest you buy the box and the pans separately. You can choose the colours you really need. Schmincke generally put many opaque colours into their sets. At least it was the case a couple of years ago. I don't know if they still do it. As for me, Schmincke Horadam paints are great and rewet easily. They use the same paint for both tubes and pans, and they also have transparent versions of earth tones in their range. However, if you prefer "right in your face"-colours, then Daniel Smith or Winsor & Newton Professional watercolours might be the better option. Meanwhile, I pick my favourite colours from the three brands. Greetings from 🇩🇪🤗
So nice review. Thank you so much. I tried most of the brands reviewed here. But there’s one thing I need to correct about Shinhan watercolours. Shinhan watercolours represented here are not their artist grade colours and known as SWC however their artist grade brand is named PWC and fully pigmented. I’ve been using pwc for about 5 years they’re both well priced and above the average artist grade watercolours. What I learned so far is it’s best not to stuck a single brand/maker there are so many great makers out there. Last but not the least if you haven’t tried I recommend M. Graham and Holbein. Cheers from Ontario.
I love learning about pigments!💜💜💜
I don't have any issue with rewetting my Daniel Smith, except for the iridescent and Potter's Pink. The rest are marvelous and I have about 50 tubes I think? Of course, I live in high humidity Seattle, where they're made. I also have the sticks and don't like them as well. Thanks for the review.
They are still my favorite so far and my first love. It's not a big deal to deal to rewet them. I just give them a little spritz of water. I have 54 tubes myself and I will use them until they are gone!
@@winterwoodsstudio I also should mention that the Q. Magenta, PR202 from DS, is a pigment that as far as I know, nobody else sells (according to Handprint, but I haven't found any update further on that). For me, that makes it something of a collector's item. To get closer to the other PR122s, you'd want to choose DS Q Lilac. I've never found a reason to own Q Lilac, since I can pretty much get it by toning Q. Rose down with a little Q. Magenta. Whether one paint or another works depends on what you're going for, for sure.
Great paints! The Shin Han is their student grade, so not a fair comparison. Try the Shin Han PWC or SWC for their artist grade paints.
That's nice to know! They were the first nicer watercolors I bought so that makes sense. How do you know they are the student grade? They do say professional on them and I remember thinking they were professional grade when I bought them.
@@winterwoodsstudio the student paints say professional on them. Lindsay and others have talked about this on their channels. PWC comes in 15 ml tubes. Very reasonably priced for a professional artist quality watercolor.
I'm going to buy some Sennelier paint soon and your review makes me more excited to get them 🥰 I only tried schmincke violet and was Amazed by how well they rewet after drying and how pigmented it was! I also want to try their ultramarine finest which is a non granulating ultramarine.
This has been fun espacially that I'm too a messy painter so it felt very relatable to watch you swatch 😅
I'm so glad you liked the video! And you'll have to let me know what you think of the Sennlier paint! I am so glad I tried some other brands because I found some truly beautiful colors!
It’s fun to see each brand. As long a s it’s a professional brand and affordable, I’m good!!
My biggest concern is lightfastness, following by how well they flow! And if I'm using a color for glazing, I also like it to dry nice and smooth! Thank you for watching!
The shire set is so gorgeous! They did look like there was a big drying shift, though. 🤤
yep. I've come to expect that with watercolors, which is why I always swatch mine, preferably on the paper I am going to be using!
I think all professional watercolour brands are great and that you can't really say that one is better than the other, because it all comes down to personal preference. I personally love most of them! LOL (Schmincke doesn't contain honey btw, Sennelier does)
I totally agree! I think that's why I couldn't pick a winner in the end! ;) Thanks for the tip and thank you for watching!
@@winterwoodsstudio my pleasure!
Just recently purchased the Schmenke watercolor palette and love it but I think I may need some new brushes because I can’t control my application when I paint it goes everywhere because the brushes are VERY soft.
I really like these cheaper Transon brushes from Amazon: amzn.to/41UJynO They are only like $12 for a back of 7 and they hold up really well, aren't too mushy, and hold a lot of paint and water! I do think I might have to add some more Schmincke to my collection! They are lovely! Thank you for watching!
We reached out to ShinHan, who confirmed that their PWC (professional watercolors) line is tested according to ASTM standard D5067, the Standard Specification for Artists’ Watercolor Paints. This standard establishes requirements for composition, physical properties, performance, and labeling of artists’ watercolor paints. Hope this helps!
Thank you! That is awesome! I spent 45 minutes on the internet trying to find that info! I wish ii had it when I made the video!
@@winterwoodsstudio Sometimes it's necessary to just go to the source! Glad we were able to help.
@@Blick_Art I put a correction at the top of my description! I've found in the past (not ShinHan) that when I reach out to companies, they often don't get back to me. So, thank you again!
@@winterwoodsstudio Feel free to reach out any time you need product information!
Thanks!
Thank you so very much, Sher! 🧡😊
A very informative video! I'm always looking for affordable and lightfast paint! (Sometimes that is hard to find, lol!)
Yep! I'm hoping to check out the Rosa paints soon. They are very inexpensive and a lot of people had good things to day about them! Thank you for watching, Eleanor!
❤😊 I love the the paints you tried and I’m thinking I may have to try them out. I love Horandam Haze and Forrest! 🤗🥰 Fran
Have fun if you do! I really enjoyed them! Thanks for watching!
Thanks for sharing these. I'm not a professional watercolorist or not even close. I do have have several brands from the more budget friendly to the more expensive brands. I personally don't really enjoy d.s. paints and dont understand the huge following they have, but I do enjoy some of their colors. I have a few q.o.r and love the few colors that I have, i enjoy the mission gold pure pigments set too. I have not tried sennelier or schminke paints but would like to at least try 1 or 2 paints from each, just to try out. I do have a few other brands than these but I definitely think it depends on personal preference and also budget. But ,whatever works best for a specific person is probably their favorite and thats awesome. I always enjoy hearing people's opinions and thoughts on other brands and supplies. Agian, thanks for sharing these! Have a great day.
I think whatever paints work for you, fit in your budget, and are light fast are the paints you should use! In the end I couldn't really pick a winner because I liked most of them! Thank you so much for watching!
Thanks, Amy! Schminke super granulators are on my short list once my no-buy is over! That might be awhile though. I have Daniel Smith from years ago when I tried learning to watercolor the first time...lol...They've all dried out, so it takes a some getting into the tubes. And I have a bunch of sticks as well, because I figured out back then that the sticks were more economical than the tubes. I just need to figure out how to really use them. The sticks are about 15 years old...you would think I would know how by now...🤣 I am pretty sure that by the time my no-buy is over, I will have that figured out!
I haven't tried stick yet! Do you like them? Do they have any pros over the tubes? I know Sandi Hester uses them a lot! Thank you for watching!
The Roman szmal paints I’ve seen look gorgeous! I hope they become more easily available in the USA.
Agreed! !I will be the first one to buy them when I can find an affordable shipping option!
I’m like you I started with Daniel Smith and I love them but I have been using other brands.
I just got the schmincke granulation glacier and I really like them. Think I might buy some colours from the tundra series and a couple others.
I did purchase some Roman Szmal and I really like the pigments I chose I did a flora and I really like the way it turned out.
I must say I do base a lot of my new paint colours from recommendations and swatches so this was wonderful thank you.😊👩🏻🎨
I totally have the Schmincke glacier set in my cart at bli9ck, but I'm trying to make myself wait a few weeks to order, because i think I might need other stuff first! :) I can't get Roman Szmal here, unless I want to pay through the nose for shipping. Maybe someday! I've been hearing lots of good things about them though! Thank you for watching, and for the Super Thanks as well! It means so very much to me! 🧡😊
Aqua Green by W&N and a few other pigments by various other watercolor companies don't have pigment numbers bc they have not been assigned by the pigment manufacturers. I love W&N Aqua Green...I have several tubes so I never run out...lol. Though its highly pigmented and staining so a little goes a long way.
Thank you for the info! Much appreciated! And it is an absolutely beautiful color! I already added it to my pallet!
If you haven't tried M Graham, give you might want to. Also honey in the binder like Sennelier, and some really pretty colors.
My Sennelier don't want to seem to dry out in bands... I wonder if that is the honey? They've been drying 48 hours and they are still kind of gooey! And I do want to try M. Graham at some point! I ran out of money for this video though! :) Thank you for watching!
@@winterwoodsstudio the honey does keep the paint soft. Some people who paint plein air don’t like that because the paint can slide around during transport. It works great for studio painting, but it took me a while to get used to it.
Hmm…for me, I love Roman Szmal, schminke and Daniel Smith. Those would be my top 3. I have tried Sennelier, Mission Gold, QOR, Lukas, and Winsor & Newton as well, and they are not bad, but those are my top 3.
That's awesome! Daniel Smith is probably still my first love, but a couple of those colors I tested gave them a run for their money! I can't get Roman Szmal here, at least not without paying horrible shipping prices! I'd like to try them one day, though!
I love me a good swatching video! Do you have much experience with the daniel smith primatek line .....if you are interested i have a ton of them in tubes id happily send you some to check out!
I don't! I have the Genuine Fuschite, which I might be a Primatek? Maybe? I love that one, but I think it's the only one I have! Do you like them? Thanks for watching!
I have so much to unpack on this subject but I simply don’t feel well enough to do so just now. I will NEVER BUY Dan Smith products again! Yet, I do you want your video to do well so I’m leaving a comment and a like as soon as I could. I will say paint preference it’s just that a preference if you use professional grade paints your pictures will last and that is really the reasons to pick a paint are a personal preference of color flow, stickiness, price, and ease of procurement. I’m sure the video will be great and you will have fun and so will you take care, be safe and we’ll see you again soon!
I'm so sorry you aren't feeling well! No worries about not being able to do your normal excellent commenting! You should rest up! I hope you feel better soon! And, just so you know, a couple of the other brands did better than the Daniel Smith in the end of the video... I think that might make you feel better! ;)
I’m sorry you’re not well. I hope it’s nothing serious. I always look for you in the comments. I’m hoping you feel better very soon. 💜💜💜
When I see you in the comments of a new channel, I know it’s going to grow very well! Your comments are very informative and encouraging!💜💜💜
The Sennelier Emerald Green has binder issues for me. And it won’t dry down completely in pan for me as well. It just migrates in my palette.
For brands I have no huge favourites. I gravitate to punchy transparent or soft opaques in colors.
I bought a Sennelier pan set and all the colors are beautiful. I really like the dioxasine purple in this set, it could have been a contender in the purples. I added opera pink, permanent magenta, yellow ochre, cenilean blue and indigo. I was surprised that warm sepia was included in my initial set, it’s pretty.
OOoh! another color I have to try! Thank you for the recommendation! And thank you for watching!
Schminke is wonderful paint♥️
I think it's the next brand I'm going to buy when I have some money to invest in more paint! Thanks for watching!
@@winterwoodsstudio I make handmade paint from plants, the schminke binder is the absolute best one, I have tried all the others I could find.
I really do have a lot of brands of watercolour paints and the one I like working with the least is Qor. They're hard to work with, the binder probably tends to bubble up like there's soap in it and my rinse water is full of bubbles. What's more, I find them super staining, and once they've been placed, they're quite difficult to fade. It's the last set I think of when I want to do watercolours, every time I try again and the result is always ugly, with traces of bubbles here and there, less so on cotton paper. Perhaps those who are used to working with ink find it easier with Qor.
Huh. I haven't had that happen with the two that I have by QoR but then again, I only have two. I HAVE had that happen with both the Daniel Smith Genuine Fuchsite as weel as their Cerulean Blue though. Maybe it just happens with certain colors or mixes? I don't have much experience with other brands, other than Daniel Smith, so I can't really say. But thank you so much for the feedback, and for taking the time to leave a comment!
paint costs more money now days !
Everything is going up in costs nowadays !
Water color paper and water color paint too !
Yep. It is kind of awful. Our grocery bill is outrageous too!
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She says hi back!
Mission gold do have honey in.
Thank you! I wasn't sure! I love them though! Thank you for watching!
WN does have pigment # on tubes
I only bought the two tubes and one had a pigment number and the other didn't. 🤷🏻♀️ at the beginning of the video I thought they didn't at all but once I got my reading glasses our later in the video, I found it on the red tube! There was no number on the aqua tube. It just said pthalo.
@@winterwoodsstudio The aqua green just hasn't been assigned a code yet. Same with W&N's Transparent Orange. The printing is super tiny on those tubes, though! :)
@@feb2772 ha ha right? My poor eyes! And reflective too, which didn't help any!
I have had the DS paints dry down very hard and pop out of the pans. I love their vibrancy though. Then again, I don’t plan on buying more when I run out. I’m so disappointed in their morals as a company. It makes me sad.
Do mean with the whole Primatek line and how they ended up having other pigments in them? You know, as a former jeweler, I always assumed they had pigments in them, knowing the vibrancy of say crushed amethyst and knowing it was pretty dull. I never checked into the details of it, because I never bought any (I may have one). When it came out, I wasn't at all surprised, so I didn't feel upset. But understand how other people were upset. I am planning to branch out to some other brands too but I will use these up first. They were too expensive not to. I also don't have a problem buying certain favorite colors again or specific pigments to follow along with a class, which is what these were for. But obviously, I am testing other brands for a reason!
@Winter Woods Studio Yes. And the way they market them as Genuine. The owner/ceo showed no sign of remorse when interviewed about knowingly misleading their customers.
If I remember correctly, the interview I saw of him, he didn't even answer the question. Just skirted it like a politician.
They charge very high prices for their primatek line.
Most watercolorists don't have the knowledge base to realize that there must be added pigments. I think that is how it came out, someone knew there must be added pigments and investigated microscopically.
If they were just upfront with the added pigments in the first place it would be a non issue. But, maybe they wouldn't have been able to charge such a high price for them. And, that is their priority.
But, since the truth has come out, and they haven't apologized to their customers in any way, it makes me wonder what else they may be doing that they are not being fully transparent about.
I love their paints. It makes me so sad and disappointed.😞
It all comes down to a matter of trust.
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Btw,
I don't have any problem with you or anyone else using ds. I don't want you to feel I am negative towards you. Not at all.
I love watching your videos!
I get really happy when I see you have posted!
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Arrrugh, Dang chemists and those nerdy names! When you see Phth it is in nomenclature or jargon and pronounced T so you say “thay low” at the start, As Phtho crazy huh? I also cannot believe I haven’t plugged DaVinci Paints because they are the BEST ! So there’s another opinion for you!
ha ha! Yeah, I do know that, but I think I had a brain freeze moment! I haven't been sleeping great and I make weird mistakes when I'm tired! The other day I put the milk jug away in the microwave! Oh well. what are you going to do? Thank you for watching! I hope you are feeling a little better.
I bet its more subjective
I'm with you on the mission gold they're still my favorites and I own every brand and sennelier and qor are all fantastic watercolors. And really I only like about 5 winsor and newton colors aqua green and I think schminke are just not as pigmented as the rest and I'm sorry but your set from them is gross and dull and has no punch. but the ruby is the only pretty one I've seen.
I actually put all the light fast colors from the mission hold set into a permanent palette because I liked them so much! I was actually really impressed! Thanks for watching!
Title should say ‘Which brand is best for ME’ as its subjective to the artist.
Yeah, it should be,, but then no one would click on it!😅