Comparing Travel Watercolor Kits Student (Cotman) vs Professional
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- For anyone wanting a link to the Cotman kit... I've put it in my art supplies list.
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I’m pretty sure the cotman is less lightfast, and has less binder so it can be a tad bit chalkier than the professional version. But I think that’s it, so they’re a really good alternative!
Do you mean more binder? In my experience student watercolors have less pigment and more binder, which means it looks chalky when it dries on the page. And yes, they are less lightest vs the pro series. I think if artists can afford the pro series, it's worth the investment. But if getting cotman lowers the barrier for a starting artist, it's a great entry point!
@@dawnchesbro4189 more binder makes sense as they tend to use less pigment to make cheaper paints, but the matte appearance of the paints makes me think they use a much cheaper pigment and less binder, rather than the pro series which are shiny, with a higher quality pigment and an even amount of binder and pigment. But I agree, if you’re not sure if you like watercolor, these are a great place to start. But the pro series is always worth it.
@@TheYoshi3579 You should go with your gut because you're spot on. We actually use pigment that isn't that much worse with the only side effects being less light-fast and certain colors (magenta seems to be the most affected) tend to not be as vibrant. Adding more binder makes it look too chalky and gives it a matte finish.
Looked like a vape
@@CommonSensei-dont_be_dumb lmfao it did 😂
Just thought i would say that these videos are very helpful for tradional artists! i have been looking for a nice cheap watercolour set for forever
There’s a TH-camr I found who reviewed a bunch of the cheaper sets! One of mine was in that video (I don’t regret my choice). I can get you her name but I don’t remember it at the moment.
@@soniccookie655 Did you remember it?🙈
@@vanessawinkelmann7288 It’s “Paintcrush with Kristy Rice”! Her video is called something like “Watercolors for Beginners - Amazon Haul 2021”.
Found an $11 one at Walmart, I don’t use it nearly as much as you or op probably does but I love it.
You can check out a Kuretake Gansai Tambi set. The pans are huge and the quality is pretty good. It's a Japanese brand but you can find it in Amazon I'm pretty sure. You can get a big 18 color set for like $20. I think the biggest you can get is a 48 color for $47 which is super. The pans are removable so if you wanna put them in your own tray or replace them you can. There's travel versions too though I'd still recommend the normal versions just because of how big the pans are. They're really worth it.
Can we just agree to the fact that this man's videos are always so inspiring, helpful and positive? Thank you for your videos.
Oh wow... 800+ more people that agree with me... that's nice😃thank youuu!
Radiates a lot of positivity
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They're geniuenly far from helpful. All he does is show off a product and give completely unnecessary and brainless comentary. The "swatches" or "tests" he does are far from being informative. It's just trash tiktok content
Yes hahah
@@namshaw7515 literally no one asked for your opinion
I have mainly the cotman ones with just a couple of pro ones, and I've noticed it's just easier to get a stronger colour with the pro ones. In other words, it's more pigmented in my experience.
That too, and it has a lot less additives. My Cotman ones - I was stupid when I started out and bought those because I thought I was getting a deal - are a lot more opaque and dry a bit chalky.
I got given a huge Windsor and newton watercolour pallet a couple years ago. It was used a little bit, but still had so much paint in it
my piano teacher (who was about 75-80) gave me it cause she knew I loved art
She was amazing at painting and I have fond memories with her
♡
The past tense in this comment makes me sad :(
cool teacher ♥
That’s awesome 👏
A teacher plays an important part in any kids life
What happened to the pallet?
I have the student version because at the time I was travelling a lot and wanted to paint. It's lasted me ages, I think at least a few months now and it's still doing great.
All my art supplies can be seen here. Hope this helps.
www.ssavaart.com/art-supplies-list
By the way... this is NOT sponsored. I purchased these to check out myself.
Do you still do paint-a-strangers? I’ll volunteer if you do!
Me to
Thank you so much for doing this comparison! I really wanted to try the student version to save $$ but I know that proffessional WC paper makes ALL the difference so I was concerned student paints wouldn't be good, I had a bad experience with cheaper student paints before. I'm so glad to know that Windsor Newton has quality paints for those of us on a budget thank you so much!!
How do you know what to draw
Try to paint something you like with oil colours 🙂
When I saw him take out the middle part I realized my life could’ve been 10x easier
I’m so excited! The first thought I had when you opened up the pro one was “I want that” -Bobby Duke Arts Voice but then you said the price and I was sad then happy again to see the student version! Haha such a rollercoaster!
nice bobby duke reference
"i w a w n t t h a y u t"
“A little sketch”
*redraws the Mona Lisa*
I have a cotman kit from like 10 years ago. I still have it and it still reactivates great! It doesn’t come with a black though. I had to buy a tube. The tubes reactivate great too!
You don’t need a black. It’s better to mix your own black using contrasting colours. In Liquid Colour did a great video about mixing blacks and why it’s better than buying one premixed.
Intense Blue is awesome!
@@ilz_y that’s true a majority of the time but not having black or white is like trying to paint with only red, blue, and yellow. Yes, you can do it, but it’s an artificial rule you’ve made for yourself. I’ve actually done that mixing exercise with all the compliments and while it does make a dark color, sometimes I just want a shade of a color I already have and adding a complimentary color will muddy it rather than darkening it.
If we’ve learned anything from these videos it’s that if it makes you happy, go for you. I certainly wasn’t implying that everyone has to use black or needs it. Just that I wanted it and my set didn’t come with it so I bought a tube. :)
@@adamsmith6594 it depends on the look you want and how you’re using it.
If we’ve learned anything from these videos, it’s that if it makes you happy, go for it. MY set didn’t come with black Mine and I wanted it. That’s all. :)
If she wants to use Black paint then then that's her choice. Yes it's not traditional and it is best practice in traditional painting, however, there is a lot of snobbery surrounding watercolour painting (all mediums to an extent), that makes it less accessible to people getting into art and painting and can also thwart the creative process. I studied art at College and it honestly sucked all the fun and creativity out of it for me.
“I’m just going to do a little sketch so we have something to paint with.”
*Flawlessly draws it*
I can draw a flawless sketch on a used Denny's napkin but a final canvas piece looked like I chewed on it
One of my favorite students came to visit me one day somewhere in/after basic training. She was doing so wonderfully well, back to the ol' hometown before being sent to Afghanistan, I believe. The only problem was a distinct lack of art supplies.
I had a version of this field case and couldn't think of any better use than to send it with her. I don't know if it would be considered contraband, but she sent me a little sketch of what she saw from her one-person studio.
It's a prized possession that reminds me how amazing it is to be a teacher. Being able to help students go out into the world with skills that give them confidence makes me smile every time ☺️
Me who’s name is sienna: WAAAA STOP BURNING ME
I use a mix of Cotman and professional from them. From the years of using them, I noticed that the professionals are easier to reactivate and have a higher punch of pigment.
Now THIS is the kind of stuff that III WANT to see on you tube
I still use my student W&N travel paints years after graduation. I have to replace the white a lot but they've lasted so well. Mine is a different box than this. Mine is white and I think it might be gouache. I thank my theater rendering teacher to this day ❤️
"little sketch" it's better than I can do in 7 hours
Thank you so much for sharing this! My fiance loves to paint but it's hard to pack it all up for camping. Her birthday is Monday and this is perfect!
I’ve been using the Cotmans since I was in college and they’re great. I haven’t seen any fading in my work from back then (graduated in 2016, so it’s been several years and they’ve held up well!)
Everyone: **talk about the art**
Me: wait this song was the first Georgia productions intro 😧
I use a mix of both the pro paints and student grade paints, some of the cotman ones i think are actually just as pigmented as the pro ones especially the blues. Most of Cotman's blues has the same lightfastness like the pro ones too. I use ultramarine, pthalo blue and orange cotmans in my palette for years now and my artwork still looked like i painted it yesterday :)
Thank you so so much for this amazing find I’ve been on the hunt for a watercolor set that will work for travel that’s not insanely priced!! I’m so excited to paint in the woods this summer!!
Him: Here we have burnt sienna
Me who is named sienna:I’m definitely ok 🙂
Thank you, I've been curious about them
Thank you a lot for this, I am not an art student...but a hobby artist with equally limited money and I am very grateful that you consider comparing these to your higher quality ones to share with us.
I love it. Never heard of it though, thanks for the tip.
Watching your videos gave me motivation to take up watercolour again! I forgot how much I missed it.
I really recommend you to draw some JoJo’s bizarre adventure art.I would really want to see it.
I don't do art, but i just love watching and listening this guy
Hello! Scott sir, I just have a request related to one of your previous videos. Could you please draw Dragon Ball Z's Goku doing Kamehameha. You're awesome 😁👍
I’m thinking on buying one bc I love to travel and my family does too, I do art on the go but I don’t brig art supplies and the hotel pens are not doing it for me so
•What brand do you recommend (also is there anything affordable but still good)
•What is the name (the specific name of the product not just brand name)
• Is there kits for anything else other than watercolor (if so please answer the questions above)
•Does it come with brushes
•Can you also please give me the link?
If your not Scott and reading this can you please like so he sees this (I’m not trying to beg for likes sorry if it seems like that)
"Burnt Sienna"
Hey! Sienna is my name!
My grandpa paid over 150 dollars for the new digital watch he bought back in the day. But I got one as a McDonald’s toy when I was little. I wonder if thats what went into the price difference since he said he got his so long ago.
"I'm just gonna do a little sketch"
*Proceeds to draw a masterpiece*
"Burnt sienna"
"Ms, whered sienna go-??"
"Welll, blue she's a color now..
That’s so cool
I was at a free sale one time, and I found a thing of watercolors, and now I realize they're Windsor and Newton
“A quick sketch” my guy I can barely draw something like that in 5 days
Aw man. Where I live, the Cotman version is over $80 (converted to USD) so I had to buy a slightly cheaper brand. I’m just starting out with watercolour so… I don’t mind :)
The best artist on TH-cam. Hands down learnt so much from u thanks a lot even though I'm not as frequent to draw ur videos really help me thanks man
Unless you’re selling your original work definitely cheap out where you can. If you’re selling work you should probably start upgrading if possible just for the sake of lightfastness and making sure your work will stand the test of time.
For oil painting I just use what I can get my hands on. I stretch my own canvases using often just cheap calico (or whatever my fabric store has a sale on). I get the frames from repurposing prints or paintings from charity shops. I prep it with emulsion instead of gesso. I use hardware linseed oil and white spirit.
Honestly it works, my paintings from about 10 years ago are holding up fine. Right now I’m a skint engineering student who paints for fun. I focus on enjoyment. I’ve occasionally used some more expensive materials I have been gifted but I save them. There’s a couple of things like certain shades of paint I like having a higher quality. I’m hoping to one day be able to invest a bit more in my art supplies and if I am ever in a position to sell work I would want to use professional supplies. Right now I want to practice and get better so if it works it works 🤷♂️. And tbh repurposing things is half the fun
My art teacher when I'm in the halls making a costume for theatre: oh you poor dissabled thing, here have all the leftover art kits
I just got the cotman version on Amazon for $25 and my local art store had a 25% off entire store sale so I purchased DS and WN Pro pans for $4-$5 each so I’m swapping out the cotman for the pros. In total it cost me $70 to make it a professional paint plan aire pallets vs the $95 for the WN Pro version
I love this guy I want to be like him when I grow up
Ink and watercolors paintings look beautiful
Can you pleaseeeee draw me i Luv youre video's you are really my idol tysm for making all those helpful video's 👍😍✨
I love brands are making stuff more accessible to artists but I think I’ll stick with my CRAYOLA and sharpies
“Let me just do a little sketch” *makes the Mona lisa*
Mister where you get that ima have to look it up because I’ve been wanting to start painting a lot and haven’t got any supplies for it but for 25 bucks for that is a good deal I love your video’s and I know this is from a YEAR ago but it’s ok :)
I have been woodburining and watercolor painting over my designs. All Free handed. They turn out so cool but I use wc pencils. I'm looking to get a good grade wc kit and this is kick ass information thank you.
Please tell me most of the price of that travel kit is the paint itself lol at first I didn't know paint came with it and I was like "WHAT!?"
Lol the pro kinda looked like a taser to me before you opened it
1 tube of winter and Newton is very expensive in Pakistan 😐
Cotmans are remarkable because they are made from the identical pigments as the pro, just with more fillers. Pros do last longer and can get more vibrant but Cotmans are a solid set.
Scott what is the strange forbidden cheese at the top of the Cotman
maybe they dry faster / look better or glossier when dry?
That paint looks like chocolate. And now I want some
me: ill buy it!
also me: **gets ohuhu markers**
Thank you I was looking forward to start using some of my art skill and I decided to start with watercolors and I didn’t know what watercolors to get so this helped me so much!! Especially bc I’m a beginner kind of 😅😅
25 dollars? In my country this is 60-70 euros 😭😭
I’m a young artist and I use winsor newton cotman watercolours as my everyday paints, in a palette very similar to that one. I’ve never had any issues! They go on smooth, I don’t have any problems with them being cakey, they blend well, all the good stuff! They’re the best watercolours I’ve ever used, and they’ll probably be my go-to for a long time!
Since this video came out the watercolor palette is always sold out 😭
I got this kit from your art supply list a few weeks ago! It’s perfect!
Wow! Thank you!! I really appreciate this comparison! So much better than endlessly scrolling Amazon reviews! My kids are going to be excited!!!
Hey Scott, quick question. Do you sketch with pencil, ink and then add watercolour or add ink after the watercolour has dried?
From all the videos I've seen, the process is pencil, ink, watercolor, then often ink again for a thicker outline around the subject, then white gel pen for highlights and another outline.
Oh, he also adds color pencil on top sometimes. He talks a bit about his technique in this short: th-cam.com/users/shorts9fLDMpyYRd4?feature=share
@@dantheman2907 thanks
The way he said sienna and my lol cousin is here
My cousin:OMG that's lit bro he said your name
Lol
IT’S ONLY $25?!!??!? DAMN THATS SO GOOD 💀
Am I the only one who first thought this was a tazer for some reason
Wow, he’s been using that watercolor for 5 years? Whereas me, who literally makes the green color vanish after 3 days? Damn!
Idk if this is sarcastic or not, but I'll give you the benefit of the doubt. The half pans in this kit can be removed and replaced. I actually recommend taking all the colors out and rearranging them as soon as you get it. In such a small space, it's so easy to make a mess of the colors. If you arrange the colors by how light or dark they are, you can minimize the damage. If you don't mind getting some of the colors mixed up a little, then I wouldn't worry too much beyond keeping the white and reds far apart. Those reds are so so strong, it's ridiculous
My name is Siena 😆 please don’t burn me and turn me into paint
Usualy water collours are priced by how long they last on the paper for example a pro version can last more than 100 years with the painting looking just the same but a cheap one can last less than a year ( i learnd it in art school )
It's true, and their resistance to sun and humidity and stuff
Would love to have this if I could draw😭
I have this little guy :) works great for me
I bought a smaller cotman kit and fell in love with it. I was actually inspired by you
The guy you painted at the end looks like Joe Jonas
This should get a million likes and subscribers
I might buy this, it seems great and I’ve been meaning to upgrade from my crayola watercolors-
Well, here I am 11 months later, I bought it not long after I wrote this comment-it’s amazing. Worth it. I love it.
I remember buying a payne gray of the professional series and put it in my cotman palette and wondering why everything turned so much dark than before. Professionals are definitely more pigmented, but it means also that it lasts long, now my Payne gray is the only in the palette that's not almost over lol
I use Cotman a ton and love it.
It’s also probably easier to handle and control
What black pen do you use? I’m a teenager who’s very much into art! But can’t really find a good black pen like you have… :/
I’m using Zebra brush pens from jetpens.com. They’re waterproof. There’s a link in my bio. ☺️
@@ssavaart thank you so much! This helps a lot!
Just gunna save this video for later...
i hate that the colour brown is called sienna.
I've got the 24 cotman set for like £10 (perks of living in Britain, Windsor and Newton are super cheap) literally had it for years and I love it.
I got the student version! Its so amazing!
My cat hears, "that's NOT IDENTICAL! THAT'S NOT IDENTICAL!", being screamed from the other room.
Poor kitty. Go back to sleep. It is just an art color testing reel made by a blind person that your mom is shocked by.
Iirc, there's a negligible difference in lightfastness between their artist vs student quality paints.
If you haven't already discussed this, I would love to see you swatch your colors from your professional palette. I am always curious about which colors an artist prefers to use regularly 😍!
Everybartist has their own list of favorites. My teacher from YEARS ago Ernestine Bucking wanted us to have yellow ochre and cadium red , they were on her list of 8 paints she wanted us to have,..both have come off my every day palette.
I KNEW THAT PAINTING LOOKED FAMILIAR! That’s Proserpine! Oh my god, I love Dante’s work! His art style is so nice. It’s not everyday you see people appreciating his work!
I would feel cheated if I found this out 💀
But that’s just because I don’t professionally water color. I do just about every art form and painting technique, but I’m not a pro or anything.
The only professional item I have is an easel I inherited from my grandmother or something and my sewing machine. I have a cricut to help with my paper craft, too.
I feel like such a pro using my crayola watercolor tho 😭
The few professional items I have make me feel so special as I am but a child in this lawless land known as “art.”
I'll work my way up to that.
My main medium is acrylic because it's what I've mostly used and know the tricks to using it.
I just got a small box of tubed watercolor to give it a try. I haven't used them since art school. Maybe I'll like it and can use multiple mediums.
I'll just never use oil paints. Too many cons outweigh the pros fir me in oil paints.
Every sienna in the comments
👇🏼❤
May the 4th be with you.
The main difference besides “lightfast” are the types of pigments used in the professional paint don’t shift color and don’t contain dyes to help keep the color like the student grade one. Unless selling your work, I would definitely recommend the student grade. I’ve replaced most paint by now but the case and remaining paint are still going strong after over a decade of use as well 😊
i think the biggest difference is their lightfastedness ie the student paints will fade over time from exposure to the sun. But if you're someone who paints in sketchbooks a lot then it shouldn't be too much of a problem. I'm a fan of the van gogh student watercolors myself, they're super pigmented as far as student paints go ^^
I love how excited he is to try the new paints
Considering that a set of professional tube watercolors by shinhan is like a hundred bucks, and you get twenty something 15 ml tubes... yeah pan watercolors are too expensive
Im not sure if you take idea suggestions but I think you should paint people from scream like the first one that would be awesome 👍
Got the student version and starting my watercolor journey!