The side by side comparisons with the product images are the most useful thing I’ve ever seen in a swatching video. Thank you for the extra time and effort that took!
Eve, Roman Szmal should hire you to do their product swatches as your swatches are amazing! Their product swatches don't seem to really show the true paint colour. I really enjoyed this video. 🧡💛💚
I'm up for the job, if they are watching! ;) Thank you so much, painting swatches is a lot of fun (it's so calm, and then there's all the gorgeous colors!!)
I agree Eve.... watching the paint flow onto the paper.... no matter the color is sooooooo soothing! Thanks for the video.... this batch of new colors seems like it was Roman’s orange phase.... my favorite color!!!
I really appreciate that you show your scans vs the product images! I wish they had dot cards, or at least painted color charts - between the quirks of the product images and the differences in monitor color calibrations it can be pretty much impossible to know what you're buying, and I much prefer just buying a chart so I can see what the paints actually look like...
I really like a lot of the new shades - I'm quite in love with Indian red right now, and that lapis lazuli actually looks like it'd be a great color when painting "white" stuff, like a snowy landscape. I want a ton of these paints tbh 😂
I agree that to be able to get painted charts would be a blessing. Some brands offer it (Holbein, Turner), but definitely not all of them. There's really nothing like seeing a color "in person".
@@EveBolt Dot cards are the very best imo, since we can try the paint on our preferred paper that way, but even just a painted chart on random paper is so extremely useful!
I really appreciate how you organize your video. It is very unique and, wonderfully, practical. Thank you for this one and I will look forward to more of your swatching videos. 🇨🇦
Not gonna lie, I was hoping (and waiting) for you to talk about those new colours! I'm super grateful you compared them to the older ones as well as official swatches, that's very helpful. I have their Caput Mortuum, so I won't bother with the new Hematites :) But I do love all of the new oranges, holy moly. That Golden Yellow is stunning!
I'm glad you enjoyed the video! Sorry it took me a bit of time to get it out! :) The new oranges are so lovely, I'm glad I don't have to chose one or two from the five XD
Thank you for this Eve! I’m making an embarrassingly long wish list of RS paints. I love most of the new shades. I have to say that Goethite brown shade dried reminds me of weathered leather. Lovely!
I NEED the cobalt sea blue! Actually both other blues they added as well and the malachite, vivianite and lazurite. Oh and potter's pink! I have a whole bunch of the roman szmals paints in my jackson cart. Maybe for my birthday I will splurge! Eta: I love the way you compare your swatches to the advertised color swatches. It is very helpful!
@@EveBolt I hope so too. It is so close to Christmas that it is hard to justify splurging. I have 2 of their colors and have been wanting more since I got them a year ago.
I hope they get to you fast!! The blue ochre is a good example of the difficult decision to make between getting it and being out of pocket, or not getting it but missing the color. I made a few pans myself and I would definitely make it more often if it wasn't for the absurdly prohibitive price of the pigment jar 😭
I love Roman Szmal paints so much. They're gorgeous and I am so glad Jackson's carries them. I bought 12 new pans a few months ago and the first new colour I picked was Hematite (violet shade). I love the way it separates (depending on the paper)
I agree, it's a gorgeous color! I love when the dark muted brown reds like this one granulate! I'll have to see how it mixes with teal colors (it can make for a gorgeous neutral)
I purchased these, so happy you are reviewing. I have not opened mine up yet, no real time to get acquainted with them. Thanks for making the introduction. Your videos are always the best and the work you put in to your reviews is evident. Thank you once again. Oh, by the way, your voice, don't ever change that. You could do voice work.
Hehe, thank you!! I've said this before, but I'm so relieved people enjoy my voice. It was the thing I felt the most insecure about when I started making videos. I hope you get some time soon to unwrap your paints and play with them, the colors are so lovely :D
@@EveBolt voice is everything, when I watch youtube...you would not believe the screamers, or high pitches...I can't listen...I go to your channel, knowing I will always get your soothing voice and a great , thorough review...thanks for all you do!...Janis
Thank you so much for this video! It is jam packed with info, and I am so grateful you took the time to show how these new colors fit into the existing range AND how your swatches compare to the website. With so many pigments to choose from, it's really helpful to see the swatches compared this way.
Every time I see Golden Yellow I fall more in love with it... It looks like it has a bit of a colour shift into a less orangey tone when it's diluted, which is something I absolutely love in a warm yellow. I might have to pick it up next time I do a Jackson's order... Fab video as always - I love watching them to unwind, and I like how you compared your scans and footage to the online photos - it's super useful! :-D
Thank you so much!! I'm glad the video is useful! I agree that the golden yellow is gorgeous! It's such a warm and bright color, just like a nice, fresh, ripe tangerine :3
Excellent review, thanks. Just got my Roman Szmal starter kit from Jackson's -- the're worthy of the hype! I believe you're right about Benzimidazo Golden (PY181 from Guerra Paint and Pigment Corp) being unique to this brand.
Thank you so much! :) I love it when colors are unique! It's so much more special to work with them! I'm also super happy you like your Roman Szmal paints!! Yay! :D
Thanks! It was! I mean, it doesn't look like it'll be, but it's so repetitive that it gets extra confusing XD So thankful that Resolve has a way to swap photos on a timeline element
I bought a handful of paints from RS a month ago and have been using them non-stop! I have been thinking about adding more red/oranges and desaturated/moody colors to my collection, so these new hues are right up my alley! Thank you so much for the informative video!
Holy hell the color shift on the Sap Green Light 😱 I mean I love how it looks both when wet and dry but damn that's a big difference when it dry! Lazurite is so pretty though, that's such a lovely snow/cloud/mist color 😭🤍 The Cobalt Sea Blue is super pretty too... They're all so beautiful, gosh
thanks for doing this. great information about the malachite, metal tubes, and storage - which might have escaped other negative reviewers of this pigment.
ohhh yes! thank you so much eve! this was very helpful! i love how you compared your own swatches to the advertised swatches as well as the regular range vs new colours. i still don't know why roman szmal didn't think to make an updated brochure/catalogue of their new colours within the regular range. (btw, i sent you a dot card of some artist grade paints made in thailand. should take about 3 weeks to reach you :))
Glad it was helpful! I'm glad it's useful :) I keep checking my po box whenever I go to the post office (aka often) hoping to see them already, but they'll get here when they get here, I just have to be patient XD
@@EveBolt i can't wait too haha~ i'm curious to know your thoughts on them. please don't feel like you need to do a vid on them, after all it's only a dot card! i'll be more than happy enough if you just let me know (via here or IG or wherever) how you found them once you've tried it :)
Love the way you show the added new colors. I am guessing this is an old video. There are newer colors now. Do you have an updated video of the newest colors?
Hi! Sorry, I do not have an updated video with the subsequent new colors. This video was made possible thanks to the generosity of Roman Szmal and Jackson's, as they sent me that batch of new colors as a promo item back then. I couldn't afford on my own dime to purchase all the new colors :)
I just ordered the travel palette with 12 half pans which is available here in Germany from the online shop Peters Art. I am very curious to finally try out Roman Szmal and see if I like them...
I'm so happy you love Vivianite, it's one of my favorite pigments as well. It's just gorgeous and unique, and it's so sad that it's such an unreliable pigment with terrible lightfastness because there's nothing else like it! But ugh, so expensive!! Also, I have to agree with everyone who said you should've been hired to do the official swatches lol, yours are so much more accurate! If I'd seen your video two months ago I would've gotten Sap Green Light, it's quite pretty and natural in your swatch, but their swatch just looked dull and sad so I passed on it.
I feel weirdly happy that they come from my country... I didn't know they had potter's pink. I guess I'm lucky they are cheaper here. Maybe I should get myself some when I run out of my white nights, but I thought of getting Rembrandts we will see
It's possible the yellow hue was partly from the camera, too, as I had a harder time color correcting that footage. It was much easier to do with the scanned swatches :)
Oomph this video must have been just a complete beast to edit!! Was this your most time intensive video ever!? Anyway, I absolutely loved it! I don't have any RS pans, and tbh I am afraid to jump in because I think I won't be able to control myself and I really don't need more paints. The RS line is the most alluring paints for me atm bar none!
It was definitely one of the most long to edit, all in all XD I completely understand your reticence to dive in, there's 165 colors! Not a good rabbit hole to fall into!
@@EveBolt I have a small selection if M. Graham and a pan set of Schmincke that are just so yummy I could eat them. 😂 I resently have been enjoying experimenting with the Paul Rubens Opera set too. You can get some really interesting mixes you cant normally get. Think Opera pink mixes times 14 !
Thank you for your comprehensive review! I’m planning to pick up a few of these in Jackson’s sale. Do you have a recommendation for a plastic palette that would hold these paints? I’ve heard the White Nights palettes fit too snuggly for these pans. Bummer! Wish RS would offer an empty palette for purchase.
I have no solution, sadly. It's something that annoys me, too. Arleebean has been able to put the Roman Szmal pans in the plastic White Nights palette, after using a Dremmel to sand off the little bumps in the tray. For my pans, I used two-sided tape (or blue tack) and just glued then in a palette where they would fit. (This one, in the middle area : bit.ly/3g5GqB2)
I just saw a comment on Denise Soden’s channel that you can buy the Mijello 33 well palette, remove the trays (even the one with the wells), and add the RS pans with tack or adhesive. Sounds brilliant... I just ordered on Amazon and I’ll let you know how it goes!
I love how you formatted this swatching review! So nice, and so many pretty colors! I was surprised though that you didn’t mention that almost all of the special colors (that last row you did) are fugitive for one reason or another. So as long as you know that going in, paint to your heart’s content!
Thank you! :D Are they? The info I have seen says that 3/5 have excellent lightfastness, and the other two can be affected by acids or other pigments. I haven't seen any info saying these are not lightfast, where did you see that?
@@EveBolt check out Kimberly Crick Art’s Roman Szmal review of these paints on her channel from Oct and she goes into detail. To be fair, some pigments are more unstable than than fugitive and some are lightfast but not when diluted- as you would do with watercolor, etc. Each has its own idiosyncrasy 😜. That’s why Daniel Smith discontinued Malachite, it had instability issues. Anyway, her info is enlightening- and I’ve seen info one other place but can’t remember where that elaborated on some and confirmed the rest. The colors are beautiful, and as long as you know going in what you’re dealing with, if it’s just for a card or something or an illustration that you’re going to scan - then Go for it. If it’s for something you want to keep long term, the. Maybe use a different pigment. I think Goethite is the only one of that last bunch that is benign. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news!
@@EveBolt I have the Cornelissen’s whiskey palette with the built-in flask, an old winsor newton enamelled palette from ebay and a wooden palette from Quackplume on Etsy.
Super informative. Thank you so much for this review... I feel like my soul needs to go back to watercolours. I still have a set of 12 White Nights from 2009! (the consistency looks very fresh after all these years), and I got a lovely set of Schminke for my birthday this year... No excuses. I need to first use what I have but RS is on my list. The quality looks excellent and the price seems reasonable. Oh, and thank you for pronouncing his last name correctly xD... Whenever I hear Roman "Small" I think: "pretty sure he's a big guy"... xD
I don't have a link, sorry. As far as I know, the plastic tray is mostly a promotional item for sending out pans to artists and reviewers. It's a rather flimsy tray, too. I love it and I'd use a sturdier version, for sure, but this one is rather fragile.
@@EveBolt What a pity! I have 500 watercolours pans and tubes. They should be a perfect solution! In Poland they’re available but not for international shipping
Is it worth it to get pyrrol scarlet if u already have pyrrol orange and pyrrol red? Also do you like the Roman szmal Indian red? And what ochre would you pick out of the line? Edit: Also completely forgot to thank you for the lovely review as usual:))
For pyrrol scarlet, have you tried mixing your orange and red to see if you get a color close to the scarlet? The Indian red is really nice, it's super strong. As for the ochre, do you mean from among the yellow ochre colors? I love the basic yellow ochre, the gold ochre looks nice too! Thanks! :)
@@EveBolt thank you for replying so soon! I appreciate it very much as I am planning on making a order soon. I don’t have a pyrrol red yet to see what happens when mixed with pyrrol orange but will do as soon as I get it. I was also considering transparent yellow oxide and goethite for the yellow ochre colors? The only thing I am worried about is that the swatch cards on the Jackson website for those 2 colors look a bit similar even tho the pigments are completely different.
@@kamalitarajagopalan2671 just FYI goethite is also known as brown ochre and is definitely a browner color I the DS range. I haven’t seen the Roman Szmal up close and personal but I would think it would definitely be browner than a yellow oxide or ochre
The side by side comparisons with the product images are the most useful thing I’ve ever seen in a swatching video. Thank you for the extra time and effort that took!
Glad it was helpful! Thank you so much! :)
Eve, Roman Szmal should hire you to do their product swatches as your swatches are amazing! Their product swatches don't seem to really show the true paint colour. I really enjoyed this video. 🧡💛💚
I'm up for the job, if they are watching! ;)
Thank you so much, painting swatches is a lot of fun (it's so calm, and then there's all the gorgeous colors!!)
I agree Eve.... watching the paint flow onto the paper.... no matter the color is sooooooo soothing! Thanks for the video.... this batch of new colors seems like it was Roman’s orange phase.... my favorite color!!!
I really appreciate that you show your scans vs the product images! I wish they had dot cards, or at least painted color charts - between the quirks of the product images and the differences in monitor color calibrations it can be pretty much impossible to know what you're buying, and I much prefer just buying a chart so I can see what the paints actually look like...
I really like a lot of the new shades - I'm quite in love with Indian red right now, and that lapis lazuli actually looks like it'd be a great color when painting "white" stuff, like a snowy landscape. I want a ton of these paints tbh 😂
I agree that to be able to get painted charts would be a blessing. Some brands offer it (Holbein, Turner), but definitely not all of them. There's really nothing like seeing a color "in person".
@@EveBolt Dot cards are the very best imo, since we can try the paint on our preferred paper that way, but even just a painted chart on random paper is so extremely useful!
Its so nice that you display the pics of the swatches for a long enough time for the viewers to really look at the colors ^^👍💕
Thanks!! It's a bit difficult to time them properly, but I try to leave them at least long enough to be able to pause on them :)
It's really impressive how consistent and thorough this review is:)
Thanks!! By the end I was no longer sure if it was making sense, so I'm glad to see it does XD
Beautiful colors
I agree! :) Thank you!
I really appreciate how you organize your video. It is very unique and, wonderfully, practical. Thank you for this one and I will look forward to more of your swatching videos. 🇨🇦
Not gonna lie, I was hoping (and waiting) for you to talk about those new colours! I'm super grateful you compared them to the older ones as well as official swatches, that's very helpful. I have their Caput Mortuum, so I won't bother with the new Hematites :) But I do love all of the new oranges, holy moly. That Golden Yellow is stunning!
I'm glad you enjoyed the video! Sorry it took me a bit of time to get it out! :)
The new oranges are so lovely, I'm glad I don't have to chose one or two from the five XD
I quickly fell love with Roman Szmal watercolors, their color are just beautiful and unique. I really enjoy their rewettability.
I agree!! They rewet so easily! A bit difficult to unwrap but it's a trade-off I'll take!! :D
Brilliant video. Thank you for making it.
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it! :)
I bought a 12 full pan of these paints wow so beautiful just silky smooth, received yesterday !!!!! More More More!!!!
Best Swatch Video I've ever seen!
Thank you so much! It was a lot of work :)
I can imagine that!
These are my favourite watercolours, I’m addicted. Wanted to buy some more colours so thanks for this vid!
You’re welcome 😊
These paints are so nice! Do you have a favorite color from them so far?
@@EveBolt i quite love lavenda, and of course Aquarius green. I’m stuck on a good bright red :( I do wish they did samples
Extremely helpful video!!!!
Thank you so much!!!❤
Thank you for this Eve! I’m making an embarrassingly long wish list of RS paints. I love most of the new shades. I have to say that Goethite brown shade dried reminds me of weathered leather. Lovely!
I NEED the cobalt sea blue! Actually both other blues they added as well and the malachite, vivianite and lazurite. Oh and potter's pink! I have a whole bunch of the roman szmals paints in my jackson cart. Maybe for my birthday I will splurge!
Eta: I love the way you compare your swatches to the advertised color swatches. It is very helpful!
Thank you!! :)
I hope you get to splurge for your birthday, these are lovely new colors and great paints!
@@EveBolt I hope so too. It is so close to Christmas that it is hard to justify splurging. I have 2 of their colors and have been wanting more since I got them a year ago.
The potters pink is gorgeous and easy to rewet compared to other brands
I love that blue ochre but the price choked me! I did pick up a few with Christmas money and am eagerly awaiting them.
I hope they get to you fast!! The blue ochre is a good example of the difficult decision to make between getting it and being out of pocket, or not getting it but missing the color. I made a few pans myself and I would definitely make it more often if it wasn't for the absurdly prohibitive price of the pigment jar 😭
I love Roman Szmal paints so much. They're gorgeous and I am so glad Jackson's carries them. I bought 12 new pans a few months ago and the first new colour I picked was Hematite (violet shade). I love the way it separates (depending on the paper)
I agree, it's a gorgeous color! I love when the dark muted brown reds like this one granulate! I'll have to see how it mixes with teal colors (it can make for a gorgeous neutral)
Vivianite, Misty Morning, Golden Yellow, & Fuschite (?). Great review, Eve. Thank you!
I purchased these, so happy you are reviewing. I have not opened mine up yet, no real time to get acquainted with them. Thanks for making the introduction. Your videos are always the best and the work you put in to your reviews is evident. Thank you once again.
Oh, by the way, your voice, don't ever change that. You could do voice work.
Hehe, thank you!! I've said this before, but I'm so relieved people enjoy my voice. It was the thing I felt the most insecure about when I started making videos.
I hope you get some time soon to unwrap your paints and play with them, the colors are so lovely :D
@@EveBolt voice is everything, when I watch youtube...you would not believe the screamers, or high pitches...I can't listen...I go to your channel, knowing I will always get your soothing voice and a great , thorough review...thanks for all you do!...Janis
Awww I really like the Potter's pink!
It's much softer and more of a light pink than the others.
It's so beautiful!! ♥
golden yellow looks awesome, thanks for sharing the scanned+color-corrected versions of these paints
You're welcome! :) It was a lot of work but useful for everyone, so that makes it worth it!
Lovely video! Love seing you swatch colors like this!
Thank you so much! I'm glad it's appreciated :)
Thank you so much for this video! It is jam packed with info, and I am so grateful you took the time to show how these new colors fit into the existing range AND how your swatches compare to the website. With so many pigments to choose from, it's really helpful to see the swatches compared this way.
You are so welcome! I'm glad it was helpful!! :)
The best swatching ever! Well done!!!
Thank you!! :)
Every time I see Golden Yellow I fall more in love with it... It looks like it has a bit of a colour shift into a less orangey tone when it's diluted, which is something I absolutely love in a warm yellow. I might have to pick it up next time I do a Jackson's order...
Fab video as always - I love watching them to unwind, and I like how you compared your scans and footage to the online photos - it's super useful! :-D
Thank you so much!! I'm glad the video is useful!
I agree that the golden yellow is gorgeous! It's such a warm and bright color, just like a nice, fresh, ripe tangerine :3
Excellent review, thanks. Just got my Roman Szmal starter kit from Jackson's -- the're worthy of the hype! I believe you're right about Benzimidazo Golden (PY181 from Guerra Paint and Pigment Corp) being unique to this brand.
Thank you so much! :)
I love it when colors are unique! It's so much more special to work with them! I'm also super happy you like your Roman Szmal paints!! Yay! :D
Interesting how your swatches often match the paint wrappers better than the product image swatches.
Thank you for the great information about colors. It's very helpful.
Glad it was helpful! Thank you! :)
Useful and thorough as always. Thank you Eve.
Thank you so much, it's my pleasure :)
Wow, that product image comparison is super useful but must have taken ages to edit!
Thanks! It was! I mean, it doesn't look like it'll be, but it's so repetitive that it gets extra confusing XD So thankful that Resolve has a way to swap photos on a timeline element
I bought a handful of paints from RS a month ago and have been using them non-stop! I have been thinking about adding more red/oranges and desaturated/moody colors to my collection, so these new hues are right up my alley! Thank you so much for the informative video!
Thank you! These new colors have exactly what you've been looking for, talk about good luck :D
@@EveBolt Absolutely! :) Just in time for the new year as well.
Holy hell the color shift on the Sap Green Light 😱 I mean I love how it looks both when wet and dry but damn that's a big difference when it dry!
Lazurite is so pretty though, that's such a lovely snow/cloud/mist color 😭🤍 The Cobalt Sea Blue is super pretty too... They're all so beautiful, gosh
I love the Hematite Violet, the Cobalt Sea Blue, the Vivianite (like you) and the Potter’s Pink! Thanks for the great swatch video!
Thanks Eve. The paints look terrific. Great video also.
I am so bad, I grabbed all of them, waiting for the last of them to come. Thanks for the swatches, they of course are amazing.
It's only bad if you don't use them! Buying paint with the intent to use it is perfectly fine in my book :)
Which is your fav in the new colors?
What a ᗯOᑎᗪᗴᖇᖴᑌᒪ review, wow! Thankyou for taking the time to create such a helpful video❣︎👏🏻✨🧡
You are so welcome! I'm glad it was helpful! :D
Wonderful video!
Thank you very much!
Really helpful, thank you!
You're welcome! :)
Wonderful review. Oh man, so many oranges :)
I know, right? I thought of you straight up XD
thanks for doing this. great information about the malachite, metal tubes, and storage - which might have escaped other negative reviewers of this pigment.
ohhh yes! thank you so much eve! this was very helpful! i love how you compared your own swatches to the advertised swatches as well as the regular range vs new colours. i still don't know why roman szmal didn't think to make an updated brochure/catalogue of their new colours within the regular range. (btw, i sent you a dot card of some artist grade paints made in thailand. should take about 3 weeks to reach you :))
Glad it was helpful! I'm glad it's useful :)
I keep checking my po box whenever I go to the post office (aka often) hoping to see them already, but they'll get here when they get here, I just have to be patient XD
@@EveBolt i can't wait too haha~ i'm curious to know your thoughts on them. please don't feel like you need to do a vid on them, after all it's only a dot card! i'll be more than happy enough if you just let me know (via here or IG or wherever) how you found them once you've tried it :)
These colors are gorgeous!! Thank you for the great review Eve!
They are! Thank you so much :)
Love the way you show the added new colors. I am guessing this is an old video. There are newer colors now. Do you have an updated video of the newest colors?
Hi! Sorry, I do not have an updated video with the subsequent new colors. This video was made possible thanks to the generosity of Roman Szmal and Jackson's, as they sent me that batch of new colors as a promo item back then. I couldn't afford on my own dime to purchase all the new colors :)
@@EveBolt do you have any of the new colors and your thoughts
I have just a few of them. I really like the shadow grey and the quin. gold hue :) Autumn green is also very pretty!
I just ordered the travel palette with 12 half pans which is available here in Germany from the online shop Peters Art. I am very curious to finally try out Roman Szmal and see if I like them...
!!! I just saw that palette on Jackson's and I kinda want to get it at some point.... (long term goal, lol)
It looks so nice!
I'm so happy you love Vivianite, it's one of my favorite pigments as well. It's just gorgeous and unique, and it's so sad that it's such an unreliable pigment with terrible lightfastness because there's nothing else like it! But ugh, so expensive!!
Also, I have to agree with everyone who said you should've been hired to do the official swatches lol, yours are so much more accurate! If I'd seen your video two months ago I would've gotten Sap Green Light, it's quite pretty and natural in your swatch, but their swatch just looked dull and sad so I passed on it.
Wow 👏 😮
That was my exact thought when I saw the tray with the paints XD
♥
I feel weirdly happy that they come from my country... I didn't know they had potter's pink. I guess I'm lucky they are cheaper here. Maybe I should get myself some when I run out of my white nights, but I thought of getting Rembrandts we will see
Get both. Buy all the paints.
Wow the oranges change a ton once they have dried! It's too bad that they don't maintain that vibrant yellow hue. I still love RS paints though 🥰
It's possible the yellow hue was partly from the camera, too, as I had a harder time color correcting that footage. It was much easier to do with the scanned swatches :)
Oomph this video must have been just a complete beast to edit!! Was this your most time intensive video ever!?
Anyway, I absolutely loved it! I don't have any RS pans, and tbh I am afraid to jump in because I think I won't be able to control myself and I really don't need more paints. The RS line is the most alluring paints for me atm bar none!
It was definitely one of the most long to edit, all in all XD
I completely understand your reticence to dive in, there's 165 colors! Not a good rabbit hole to fall into!
I feel the same way (I don’t NEED more paints) so I’ve tried to limit myself to paints that were unique or special in some way to Roman Szmal
Coming from Kimberly’s video, PO64 is not lightfast :(
The fading is so drastic, it will fade to white if diluted.
It's times like this I wish I didnt have any paint so I could by the entire set with no gilt
Yeah!! That happens too often for my liking... I know what you mean. What are your current favorites, from your actual stash?
@@EveBolt I have a small selection if M. Graham and a pan set of Schmincke that are just so yummy I could eat them. 😂 I resently have been enjoying experimenting with the Paul Rubens Opera set too. You can get some really interesting mixes you cant normally get. Think Opera pink mixes times 14 !
Thank you for your comprehensive review! I’m planning to pick up a few of these in Jackson’s sale. Do you have a recommendation for a plastic palette that would hold these paints? I’ve heard the White Nights palettes fit too snuggly for these pans. Bummer! Wish RS would offer an empty palette for purchase.
I have no solution, sadly. It's something that annoys me, too. Arleebean has been able to put the Roman Szmal pans in the plastic White Nights palette, after using a Dremmel to sand off the little bumps in the tray.
For my pans, I used two-sided tape (or blue tack) and just glued then in a palette where they would fit. (This one, in the middle area : bit.ly/3g5GqB2)
I just saw a comment on Denise Soden’s channel that you can buy the Mijello 33 well palette, remove the trays (even the one with the wells), and add the RS pans with tack or adhesive. Sounds brilliant... I just ordered on Amazon and I’ll let you know how it goes!
I love how you formatted this swatching review! So nice, and so many pretty colors! I was surprised though that you didn’t mention that almost all of the special colors (that last row you did) are fugitive for one reason or another. So as long as you know that going in, paint to your heart’s content!
Thank you! :D
Are they? The info I have seen says that 3/5 have excellent lightfastness, and the other two can be affected by acids or other pigments. I haven't seen any info saying these are not lightfast, where did you see that?
@@EveBolt check out Kimberly Crick Art’s Roman Szmal review of these paints on her channel from Oct and she goes into detail. To be fair, some pigments are more unstable than than fugitive and some are lightfast but not when diluted- as you would do with watercolor, etc. Each has its own idiosyncrasy 😜. That’s why Daniel Smith discontinued Malachite, it had instability issues. Anyway, her info is enlightening- and I’ve seen info one other place but can’t remember where that elaborated on some and confirmed the rest. The colors are beautiful, and as long as you know going in what you’re dealing with, if it’s just for a card or something or an illustration that you’re going to scan - then Go for it. If it’s for something you want to keep long term, the. Maybe use a different pigment. I think Goethite is the only one of that last bunch that is benign. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news!
I love these, but they stay sticky forever and don't fit into any of my other palettes (guess I could buy them their own).
They don't fit in your other palettes? Do you have special palettes?
@@EveBolt I have the Cornelissen’s whiskey palette with the built-in flask, an old winsor newton enamelled palette from ebay and a wooden palette from Quackplume on Etsy.
Super informative. Thank you so much for this review... I feel like my soul needs to go back to watercolours. I still have a set of 12 White Nights from 2009! (the consistency looks very fresh after all these years), and I got a lovely set of Schminke for my birthday this year... No excuses. I need to first use what I have but RS is on my list. The quality looks excellent and the price seems reasonable. Oh, and thank you for pronouncing his last name correctly xD... Whenever I hear Roman "Small" I think: "pretty sure he's a big guy"... xD
I'd like to buy the set with this simply plastic box, but I can't find it. Do you have a link? Thank you
I don't have a link, sorry. As far as I know, the plastic tray is mostly a promotional item for sending out pans to artists and reviewers. It's a rather flimsy tray, too. I love it and I'd use a sturdier version, for sure, but this one is rather fragile.
@@EveBolt What a pity! I have 500 watercolours pans and tubes. They should be a perfect solution! In Poland they’re available but not for international shipping
Is it worth it to get pyrrol scarlet if u already have pyrrol orange and pyrrol red? Also do you like the Roman szmal Indian red? And what ochre would you pick out of the line?
Edit: Also completely forgot to thank you for the lovely review as usual:))
For pyrrol scarlet, have you tried mixing your orange and red to see if you get a color close to the scarlet? The Indian red is really nice, it's super strong. As for the ochre, do you mean from among the yellow ochre colors? I love the basic yellow ochre, the gold ochre looks nice too!
Thanks! :)
@@EveBolt thank you for replying so soon! I appreciate it very much as I am planning on making a order soon. I don’t have a pyrrol red yet to see what happens when mixed with pyrrol orange but will do as soon as I get it. I was also considering transparent yellow oxide and goethite for the yellow ochre colors? The only thing I am worried about is that the swatch cards on the Jackson website for those 2 colors look a bit similar even tho the pigments are completely different.
@@kamalitarajagopalan2671 just FYI goethite is also known as brown ochre and is definitely a browner color I the DS range. I haven’t seen the Roman Szmal up close and personal but I would think it would definitely be browner than a yellow oxide or ochre
They really don’t do justice to their own paints huh. Those product image pics don’t make them desirable at all😭😅