How good are Rosa watercolours? | Review | An alternative to White Nights?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ธ.ค. 2023
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If you are looking for a vibrant, good quality paint at a reasonable price, then take a look at Rosa Gallery Watercolours. They are made in the Ukraine, so you are helping a Ukraine business as well as your art.
For those who have never tried Rosa Gallery watercolors, these are beautiful, professional grade, and transparent. Rosa Gallery paints disperse beautifully, they don’t stay put. They are developed in conjunction with professional artists. The range of 70 colours has some granulating mixes and a high proportion of single pigment colours.
You can get them from Jackson’s: www.jacksonsart.com/rosa-wate... (affiliate link)
As a couple of people have pointed out at 3.08 I said PG8 is a phthalo green - it’s not ( that’s PG7). PG8 is Nitroso Green or a Hookers Green. It gets a 2* light fastness rating, so is not the highest. Unfortunately I cannot add a note to the film once it’s on TH-cam, but thank you for letting me know my mistake. And I said I can’t read Russian…. Well I can’t! But I meant, I cannot read the Cyrillic script. Looking into it, Ukraine and Russia use a similar but not identical form of the Cyrillic script. Apparently each has four letters the other doesn’t. Sorry for any offence caused.
A number of people have also commented on not bringing politics into art and why should a Russian art materials manufacturer suffer due to actions of its government? Economics and business has more influence on government than the individual citizen, it seems to me. All life is politics and art is often at its most powerful when it shines a light on injustice ( look at Picasso’s Guernica). You need to follow your own conscience and I am not dictating what you should do.
Should you buy sable brushes due to animal cruelty? Should you use spray varnish due to environmental concerns? Should you use acrylic (it’s liquid plastic)? Should you buy Chinese paints due to the treatment of the Uyghurs? Should you but Russian paints if you disagree with the invasion of Ukraine? I cannot answer that for you. All we can do is educate ourselves and make a personal choice with knowledge, not ignorance.
For me, I did not use White Nights before, so rather than being a negative decision to boycott against them, it will be a positive decision for tge Ukraine. Your choice may be different.
In this film I swatch out the dot card, which I purchased for £1 from Ken Bromley in the UK. I also swatch out some tube colours which caught my eye.
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Not sure why art supplies producers from Russia should suffer because of politics. Art is art at heart. I'm a happy owner of White Nights watercolours. And I also own Rosa but I bought them before I knew they were of Ukrainian origin. And I'm from Poland.
Thank you for calling a spade a spade. It is completely unacceptable to buy Russian watercolors and thus support their economy and war. I don’t know why all the other artists and observers don’t mention this - art, like everything in our lives, is connected with politics.
And I am Russian. And we gladly use Ukrainian supplies, and Ukrainians gladly use Russian goods. Do not think that you know even one small thing about relations between our countries, we all mostly Russians and we will get through it, not the first time.
You are probably the first TH-cam artist that has not avoided the whole war subject, nor has sugar-coated it, when talking about White Nights/Rósa Gallery watercolors. I'm impressed. You've addressed the situation as it is and as you see it. Kudos to you, Liz, for having the courage to speak your mind. 👏
Please support Ukraine
As a person of colour the horrific treatment displayed by the Ukrainians towards Africans and people of Muslim faith has certainly put me off supporting Ukraine, look it up. I shall continue to use White Nights without hesitation. The war is wrong but i shall not take sides. At least you speak your mind, many dont,you have my respect for that.
Russian brend called "White Nights", not "Knights" . I do love "Rosa gallery", espescially phtalo pigments: green and blue, they are really amazing
Thank you Liz. I have just ordered some from Jacksons, but they don't have the full range and some are OOS. I did want that magenta grey, so happy you have that. I wanted to support Ukraine, and I wrote and asked if they had oxgall or honey in them, and they said they did not contain or test on animals, so I felt the investment would be worth it, and so affordable for practice.
Thank you for taking the time to make this review.
I love the Rosa gallery paints. I have 2 sets and added some other colors along the way. Happy painting 😊
I love Rosa Watercolors and I love buying from and supporting Ukraine. They are highly pigmented and absolutely gorgeous, you can not go wrong with these watercolors!
Hullo Liz, thanks for sharing your thoughts and experience with us! I have also been looking at the Rosa paints as a way to show support for the Ukraine and its people! I never tire of getting new paints! I have converted most of my palettes to DaVinci Paints of California but I keep several brands separate just to work from a Sennelier color palette or a Mijello single pigment palette and so forth. I love having a great palette full of my favorite colors and simply ignoring the brands! Mijello has a grey of grey color and it is simply wonderful! I have become a bit lazy and mixing ultramarine with raw sienna for my greys can be an extra chore I can avoid using the Mijello color! Thank you for another wonderful video!
So happy to see this! I think Rosa Gallery paints are great and a good price too.
I always like watching sampling of watercolor products. It has saved me money, I only wish I had seen more of them when I first started. Thank you!
Hello Liz, thank for showing your sharing your Rosa colours they are very nice . If I need new aquarell paints I am very sure that I will put them on my birthday list. So paint a picture and Show how the colours look like many greetings from Christiane Berlin Germany. Support the Ukraine in Germany 1 Million war refugees live here. 😊😊
I only have a couple of tubes but I love them. Black green is perfect for painting conifers and Naples Rose is a beautiful soft pink.
My new favorite is Rosa Gallery Aureolin Green. Very special. It can glow almost. I find they fit nicely in with with my other brands and handmade paints.
Very thorough review. They are lovely paints. Thank you.🌺
Ahh, I love swatches, they are so relaxing=) Thank you for the video=)
Thank you! I ordered a botanical pan set as a gift a couple of days ago and then decided to order myself a set as well 😃 Looking forward to their arrival! It's good to see the different swatches and hear your initial thoughts.