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I love them for colouring. You do make very good points about them. It's just another beast than western watercolour or gouache.

Did I miss this? I hope I didn't. I love your art!

So cute but … Toasted rabbit 🍞 🐇

Wow so beautiful bunny

i think you should try painting a turtle with only using three colors

Very cutr!!! ❤😊

I love your mixed media painting! Hope to see more of them. 😊

Really lovely. Am so impressed you could build up so much variation in depth of colour. I can only do that if I paint in layers, starting with the darkest areas. You have such skill!

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It has turned out so cute, Lovely bunny😊🐇

🎨Cute

Depends on what i am creating on what type of colours I use, but usually end up using too many colours lol this is def painted in colours i love 🥰

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Consider reading "Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes" - 5th grade reading level, but intense story. Get some square paper because you'll want to do origami afterwards.

This unplanned piece turned out great! Love ittt! ^----^

I LOVE the orange on the blue and green!

Definitely a sea horse! :) I love your illustrations. Thank you for sharing!

I don't know what it is but I have never been any good at using neocolors II. Use in colouring books as backgrounds, but every time when I first add crayons to paper, lines get left behind no matter how much water I add to get rid of them; either that or streaking/blotching and not being able to create a smooth blend. Like this lady said cartoon like or like a child drawing. I just end up getting really frustrated. 😤😤

Is that paint brush a nail design brush? It’s super thin and it would be interesting to see it said love to get one ❤️

I like how vibrant it is!!

that was such a good tip - how to soak up the previous layer on the seahorse. Thank you!

HI I LOVE YOUR PAINTINGS, I TOO LOVE PAINTING CORAL SEA LIFE WITH FISH AS THEY ARE VERY COLOURFUL.I USE WATER COLOURS. LOOKING FORWARD TO YOUR NEXT VIDEO, BYE MARIA

Love your videos. I am kind of a color freak, drawn to nature, flowers, land and seascapes with lots of color. As a retired scuba diver I can attest that the colors are super vibrant and varied!

You are correct. It’s a seahorse! Super cute! I really like the vibrant color palette

I’m a complete beginner in gouache and I have been doing some of your gouache tutorials! Thank you! And yes I think you should do more landscape and underwater scenes!

I love your gouache tutorials

I liked reptiles. I enjoy this video very much.

Sorry Melanie, I love my white nights watercolor, but I would try to.use this palette of Paul Rubens. In your opinion, are they only for beginner or for advance artist too? Sorry for my english 🙈

What is your advantage of filling so many sketchbooks? Do you also paint on canvas? Do you sell your work??

I got this set last month and I love the colours but they are difficult to work with. I tried a botanical copy of a watercolour piece I did and it was very difficult. I needed up brushing water all over the piece and they bleed and smudge way more than watercolours. If that makes sense 😂

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Get one of those thin bendable cutting boards that are used for food. It has a slight texture so you can rub the crayon on the surface and it leaves color . You can mix colors that way. It’s not so much for the shavings as for blending the crayon colors.

The more opaque finish of this set reminds me somewhat of Pelikan Opaque watercolor set….highly recommend👍Both Pelikan opaque and transparent watercolor sets are very high quality and the transparent set is not exactly cheap either (24 set for $50+.) The opaque set is much less expensive and I think well worth it for the soft opacity you get…if that’s what you like. But neither one is considered artist or professional grade because Pelikan, a German brand that’s been around for a long time, never took the leap and considerable investment of the testing and ratings certification for lightfastness, transparency, granulation, etc., and (I guess?)competing with other bigger wc brands. Pelikan also markets a lot to schools & kids.

I love this set…I just got it….the pale pink is super pretty!

I have a large set of these paints and I like them but it's easier to blend them on a palette for me personally. I really like them for what I've used them for. I use them in washes and marks over mixed media collage type stuff and in that application, the colors are really pretty and I like how you can get a more guoache effect or a more watercolor effect depending on the look you're going for and the amount of water you use on the palette. My art style is very different than yours, but I haven't had buyer's remorse so I'm cool with them. I've had fun using them in conjunction with traditional watercolors, too.

Some of the colors I really like some I don't lol. So I was tempted to buy this set. I do have a 12 set, but I realized I never lined on top of them.

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Kuretake didn't consciously try to make them a hybrid of watercolor and gouache--they are their own thing and traditional in Japan, an interesting reflection of cultural differences. It might be better not to compare them to either and simply figure out how best to use them as they are. The issues with the line art highlight the need to test art supplies together before beginning a big project--something I NEVER do and end up as frustrated as you are. It's a good reminder! I think the peony painting turned out amazing! Good luck with your new teaching endeavor!

Hullo Melanie, I believe that you have done a lovely job creating a beautiful painting with a new medium and for a first time! Did you notice that they did not include a mixing area? I have seen this over and over when picking up the Gansai style paints! You can also have different results with different papers. I have used small porcelain mixing cups/bowls for getting 2 colors to mix well. The unique qualities of this curated set of paints is not mixing the colors but using this unique color palette! I hope you give these paints a few more attempts before throwing them away or setting them aside and forgetting them. Look for a nouveau print to replicate, rather like a master’s study and see if that leads you to a more enjoyable result. Please take care and have yourself a lovely day!

You've absolutely nailed my opinion on these paints. Yes, yes, I know, they are not like the traditional western watercolors - I do see these comments here and I wanted to add my opinion. I have the normal set but I've eyed the art noveau set for a while because the colours are sooo pretty! But I just can't wrap my head around how to use them. I don't mix them at all but I don't understand the water to paint ratio... my other problem is that they dull down so much! I also saw that they are actually really cheap in Japan and I think that with all the import fees, it costs as much as a small but "professional" set over here. So I feel like the price also gets the expectations higher. I don't know...

Beautiful!!!

Your artwork is incredible. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Please create more art with these!

I enjoyed your informative and delightfully creative video. I have never used these crayons, but usually use watercolors, water colored pencils and acrylics. So of course I have questions. When finishing a piece, does it need to be sealed or use any protective coating?

Lava lamps are wax in oil. The light bulb in the base melts the wax so that it rises up in the oil and then breaks into blobs. The blobs then cool a little at the top as they're further from the heat and fall back down again. Your paintings are lovely! Love, Mel in Devon UK 🍰🌻

I was wondering why my liners weren't working on a recent piece i was working on, thinking i was the problem, but now i realize it was absolutely because id used the gansai tambi thinking i could go over it like gouache. Either way still glad to see you using these, i love the colors and the texture of the paint is very satisfying to use. I definitely would love to see you give it another go in the future.

I have one of the older Gansai Tambi sets, and I have good experiences outlining on them with coloured pencils. I've noticed the 'it needs a second layer to give nice flat colouring' as well. Thankfully, that works decently with my art process. Also, I'm often using them together with my watercolours, to lay them down for areas where I want more opaque coverage, and I prefer them over gouache in that situation (with gouache, it often ends up with an actual painting texture, while Gansai Tambi colours set down more watercolour-like - but maybe that is more an issue with how I use gouache 😂 ) This Art Noveau set looks So Beautiful. Your comparison of 'painting with candy' really describes it well. If it ever gets available in my area, I'd probably get it, just for the joy of it.

Uhhh i love watercolour Reviews ❤ but i really dont think that the colours cost 15€ anywhere

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I love these paints. Quite gouache like if wanted. I usually wet the paint first before using 😊