Are White Nights Watercolors actually GOOD? 🤔
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- čas přidán 1. 05. 2023
- White Nights are super affordable pro quality watercolors, but are they actually any good? Today I'm unboxing, swatching, and testing these paints in the great outdoors!
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I absolutely love when reviews are more than swatching. I need an artists impressions while working with the medium. You've done just that. Thanks!
Absolutely, paint a picture showing us how it works! She's a wonderful artist 🎨 ❤️ 💜 ♥️
The 36 White Nights set was the first proper set I ever purchased. I love them and when I feel overwhelmed with trying to mix my more limited W&N or D.S. paints, I find myself turning back to the White Nights reliable colours 🎉😊
It was great to see these in action, in a real, outdoor painting situation! We were really interested in how you varied the grip on the brush to achieve a variety of mark-making. We've noticed that accomplished watercolorists often have a relatively small brush kit on the larger side, and they use skill and control to get the whole range from broad to fine strokes from surprisingly big brushes! Some don't even carry flat brushes, instead using very large, high quality rounds. Thanks for sharing this!
Thanks for the insight! Brushwork for plein air is something I’m constantly working on-a joyful challenge. 🙂
@@EmilyOlsonArt It seems like one really needs more than just a single lifetime to grapple with brush handling!
I have all kinds of brushes, but I find I use my Chinese calligraphy brush the most.
@@EmilyOlsonArt This is wrong. You are wrong. Um...you are an INFLUENCER... What you say matters. This is disgraceful. How is a(nother) review of a Russian watercolor product at all helpful? It's not. Please rethink your actions because they are HURTING others.
I have unsubbed btw, and I will never buy another product from Blick ever again. Like watercolor paint brands, you and Blick have far too many other better and more ethical competitors for me to choose from.
There are no excuses for this. None. You owe Ukraine, its refugees, many of whom watch your channel btw, and many of your subs who have family trapped in Ukraine, a HUGE apology. I hope that you see the error of your ways.
Great review video! I love my white nights paints, but I did some research (making sure to buy the colors with good lightfastness and those using the pigments I prefer) before buying them, then decided to buy the pans individually to build my own set. They all work great and I really enjoy painting with them.
I definitely need to do this I love choosing my own colors
Oh. My goodness. That friendly dog just coming over and sitting next to you while you painted was so precious. Dogs are too good for us. 😭
I know I'm late to the conversation, but I 100% agree the Umber is really lackluster and has a weird green undertone when dry; I don't even have it in my palette any more. I prefer the Burnt Umber PBr 7 and the very unique and slightly granulating Voronezhskaya Black PBk 8 (an excellent color for early spring tree branches.)
Started my watercolour journey with White Nights and i still love them.
Very affordable, considering the paints in full pans
The paints are very vibrant, easy to rewet.
Thank you for this review
Thank you for this great review. I love White Nights. It’s been my go to set for the last 4 years. Like some of the other commenters, I bought the 36 full pan set when it was $39.00 or something. The price has almost quadrupled since the war started. I particularly love the vibrancy of the colors, but have also noticed mixing various colors together can make mud. I’m now integrating W&N, Daniel Smith & Holbein into my pallette.
yeah, what's with the price? went from 2 dollars per pan to 3 for me. but you'd expect them to get cheaper, right??
well thankfully i bought almost all the colors i wanted before the price increase
I don't know if it's the humidity of where I live but i'm impressed you are able to touch the pans and not getting your fingers dirty. My experience is that they are always "wet"/sticky. Not a problem when they are in a palette but I need to be careful when I need to move them for whaterver reason. Bright side is they reactivate if I just stare at them long enough lol
Colorado is SUPER dry, so it's not surprising they aren't sticky or wet for her
I love when watercolors come packaged in the little paper wrappings, they're like little colorful candies :P
Thank you for your sunny video. I also love White Nights. I have tried every colour from their range. They have excellent colours and weak colours as well. Like every brand. You just need to fing the right one for particular painting. Its a long and beatiful process. I have learned a lot from Russian artists who preferred White Nights and they can do magic with these colours.
Their Carmine is listed as PV19 on their website and Yellow Ochre is labelled as three stars of lightfastness (excellent)
Great review, and what a nice painting. This is a great travel set-- pairs of warm and cool and not a huge investment if the luggage gets waylaid.
I have white nights and I absolutely love it. The colours are vibrant and easy to spread out
Finally someone talking about White Nights. Those were my first professional paints, that I still use, by the way. I made a palette with 36 colors that I use the most (considering I’m most a portrait painter), and I absolutely love them. They are a lot more controlled that Daniel Smith, in a traditional way, I mean. I get some predictability and control with them, which allows me to achieve realistic results (in skin tones, for example) easier. They also build up really well. Also, their Paynes Gray is one off my favorites for shadows.
We're not talking about them because we're boycotting products from the nation invading Ukraine and creating a humanitarian crisis.
@@rebeccapage4411 If your neighbor kill someone, I can say you are murderer too, becouse you live in the same country? How can you convict people who live 3 000 km from Ukraine and go to work every day to earn money for their families. They do not deserve it.
@@rebeccapage4411 Sure, right after everyone boycottes Daniel Smith for USA's invasions in Iraq, Afghanistan, Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Vietnam (continue the list, it's gonna be very long)
@@nuitetoilee You are right about taxes. But what can workers/ and many other Russians/ do with that? Not to work and die? Imagine, but in Russia, people live too, they have families, kids and have to feed them like everywhere else. My choice is not to punish inocent people for someone else´s mistakes.
@@mariabali771 a country of people who is praising murderous putin time and time again are the same ones who murder3d little kids in Bucha. Let me see you protect Germans in N4zi Germany like you did that with ruzzians now. They didn't know?
I recently switched from Schmincke to White Nights. I had to adapt to how crude the pigment is in WN at first, but I quickly fell in love and can't imagine going back to other brands now. And yes, the price is definitely a part of it.
One tip for those of you who want to travel with these or simply move the pans around in your own palettes: buy them in tubes! They are obnoxiously sticky!! I wa strying to rearrange travel palettes and it was an absolute mess with how sticky the White Nights pans are! (you won't notice that if you just store them in their original box)
White Nights were my very first western style “Artist” grade watercolor set. I still love and use them all of the time; interspersing their use round robin style with my other brand sets of paint. Funny, I never noticed the muddy mixtures, although I have their two large sets of 24 and 36 colors, so maybe I just didn’t attempt the same mixes as you did. Thank you for another wonderful, thoroughly informative video!
So happy to see you painting with this brand. I just might pick some up after watching you!😊
What a wonderful review. Adding a real painting to try the watercolors is certainly a plus for me 👍👍👍👍👍
Excellent video, Emily! Thank you for the product review and the educational content re pigments etc. Fun to see you outside painting in such a beautiful place. Loved the path traffic and the doggie. ❤
99.9! Videos of high quality like this one are going to get you there! Thanks Emily
Actually, This specific Pg8 is surprisingly lightfast, several people have tested it’s lightfastness and got great results, and I haven’t had problems either. It’s not excellent lightfastness, but I would rank it good lightfastness.
Thank you so much for sharing your drawings with us! I'm learning with you! Blessings!!!! 💕🎨
Love this video. Thanks for the review and beautiful painting!
Thanks, I've often wondered about these paints. 👍
I adore White Nights paints. They were the first set of proper watercolours that I bought and I really enjoy using them. Some truly gorgeous colours. Really good value for money when I bought them, especially compared to other brands. I think they use honey as a binder, so they are sticky and won't dry out for ages. That said, I did find their Prussian Blue is very weak and not worth buying. Also, the suppliers here no longer import the brand due to the war and artists not wanting to support the country (I couldn't find what the company's stance is, but they seem to still be in production, so . . .). Roman Szmal is a Polish brand and they seem to be a good alternative with similar qualities to them.
St Petersburg sells their entire range open stock and they ship to the US from the UK, if you are interested in their boutique colors.
Thank you for the useful review. I appreciate how you share strengths and weaknesses of the products!
Also, congratulations on 100k subscribers. 😀
Thanks, Jay!
I love, love, love White Nights! But I think it used to be more affordable a few years back. Anyway, I love mixing carmine and PG7 - I get the most deep vibrant purples and dark blues, no mud at all.
Thank you for the review. I love my White nights. Been using them since I started with watercolor. I am about to buy some more pans.
Daniel Smith 12 palette also have only 4 transparent colors . i love how your are gently educating us on pigments . and i really really do enjoy your plein air video . never fails to give me the itch to go out and paint .
Love Chautauqua Park! And we’ve actually had the weather to enjoy. Thanks for the review.
I'm looking foward to testing these watercolors
I love white nights. Rosa gallery is also a really good paint.
I utterly adore these and the Rosa Gallery. I have a huge collection of their tubes and such and I think three box of the large sizes. My fave is not this twelve. Save your pennies for a 36 full pan set. They are super awesome. Rosa..vs White Nights - tough! I'm comparing to Daniel Smith and W&N. I did lightfast tests and I can't live without that deep green if I'm in a mood to use my larger set. I buy that green just to have. It's only in certain sets that has it. It's obvious I like them. Very nice amounts of paint for the money, too.
... And Rosa are from Ukraine, not the terrorists russians, to add cherry on top ❤
I bought the 36 set of white nights, and I absolutely love them. They’re very transparent the majority of them and they’re so rich in colour and they don’t lose anything after trying. I think a biggest that would be a much better overview of these paints, but this review was extremely well done, but I would definitely invest in more colours so that you can have a good play around. The Rosa ones are beautiful to they are professional quality. I Or as many as I could now before people realise how good they are and the price goes up. They are extremely affordable for pants, the Rosa gallery and yet they’re just as good as QOR or Daniel Smith in my opinion
I agree I have the 36 pan, they are some of my favourite paints.
The rocks in your painting are amazing… 😍
Thanks for the review. I've been using White Nights and have had mixed results, but I chalked it up to being a beginner. I'll have to try some other sets and see if I get different results.
I liked watching the mountain scene come to life on your painting- wow!! Also thank you for the full and honest review.
The painting is gorgeous. I hope I can do a reasonable job of painting with my White Night set of 49.
I have a large palette by WN and they are very good. Though because of the war I no longer use them and prefer Rosa Gallery now. Similar price and they don’t fall out the WN plastic palette they came in! the WN are so sticky and get really messy quickly. The Rosa are well thought out and love using them.
What a great and affordable product! I'm sold!
Good review......very straightforward and informative. Thank you.
Nice to see a review of White Nights! They are the watercolours I have bought when I started painting, and the same set you are reviewing (just an older box): the pans are full pans (not half pans like most of the other brands) and the price is good.
I had a problem with yellow ochre since day one though: it feels "gummy" and it's very difficult for me to get any color from it. I have bought a larger set later and had the same issue with other two colors...
Some colors are amazing, others have this "rubbery" texture that makes impossible to get any color out of them.
I'm not sure if this is something that could happen with maybe old pans, or the pigments were mixed wrong with the binder, or... I don't know...
Looks beautiful, Im definitely looking into purchasing these. Have you tried their granulating watercolor set in the full pans? Id love ❤️ to see a tutorial and review on the granulating set. ❤
In Poland, most art supply shops had sales if this brand and donated all profits to organizations helping Ukrainian refugees and support organizations in Ukraine. Most artists here refuse to use anything which ultimately provides profits to Russia.
I've noticed the shops which still carry them are having difficulty actually selling them.
I feel that this set would be a great place for any one to start and continue with there watercolour journey as they are a better than some of the paints i have tried for non-pro artwork, but at the moment with all the stuff going on in Ukraine I feel I can not use the paint at this time. great review thank you
I have not tried mixing with this set. Must say the vibrancy and pigment is extremely good. Love this painting. Will you be uploading a short tutorial soon?
I'm still a novice in art and bought my set before the war and decided to look up videos to get inspiration and hopefully learn from more experienced artists and I really enjoyed your review! I still get scared of messing up but I am so in love with how vibrant the colors are!
I have this set and had zero idea what to do with it. Cause, it felt a bit boring and plain. But you inspired me so much, thank you=)
I have that set and I love it
Nice painting! I esp. like the rocks on top of the mountain in contrast with the smooth(er) grass below. How sweet that the dog came to say hi to you =). I once bought a White Nights 12 color set with plastic box. The box was too bulky and I wasn’t impressed with some of the colors (ie, blues looked similar). It was returned. Later, I bought a 24 color set in a cardboard box ‘cause it was on sale. I put them in my own metal box and I’m much happier. I agree that the yellow ochre is weak. I don’t use my WN’s often but only because I have other sets to use. If I could go back, I would just choose one or two brands and stick with them. Too many paints and you end up not using them much, even if they are good quality.
The 24 set was my first set and I love it. I always choose it over my Cotman set.
(The prices have exploded especially since the war started so these are not cost effective anymore.)
You are so close to 100K ! Maybe this week! Just checked and you made it! Good for you!
I love white nights paint. I used a primary mixing triad for a long time, using azure, quin rose pr 122 and indian yellow py150. Their py150 is one of my favorite versions, and is what I buy to put in student palettes.
The Green pg8 is one of my all time favorite greens. I did my own light fast testing on it and after 6 mo in the window, there was zero change on my swatch. It is a hard color to match, to get deep enough. I finally found with perylene green and green gold I able to duplicate it.
Another color of theirs that I absolutely love is Rose pr81, it is also not lightfast, but it is so beautiful! It is a way better version of opera rose without fluorescent dye. They are the only company that carries a single pigment, or did. They just discontinued it 😢. Sennelier also has a pr 81:1, but it is sadly not the same, it is a complete different hue.
I definitely replace the three yellows with Indian Yellow PY150 and Indian Gold to improve the tranparency, and so I get one empty slot for extra color (maybe for dark blue either Indanthrone, Prussian or Indigo). I never try Cadmium Red Light, but I prefer having Titian Red PO36 or Geranium Red PR242 for the warm red.
I love them, now I have several professional pallets, but these are still my favorite. They are not expensive in my country (compared with another artist grade paints).
Nevsky Palette produces several types of watercolor paints. "White Nights" is a professional series, "Ladoga" (possibly unavailable in your country) is a transitional series from student to professional, "Sonnet" is for students. There are several more children's watercolors "Honey" of decent quality for very young children. And recently, the manufacturer changed the formulation to some professional paints, paints with 3 pigments in the composition or non-light-resistant paints were transferred to the Ladoga line, but they supplemented the palette of "White Nights" with better options. Russian artists are very demanding of paints)))) In our country, the colors of the White Nights are often scolded even for minor mistakes. Therefore, the manufacturer always keeps his finger on the pulse)) I recommend trying a series of granulating paints. I really liked the gray-pink mist, purple shadow, aquamarine mist, orange mist. The metallics series is very good, but it's pampering for decorative postcards.
My favorite watercolors EVEEEEER ... it’s my third year using them.. it worth to buy..highly recommend for students and professionals grade
wow.....very amazingly done....loved it
So happy with your review because I am also interested in these water color set.
White Nights watercolours are really good, pigmented paints. I love all their colours and they yield their pigment easily and quickly. A little can go a long way
Thx for sharing! I’ve heard this is a great brand, especially for beginners at the price it USED TO be 😂 A full pan used to be $2.50 and a tube $4.99, and sets were half price they are now. At the prices they are now, I would just buy a set of QOR, W&N, or Daniel Smith for a few dollars extra.
I wanted to try this brand for such a long time because of the price it used to be, but I waited to long and prices went up because politics. But, with all the ppl in the comments saying “not to support murderers”, I may just spend a few thousand on this brand because the ppl at White Nights are everyday ppl like me, haven’t murdered anyone, and just want to live life and support their families.
In Russia a lot of people do support the war. They had the propaganda for years. They will tell you about Ukraine bombing Luhansk and Donetsk (that was silently occupied by Russian army in 2014), they will tell you NATO was trying to attack Russia, they believe in battle insects that are created in American labs to infect Russians (it was really said on tv, not a joke). All of these thing are on tv for yearr and Russian people believe it. They also believe that there was no massacre in Bucha, Irpen, Izum and other cities. They think that their army saves and protects Ukrainians (actually killing them but it’s not shown on tv).
Not Russian myself, but I appreciate you understanding that the Russian people are just people.
@@cris_ad most Russian people support war. They think that NATO wants to attack them.
love White Night
Nice painting Emily. Unfortunately WNights are well known for muddying. You can get some double sided magnetic tape for your WN palette for plein air.
I love them.
These were my first (and only) artists quality paints too. (I bought them very cheaply, way before the invasion of Ukraine.) That PG8 is my absolute favourite green, I love it! Thanks for making this review Emily, I hope your set goes to someone who otherwise couldn't afford such lovely paint 😊
PG8 is soooooo beautiful, such natural deep green, but not lightfast at all :( i tried duping it with pthlo green + pthlo blue + azo yellow but its not quite there
so i grabbed my watercolors and here's updated PG8 dupe mix:
pthalo green + pthalo blue + azo yellow + purple/magenta to dull it. it's doesn't go as dark, but i suppose you could add black to darken it when needed
I have the sonnet, the student version of this set bu the characteristics are the same.. Very pigmented, easy to grab with more color pay off. However I didn't like the muddy mixes and opaqueness either. I think it is best to use 24-36 pan palette and not mix at all. İ will use this set when I need dark colors and opaqueness and use other brands for more delicate stuff...
Try using the tubed ones maam
Hullo Emily, I am glad that you created the lovely artwork from the paint in addition to the swatches! I purchased a set of 24 white knights from a seller on e-Bay and they allowed me to substitute colors that I did not want for others that I wanted! So I avoided the problematical pigments. I am curious if you have tried any of Denise Soden’s collections of DaVinci Paints? I would especially like to see you create with her “Embrace Opacity Palette” is this a road you might take? I hope you have an interest in painting outside of the transparency of usual watercolor painting. I have seen so many people on CZcams break away from traditional methods of painting with watercolors, I even found several videos where they are mixing white for tints and not using the white of their paper! I look forward to seeing your next video, I hope you put opaque watercolors on your to do list. Be safe, have a lovely day!
Hello! I noticed you have commented a few times about Denise Soden's sets, and I am pleased to say I will be releasing a video in a couple of weeks all about her wildlife set! :) I have not tried her other sets, and I generally prefer transparent over opaque paints, but the Da Vinci colors are wonderful!
I’ve been using White Knights/Saint Petersburg Watercolors for years and just love them!
I bought almost every color of their full pans for less than a dollar for each, a big arty store decided to get rid of the collection because of the conflict going on there, best decision ever since the quality is amazing. Even the new metallics, pastels and shadow collection are great.
I did add a long positive comment about your wonderful review, techniques, and finished painting. Perhaps it was deleted b/c it had links to info in it? Sorry I could not let you know in advance others have had controversy with the reviews of same, with some suppliers discontinuing the product. On YT, Harry (The Art Gear Guy) had a farewell video that included the negativity he incurred as a result of such. You provide such a wonderful service to the art world - thanks ever so much!
Are these better than Winsor & Newton watercolours?
You did great despite the difficulty with the paint.
Do you offer classes in Boulder? Any good art stores in the area? Michael's is not bad but doesn't have much variety.
I love white nights. Everything I do I love them
I bought these colours today while staying in Prague. You mentioned how surprised you were that these watercolors are opaque. I love Rosa Gallery watercolours (Ukrainian product) and they are opaque as well and even more intense in their pigments than the White Night watercolors. So maybe this is an Eastern European thing? It's possible that the way these paints are made have something to do with the art history of the Russian countries, at least this is what I suspect to be the case.
Btw White Nights have new colors available too. Thank you for your videos :-)
Both Rosa and White Nights use cadmium pigments for several of their yellow and reds, and cadmiums are opaque.
That’s probably true, most of the time you can spot the difference between Eastern and Western European watercolour artists style. Most artists from post soviet countries worked with these paints, literally generations of them. There’s a really interesting interview with English subtitles which Nevskaya Palitra (the manufacturer of White Nights and Master Class paints) published on their CZcams channel, the artist is Ilya Ibriaev “Илья Ибряев - акварель это целый мир!”
Ordered my 36ct. whole pan set , 3 years ago. It's one of my favorites.
I would love to know the paints you love for transparency?
Thank you for an honest review, I have the 36 set + 9 extra colors of White nights watercolor, the Russian artists swear by them, that’s why I bought them, as I took some online classes following these artists. But truly saying, I’ve been painting with them for 4 years and my mixes always looked dirty and dull, I always blamed myself for this, I blamed my skills, however, after trying other professional and student grade brands I understood that White nights are for no good. I do not recommend these watercolor, better to use Winsor n Newton Cotman or Van Gogh watercolors for beginners.
I have used Whiteknights for years but since the invasion of Ukraine they are no longer available in the UK and individual colours especially tubes are very difficult to obtain on the internet.
Amazon have more of this brand than any other ? 🤷♀️ . Take a look
They seem to be a beautiful paint. Theyve been on my wishlist since 2019. I do know another youtuber said he got harassed (to the point he quit youtube) for using/promoting white nights recently. Just a heads up to monitor your replies.
I find this very disgusting that people will harass others for using an art product made in Russia, though the people using it or those harassing are not from the 2 corrupt countries in conflict and really have no business with it, but should mind their own business😂
@@creativespark7371 to clarify, I feel uncomfortable paying for white nights because I do not want to mindlessly send money to a country whose leaders criminally invaded another country...which is ruining one country and killing it's people, and also ruining their own people, sending them off to die in horrible conditions.. I can't do much about what's happening but I can try at least to not knowingly send money to a country that the government will get it's hands on that money and kill people with it.. at the same time I know that not everyone looks at things from this point of view or perhaps have never been informed and invited to consider it.. so I don't agree with hate being spread. I basically believe the polar opposite of you, and I feel like my information is less biased and manipulated.. so I'm not interested in discussing it further with you I just needed to clarify that Russia needs to stop their invasion... I don't care what level you thought Ukraine were at in terms of being truely free and democratic, invading their country means this isn't a two way thing. All Russia would need to do to end this is leave land that doesn't belong to them and stop aggression.. Ukraine doesn't have a choice because they're defending. Not the same thing really is it?
As someone who did post here about this being a Russian-owned company, I’m disgusted that I now find myself in similar company of those who harassed someone to the point of leaving YT.
I don’t know who the artist is that you’re referencing, but the easy action to take is to remind folks of the war and then…. Not watch the video! Which is exactly what I did here. No need to hound someone about it, no need to be rude. If you disagree enough, then unsubscribe.
But people here and people there are just trying to make a living. I recognize that. And it’s her choice to buy the paints. It’s my choice to watch.
But harassing and hounding? No, that’s not right. That’s not how you communicate so that others understand your point (which, they don’t have to agree with, I’m just talking understanding).
These paints are on my wishlist too
@triciac.5078 I completely agree. I think it was harry from the art gear guide who received those comments. They were very much in the minority but the ones I read were awful. To me he seemed like a really decent honest man who was just reviewing art products and it was sad to see how that situation turned out. People should be able to voice their opinion without resorting to attacks
The painting come out beautiful. I have a set of Leningrad 24 full pens. I agree the colors do not mix well and I am using it only strait out of the pens or if I do vintage or old masters copies where dirty mixes actually come handy. ))))
Omg can you try supervision watercolour. Would love to watch that and see a professional artist try it out.
I actually have a video about them! czcams.com/video/bVbzHoW1ij4/video.html
They are the worst, most of them faded inside the tube while they had never been used.
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Pity they didn’t include their more transparent varieties instead. Been using them for a couple of years now. My first professional brand.
Due to the war, I will replenish with other brands when I finish these.
They have newer sets in this box with more transparent paints as they have been so requested over the years, I'm surprised she didn't get one of them. I think the botanical one is the best as far as the pigments you get in a 12 pan travel set. The one in the video is their classic 12 pan line up they've had for years and years.
По факту не являются профессиональными красками, они на уровне студийных. У пигмента PG.8 есть целый ряд недостатков: скапливание в чёрные сгустки и посредственная светостойкость, не понимаю, почему его так все нахваливают. Единственный плюс это соотношение цены качества.
I’ve never used White Knights and in that I have trouble enough with mixing some of my paints I may steer clear of them until I get better at mixing.-OkieSketcher1949
I tried them once and felt they didn't blend well. Could have been a bad batch.
i wouldnt have painted anymore after the dog showed up lol
It was super cute!!
I live in BC, Canada. My favourite art store pulled them when Russia invaded Ukraine. BTW I really like this product and started with their student quality Yarka paints. The student quality were also fantastic for beginners.
I don’t like them, they feel to me unnaturally bright but not luminous and heavy, maybe something to do with transparency
you should have activated them with water first 😢 then they would have been smoother just like honey (they are made of honey 🍯) i love your swatching sheet ❤
I would think this set would be more difficult for a beginner especially if they watch other videos and the artists say you can mix this green with ultramarine and lemon yellow, or make it olive by adding your red to it. Or mix the purple…. If someone spends a bit more on a Daniel smith or M Graham set they will be able to mix these. Generally Russian painters use White Knights a lot. Probably very cheap for them and available everywhere. So if a beginner is learning from Russian artists then it may be different. I wouldn’t recommend this for a beginner. If they can’t afford a 6 basic color set, of professional paints then get a cotman student set ( which personally I do not like. But then again I don’t care much for many of the Winsor and Newton line.)
I just had to quickly scan through your comments on this video and was blown away at the comments. I went to do a review of these paints about a year or so ago and came under terrible abuse from other artists, saying things like, by me buying the paints I personally am supporting Russia invade Ukraine. It got so bad I almost closed down my channel.
I just think it is really interesting that of all the comments on your channel, thankfully, I wasn’t able to find a single comment calling you names or insinuating you were supporting ludicrous things. I’m just so curious to understand why this was the case.
I am so sorry that happened to you! It seems no matter how neutral we try to keep the conversation (i.e. strictly about art and materials) we can't please everyone. There were some volatile comments, but CZcams flagged them, thankfully!
I bought all their super granulating colours that came without a palette, taking the paper off took half the paint off the pans, my hands was covered and the pans!!! I couldnt wipe the pans as the paint went every where!!!! I couldnt use them as you couldnt even get them into a palette due to the mess. I emailed them sent a photo and they replied and said thats how they should be. I then bought a set in a paĺete, all the pans were loose and again trying to get them back in i was covered. I will never buy these again they are like jelly!!! Yours look quite set but mine wasnt.
Great review! I would also appreciate a review of Rosa Gallery made in Ukraine 😊
I bought the 24 colour white nights set after hearing a few people rave about this brand. Most of the colours are quite nice but I find a lot of the paints crack very badly in the pans and I'm constantly trying to mix them up into a smooth consistency. I won't be buying this brand again. It must be nice to be able to paint in a white lace top. If I tried that, I would have it ruined with paint spatters in no time LOL!
I love my white nights.There are poor color choices in this particular set.white nights are best purchased individually