Thanks for this review. I got some Maimeri Blu while in Italy and got to love them. I recently decided to expand my palette, and found that Jackson's sells their full line, in half pans and tubes. Yay! I am slowly going through your old videos and discovering gems, like this one, that I missed back in the day. Hope you are doing well and that we get to hear from you soon!
The MaimeriBlu indigo is great for charging into greens to create dark foliage shadows. The Indian Yellow is a unique color that emulates the yellow gold in dawn skies perfectly. No other brands come close for these two purposes.
Maimeri Blu's Burnt Umber is my favorite - I love the coolness of that pigment. Also, some magical things happen when you glaze over it with Manganese Blue genuine.
The Mineral Violet has a Winsor & Newton version called Permanent Mauve. Also PV 16, and granulates like crazy. Personally, I like the texture of it, it's really hydrophobic though and doesn't mix or neutralize well. On it's own though it's gorgeous. I think they still sell it, but I am working from an old tube. Also Winsor & Newton's PB 16 is a personal favourite, and I keep it on my palette despite having expanded the brands that I use. Great video. I have always wondered about this brand. Thanks for review!
It's funny I just heard about that brand, more specifically the Maimeriblu's Dragon blood. Which I now have to have, so I found your review very timely. Great video!
So great to see these swatches! I got myself a few Maimeri paints last month, but from their Venezia line(student grade). They're a wee bit more economical than Van Gogh, and I found them very transparent and nice to work with. Another plus for me is that they don't use both honey and ox gall ;) The only thing disappointed me a bit was their permanent orange - it cracks when dried, and the colour is very weak in strength. It'd be nice for glazing I guess! Nice to see the differences in earth colours compared to other brands', too. One of the things I learnt by making my own colours is that there are a ton of different varieties in earth colours...and it does make sense, as the colour of earth varies per location. (when you buy pigments, earth ones are almost always named with geographical info e.g. green earth from Verona/German raw umber) :)
Swatches are pointless and a waste of time. They will be different from one batch of paint to another. Comparing swatches painted by paints from different manufacturers is also useless - next time they will be different again.
I've used Sennelier in-the-main and recently bought Maimeri Venezia (student grade) just to try them. I'm impressed! They fall in the Sennelier category because of transparency and that fine-grind "glow" ... my need for layering of transparent paint. I'm in love and will order the artist Blu. Even yellow ochre and English red are more transparent when thinned and have that glow.
thanks for your video review. I have the complete line that I found at a yard sale for $10....all 72 colors! I have been using them for 3 years and do enjoy most of the colors. I have begun to add some Daniel Smith colors as I finish up a tube, and also to replace some of the colors like that are not as vibrant. but overall they have worked well.
You can also check out Sterling Edwards. He loves Maimeri Blu watercolors, and that is how I found out about them. He paints beautifully with these paints!
Thanks! I didn't know that and went to check him out... will be doing a maraton viewing tonight as one of his how to videos is called "Luminous Watercolor" which is why I love Sennelier so much and looks like Maimeri too. I'm not sure I know what "flat" means here... surely not like gouache as they're sooo transparent.. and just glow... maybe non-granulating? If so that's great with me as ganulation always makes me think my paper is "pilling." I love smooooth paint but like rough paper.
Flat meaning not necessarily granulating but there's not much luminance to them. They don't feel as ethereal as other watercolors. Having a hard time coming up with a good word here!
@@InLiquidColor I don't find any watercolor once dried for a few weeks on paper ever looks ethereal. It all dulls out a lot and colors turn somewhat dirty to me. The cleanest brightest on my own tests strips is Holbein. The purity of hue just pops out at me the most. It might not be the most pigmented but it looks the cleanest.
@@renmuffett professional watercolors should not look dull or muddy if the pans are clean and the water is clean. I've been using dried paint for ober four years and not had an issue with high quality products, certain opaque pigments not withstanding.
I completely missed this video somehow. Thank you for comparing with your swatch cards. I have a set of these and had binder issues with 2 colors but liked them otherwise.
Great video Denise! 😁 The mineral violet is beautiful. It reminds me of the DS ultramarine violet or a more purple rose of ultramarine. I would love to see a part 2. 😃
I've ordered the trial set of five colours from Kent Bromley in the UK with money I was given for my birthday last month. Permanent Yellow Lemon. Primary Red Magenta. Permanent Green Deep. Brown Stil de Grain. Primary Blue Cyan. Hoping the package will arrive tomorrow so I can play with them over the weekend. I prefer pans to tubes but the set was very reasonable and 15ml tubes. That's way more paint than I could get from other brands for the same cost.
Please redo a look at these. They rehauled their Blu line… I love them, and DS … I use MB on a lot of my work. There’s no muddyness just bright and beautiful pigments! I like some of the earth tones too. But DS has my heart on those!
It may be too late but, yes, I'd really like to see more of the MaimeriBlu. Just for sentiment, I guess, I was looking for a watercolor brand made in Italy. (I'm of Italian descent, have been to Italy and love it, and have been taking Italian classes). So, I'd like to know more before I buy. I found a palette on Amazon, but it was somewhere near $70. That seems a lot for sentiment if I don't really like them. I'm a real newbie and I love your channel.
thank you (and victor) for a lovely video. i have been hearing/seeing about these paints and they have me curious . i see some nice things about them in the comments too so maybe i will get a couple to try out. i have a request i have been thinking about and this video really brought it home. can you do a video on PBr7? i find it such an amazing pigment with all the different browns it can make . maybe you can show us and talk about the way that the different browns it makes mixes with other colors, like ultramarine blue and whichever else it normally gets mixed with. i would be ever so grateful! thanks!
I would love to see more about this brand because I’ve been curious. I think I need to true the two unique colors, turquoise green and mineral violet. It’s not easy to get a light violet that releases well and has no white.
Denise, I fell in love at first sight when I saw your MaimeriBlu Turquoise green! I went scampering all over the internet looking for it. What I found is there is a MB 15mm tube with that turquoise green name but it is designated as PB 16. Your info states it is PB18. Since this is true love, no one else or nothing else will do. Only what I just saw in your tutorial. Also, on Jerry's there are 2 different tubes with almost the exact same name on it, but one is 12mm and the other is 15mm. That is confusing as well. The name on the 12 MM tube is MaimeriBlu Superior Watercolor. The brand name on the 15mm tube is Blu Superior Watercolour. The 12 mm tube is much more expensive than the 15mm tube. Both are turquoise green. I am confused. I found these 2 tubes on Jerry's but do not know if one is artist-grade and the other student. I also went to Jackson's. They have only the 12 mm tube. I did not hurry to buy it because I am under the impression that the better grade is the 15 mm tube. Do you know why there is a discrepancy in the pigment ID number? Like Juliette, I am asking, "Oh, Turquoise green, wherefore art thou?" Please, can you assist me? Unrequited love hurts. With my thanks!
Hi, is that an error on the Turquoise Green please? Shouldn't it be PB16? Also I've been looking for a none granulating Cerulean Blue so I think I might try this brand, thank you
Hullo Denise, I am just poking about, I recently saw that Jenna Rainey has switched over to MaimeriBlu paint and I thought it was in the running for my main palette when I was going back into traditional painting from digital work. I believe that I chose mission gold because of the vibrancy of the colors. I have become such a zealot for DaVinci since you introduced me to the brand! I still have 1 mission gold blue color on my studio palette. But I have over 40 wells on it so I can have plenty of choices for any type of painting that I would want to do! I hope you are doing well and staying safe and sound. Please take care and have a lovely day!
Jenna Rainey’s use of MaimeriBlu is the same reason I came hunting for a review. I always trust you, Denise, to give the best information on any paints. Thanks for the review, even if it was 5 years ago!
I got a bunch of these when a local store closed out, I like them a lot. I noticed the Indian yellow was a mixture containing 'PV 49'. One of the old tubes I got was called Golden Lake, it's a single pigment indicated to be Quinacridone 'PV 49'. - but 'PV 49' is Cobalt Violet, not a Quinacridone, I believe they mislabeled 'PO 49' as 'PV 49'. Their old literature has their Golden Lake as 'PO 49', even though my tube says 'PV 49'. I think your Indian Yellow was probably mislabeled too, making an Indian Yellow with Cobalt Violet doesn't make much sense. If it contained 'PV 49' Cobalt Violet it would have a Prop 65 label... I'm betting the Indian Yellow was made with PO 49 Quinacridone Gold.....
I am currently obsessed with granulating colors and I want that Mineral Violet! Their manganese violet is the only PV16 they currently carry, but a number of the colors look to be granulating now too. I know they revamped their line a while back (last year? Ish?) So maybe that is why.
I'm not sure if the monitor is off or what but the maimeriblu raw sienna looks more like raw siennas found in schmincke, Rembrandt, sennelier, and Davinci,than the Daniel smith does. I have the daniel smith dot chart and when I painted out that color I thought the DS version seemed atypical.
Hi Denise! Thanks for another great review! Did you notice the huge color shift with Indigo from wet to dry? It was pretty surprising when I first played with it.
Funny Dude indeed! It's so much lighter. Maybe that's why the green is more noticeable? On the contrary, handprint says that PB16 has a huge drying shift and I didn't think it was all that bad. Then again maybe I'm used to phthalo colors :p
I have da vinci and winsor & newton phthalo turquoise along with schmincke helio turquoise and holbein marine blue all pb16 . It's one of my favorite blue pigments since it tends to shift in hue giving it so much depth. Marine blue is by far my favorite.
I have eight MaimeriBlue tubes I got some years ago-don't recall where-and all the numbers are different from yours. For example, the turquoise green is PB16, not PB18. and still beautiful. These must be older versions, and the are listed on the tubes in Italian, English sublisted below.
i think schmincke has a colour like the pb16 and its called helioturqoise and i think it is very compareble to the one you showed us. From what i could see i think the schminckes version is more pigmented and has a darker mass tone. Thanks for your detailed reviews as always, i always appreciate your videos 😊
There are a few of this brand recommended in the top 40 at handprint.com. The mineral violet granulation looks great. Will have to try it out with some DS granulating colours. They don't really market themselves well. Perhaps they're more popular in europe. Their oil paints are humongously expensive. The pigment codes on the wc tubes are so small it is easy to miss them in overhead light. I have a tube of turquoise green_verde turchese_ phthalocyanine PB 16. ...recommended by handprint. Also rec. is cad red deep PB 108 ,perinone orange PO 43_lacca arancio and pyrrole red PB 254_rosso sandalo plus a PG 50 cobalt green light_verde di cobalto chiaro. Cheers
Lovely transparent and translucent colours. I wonder how they measure up to Sennelier? I think I've seen these on the Jacksons site but they are quite pricey. I'd like to try some but I really have enough paints.
My first impressions are that I like Sennelier a bit better BUT I have limited use with them. However! I have a set of them I'll being reviewing soon so stay tuned! :)
Do you know if maimeri changed their indigo at some point? My tube has "blu naturale 1 nb1" listed as the pigment. Which, from what I've read, is a natural indigo pigment. Maimeriblu's own site says that it contains no black in the description. Do you think they changed it since your video maybe. Thanks.✌😀
The MaimeriBlu Mineral Violet (PV16) you swatched reminds me of M. Graham's Cobalt Violet, which is made with PV14. Maybe I'll grab the MaimeriBlu version, and compare the two :) I have a couple other pigments in the MaimeriBlu line and really enjoy working with them.
I haven't bought and swatched PR259! I'm currently focusing on developing SBA-quality botanical skills, and wasn't sure where that would fit on my palette. But I'm really very curious!
They are indeed beautiful, but I find the PV14 is only really useful for very light underpainting or shadows. I imagine the PR258 is more opaque, and would be harder to use! Plus the granulation makes it hard to control :-/ so not ideal for botanical.
I haven't used their new formulas at all, and haven't used these since this video! They weren't a favorite of mine, but I don't remember the details clearly. My apologies!
Katherine Sullivan there are a lot of resources online that can explain it better than I can but TLDR: there are different amounts and types of trace minerals in some of these pigments, as well as they way it's processed, both affect it.
Maimeri's website says there is no added anything in their colours which is the same philosophy behind their oils...no fillers or blending powders , no honey , no ox gall in their wc.
In Liquid Color. I poured tubes into a shallow palette in December, they ate still globby, sticky wet. On the upside they rewet super fast. haha. And I also find them very flat.. not a huge fan either. At $5 + each I expected more.
Climate must affect them a lot! Mine are decently hard in the palette. Glad to know I'm not the only one who finds them flat. Though I do move the PB16. May have to replace my DS version with it. And/or try out Windsor and Newtons PB16.
Maimeri Blu has completely overhauled their range, removing all mixes so it is almost a purely single pigment range.
I would like to see a part two of this video. I have some of these paints.
Thanks for this review. I got some Maimeri Blu while in Italy and got to love them. I recently decided to expand my palette, and found that Jackson's sells their full line, in half pans and tubes. Yay! I am slowly going through your old videos and discovering gems, like this one, that I missed back in the day. Hope you are doing well and that we get to hear from you soon!
The MaimeriBlu indigo is great for charging into greens to create dark foliage shadows. The Indian Yellow is a unique color that emulates the yellow gold in dawn skies perfectly. No other brands come close for these two purposes.
Maimeri Blu's Burnt Umber is my favorite - I love the coolness of that pigment. Also, some magical things happen when you glaze over it with Manganese Blue genuine.
The Mineral Violet has a Winsor & Newton version called Permanent Mauve. Also PV 16, and granulates like crazy. Personally, I like the texture of it, it's really hydrophobic though and doesn't mix or neutralize well. On it's own though it's gorgeous. I think they still sell it, but I am working from an old tube. Also Winsor & Newton's PB 16 is a personal favourite, and I keep it on my palette despite having expanded the brands that I use. Great video. I have always wondered about this brand. Thanks for review!
It's funny I just heard about that brand, more specifically the Maimeriblu's Dragon blood. Which I now have to have, so I found your review very timely. Great video!
So great to see these swatches! I got myself a few Maimeri paints last month, but from their Venezia line(student grade). They're a wee bit more economical than Van Gogh, and I found them very transparent and nice to work with. Another plus for me is that they don't use both honey and ox gall ;) The only thing disappointed me a bit was their permanent orange - it cracks when dried, and the colour is very weak in strength. It'd be nice for glazing I guess!
Nice to see the differences in earth colours compared to other brands', too. One of the things I learnt by making my own colours is that there are a ton of different varieties in earth colours...and it does make sense, as the colour of earth varies per location. (when you buy pigments, earth ones are almost always named with geographical info e.g. green earth from Verona/German raw umber) :)
Swatches are pointless and a waste of time. They will be different from one batch of paint to another. Comparing swatches painted by paints from different manufacturers is also useless - next time they will be different again.
I've used Sennelier in-the-main and recently bought Maimeri Venezia (student grade) just to try them. I'm impressed! They fall in the Sennelier category because of transparency and that fine-grind "glow" ... my need for layering of transparent paint. I'm in love and will order the artist Blu. Even yellow ochre and English red are more transparent when thinned and have that glow.
Pat Kin oh nice. I didn't know there was a student version.
I got them at Dick Blick last week. :-)
In Liquid Color Yes, there is! It is Maimeri VENEZIA. Extra fine color anyway. I have them. I love it.
thanks for your video review. I have the complete line that I found at a yard sale for $10....all 72 colors! I have been using them for 3 years and do enjoy most of the colors. I have begun to add some Daniel Smith colors as I finish up a tube, and also to replace some of the colors like that are not as vibrant. but overall they have worked well.
Lisa Oliver holy cow!! What a deal!!
I know, still can't believe I got so lucky!
another great video!
You can also check out Sterling Edwards. He loves Maimeri Blu watercolors, and that is how I found out about them. He paints beautifully with these paints!
Thanks! I didn't know that and went to check him out... will be doing a maraton viewing tonight as one of his how to videos is called "Luminous Watercolor" which is why I love Sennelier so much and looks like Maimeri too. I'm not sure I know what "flat" means here... surely not like gouache as they're sooo transparent.. and just glow... maybe non-granulating? If so that's great with me as ganulation always makes me think my paper is "pilling." I love smooooth paint but like rough paper.
Flat meaning not necessarily granulating but there's not much luminance to them. They don't feel as ethereal as other watercolors. Having a hard time coming up with a good word here!
@@InLiquidColor I don't find any watercolor once dried for a few weeks on paper ever looks ethereal. It all dulls out a lot and colors turn somewhat dirty to me. The cleanest brightest on my own tests strips is Holbein. The purity of hue just pops out at me the most. It might not be the most pigmented but it looks the cleanest.
@@renmuffett professional watercolors should not look dull or muddy if the pans are clean and the water is clean. I've been using dried paint for ober four years and not had an issue with high quality products, certain opaque pigments not withstanding.
Another great video! Keep up the great work! Greetings from Finland!
Thank you Arttu! And hello! I have a good chunk of Finnish family :)
I have read a few complaints about this brand. However, thise mixes are outstanding..truly beautiful!
ooh that turquoise green!!! 😍 great video Denise!! 💖
Kat G isn't it amazing 😱😱
I completely missed this video somehow. Thank you for comparing with your swatch cards. I have a set of these and had binder issues with 2 colors but liked them otherwise.
They blend so smoothly.i have a sample set coming.cant wait
Great video Denise! 😁 The mineral violet is beautiful. It reminds me of the DS ultramarine violet or a more purple rose of ultramarine. I would love to see a part 2. 😃
Thanks Valarie! I can see the Ultramarine violet but in my opinion it's not like rose of ultra. I love rose of ultra 😜
Thanks Valarie! I can see the Ultramarine violet but in my opinion it's not like rose of ultra. I love rose of ultra 😜
In Liquid Color lol 🤣 I like the DS ultramarine violet & rose of ultramarine too. 😉
I've ordered the trial set of five colours from Kent Bromley in the UK with money I was given for my birthday last month.
Permanent Yellow Lemon.
Primary Red Magenta.
Permanent Green Deep.
Brown Stil de Grain.
Primary Blue Cyan.
Hoping the package will arrive tomorrow so I can play with them over the weekend. I prefer pans to tubes but the set was very reasonable and 15ml tubes. That's way more paint than I could get from other brands for the same cost.
Shall remain nameless happy painting! You can let them dry in pans :)
I’m trying to figure out which red I need. Looking for a warm red. I just found your channel and I’m very impressed! Subscribing.
Please redo a look at these. They rehauled their Blu line… I love them, and DS … I use MB on a lot of my work. There’s no muddyness just bright and beautiful pigments! I like some of the earth tones too. But DS has my heart on those!
You know I'm loving that you said you were impressed by their.... Oranges!! Wonderful review, dear Denise!
Haha, I like mixed, dynamic oranges just not those glaringly bright ones out of tubes :p
It may be too late but, yes, I'd really like to see more of the MaimeriBlu. Just for sentiment, I guess, I was looking for a watercolor brand made in Italy. (I'm of Italian descent, have been to Italy and love it, and have been taking Italian classes). So, I'd like to know more before I buy. I found a palette on Amazon, but it was somewhere near $70. That seems a lot for sentiment if I don't really like them. I'm a real newbie and I love your channel.
Hi Cheryl, I actually lent these to another artist friend of mine so I don't have them on hand at the moment. I'm sorry!
Look on aliexpress, they're much cheaper
thank you (and victor) for a lovely video. i have been hearing/seeing about these paints and they have me curious . i see some nice things about them in the comments too so maybe i will get a couple to try out.
i have a request i have been thinking about and this video really brought it home. can you do a video on PBr7? i find it such an amazing pigment with all the different browns it can make . maybe you can show us and talk about the way that the different browns it makes mixes with other colors, like ultramarine blue and whichever else it normally gets mixed with. i would be ever so grateful! thanks!
I think Sennelier has pv16 in their line, it's called red violet. But it isn't all that granulating.
For those who prefer single pigment only this is excellent as the reformulated line put great focus on single pigment excellence.
I would love to see more about this brand because I’ve been curious. I think I need to true the two unique colors, turquoise green and mineral violet. It’s not easy to get a light violet that releases well and has no white.
It's definitely a mysterious brand!
Denise, I fell in love at first sight when I saw your MaimeriBlu Turquoise green! I went scampering all over the internet looking for it. What I found is there is a MB 15mm tube with that turquoise green name but it is designated as PB 16. Your info states it is PB18. Since this is true love, no one else or nothing else will do. Only what I just saw in your tutorial. Also, on Jerry's there are 2 different tubes with almost the exact same name on it, but one is 12mm and the other is 15mm. That is confusing as well. The name on the 12 MM tube is MaimeriBlu Superior Watercolor. The brand name on the 15mm tube is Blu Superior Watercolour. The 12 mm tube is much more expensive than the 15mm tube. Both are turquoise green. I am confused. I found these 2 tubes on Jerry's but do not know if one is artist-grade and the other student. I also went to Jackson's. They have only the 12 mm tube. I did not hurry to buy it because I am under the impression that the better grade is the 15 mm tube. Do you know why there is a discrepancy in the pigment ID number?
Like Juliette, I am asking, "Oh, Turquoise green, wherefore art thou?" Please, can you assist me? Unrequited love hurts. With my thanks!
Hi, is that an error on the Turquoise Green please? Shouldn't it be PB16?
Also I've been looking for a none granulating Cerulean Blue so I think I might try this brand, thank you
Hullo Denise, I am just poking about, I recently saw that Jenna Rainey has switched over to MaimeriBlu paint and I thought it was in the running for my main palette when I was going back into traditional painting from digital work. I believe that I chose mission gold because of the vibrancy of the colors. I have become such a zealot for DaVinci since you introduced me to the brand! I still have 1 mission gold blue color on my studio palette. But I have over 40 wells on it so I can have plenty of choices for any type of painting that I would want to do! I hope you are doing well and staying safe and sound. Please take care and have a lovely day!
Jenna Rainey’s use of MaimeriBlu is the same reason I came hunting for a review. I always trust you, Denise, to give the best information on any paints. Thanks for the review, even if it was 5 years ago!
Fast forward now 2022. Mai MeriBlu changed there Indian Yellow to a PY65. I imagine it looks better now.
Muy buenas comparaciones y muy completo ,en español no he encontrado nada parecido
I got a bunch of these when a local store closed out, I like them a lot.
I noticed the Indian yellow was a mixture containing 'PV 49'.
One of the old tubes I got was called Golden Lake, it's a single pigment indicated to be Quinacridone 'PV 49'. - but 'PV 49' is Cobalt Violet, not a Quinacridone, I believe they mislabeled 'PO 49' as 'PV 49'. Their old literature has their Golden Lake as 'PO 49', even though my tube says 'PV 49'.
I think your Indian Yellow was probably mislabeled too, making an Indian Yellow with Cobalt Violet doesn't make much sense. If it contained 'PV 49' Cobalt Violet it would have a Prop 65 label...
I'm betting the Indian Yellow was made with PO 49 Quinacridone Gold.....
I am currently obsessed with granulating colors and I want that Mineral Violet! Their manganese violet is the only PV16 they currently carry, but a number of the colors look to be granulating now too. I know they revamped their line a while back (last year? Ish?) So maybe that is why.
I'm not sure if the monitor is off or what but the maimeriblu raw sienna looks more like raw siennas found in schmincke, Rembrandt, sennelier, and Davinci,than the Daniel smith does. I have the daniel smith dot chart and when I painted out that color I thought the DS version seemed atypical.
Interesting! Good to know, thanks :)
Hi Denise! Thanks for another great review! Did you notice the huge color shift with Indigo from wet to dry? It was pretty surprising when I first played with it.
Funny Dude indeed! It's so much lighter. Maybe that's why the green is more noticeable? On the contrary, handprint says that PB16 has a huge drying shift and I didn't think it was all that bad. Then again maybe I'm used to phthalo colors :p
I have da vinci and winsor & newton phthalo turquoise along with schmincke helio turquoise and holbein marine blue all pb16 . It's one of my favorite blue pigments since it tends to shift in hue giving it so much depth. Marine blue is by far my favorite.
I have eight MaimeriBlue tubes I got some years ago-don't recall where-and all the numbers are different from yours. For example, the turquoise green is PB16, not PB18. and still beautiful. These must be older versions, and the are listed on the tubes in Italian, English sublisted below.
i think schmincke has a colour like the pb16 and its called helioturqoise and i think it is very compareble to the one you showed us. From what i could see i think the schminckes version is more pigmented and has a darker mass tone.
Thanks for your detailed reviews as always, i always appreciate your videos 😊
oh and schmincke also has a violet like that. Its called manganese violet and its made of pv 16 as well. Just that you know it😊
Thank you Momo! :)
I find MaimeriBlu's watercolor paint to be similar to Da Vinci's watercolor paint. Very beautiful paint IMO.
Hi! Could you please inform me where I can purchase the MaimeriBlue watercolors. I live in the Philippines.
Cheap joes carries them, not in a set just individual tubes.
There are a few of this brand recommended in the top 40 at handprint.com. The mineral violet granulation looks great. Will have to try it out with some DS granulating colours. They don't really market themselves well. Perhaps they're more popular in europe. Their oil paints are humongously expensive. The pigment codes on the wc tubes are so small it is easy to miss them in overhead light. I have a tube of turquoise green_verde turchese_ phthalocyanine PB 16. ...recommended by handprint. Also rec. is cad red deep PB 108 ,perinone orange PO 43_lacca arancio and pyrrole red PB 254_rosso sandalo plus a PG 50 cobalt green light_verde di cobalto chiaro. Cheers
Lovely transparent and translucent colours. I wonder how they measure up to Sennelier? I think I've seen these on the Jacksons site but they are quite pricey. I'd like to try some but I really have enough paints.
My first impressions are that I like Sennelier a bit better BUT I have limited use with them. However! I have a set of them I'll being reviewing soon so stay tuned! :)
Enough paints??? Is there any such thing?!?
Do you know if maimeri changed their indigo at some point? My tube has "blu naturale 1 nb1" listed as the pigment. Which, from what I've read, is a natural indigo pigment. Maimeriblu's own site says that it contains no black in the description. Do you think they changed it since your video maybe. Thanks.✌😀
I haven't used them since this timeframe. I'm sure things could have changed in that time!
The MaimeriBlu Mineral Violet (PV16) you swatched reminds me of M. Graham's Cobalt Violet, which is made with PV14. Maybe I'll grab the MaimeriBlu version, and compare the two :) I have a couple other pigments in the MaimeriBlu line and really enjoy working with them.
It reminded me of m graham ultramarine pink(PR259). It's kinda right in between those two. That's how it looks on my phone anyway 😂
I haven't bought and swatched PR259! I'm currently focusing on developing SBA-quality botanical skills, and wasn't sure where that would fit on my palette. But I'm really very curious!
I was too, thought they were beautiful..... Rarely use them 😒
They are indeed beautiful, but I find the PV14 is only really useful for very light underpainting or shadows. I imagine the PR258 is more opaque, and would be harder to use! Plus the granulation makes it hard to control :-/ so not ideal for botanical.
It's very granulating! I love granulation, but I'm no botanical painter lol I used it ONCE in a sunset lol
Do you find the paint consistency a lot different? I have been using Daniel Smith. I’m having a hard time getting used to them.
I haven't used their new formulas at all, and haven't used these since this video! They weren't a favorite of mine, but I don't remember the details clearly. My apologies!
Question: How is it that the same single pigment can be such different colors??
Katherine Sullivan there are a lot of resources online that can explain it better than I can but TLDR: there are different amounts and types of trace minerals in some of these pigments, as well as they way it's processed, both affect it.
Maimeri's website says there is no added anything in their colours which is the same philosophy behind their oils...no fillers or blending powders , no honey , no ox gall in their wc.
I have the intro set. i like them but they NEVER dry and I'm always getting it on me. lol
Katherine Sullivan haha really? The pans or the paint on the paper, or both?
In Liquid Color. I poured tubes into a shallow palette in December, they ate still globby, sticky wet. On the upside they rewet super fast. haha. And I also find them very flat.. not a huge fan either. At $5 + each I expected more.
Climate must affect them a lot! Mine are decently hard in the palette. Glad to know I'm not the only one who finds them flat. Though I do move the PB16. May have to replace my DS version with it. And/or try out Windsor and Newtons PB16.
Pat Kin I order ed the intro set from SSA thru Amazon for $26 for 5 x 15 ml tubes
I have read that people with asthma are going towards this brand. I am looking for a brand that doesn’t trigger me.
I only recently found this brand out from my watercolour book from 1985
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