Aquarius Watercolor - Swatching (Spoiler alert: it's fab!!!)
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- čas přidán 5. 08. 2024
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Italy:
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Disclaimer:
these paints were given to me to review without payment or affliation, nor is there a relationship like that with any of the sales addresses mentioned in the links and video. - Jak na to + styl
Your bird arguing with itself in the background made me laugh.
Your bird is very chatty. How happy he sounds. Ty for sharing your experience with these paints.
I love that bird. He's making the sweetest sounds. I'm kinda hoping you will show him to us. Love you swatches too. I've got my eye on these pai ts. Karen from Canada ☺☺💖💖🐦
Love the swatches! Beautiful 💙 Came for the swatches, stayed to listen to your Kakariki! 😁🦜 My Quaker does the same thing while I paint. I think she can tell I’m relaxed. Your bird sounds adorable!
Your bird is such a blessing, he sounds so cute 😍 it's warming my heart 😚
your bird sounds like my kids when they were little and tryed to be little monkeys I love it 🥰
Thank you for this video. I just saw you have an update on the new 2022 Aquarius paint. I look forward to watching it. I have been painting for one year and 2 months. I am now in a position to understand what you are saying about the pigments and hopefully remember it. I am happy to find your channel. Cheers, from 🇨🇦.
Aw...you're welcome! You will remember as you progress in your watercolor experience. No need to remember it all, just play and things you love and hate will stick without any effort but the joy of painting and experimenting.
Always love and appreciate your test/swatch process. Bedankt!
Graag gedaan! :-)
I am so glad you did a quicker version, Thank you.
You're welcome!
Oh my holy hell! I’m so impressed (and jealous) with the amount of paints they sent you!!! Thats a small fortune in that box! I’m happy with my M Graham, but if I were looking for a new set, that would be it!
I love your bird! Such cute noises.
It really is a small fortune, isn't it? I think these paints make a good extra on M. Graham for the colorls M. Graham lack in their collection. Yes, my bird makes very cute noises...when he doesn't sit cursing... :-) (that's what you get when teenagers 'take care' of your bird from time to time :-) Although honestly, it's quite hilarious...)
Mandy van Goeije That's so funny. I've 2 teenage boys still living at home. If only my dachshunds could talk. Oh the language!
These paints now on my wish list. Love the bird chattering in the background!
Have you tried them yet?
I’m so glad you mentioned that, my cat’s on my windowsill behind my curtain and I’d never heard chittering like that from her, was getting a bit confused 😏
I just love watching paint dry with you!
Heheh.....
Lol
Love these colors! I also just wanted to say I loved watching this and hearing your little bird
Thank you for the nice swatch video of Roman Szmal colors! I love the sound of your bird!! Can you do a video about your birdie?
Great swatching video! Just bought six colors to try out. Thanks for the recommendation 😊
Great! I'd love to hear how you like them.
Haven’t seen this product yet in the US. I will be good to see your Part 2. Thanks for showing us.
You're welcome, Essie. You could check out his Facebook. I'm sure he's willing to help you out with an order... (I hear your piggy bank screaming already...)
You can order them from Jackson’s.
i have to stop watching your channel! Makes me wanna buy new stuff!But I loooove hearing your bird! so i will keep watching
yes the birds are sweet but i hope they have now a bigger cage then in earlier videos...😪 2 years ago i found and saved birds from a small cage like here because it is forbidden here to hold two of them in small travel cages. Now they are a bit happier, can fly a length of 1,7m sometimes they fly in my room but it must be save for them.
I checked Jackson's today & they are now carrying this paint. Now to order some!
And...how did you like them?
I really like swatching videos, I plan to watch them over & over. lol I do hope someday there will be more videos of using these paints in a painting too. I'd like to see if people still like them when doing something more complicated.
I am glad you are better. I hope it does not get that hot there again!
Me neither. Warmer than tropical was a bit insane here. I have been painting with these paints for weeks now and I seriously love it. I'll see if I can plan a demo...
@@MandyvanGoeije I will watch for it. It does sound like you are very busy so I will be patient. Every thing I hear about these paints makes me more & more interested. lol I hope Jackson's actually does have them someday.
Ask them. Tell them you've seen this great review and are dying to try it. If they have a hunch they'll have customers for it, they will be more prone to become dealers than when the manufacturer offers them. Fingers crossed for you!
That bird. :D
Yeah, he is a little something, all right! :-)
Mandy the review is wonderful. However, your bird has got to be adorable. It sounds just like Gizmo of the Gremlins movies.👍
Yes, that's absolutely true! :-)
Hi Mandy. Thank you for being the best. Once again you've brought home a winner to share with all of us. I bought a set of these in August 2020, thanks to you, and now have made them my go to. They are stunning and my only wish is that they would come in tubes also. Any idea if this is going to happen anytime soon? 2020 is almost done. Let's hope 2021 is a lot more fun. Merry Christmas!
Hello Judith, the best wishes for 2021 to you too! I'm glad you like the Aquarius. They really are nice, indeed. I have no idea if Roman Szmal intends on issueing the paint in tubes. I think it would be a great idea, only a production line of tubes has its own challenges, so let's see. If you really want to know, you could approach him directly through facebook. He is active there and responsive to questions and comments.
@@MandyvanGoeije Thank you, Mandy. I may just do that. But I have another question. There is a lot of interest in handmade paints here in the states. Have you thought of doing a series on the European handmade paint market. I know that you've done several of the more well known once like, Isaro, but I also know you like an adventure and a challenge. What say you?
I have had a link to this paint sitting on my desktop for weeks now, I just love the colour range, and use full pans for certain types of work, and would like to move from WN to Aquarius, my link will not allow me to purchase unfortunately so I cannot wait for somewhere that will. So good to see you swatching these, you have a similar way of laying paint down to me, allowing the Paint its character, so .i always look out for your videos. You bbird sounded so cute, and cheeky, in the background. Good company while you work. Thanks again, I shall be starting off with some of the lighter colours, to make a special set, if I get on with these paints I think I may have found my brand. (though still have lots of other paint to use, probably too much!)
My bird is cheeky allright. Teen-inspired he's begun cursing.... I think you will love ghis paint. It's a bit more quirky than W&N...in a good way, I think.😊
Jacksons has them in stock now
I don't know if anyone has posted this info already, but these watercolors are available on Jackson's website now too!
That's good to hear!
Thank you for this. FWIW, my art teachers always pronounced cerulean (blue) seh-ROO-lee-un.
THAT was the word I was looking for!!! 😊
Just coming back now to this video because I was finally going to pick these up from Jacksons but now I see the prices have gone up significantly. 😭
This looks like an interesting brand! so affordable too. I think I heard somewhere that they are in talks with Jacksons!
They have it on the Jackson's site now, noticed a few days ago. Couldn't believe how cheap 💕
Great!
Eeeeeeeek
Love a good swatch! Thanks! Love it even more if next time you don’t put chalky opaque paint in your rinse water first up. It affects the transparency of the others a bit... How great are the Aquarius green & Ocean blue? So special but useful too!
I think they are VERY great! I can recommend this paint to anyone. It is that good.
thy are great indeed
Absolutely!
You should use two water jars; one for cleaning your brush and one for taking new clean water 🙂
If you use dirty water to paint like you’re doing in the video, then you’re contaminating all the swatches with the previous pigments and it makes them appear more dull than they really are 😅 In other words, the paints are even more beautiful than this! 😃 Thank you for the nice video nonetheless😊
Also your kakariki is really making adorable sounds, super cute 🥰❤️❤️❤️
i love it when i randomly remember vids you've posted that i'm interested in again! still love your in depth reviews :D may i ask... this roman szmal 340 cobalt turquoise..... compared to the current Rembrandt range of colours, which is it most similar to?
Hi, that would be the 682, they look identical on Canson Montval paper. They are both made of a cobalt chromite pigment, so that's not too surprising :-)
Mandy van Goeije thank you very much, that’s a huge help as rembrandt is easier to find where i am :)
my finches are happy if they can fly in the room but it must be save for them. The cage is 1,7m long so they can fly the hole time. i gave them coconut for building a nest- so they are busy not bored also they have now natural material because plastic stuff is not healthy...
Windows needs stores because they want to fly to the light. Narrow gaps behind furniture can be deadly traps too. They like my guitar and piano playing and if i sing wrong notes they scream:-D
After all birds want to be able to fly even if they live in captivity. Maybe its a stimulation for you because birds are very funny if you let them more into your life even if its only for a hour a day:-)
Nevertheless i like your videos! Thank you!
Will you be posting your swatches on your website? I can’t wait to get my hands on some of the paint. I tried ordering some from the sites that are mentioned but, they don’t deliver to Canada. I have heard that Roman is working with Jacksons’s art supplies in (UK) to distribute worldwide. I order from Jackson’s all the time, so that will be awesome if it happens. By the way your bird is hilarious, he was making me laugh too.
He sure is hilarolious. Esoecially now that he's pickef up cursing drom the teens.... I will see if I can find the time to upload the swatches to my blog. But it's always very hsrd because it is next to imposdible to get realistic scans with watercolor...
Yarka and White Nights are two different things. They are both made by St. Petersburg but Yarka is their student line. I have read that it isn't even student's, it's for kids. St. Petersburg doesn't explain things very well anywhere so there's a lot of confusion
thank you for enlightening us. Yes, it's very confusing, indeed. I've actually seen sites where the two were sold as one and the same, so it's good to read there is a big difference. I got a little box of yarka in recently, I think. I didn't check them out because I thought they were the same, but I'll see if I can notice the difference.
Not able to watch the video right now. I did notice that Teoh showed their display at The Amsterdam urban sketchers today. That should help get their name out. Now there are two great choices of paint from Poland. i am sure if you like them they are great. Take care!
Oh, he was here? Too bad I found out about the symposium too late to sign up for the interesting workshops. But I ended up not going at all because I got sick...😓
Mandy van Goeije oh no, I thought for sure you would be there, hope you are all better now.
Yes I am, thank you. It was just the heat that was a bit much with 40+ degrees celsius. My body didn't respond very well. But it's over now and I feel tons better, so lots of painting again :-)
Mandy, I just stumbled upon the info on the heat wave in Europe. Hope you're doing OK with that. Can't believe it could actually be hotter where you are than here in Houston! Actually, we have had a slightly cooler-than-the-past-few-years summer so far--92-96F. Somewhere in France it got to 115F? Don't think it's ever been that hot here in Houston. That's too freaky! Pauvres! Take it easy...
Thank you. Yes, I'm doing fine, but it was unspeakably hot. 42 degrees celsius here...an absolute record for this country. I am recovering, indeed, for I dob't do well witj heat at all. And airco is not common here....
@@MandyvanGoeije When it's that hot, nobody copes well without air con. My God, that's about the same as our all-time record, but we have air con everywhere. Without it, there's not much you can do except move very little, drink fluids and eat ice cream! Trying to sleep is the pits, too, in soggy sheets. Ugh! Hope it breaks for y'all soon. Too dangerous for Euro folk not used to it.
Very bright and luminous paints, glad you have this affordable paints that will come to you. Don’t think they ship to the US.
I think the Spain store does?
Mandy van Goeije May have to check it out
Definitely. I've been painting with these for a few weeks now on a regular basis and I can safely say I'm more than happy with them. I am getting anxious to tryo ut more of this...
I need to know the breed of bird. I couldn't understand from video. I have birds and love listening to yours.
It’s a Kakariki!
i was interested in your search for granulation... how do these Aquarius paints rate for granulation? particularly any granulating in the red or yellow... would any of them add to your top 32 granulators set?
Yes, except for the fact that they come in pans and I'd need tubes to add to my granulating palette. Not so much in the red and yellow, though. That remains hard.
Do you find that these paints bloom easily? Or did you drop extra water to make them bloom on purpose? Thank you!
Yes, I added water to make that happen, to see what happens when you work with a lot of water. These paints behave extremely well.
Very excited to watch these colors again! Near the beginning were you trying to think of parchment paper? I know it is used for baking. I'd put how I might pronounce Cerulean but I am known for saying things wrong so I had better not.
Once again I am wanting these paints very much, even though I really have more paint than I need, but they look really nice. There are not very many colors I don't want to try, these are on the top of my list. I have heard that Jackson's might have them someday but I am not sure I can wait that long. (Wanting so many colors is the reason for the name, maybe someday I'll think of something better lol).
Yes, exactly! Thank you😊
It would be great if Jacksons would have them!
@@MandyvanGoeije I finally wrote them & asked. The Customer Service person who wrote back said they are discussing them and the best way to know if they start carrying them is to watch their newsletter. I am hoping they will have them soon. lol
That's great! And I'm sure it helps when people start asking...and perhaps if they see this review... Fingers crossed for you!
Have any of these paints came out chalky at all for you? I ordered 35 from Jackson’s for a personal curated palette and some of the more granulating colors seemed quite chalky and rub off
Hello Ava, no, none of the paints I've tested came out chalky at all. But, I have been approached by a few viewers who had an issue with chalkiness as well. If it's a problem, maybe you can contact Mr. Schzmal. He's very friendly and might be able to help.
Mandy, did you take down your “I love gouache” video? Thats not the name of it, but I love that video and I cant find it
I didn't think so. But I'll go and check!
Mandy, thanks so much. That video gives me so much inspiration.
Dag Mandy, ik ontdekte je CZcams kanaal en ben dol op je swatching video’s! Ik ben op zoek naar een kunstenaarskwaliteit aquarel en kwam uit op Schmincke maar nu ik dit zie... lees overal vooral positieve ervaringen. Zou Szmal schmincke kunnen vervangen? Doe ik goed aan om dit te kopen? Ik werk nu met van Gogh, wil een stap vooruit. Of kan ik dan tóch beter overstappen op scmincke/Rembrandt?
Excuus, voor Mn reactie in het NL!
O, dat geeft helemaal niets hoor! Ik kan je dit merk warm aanbevelen en is een mooie stap vooruit op de Van Gogh. Het ligt prijstechnisch beter dan de andere. Wat je misschien het beste kunt doen, is van elk merk een aantal losse napjes of tubes kopen en die dan in een doos doen en dan zelf uitproberen wat jij fijn vindt. Elke verf heeft zijn eigenschappen. Als je overstapt op artist quality wordt het heel persoonlijk wat 'het beste' is.
They look so great! Can you please help me how to get them in Hungary?
You should be able to order from any of the URLs I gave in the video info or else contact Roman via his fb, he will help you, I'm sure.
@@MandyvanGoeije Thank you very much!
I have tried to choose colors from Roman Szmal watercolors for a year and still can't do it. I want them all. What a problem to have. 🙃🤭
Oh, I know the stress!!! 🤫🤫🤫
Thank you for the video. I always watch swatch videos because I like the benefit of seeing how a certain brand performs on different papers and I do not need to do it. 😂
I've seen so many techniques how people do their swatches and I wanted to ask why do you choose a small round brush to cover those big areas, when with a flat brush you could have much nicer flat washes and a nice looking gradient from dark to light easily? When you use a small brush to cover a big area your swatch is not representing the performance of the paint properly because the water puddles dry like cauliflowers and that is usually not an appealing look for watercolor. So I'm just curious, I thought I ask it because you may have a good reason. 🙂
Hi Moma B, that is a good question. I thought about that a little while back when someone else asked me. I use a small brush on purpose. My work is rather small and very detailed, so I work a lot with smaller brushes and want to see how the paints behave with them. Also, I like to see what my paints do when I don't treat them optimally. Schmincke Horadam, for example, will even out even with a small brush. And other paints will flower. So in my experience, working like this represents the qualities of the paint very well. I'm not after a perfect swatch. I'm interested in how the paint behaves in relation to my other paints and what I can do with its properties. Because, apparently contrary to you, I love watercolor just because of its capacity to form cauliflowers on paper. Also, by painting the way I do I already get a good idea of light to dark gradients and the textures the paints make. I guess the way we paint depends on what the swatcher prefers for their swatches and their painting style.
@@MandyvanGoeije Thank you for your reply. 🙂
I consider myself a beginner with watercolor, I have a lot to learn. Mostly artists I have watched swatching saying if you have those puddles that means you use too much water for the type of paper you have. They also say if you have good paint on good paper, it will indeed even out, but some paints just simply don't work well with some papers, even if they both are of good quality. So I have learned that cauliflowers are not good and if you want to cover big areas, that's what big brushes for. 😂
But I guess since art is free and limitless we all do what we want, right?🙂
Thank you again for sharing your thoughts, I indeed learned from it. 😊💖
I filled my cart with product on arte.miranda site but USA is not a ship to option in the drop down menu. -- insert extremely sad face here! Any other suggestions that ship to the US? Love watching your swatching videos.
Sorr, I just read. Too bad. I read perhaos at Jackson's in the future, but I've not heard from Romsn in person, so I can't confirm this. Fingers crossed!
@@MandyvanGoeije Fingers and toes crossed! LOL Thanks Mandy.
You should be able to order. The country name you are looking for us EE. UU.
Sadie Saves the Day EE or UU for the USA?
Patti Tolley Parrish when you scroll the list of countries. One is “EE. UU. “ that is what you should click for shipping to the USA. Then you should be able to select states etc. like normal.
EEUU is the Spanish acronym for USA.