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When buying watercolor (or any paint) watch out for "vibrant" and brands/sets that do not disclose pigment information. "Vibrant" colors might indicate dyes or fluorescents being used. The problem with that? Well, they fade and change color when exposed to sunlight pretty quickly. Not disclosing pigment information also indicates low(er) grade pigments that are less vibrant, translucent and pure to begin with, and maybe also more prone to fade. Also cheap brands or "for students" also use convenient mixtures (up to 5 pigments) to achieve a certain color, instead of the actual single pigment. This can easily muddy your colors when mixing colors. So when buying relatively cheap paints, be sure you're ok with these potentionally big drawbacks.
Any watercolor painting should be kept away from direct sunlight. They all fade. Best to use a UV protective glass over it in the frame if it’s an important piece.
A thing I do (if a pallette has only around 20 colours or less and not 50) is making a table sheet as reference to how all colours mix with each other. As a general rule not mixing warm and cold toned colours if you don't want muddy results is good, but a guide for which colours work well together and which don't helps quite a bit.
You can mix more then two colors together you know, so your référence palette has endless possibilities. I don't understand why you can't just have a test paper and try your mix on it before applying on your painting
@@sarasin3718 yes, but the reference sheet can only be so big or it's going to become unwieldy and you can, as you said, test it out individually beforehand. A simple table for two colour mixes is still quite practical if you have a small pallette, because you only need to look at it quickly to know which colours don't work well together (and you can extrapolate this for 3+ colour mixes, though those are going to be less bright anyway), sparing you from having to test it out every time you want to paint.
@@h.m.v. Works only if you paint for fun. My palette has 40 shades and it's current to use more then 2 colors (btw i don't understand why they can loose brightness unless you put black on it, for the long time i've used them it dépends on colors) so it's useless to have a référence sheet. When i spend 10hours or more on a paint and as many time only finding the right color i really don't have time or energy for creating a reference sheet more, and even with two colors, the ratio between them change everytime so you have to make at least 3 version of each mox
@@sarasin3718 Yeah, mixing multiple colours results in muddy colours is a bit exaggerated, but I was still talking about small palettes (~12 colours, doing a mixing reference sheet for anything bigger is madness anyway). They won't have 6 different blues. But two (hopefully a cool and a warm one) at most. And your mixing options are quite limited if you don't want to mix different warm-toned and cold-toned colours, opposite colours or anything with black or umbra. All of those result in colours I would call less bright (or downright ugly no matter the ratio). Experience may tell you what works well together and what not with a small pallette, but if lemon yellow and ultramarine blending kinda meh surprises someone, that person may benefit from just looking at how different colours mix as a training exercise. If I remember correctly I first did a reference sheet years ago with a 12 colour pallette because I was frustrated that a blended rainbow wasn't very vibrant. And my younger sister thought it helpful too. I think she took both that pallette and the reference sheet with her when she moved out. Each square on the table was filled with a gradient by the way to account for mixing ratios (though some colours just don't mix well together no matter the ratio). Nowadays I am using watercolour pencils (I have 120 different colours and only a reference sheet for individual colours) and either have a test page for a planned picture (and limit the amount of different colours beforehand) or do a quick test mix on the tape holding the paper down when introducing a new colour.
Yeah i honestly dont trust these huge sets that are cheap. They tbh, look chalky and the blues are always pointed out for vibrancy but the reds arent great. Every creator promoting them always just swatches, no actually testing on a drawing. Honestly just go for good quality watercolours, 2 of every primary colour. May be cheaper too for the amount of paint if you get it in tubes.
These don’t look bad…but what makes them good. You just did a swatch test. How do they work? Do they interact well? Do they mix well? How are they on paper?
@@Human12393 Thanks, smart guy, but I'm not asking you. and so, I don’t have the opportunity to open the description of the shorts, and I didn’t even know that they had a description other than the name.
The advantage of this set is the swatch sheet, which is a great idea, but can also be made on your regular watercolor paper. Just cut out a piece the size of the box and create your sample references.
It’s white labeled paint that any company can put a label on, like brutfuner or castle coloured pencils. It’s exactly the same paints and brushes but different packaging :/ they still looks nice tho
Looks like a repackaging of a famous watercolor set here in the Philippines by a brand called SeamiArt. Edit 24/10/2022: For anyone asking, SeamiArt is cheaper. Grabie is 45USD while SeamiArt is only around less than 13USD.
Oh I think my comment got deleted, maybe because I mentioned websites. Both are Chinese mass produced, it's called white labelling. What they do in China is produce a certain type of product, then allow businesses to print their own label onto that product. You can find hundreds on a giant Chinese owned shopping website beginning with an A, blank. It's why you can often find lots of identical products but by different brand names on a website owned by Jeff Bezos. SeamiArt don't actually make the palette, they buy it from China and add their label on.
No set like that will ever match professional grade quality, if they advertise that it's a guaranteed fail. But there's plenty out there that are fine for student work and look really good. I love W&N cotman colours for example, their sets are very cheap and super pigmented for student grade colours.
@@Mikyda3 a lot of brands have a professional line. They also usually have a student line. The cheap "random name you never heard off" amazon sets usually rank somewhere below the actual student grade sets, not necessarily but usually. You just really get what you pay for in that case. 48 colors for the price that gets you one tube of professional paint is... usually about worth that much, yeah. E.g. Winsor Newton Cotman watercolors are their student grade paints, their professional paints are labeled WN professional. Schmincke makes professional paints called Horadam and their student grade line is called Akademie. Sennelier is another very popular brand in europe, I think they have a student line too but no clue what it's called. In the US Daniel smith is a very popular professional brand, I have no clue if they have student grade paints as well. Generally professional paints are more expensive, have a lot more pigment, no fillers, usually high grade and lightfast pigments (which makes them suitable for work you might sell, hence the "professional" in the name), more single pigment paints and just generally a higher quality in the way they behave on the paper. It's generally not worth starting out with a professional grade set of paints, if you buy larger tubes and fill your pans (which is usually the cheapest long term) you end up with easily over a hundred pounds for a 12pan set and you'll feel too intimidated to use it. But something like the cotman colors or just any set that you have seen people use so you know what quality you are getting is a good starting point. And I'd still recommend getting a couple of tubes of professional paint or getting a friend to give you a few small samples of theirs just to get a feeling for the difference. Because once you've used the professional paints you'll suddenly realise a lot of what you thought was you being bad at watercolors was just... bad watercolors. It actually helps the learning process a lot to have that frame of reference.
@@LuckykitoThey are student grade but they would be a big improvement over this set! If someone is serious about learning to paint, it’s best to purchase the best quality paint that you can afford. If you just want to fool around with it and just use sketchbooks, then Cotman would be fine.
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Nope, no connection, grabie straight up used seami art watercolours. When grabie first came out with the watercolours, the packaging was seamiart. So yeah....
