45 Colors of the Schmincke Super Granulation Sets : Complete Color Range Watercolor Review 

Holy cow! That's like $1000 of watercolor paint! What a great friend. They look amazing, maybe I can try them one day.

Hey Allan! So good to see you. I know this way of swatching is your longtime format, but it would have been nice to see larger swatches for these colors. Granulation happens best when pigments flow across wet paper freely (on a slant), and then are left untouched -- which is easier in bigger swatches. The more you move the paint with your brush, the less they will granulate -- because as they are trying to clump, you are smoothing them back out.

Super excited of the hand pour tundra set i’m getting from you! Thank you so much for the review 🙏🏼

Very nice review, thank you. I absolutely love how you put together your swatch cards, what a great way to put together a notebook not only of swatches but also having a small painting to see how they work together. Beautiful!!!

The best way to save money with Schmincke's 45 super-granulation colors, is to go only for their primary equivalents: the Galaxy set of 5, Volcano Yellow, Volcano Red, Forest Green, and Glacier Blue. Basically, you get the equivalents of the cool and warm primaries, and a payne's gray, a purple, and a green. These 9 colors can mix most of the rest of their colors. Price comes at just $63 online as of this writing, compared to hundreds of dollars if you get all their sets. Just mix the right colors, and save!

Amazing as always. The granulation jn those is wonderful and for some reason, I am so drawn to those pinks.

Thanks for the wonderful review!! I would love to see a video of larger swatches by colour ( eg: all the greys, all the blues etc.). I am thinking of making a small palette for urban sketching and would like to focus on grey... Regardless, this review of the entire range is truly helpful!!

Hello Allan! Nice to see you again :) This is such an amazing video regarding about Schminke Horadam! As usual, I enjoy watching you review art supplies from Malaysia

I have one set, the tundra, and while they are beautiful they aren't very useful. I wound up putting together a palette of single pigment granulating pigments commonly used in the collection and appreciate it so much more. Not only can you mix similar colors, you can mix a ton of others by simply experimenting, some even more beautiful. You also have the individual pigments to use on their own or in combination with a basic palette. These supergranulating combinations are much better off used as an accent or special effect in a limited area of a painting. One use I did find is in a faux stained glass painting, they are quite lovely as individual panes of glass and the black lines give the needed separation. They also make beautiful backgrounds. They do not mix well, almost everything combines into a murky grey or brown. The two exceptions are the single pigment volcano red and yellow, however the texture of those two is really not pleasant, gummy and gritty.

Way to go! Great review

Congratulations on your new collection!

Most excellent swatching and beautiful painting 🎉

Your Back!

Glad to see your content again Allan :) Was looking forward to your video since you stocked it in your shop.

OMG U GOT THEM ALL😍 I'll be ordering again hohoho

What?! This is awesome, this video will blow up. This was exactly what I was looking for and couldn’t find, a look at all the sets. Thank you thank you!!🫶❤️

Yeah! Can't wait to watch this! Hope you're doing well Allan! The seascape is beautiful 😍 If you were to pick say 4/5 individual colours to add to a basic set what would you recommend? I love granulating paints, but feel that I would enjoy them most used with some non granulating colours. I really enjoyed this review, thank you! 💕

Love this, thank you so much for sharing, love from Amsterdam, Holland💜

Thanks for showing all the colors. It would be a great idea to see each set in action. Can you please make a video using the Tundra set. That is my favorite set 😍 Thanks for great review.

Your painting is stunning!

Hi Allan! I am a fan of your videos, especially because of the natural birds songs and rooster call :) I recently ordered some half pans (all the volcano and 2 more). Those were my first Schmincke and I am surprised how much work they need to reactivate (in comparaison with D Smith or Rembrandt or Sennelier I own). I put a drop of water on each and it seem to make the pigments separate in the pan. I will have to learn to appreciate them...

Now in Europe they are sold in sets of three in cardboard boxes for 23/ 25 euros per set. As paints they are excellent and very good quality. Thanks for the review.

Thanks Allan. I have the galaxy and deep sea small tube sets. The more water the better the granulation shows. I find them a bit weak and I like colors that can be strong so I can get good range of values. I prefer the dusk colors from Van Gogh because I get granulation and good values. To each there own. Thanks again for showing the swatches for all the super granulation range. Good to see you.💜

u got all of them! NICE! 😆

Hi Allan, nice to see you. Was wondering if you had to pick one set what one would you pick? I think I would pick the forest. They all looked so lovely all lined up and I love the boxes.

The Sample Painting is beautiful. Would you like to do a sample painting with all of the sets separately?

I have 2 sample sets super granulating 1/4 pan size from an Etsy seller..I have Deep Sea and Tundra. I love them and would like to get some more. Another wc channel said to watch for duplicate colors in other sets, so that's something to double-check.

Wow !worth a fortune

Wow,more watercolors😆they look nice but I'm not tempted this time.I've recently made a palette with all my single pigment granulating watercolors and I'm gonna try to mix most of schmincke colors myself.They are too expensive IMO plus it is hard to find a way to use them for a painting,they work better for background washes when you use a lot of water

Hello sir!! Thank you for the very informative video, really appreciate that you let us see these paints in action. I just have a small inquiry; I noticed you mentioned PR108 does not granulate in other brands, but I have a Cadmium Red Deep PR108 from holbein that does? and I checked some other brands' Cad. Red (making sure they all used PR108), like M. Graham, and Qor, W&N, Da Vinci through online color charts and those granulate too. I was under the impression that almost all versions of this pigment DO granulate, so I was surprised to find you say otherwise. Do you mind clearing that up?

the artist john lasondra is one of my favorite painters he uses acrylics and i love to watch him paint ,he lives there where you are ,im sure you know him ,im not buying these even though i want to ,i have a 12 set i put in full pans its so special,im in love with my art whale paints i bought 5 box sets of them ,its so cute how you said i love to help my paints move,

Hey Allen! What do you think of them so far? I have some favorites and recreated some of these with what I have. Deep Sea Indigo could be pretty interesting on it's own in a value study.

I want those boxes as much as the paints I got Daniel Smith pbk 11 coming tomorrow .my art whales are a deal made in china.

I'm a little jealous, I have a sample set of the tundra colors, and I really like them.

I have the shire set, so beautiful. Allan what colours did you use for the sunset picture in this video please ?

Hello Arch. Allan! Can you please make a speedpaint/live video of a perspective manual rendering in architecture some time soon? I really like your channel!

What do you think of the Urban (limited edition) Set?

Sorry if I missed it, but are these available individually? I really like 5 or 6; but they are in different sets. Thanks!

hey, how are you? I'm sorry if you said it in the video, but how long did you wait from putting the colors down on the paper to doing the swatches? Did you find them easy to rewet? thanks for the video!

So Many Colors good work Allan Jay Quesada

Please consider locking your white balance on your camera. Every time you move your hand, the colors shift, as the white balance of the camera changes. It's very difficult to understand how a color actually looks like if the WB keeps jumping. Every camera allows you to set and then lock the WB, and even if you shoot with your phone, there are third party video recording apps that can do that (e.g. Filmic Pro).

Try brusto artist half pan

I still dont understand why granulation and premade separating colors are so popular right now..... watercolor is known for smooth,transparent, luminous colors. Have a few single pigment colors that granulated is nice to have like ultramarine blue or cobalts, etc. And using themnin mixes to get beautiful, unpredictable effects is awesome and fun. But paying a premium for just a few pigments mixed with other in diff combinations and trying to sale it to us just makes no sense to me! When with about 5 colors added to your palette.....a few you prob already have....you can make any amd all colors you see here....

mmmm. a bit sad. I just have a metal box of 40 granulaing colors

So easy so make videos like this if you get these fortunes donated for your channel....I doubt he purchased all himself