I live this kit for plein air and life sketching groups. the metallic gold has a transparent yellow undertone that mixes well with prhalo blur to make a beautiful ocean water color and it can add sparkle to the sand too. I added pans down the middle of magenta, lemon yellow , cad yellow, viridian and ultramarine. it is my favorite of the original 3 sets but u have not tried the other 2 sets they just came out with.
I got these myself recently and combined them with my tropicals in the one tin. What I did was take the tray out and pull off the metal pan holders. Then I added magnets to 22 of the 24 pans I had (that's all that could fit) and arranged them in the bottom of the tin. The pull out bit, minus the pan holder strips, then fitted in nicely on top. I bent down the metal flaps at the sides so I could close the lid. It is a great way to hold my swatch card or extra papers, and also acts as a third mixing palette if I want! :)
I picked up this set after your review and I'm VERY happy with it! The little tin it comes in is nice and I see myself using it forever. I REALLY like the limited color palettes this company is making. It's great to have preselected colors like that for fast coloring.
i've learned so many things from your videos. especially the part where you tell that on creating a darker shade for a certain color use it'a complimentary color
It's actually quite hard to tell whether they are transparent or opaque. I thought the colours in Decadent Pies are going to be mainly opaque but they are mainly transparent, surprisingly.
I ordered the Odyssey set because my shop was out of the tropicals. I CAN'T WAIT! I'm currently using a Sakura koi set and a cheap reeves set (I filled my own watercolor box)
A fan of your videos and blog! I actually like watching you do swatches because i can compare the drying shifting between when you first put it down and how it looks at the end of the video. :0
I love the 3 Metallics and 1 Pearl on black paper - when I reviewed them a few weeks back I found it really showed them off. The green and cream and blues in this set - esp the Antwerp Blue - and that Quin Burnt Scarlet are really nice indeed. The Jaune Brilliante (flesh) i didn't like so much.
So - if you combine the decadent pies set with the tropical - which pans would you "steal" from that set to include in this set? Or... which other colors would you add to this set to make it "whole"? Thx for your series... has helped me a ton!!
From Decadent Pies, I would get the red, green, ochre and phthalo blue. Decadent Pies is a very specialised palette. Unless you really want the colours there, I won't recommend getting it.
I have this set and actually don't much like it. The colors are more muted and opaque but paired together they aren't very versatile. I use the box for something else. I find the pans really never wet very well, and they are very hard colors to work into my brush from the pan. I think this review is quite fair, except my set was very dry and brittle, almost, and the color cakes come out of the half pans frequently. I'm glad not to mess with them anymore and use the little box for a field self some Daniel smith etc that I like better.
I just bought this set. I think it should be called Sedona or Grand Canyon or Bryce. lol. Something along those lines because the colors remind me of an Arizona or Utah landscape. Thanks for the review.
I was kinda disappointed with their metallic colors. Not only do they contaminate everything around them, they’re really light. You’ve really gotta scrub to get a good thickness off of the pan block. First thing I did tho is jam as many as I could in one tin lol. You can get almost 2 in one.
I feel like the tin case itself is worth the price lol gotta love have the flaps stay perpendicular, plus the paint is surprisingly okay and spreads well
I'm wondering... Do regular pans fit in their pan slots? I'm planning on buying it solely for the metal palette because I want a compact watercolor case that can have extra colors down the middle. I have a three 12 pan sets and one 24 which I've customized so I easily switch up my palette depending on which one I take. Planning on turning this into my neutrals palette because I want to add some primateks for texture into my neutrals palette. ( currently they are Neutrals chosen so one row is all earth tone neutrals on top and bottom are toned down primary and secondary colors) and use my then empty palette into a full pan palette to be a super limited palette of easily mixable primaries and a couple earth's and one specialty color. Sorry the simple question turned into a long explanation. Thank you ahead of time if you answer but I get that this is an old post. Hoping to join the RU-vid video art community in a few months!
To anyone who has tried multiple of these sets, which one is the most useful to someone who usually uses artist grade? I want to get them for the pallette, but I'd prefer if I could still get some use out of the paints in them. I don't need a set that allows for mixing, I already have the primaries in lots of artist grade brands. I was going to buy decadent pies for the metallics, but they really don't look that great.
The metallics are not very good. Tropicals has the strongest colours among all other sets which are more pastel like. www.amazon.com/Prima-Marketing-Watercolor-Confections-Tropicals/dp/B0197FGETY?tag=ttmus-20
I'm not sure about their tube paints but the pans are quite lousy. Check out my full review at www.parkablogs.com/content/review-pebeo-12-half-pan-watercolour-set
I think you should try these paints in black paper... I think Canson is selling artists black paper but idk how thick (gsm) it is.. The watercolours shown here will look very beautiful in black paper :D
These watercolour are semi transparent and when mixed with black, I'm afraid the colours will be too dark to be seen. Gouache or other opaque medium will be better on black paper. Also I suppose the black paper surface is not sized so the colours are going to soak it just like cartridge paper and from my experience, cartridge paper usually dulls down the colours.
