WHITE NIGHTS Watercolor First Impressions & A Timelapse 

i was trying to imagine what an illustration with that combination of colors would look like and the final just blew me out of the water. It feels so warm and cozy!

I never would have come up with these 4 colors (irgazin: new to me) but I was mesmerized while watching you painting

Oddly enough, those make a fantastic limited palette. The greeny teal you mixed against the caput mortem? Yummy.

Those colors work so well together. I espcially love the water and the fern, the play of the light too.

Wowwww mesmerized by how you made this painting! It's amazing!

Amazing and beautiful. I would never hav chosen these colors . All your work is so unique.

I have been using White Night for a year now, I have the 36 full pan! I had been watching endless reviews on for a couple months and well I just couldn’t let it pass without trying it for myself. Im so glad I got it. So far I have made 170 paintings, the colors are so vibrant it is so easy and smooth working with. Love the color palette you choose. 💕

un espectaculo!!

In Canada it's often sold under the name Yarka St Petersburg from Jack Richeson.

It's always such a treat to watch you paint. I love your colour selection and what a gorgeous, luminous motif! I have a set of 24 of these. Some of the colours are not ones I delight too much in, but I have no gripes with the quality and I love to use them in my sketchbook.

This is such an adventurous colour selection! I love how the colours work together and how light and airy and sunlit the forest looks in your painting. Wonderful!

I LOVE White Nights! They’re excellent paints. They were my first “big girl” paints, and I eventually bought every single color they offer because of how much I love them. They have so many fun convenience colors, I love the colors you chose! This came out so beautifully ❤

Your art is beautiful as always! I never would've picked that selection of colours myself, but the way you use them together just blows my mind. As someone who's often scared of using "weird" colours, this has really made me want to be a little more adventurous and throw colours that I like together, and see what I can do with them.

Fabulous!

You gotta check out their blue lake. Such a gorgeous and unique colour PB1.

What a beautiful painting! Those three colors are a unique combination, and the result is luminous and relaxing. The White Nights paints seem a little more opaque than some watercolors, but maybe that is just an impression. Now I'd like to try them!

very great picture

So pretty! Light filled and luminous with that yellow and blue together. I will look forward to your next shopping trip for more colors 🤗

I love using my white nights paints

that is an absolutely gorgeous painting!!! i wouldve never thought of pairing those 4 colours together, but the end result is just so bright and wonderful!

That is a cool mixing set.

Kensington art supply coming through for us alberta artists! Haha. That mint colour is gorgeous!!!

Great Job! What a beautiful painting.. I am so glad that you demonstrated a painting with this color combination. I would have never paired these together but they are BEAUTIFUL! Thank you for sharing!

The irgazin is awesome for portraits, especially with geranium and ultra violet!

I am pleased with the quality to price ratio. Good stuff. Thank you. Your presentations are always looked forward to.

i love your voice, i love your painting, i love how you encourage your viewers to be creative with limited palette, and i love the ending message to love ourselves. thank you, Mary 💙💙

The painting and the color scheme are absolutely gorgeous!!! I wish you would do a tutorial on this painting 😍😍😍

I adore this piece. Love the subject, style and colours. STUNNING.

it looks like you used some kind of filter. love it!!!

That was a great quad combo! I am looking forward to picking those up. I am a huge fan of buff titanium as well.

I love your demo painting so much!! And j I love how you used the opaque paints almost like gouache at some points, very cool technique. I have a whole bunch of White Nights pans and they're honestly such good value for money. I'm actually waiting for an order with these exact paints, they finally showed up on Artemiranda (a Spanish art shop which will probably be my EU replacement for Jackson's after Brexit). Also: I love the size of the pans - they're just a smidge smaller than your standard full pans, which makes it possible to fit fourteen of them in a small metal palette (the ones with three wells in the lid, like Schmincke's - they're a hair more rectangular than the more common standard small metal palette with two wells in the lid).

Wow. The way you paint and what you did with this color palette just wow!!!

Super fun demo! Those colors are amazing 😉

Wow, that yellow/green is soooooo crazy luminous. I can almost feel the sunlight in that painting! How cool :D

Fabulous.

Beautiful colors, I have been wanting to get some of this brand of watercolors. The painting came out so beautiful.

so beautiful illustration

These colors are beautiful! I LOVE the mint and it makes the most beautiful greens. I just got a white nights set and I can’t wait to start using them!

I started out with White Night so I feel I know them pretty well by now and I just love them! I would say that their earthtones aren't as strong as lets say DS but they make up for that with the other colors. Espally the greens!

Mary you are a total genus! An inspiration!!

So lovely to watch you paint. Loved all the colors you chose. I couldn't imagine what you were going to paint with those! Just beautiful! Jerrys artarama and Blick both sell the Richeson Yarka which I heard was rebranded St Petersburg white nights of course after I purchased my white nights.

Love the neutral mixes you achieved, your landscape looks great! Tfs

I need to make a limited pallete with these!

I love white nights, it's my favorite brand now :) and your palette was really interesting, I loved the final result :)

I absolutely ADORE these paints, they are my favorite, I have more expensive and arguably better paints, but these are my go to!

I was so curious to see what you could paint with this "weird" limited palette, and it turned out so pretty and coherent! Maybe I'll go buy me a weird selection and see what happens. 😅 Thanks for sharing!

These colours are sooo beautiful

Such a neat colour combo. They combination created such a fantasy mood. I love these paints myself. I haven't tried any of those colours. I have never run across them here in Ontario.

You are so magical with paints!! I absolutely love what you were able to do with such a limited and different palette. So cool!

Lovely, creative, use of those pigments. Love that large tree trunk the way you've done it. I often wonder what, technically, distinguishes opaque pigments watercolors from gouache.

I own the older St Petersburg sets distributed by Jack Richeson in North America for Russian paint manufacturer Nevskaya Palitra, and they are labeled PROFESSIONAL grade “Yarka St. Petersburg” watercolors. I can attest that they are identical to the “White Nights” referred to here. They even have the exact same wrappers on each pan. However, Jack Richeson is not distributing them labeled as “White Nights.” Confusion also arises from the fact that Yarka (a Russian distributor), also sold Yarka student grade sets, that were inferior and had different wrappers. They were called Yarka, but were different than Yarka St Petersburg. Nowadays White Nights watercolors can be purchased in North America without going through the Jack Richeson distributor (who repackages the paints into English language boxes), or you can buy the Richeson version on Blick Art or Jerry’s Artsrama online in the US. I hope this clears up the confusion between distributors and manufacturers of these nice paints. In summary: Distributors: Jack Richeson and Yarka; actual paint factory is in St Petersburg, Russia; White Nights and Yarka-St Petersburg are Professional and identical paints; student grade Yarka and Sonnet watercolors are not the same as White Nights or Yarka St Petersburg.

Wow. That's an amazing painting. I was searching to find white nights review with a painting where they did layering of the paint and could not find. Finally I found your video. Thanks for the review.

I would say I'm still a beginner, but I'm really looking forward to White nights being my first professional watercolors :]] great video

I just ordered a 24 pan of white night as my first ever watercolor set. I think I will love it....love the painting you did with these. So so magical! TFS!! 🙏🏻💕

Shame that they do not sell White Nights here in the Philippines. I have been looking for their pastels and that caput mortum looks incredible!

I buy mine from Jackson for 2.74CAD. Delivery is typically 2 dollars extra, not expensive at all when you buy in bulk. Arrives within 3 weeks. Love these paints!!

Oh my god you would not believe what a lifesaver this video was for me 😭 I've been wanting to add a Caput Mortuum to my palette and while I trust Schmincke's quality their paints are more expensive, so I was trying to look into the White Nights' Caput Mortuum but until now I hadn't seen *a single video* swatching this specific color (since it's not included in their pre-made sets), and I really wanted to see like video of the color being swatched because official swatch sheets and the colors displayed on the wrapping can sometimes be super inaccurate, which sucks because I am Very Specific when it comes to what colors I want in my palette. So like, yeah, thank you, you saved my wallet ❤️

Stunning!

Hi, I have watched many videos before deciding. I have a 24 Qor tube set, which I love. But I wanted a pan set also, so I gave in and I have just bought the 36 pans' set and 5 individual colors at artmaterials.ca (Rusart Art Supplies). The company is based in B.C. and they have a good selection: 12, 24 and 36 pan set. Plus a wide variety of individual full pan colors @ 3.95$/ea for most of them. I am quite impressed by your painting with these uncommon colours. Good job!

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Painting for many years now and tried many brands. Obviously subjective but i find all artist watercolour paints up to the job. But i grab the white nights most of the time and not just because i worry less about using them up on messing about. But because they rewet so easy and have decent pigment load. I mean who else does a full pan of perylene violet for £1.90!

I have their full set in the plastic palette and I am addicted to that set; next to my beloved sennelier is my favorite brand.

I forgot they were watercolors for a minute.. Seemed like they were handling a lot like gouache. I like the mixing swatches on the left.. pretty colors, for such an odd collection.

I tried doing a limited palette and the colors I chose were kind of similar to this but my painting turned out terrible lol so I commend you for making something so gorgeous!

What sketchbook is that? Also, awesome review! Your art is so nice!

How did you get this painting from those weird colors? Amazing, just lovely, just magical, Mary! ClaudiaSJI

It's cool video. I'm from Russia)))))

Hai, what is the brand of your sketchbook and what kind of paper are you using? It came out very beautiful.

I want the set so badly but where I'm not doing much painting atm it isnt justified sigh....

Where did you get this? I think you live near Calgary(as do I) so assuming you picked them up at one of the art stores there.

Hello from Canada! I do like White Nights watercolors. In which Canadian store did you buy them? I was about to order these colors from Spain (with some Roman Szmal's Aquarius), but if I can buy them in Canada, it would be great.

The final painting looks absolutely amazing, I wouldn't have thought someone can pull that from that random weird combination of colours. It looks magical. What paper are you using for this painting? I like how the paper acts with the watercolours. I followed you on instagram as well, let's be artsy friends.

What sketchbook is that? Also, awesome review! Your art is so nice!