White Nights Watercolor Review: Neva Palette 

I agree they are amazing for the price!

Yeessss!! That’s what I love about these paints. High quality without worrying about wasting so one can feel free to play and explore.

Yea it’s their best set I think. I love them too. Such great quality for little money!

Yea theyre great!!

Thanks so much for watching. I am glad you enjoyed the video

Thanks. I’m still arting but traveling so no much time to record. I’m glad you enjoyed the video :)

Hi! So unfortunately I can’t do a comparison video for you as I am currently in South East Asia and all my stuff is in America. I’m trying to figure out how to start recording again. I’m glad you figured out the white knights stuff. They make a lot of different pallets but you are right about the 35 and 36 one. I personally like the granulating one but it all depends on what and how you paint. The page I got to swatch the colors on came from an art Store in South Korea called Homi Art Supply. I don’t think they ship internationally. And I sometimes make them myself when I have a lot of different papers. I’m pretty sure Jackson’s Art Supply from the UK sells mixed packs of paper if you’d like to check that out. It’s been a while since I ordered but they used to. Sketchbooks are definitely a personal preference. I prefer to have 100% cotton paper so that the paint works the same as on my regular painting paper but they are expensive and hard to find. They are out though, like the Etcher Lab one. However, I do like the Strathmore hard bound 400/500 series sketchbook. It’s decent for the price. But not great for glazes. So I think you’ll have to try a few to see what fits your preference. Hope you can find something you like. Happy Painting:)

Yay im glad you enjoyed it! Id def try getting the full lightfast set and buying the extra colors open stock. But like I always say it personal choice:)

@@thehomegrownartist214 thanks again :) have a nice day

@@fidgetyhuman The plastic box doesn't really fit any other full pans than the White Nights ones (and half pans only fit in specific slots, so you can't utilise all the space in a row with them), which I found out the hard way. 😬 So I'd go for this box and look for open stock for the colors you would like to try. But that's just my two cents! (I really like this metal tin, I have three of them, haha, so I am clearly biased.) 😊

@@hannahthufvesson Thanks for the advice! I am going to buy this set as a birthday present for myself soon and I'm thankful for all the suggestions because it's quite an investment for me. I agree that the metal tin looks really pretty so I'll definitely buy their pg8 "green" open stock and replace their "may green" from this set (as a personal choice). Thanks again 😄

@@fidgetyhuman I'm glad if I could help, and I hope you will love it! (The PG8 is beautiful!! It's not perfectly lightfast, but really not any worse than many colour stating to be lightfast from brands like Daniel Smith, at least in my short 4 month test.) ☺️

Thank you for watching. Im not sure whether they are just changing the pigments used because of lightfast issues or what. But this Neva Palette is great because all the xolors are lightfast. And yes i definitely check pigments. An artist should always do that ;)

They have reformulated their colors to make them 3* lightfast :) so beware if you’re buying open stock or you may end up getting an old version (ones with fugitive pigments). The pre-made metal sets all have 3* lightfast colors so I’m planning on getting the 35 set.

How can you know if a colour is lightfast or not?

​@@janetjm4629 it's written on the pans or on the box

Nice thank you so much!!

Ooh that is great to know!

Omg.. thank you so much for letting me know! For some reason i had it in my head that was how you spell it.. thank you for watching

Ooh i cant wait to get irgazin yellow! When you say flew away from your palette you mean you used it a lot or didnt like it? Hmm.. i wonder why the mars brown gets gel like??

@@thehomegrownartist214 i mean i tossed it away. did not like it. like at all. we are all different, so that colour is obviously meant for someone else :). i just find it not transparent, a bit muddy, so i mix my own version of it, but from transparent pigments and without black, like py151, pg7, pv19, so don't need it anyway. why mars brown degrades, i don't know. guess same reasons as why white nights prussian blue gets unusable with time, or viridian by winsor and newton, most probably some kind of chemistry is going on inside these paints. :)

Ah.. yeah i didnt know it had black in it when i bought it but i still like the color tinted out :) And yes, theres crazy science behind all the watercolors lol.

@@thehomegrownartist214 "yeah i didnt know it had black in it" not only. it also contains chromium oxide, of which i am not big fan, or to be more precise ditched that colour next to olive green. besides that it contains some fugitive yellow PY1. so two pigments that i don't like, plus fugitive one, plus the colour itself made my decision easy to make. :)

Gotcha. I like the color so ill play around with it for a while in journals and stuff and see how i like ot for that

Oh no! That’s horrible it burned down!

I like Neva better. It has more lightfast colors and ones that I use often

I’m not sure, sorry. Hope it works!

I just tried it in my tin and the top and bottom row only fit 6 Roman Szmal pans, plus a half pan. It's the rounded corners on the tray that get in the way, but from what I could tell the middle rows should fit seven of them, pretty precisely. 😊

That’s awesome! Is it a website or art supply store?

The full pans from other brands are a bit smaller but because the metal is bendable yes, they fit.

Also your water barely changed color

Yes I do find that I use it pretty quickly compared to other brands.

Yea but not too much. It’s just meant to be a light color I think.. because even when I get a lot of pigment off it’s still light

Mine was a lot drier, and I actually chucked it. But I have been so spoiled by DS Monte Amiata Natural Sienna that I'm having a hard time switching to other ochres/siennas. Though Roman Szmal's Transparent Gold Ochre is really nice! That's a light and fairly cool ochre 😊

In terms of quality I think they are both nice. In terms of colors and pigments I like white nights better. I also like that you get so much more paint for the money

@@thehomegrownartist214 ah, i see. thank you for the review! it's really helpful!

Around $70

Oh no that’s no good. That’s the downside. It not available everywhere. I wouldn’t even know where to look in the UK other than Jackson’s or calling around to big city art supply stores.

I ordered mine from Artemiranda! :)

I found it on the White Nights website (their address is in Dorset UK) but they don’t call it Neva. I will try searching for it elsewhere without that name. www.stpetersburgwatercolours.com/shop?p=!/~/product/id=64746&prid=0&ctid=0&scid=4&tp=pc#!/~/product/id=64746&prid=101&ctid=21&tp=pv

Jackson’s do empty tins by White Nights St Petersburg and they also sell their tube paints.

Awe man.. that is not cool. I wish they were more available in America

@@thehomegrownartist214 I did purchase a 12 pan set and very happy with it the colors are beautiful and very vibrant and I’ll wait and when those colors that you had in your pallet are available again I’ll buy that one too