Thank you, and I am really happy with how the seal turned out; I wasn't sure about the colours but the cobalt turquoise dark ended up being the perfect colour. 😊
How delightful that Paul Rubens and others are sending creative supplies to you!!! Very thoughtful review - thanks for the helpful info. Way cool paintings - I too really find your seal adorable
Thank you...I was really hoping the seal would work out; simple looking things tend to be the most difficult to get right! At least in my experience, haha. 😂
I really am enjoying see your work Becky. Very happy to be part of such a nice community of Artist's that share so honestly and eagerly. As a total beginner I really appreciate it! Xxx Blanca
WOW Such a Lovely sketch and paint. We are compleating today and keys tonight around 5pm Thanks for the History talk about Paints and toxics very interesting Happy Swatching
Hurray for free supplies! Wow, I hear so much about Paul Rubens and I am starting to get dangerously curious about them! You always do so well with paint pouring. I agree with you about the indigo, french blue, cadmium red and the unexpected turquoise! I think that oriental green is really quite pretty too. It's a nice palette, but I would definitely struggle with pouring. I love the marine life, especially how colorful the seahorse artwork turned out!💚
Thank you! Paint tube pouring is always such a messy job - in an upcoming video I have some even tinier pans that I tired to fill neatly, haha! I really like this set of colours, I think they work well together, and having no white in there is always a bonus. 😄
That olive is beautiful! Thank you for interpreting the common pigment names while you’re telling the pigment numbers ❤️ I’m still very new and I am loving learning more about the pigments.
Thank You for swatching these in such large spaces. I have seen other swatches, but the method that you use shows the dispersion in a better way and helps me to know what to expect when I get mine out to use.
I’ll be honest, I started with a set of Paul Rubens and a set of Kuretake Gansai Tambi. I still love them both, even after getting much more expensive set. I still use Paul Rubens in my sketchbook and for studies. I liked them so much I bought 2 pan sets and the fluorescent set, the layering and granulating sets and a ton of super vision paints for special effects and backgrounds. I know people hear “made in China” and automatically assume it’s low quality. Yes China does have factories that mass produce anything for low cost. But watercolor is an ancient Chinese tradition that goes back thousands, even tens of thousands of years. There’s very well known high quality legacy brands like any other country that offer really nice products. Paul Rubens is one of them. I find their paints to be well above Sennelier’s La Petite Aquarelle student brand and W&N Cotman. One of their palettes that I can no longer find on Amazon but had a sparkly green or white metal vase with pyramid shape on top was an exact copy of Schminke Akademie. I’ve never had one complaint about any of their products and always been very happy. Their opaque watercolor set is a ton of fun too. I feel I use Paul Rubens paints to their best abilities because I don’t get that “too precious/expensive too use” syndrome. I think the paints you showed here are some of the best they’ve put out so far. I’m excited to try these! They’re vivid and easy to control, and I love the semi noise controllable properties of Asian style watercolors. Thank you!
I've been really happy with Paul Rubens and their excellent quality art products! Everything I've tried has been great, especially their watercolours. I'm glad you're enjoying your sets too, and I think this set would be a nice addition as they're lovely paints to work with. 😊
When I was doing fluid art and resin art, it was the only time my cat Maze never jumped on the table. Fluid pours leave pools of paint all over the table. It is incredibly messy and very anti kitty. Yet for some reason, she just never jumped on the table. For any other art I do, she is there. It must have been a smell thing. Indigo is one of my favourite art supply colours. I love it in pencils, especially inktense. I am surprised you don't have another red since one seems a little on the orange size and the others maybe cooler or pinker.
Cats know the best, ie the most inopportune time to jump up on things! I do love an indigo, it's always so pretty and useful in paintings. A mid-red is always great to have, but I was ok with these - they just need to be mixed together a bit. 😊
The seal is so good! I really liked the look of these paints, the greens look quite good as well. They've made a really good set I think. Thank you for the review 😊
what a lovely set, nice array of colours and they are very vibrant! sadly watercolour has become my enemy at the moment, I just can't seem to get anything right with it, I think I've spoiled myself by painting in gouache and acrylic and now I can't seem to go back to my watercolour, it's very strange, but I'm flying ahead with gouache and acrylics, who would have thought only a couple of months ago I was petrified of them haha, that seal painting, oh my gosh!! How adorable!!!, his cute little face awe!! awesome video, thank you! :D
Love the seal Becky. When I take tape off I heat it up gently with a heat gun, comes off like a dream don't know ifvyou have tried it but it's fail proof😊
I think it seeped under straight away, so it was always going to be a mess. 😂 But I will definitely try the heat gun when it comes to removing tape from other papers that have better sizing. ❤️
I love the paintings you did. I've seen a couple of other UA-camrs review those paints and had nothing but good things to say about them. I do have the original halfpan set that came in the pink tin, but I want to try these. I'm hoping the price will come down though. ❤
I've never heard a bad review for these guys, which is a great thing! I never did get that pink tin...😭 I am sure the price will fluctuate so it's worth keeping an eye out for discounts on them. 😊❤️
I so hate it when that happens and you get bleed through...ahhh. My problem is the tape I am using it wont stick as well as the fresher tape. Love the seal he's my fav. Thanks Becky.:)
Because some paints are toxic I’m very careful to keep my dogs away from them. I’m also careful with the paper esp Arches which is sized with gelatin which attracts my dogs. I might ave heard a whisper that I’m getting the Paul Reubens neon set for Mother’s Day 🎉Yay I can’t wait.
Pets have a tendency to get into everything, don't they! I try my best to keep the cats away from my art supplies as well. Ooh, I hope you end up with the neon set. 😆
Good question! Wish I had written down the ones I used as I've forgotten already, lol. 😂 From what I can see I used a few different ones,;that one with the pointed tip is a "cat's tongue", and it is from a collection of brushes by Craftamo, Lindsay Weirich Edition. The black brush is a Tintoretto mop/quill, and possibly I used a couple of brushes by Princeton.
I bought this set and just squeezed them into a large travel palette. Do you think they are good for on the go? Do they get sticky? Also, I bought one of those eight hole wooden palettes. For a quick sketch on the go. I’m a landscape mostly, painter. If it were your choice, what a colors would you choose for it? I am having such an art block right now. I want to make sure I get the best choices for trees and gloomy skies. And having only eight slots for the little one, I want to make sure I put the exact colors I should have in it. I could really use some artist to artist advice. Thank you so much!
My paints dried nicely into the pans and aren't sticky, so I'd consider these a good option for travelling around. It's so hard to pick colours, especially for limited palettes! For eight colours...perhaps May Green and Olive Green Deep (though I'm also a fan of that Cobalt Turquoise!) which are both good for light and dark greens on trees etc. Brown umber, Cadmium Yellow Light and Cadmium Red Light, Indigo, French Blue or Phthalo Blue depending on which you prefer (or both), and maybe either Naples or Earth yellow if you've picked one blue? You could ditch May Green if you have either of those bright lemony yellows and the phthalo blue because those will make a nice yellow green. Basically a primary trio, extra greens and earth tones, and the one dark shadow colour which is Indigo. I hope that helps, or at least sets you in the right direction. Art block is the worst!! ❤
@@BeckyTregear one thing is for sure, you totally read my mind. Those are the exact colors I had picked out. Thanks Becky!! I feel better. I think I was doubting myself.
I believe they copy schmincke’s usual pigments. Because I have Schmincke and they are much similar in pigments. Check out the pigment names for Schmincke horadam 24 set.
These PR paints look so well behaved! Shame about the paper. I never really heard much about paper deterioration till relatively recently, I have paper that is years old that still gives good results. I wonder if the way they size it now is a factor. There are a few old favourites in paper that are no longer made, people treasure them… or maybe hotter or steamier summers contribute. I loved the way these poured…. And your paintings are cute as well as giving a good feel for how they perform. I think people who want predictable results would be happy with these. No crazy blooms exploding everywhere, though if that was what an artist wanted I think that could be possible. I like filling my boxes to capacity but leaving the middle for brushes, so I would proabably add a half pan of schmincke’s oxgall, and another of the best white gouache with a drop each of gum Arabic and glycerine to stop it from flaking and messing up the palette. White markers don’t seem to work for me, they just dry out which is really frustrating. I really love your seal, very simple, but the more I look at it the better the painting looks…
Thank you, I am really happy with the seal and it turned out better than I anticipated, yay! I'm loving that cobalt turquoise dark. 💚 These are definitely easy to control paints, great for all levels of experience I'd say. I don't know why some papers deteriorate more quickly than others - sadly the Etchr paper hasn't held up well for me. I'm hoping to get the whole book finished soon so I can be done with it. 😂
I like both of your paintings, but that cute little seal steals the show!
Thank you, and I am really happy with how the seal turned out; I wasn't sure about the colours but the cobalt turquoise dark ended up being the perfect colour. 😊
Love the seal, it's the best supporting actor in today's episode. :)
Haha thank you, I am very happy with how cute it turned out. 😊
How delightful that Paul Rubens and others are sending creative supplies to you!!! Very thoughtful review - thanks for the helpful info. Way cool paintings - I too really find your seal adorable
Thank you, I was so happy to receive some of their watercolours! 💙
The tubes look so cute in the package. The tube design is so different what I have seen from other brands.
I really like the whole box; it looks so luxurious in black! 💙
Very nice paints. That seal is amazing and definitely my favorite. You make it look so easy. Thanks for the video.
Thank you...I was really hoping the seal would work out; simple looking things tend to be the most difficult to get right! At least in my experience, haha. 😂
I really am enjoying see your work Becky. Very happy to be part of such a nice community of Artist's that share so honestly and eagerly. As a total beginner I really appreciate it! Xxx Blanca
Thank you! I really enjoy reviewing different paints, and making art with them. It's so much fun! 🙂
WOW Such a Lovely sketch and paint. We are compleating today and keys tonight around 5pm Thanks for the History talk about Paints and toxics very interesting Happy Swatching
Hurray for free supplies! Wow, I hear so much about Paul Rubens and I am starting to get dangerously curious about them! You always do so well with paint pouring. I agree with you about the indigo, french blue, cadmium red and the unexpected turquoise! I think that oriental green is really quite pretty too. It's a nice palette, but I would definitely struggle with pouring. I love the marine life, especially how colorful the seahorse artwork turned out!💚
Thank you! Paint tube pouring is always such a messy job - in an upcoming video I have some even tinier pans that I tired to fill neatly, haha! I really like this set of colours, I think they work well together, and having no white in there is always a bonus. 😄
Schmincke and Winsor and Newton also have PB26. It is a beautiful pigment and is very useful in green mixes.
I'm pretty sure I have a small tube of Schminke's version in my palette. Cobalt Green Dark I think it's called.
@@BeckyTregear Indeed! I only have it in the Schmincke version.
I’m super curious about these. Thanks for sharing 😊
I'm glad it was a useful video! 😊
That olive is beautiful! Thank you for interpreting the common pigment names while you’re telling the pigment numbers ❤️ I’m still very new and I am loving learning more about the pigments.
I'm glad it helped! I mostly referred to a website called Handprint, which has a large range of pigment information.
Thank You for swatching these in such large spaces. I have seen other swatches, but the method that you use shows the dispersion in a better way and helps me to know what to expect when I get mine out to use.
Glad it was helpful!😊
Splendid paints and great paintings. Have a good weekend, Becky.
Thank you, you too!
I’ll be honest, I started with a set of Paul Rubens and a set of Kuretake Gansai Tambi. I still love them both, even after getting much more expensive set. I still use Paul Rubens in my sketchbook and for studies. I liked them so much I bought 2 pan sets and the fluorescent set, the layering and granulating sets and a ton of super vision paints for special effects and backgrounds. I know people hear “made in China” and automatically assume it’s low quality. Yes China does have factories that mass produce anything for low cost. But watercolor is an ancient Chinese tradition that goes back thousands, even tens of thousands of years. There’s very well known high quality legacy brands like any other country that offer really nice products. Paul Rubens is one of them. I find their paints to be well above Sennelier’s La Petite Aquarelle student brand and W&N Cotman. One of their palettes that I can no longer find on Amazon but had a sparkly green or white metal vase with pyramid shape on top was an exact copy of Schminke Akademie.
I’ve never had one complaint about any of their products and always been very happy. Their opaque watercolor set is a ton of fun too. I feel I use Paul Rubens paints to their best abilities because I don’t get that “too precious/expensive too use” syndrome.
I think the paints you showed here are some of the best they’ve put out so far. I’m excited to try these! They’re vivid and easy to control, and I love the semi noise controllable properties of Asian style watercolors. Thank you!
I've been really happy with Paul Rubens and their excellent quality art products! Everything I've tried has been great, especially their watercolours. I'm glad you're enjoying your sets too, and I think this set would be a nice addition as they're lovely paints to work with. 😊
I love the seal!! It’s so plumpy!
I have been on the fence about getting those. Thank you for the video!
I hope it helped you make a decision! 😊
@@BeckyTregear it did. I am going for it!
really nice indigo and that oriental green 🥰
very colourful background on the seahorse😀
Thank you, I like those two colours as well! 💙💚
Love your paintings. The seal is a cutie! The paints themselves are very nice. Thanks! 😊
Thank you, I was pleased with how good the paints are too!
When I was doing fluid art and resin art, it was the only time my cat Maze never jumped on the table. Fluid pours leave pools of paint all over the table. It is incredibly messy and very anti kitty. Yet for some reason, she just never jumped on the table. For any other art I do, she is there. It must have been a smell thing.
Indigo is one of my favourite art supply colours. I love it in pencils, especially inktense.
I am surprised you don't have another red since one seems a little on the orange size and the others maybe cooler or pinker.
Cats know the best, ie the most inopportune time to jump up on things! I do love an indigo, it's always so pretty and useful in paintings. A mid-red is always great to have, but I was ok with these - they just need to be mixed together a bit. 😊
The seal is so good! I really liked the look of these paints, the greens look quite good as well. They've made a really good set I think. Thank you for the review 😊
Thank you, I really like this little set; I think it's a nice one for starting out with, or having it just because the box is so pretty, lol.
Love your paintings. Tfs
Thank you!
what a lovely set, nice array of colours and they are very vibrant! sadly watercolour has become my enemy at the moment, I just can't seem to get anything right with it, I think I've spoiled myself by painting in gouache and acrylic and now I can't seem to go back to my watercolour, it's very strange, but I'm flying ahead with gouache and acrylics, who would have thought only a couple of months ago I was petrified of them haha, that seal painting, oh my gosh!! How adorable!!!, his cute little face awe!! awesome video, thank you! :D
Thank you! I know what it's like switching mediums and then being unable to remember how to use the previous one, so it has to be relearned, haha! 😂
@@BeckyTregear oh joy, feel like a beginner again 🤣🤣😂😂
Hi Becky, while both paintings are lovely, I really love that seal! The paints look good. Too bad about the sizing. Thank you for sharing.
Thank you! I've only got a few more page spreads to go so I'll be glad to finish the book. 😊
Love the seal Becky. When I take tape off I heat it up gently with a heat gun, comes off like a dream don't know ifvyou have tried it but it's fail proof😊
I think it seeped under straight away, so it was always going to be a mess. 😂 But I will definitely try the heat gun when it comes to removing tape from other papers that have better sizing. ❤️
I love the paintings you did. I've seen a couple of other UA-camrs review those paints and had nothing but good things to say about them. I do have the original halfpan set that came in the pink tin, but I want to try these. I'm hoping the price will come down though. ❤
I've never heard a bad review for these guys, which is a great thing! I never did get that pink tin...😭 I am sure the price will fluctuate so it's worth keeping an eye out for discounts on them. 😊❤️
I so hate it when that happens and you get bleed through...ahhh. My problem is the tape I am using it wont stick as well as the fresher tape. Love the seal he's my fav. Thanks Becky.:)
I've never had much luck with washi tape on paintings, haha! 😂
Washi tape doesn’t work for me,,,I have to glue it down when I put it in my journal…
Masking tape works great. If yours is too sticky, just tape it on your T-shirt first then on your paper.
Lovely video Becky! Would love to hear your thoughts on mission good paints if you have them❤
That's one brand I don't have! 😭
Wow so nice 😊
Because some paints are toxic I’m very careful to keep my dogs away from them. I’m also careful with the paper esp Arches which is sized with gelatin which attracts my dogs. I might ave heard a whisper that I’m getting the Paul Reubens neon set for Mother’s Day 🎉Yay I can’t wait.
Pets have a tendency to get into everything, don't they! I try my best to keep the cats away from my art supplies as well. Ooh, I hope you end up with the neon set. 😆
Love it ❤
what kind of brush are you using? it looks lovely
Good question! Wish I had written down the ones I used as I've forgotten already, lol. 😂 From what I can see I used a few different ones,;that one with the pointed tip is a "cat's tongue", and it is from a collection of brushes by Craftamo, Lindsay Weirich Edition. The black brush is a Tintoretto mop/quill, and possibly I used a couple of brushes by Princeton.
@@BeckyTregear thank-you!
I bought this set and just squeezed them into a large travel palette. Do you think they are good for on the go? Do they get sticky? Also, I bought one of those eight hole wooden palettes. For a quick sketch on the go. I’m a landscape mostly, painter. If it were your choice, what a colors would you choose for it? I am having such an art block right now. I want to make sure I get the best choices for trees and gloomy skies. And having only eight slots for the little one, I want to make sure I put the exact colors I should have in it. I could really use some artist to artist advice. Thank you so much!
My paints dried nicely into the pans and aren't sticky, so I'd consider these a good option for travelling around. It's so hard to pick colours, especially for limited palettes! For eight colours...perhaps May Green and Olive Green Deep (though I'm also a fan of that Cobalt Turquoise!) which are both good for light and dark greens on trees etc. Brown umber, Cadmium Yellow Light and Cadmium Red Light, Indigo, French Blue or Phthalo Blue depending on which you prefer (or both), and maybe either Naples or Earth yellow if you've picked one blue? You could ditch May Green if you have either of those bright lemony yellows and the phthalo blue because those will make a nice yellow green. Basically a primary trio, extra greens and earth tones, and the one dark shadow colour which is Indigo. I hope that helps, or at least sets you in the right direction. Art block is the worst!! ❤
@@BeckyTregear one thing is for sure, you totally read my mind. Those are the exact colors I had picked out. Thanks Becky!! I feel better. I think I was doubting myself.
@@moonchaserstudio That makes me happy to know! Also that my choices aren't ridiculous, lol. 😄
@@BeckyTregear 🤣🤣😂 we artists are our worse critics.
I believe they copy schmincke’s usual pigments. Because I have Schmincke and they are much similar in pigments. Check out the pigment names for Schmincke horadam 24 set.
It wouldn't surprise me! A lot of companies copy each other. Michael Harding has a few paints with identical pigment mixes to Daniel Smith, lol.
These PR paints look so well behaved! Shame about the paper. I never really heard much about paper deterioration till relatively recently, I have paper that is years old that still gives good results. I wonder if the way they size it now is a factor. There are a few old favourites in paper that are no longer made, people treasure them… or maybe hotter or steamier summers contribute.
I loved the way these poured…. And your paintings are cute as well as giving a good feel for how they perform. I think people who want predictable results would be happy with these. No crazy blooms exploding everywhere, though if that was what an artist wanted I think that could be possible. I like filling my boxes to capacity but leaving the middle for brushes, so I would proabably add a half pan of schmincke’s oxgall, and another of the best white gouache with a drop each of gum Arabic and glycerine to stop it from flaking and messing up the palette. White markers don’t seem to work for me, they just dry out which is really frustrating.
I really love your seal, very simple, but the more I look at it the better the painting looks…
Thank you, I am really happy with the seal and it turned out better than I anticipated, yay! I'm loving that cobalt turquoise dark. 💚 These are definitely easy to control paints, great for all levels of experience I'd say.
I don't know why some papers deteriorate more quickly than others - sadly the Etchr paper hasn't held up well for me. I'm hoping to get the whole book finished soon so I can be done with it. 😂
Is it possible that Paul Rubens mislabeled Quin Rose and Quin Maroon? I mean, if you switch their name it looks more logical
Maybe! They certainly look like the names should be the other way 'round, haha.
60 mil tubes?!?! I thought DaVinci's and WN's 37 il tubes were big!
Haha I know, right? 😂 I think Holbein also has some of their watercolours available in 60ml. That is a massive tube!
Third! Came late to the party and got distracted by the video itself 😅
Haha! 😄