The ones you used are their student grade paints, but Marie’s also make an artist grade paint called Masters. As far as I know, most of the pigments used are genuine lightfast artist quality. China produces art supplies for many major brands, so they are perfectly capable of making very decent paints.
As an oil painter of some 30+ years, I was gifted a set of Marie’s oil paint two years ago. The tubes were the really small ones. It wasn’t stellar but I wound up using it all up. It was easily as good as some brand name value tier oils. Better than Grumbacher artist grade, in my opinion. I would recommend it to people starting out for sure.
They are great for the value! The only problem I had with them (and similarly Artist Loft) is their low clarity. I think due to the type and amount of binders in the paints. Would rec getting better quality white & yellow for those clear crisp highlights.
I used a brand called Kusakabe when I went plein air painting in Japan back in April - you should track them down. Their vermillion is the genuine PR106 and it was a joy to use. I went to an art shop in Shinjuku that was five floors - I actually got lost looking for the way out. If I was to hazard a guess, I'd say Marie's used PO34 for their vermillion. Old Holland uses PR251 and is, to this day, my favourite tube colour. I bought one three years ago and still use it when I'm painting red letter boxes in London and traffic lights at night. It's amazing.
I've used these back in college in the mid-90's. They are great for students on a tight budget. I still have the paintings made from these that have stand the test of time.
Marie's Master's oil paints are the best from the brand , the professional line is more like Gamblin's 1980's line and are still very very good and I would qualify it as professional line of paints. But the Master's line is excellent and the pigments are what any other higher end brands uses... Cheap but very excellent brand and I'm MH guy but I have been using some Marie's colors like cobalt violet and the vermillion and viridian. The professional line is called 1919 and I haven't been able to find pigment info on that line but the masters brand has pigment info on the tube they come in 60ml and 200ml tubes.
Can you please do review on MasterClass artist grade oil paint? Especially vs. W&N artist grade. Some of the expensive pigments like cobalt, turquoise, and cads from MasterClass are apparently almost the same price as their earth colors :O
The reason I hate titanium white for mixing is not just because it makes colors chalky. It changes the color entirely. Like if you started off with a deep, rich, transparent color ... and you mix titanium white into it. You get a freaking opaque flat pastel color. That's not what I wanted!! I just want that color but lighter :c
@@h3m1cudaif you want a more transparent white pigment white 5 should be fine from what I understand. Since I am not personally a fan of semi-transparent whites I can't tell you from experience. There is a transparent form of titanium White available in oil paints, or at least there was. Winsor and Newton Winton mixing white was one of the more transparent forms of titanium White. Depending upon How fine the pigment is ground, titanium white can be almost completely transparent.
If there is no ingredient list available don't trust the paints unless you can get independent verification of the light fastness and chemical stability of the colors. Lamp black comes in at least two types, one has a rather bluish undertone and the other is brownish. The brownish version of lamp black looks exactly like Ivory black. Decently truthful companies will give information even on their small tubes. There are so many brilliant red pigments available many of which are not lightfast that it can be kind of scary.
Im not suppriesed is somewhat high quality since artists at china make such great paint and somepoint they probably hve use maries or a similar chinese brand like picasso studio
I haven't heard of RGH but Robert Doak... I contacted them just to see if they still existed as their website doesn't seem to have been updated in some time and their 'about' says it's run by someone up there in the years and just never got a response. Brooklyn's a BIT out of the way for me so I gotta be sure that they're even still there.
My guess to why its called maries even though the logo is a horse is that on the their branding in chinese they have a phonetic transaltion for maries and the ma sound is made using the chinese word horse.
I used it in college. That's a really bad color, the bunch will lose its color in about 3 years. Its pigments are made of fabric dyes so you won't see its pigment information. I live in Vietnam, close to China, so this color is quite popular for beginners to learn how to draw.
Definitely not as light fast as the manufacturer claims. I have a painting sitting next to a West facing window, and after a month+ of sunlight bombardment, I can see discoloration in some parts.
I made a video review on their Tusc and Pine paint, then I saw on my 'recommended' feed on youtube a video from them going "Our first review! What did we do wrong?" and I clicked it and then I saw my own video, had a panic and screamed because absolutely nobody tagged me and I did not know they even knew I existed :D Apparently, I was just the FIRST to make a video. Also I misunderstood what 'granulated' means in oil paint, as it means THE OPPOSITE of what I assumed.
@@CallyKariShokka LOL. I thought your review was good. You didn't give them the highest marks but from your tests, I don't think they deserved the highest acolades.
@@pjjmsn I technically qualified for youtube partner but I haven't done anything with it because.. I don't know what to do. xD Maybe make some videos about art stuff in new york city? I dunno!
@@CallyKariShokka I don't know either but for me the concept of your channel is great! You find unusual and rare paints in all price ranges and test them out. I am an artist, have a passion for oil paint and am a collector-type, so your channel is quite entertaining for me. On top of that, you have a great personality! I'd say keep doing what you are doing.
I made a video review on their Tusc and Pine paint, then I saw on my 'recommended' feed on youtube a video from them going "Our first review! What did we do wrong?" and I clicked it and then I saw my own video, had a panic and screamed because absolutely nobody tagged me and I did not know they even knew I existed :D Apparently, I was just the FIRST to make a video. Also I misunderstood what 'granulated' means in oil paint, as it means THE OPPOSITE of what I assumed.
Good tests. Who knows what thier made from, could be anything. The first 2 look almost the same! Jerry's! I'm done with thier ordering system. Mechanized too much.
The ones you used are their student grade paints, but Marie’s also make an artist grade paint called Masters. As far as I know, most of the pigments used are genuine lightfast artist quality. China produces art supplies for many major brands, so they are perfectly capable of making very decent paints.
As an oil painter of some 30+ years, I was gifted a set of Marie’s oil paint two years ago. The tubes were the really small ones. It wasn’t stellar but I wound up using it all up. It was easily as good as some brand name value tier oils. Better than Grumbacher artist grade, in my opinion. I would recommend it to people starting out for sure.
They are great for the value! The only problem I had with them (and similarly Artist Loft) is their low clarity. I think due to the type and amount of binders in the paints. Would rec getting better quality white & yellow for those clear crisp highlights.
I used a brand called Kusakabe when I went plein air painting in Japan back in April - you should track them down. Their vermillion is the genuine PR106 and it was a joy to use. I went to an art shop in Shinjuku that was five floors - I actually got lost looking for the way out.
If I was to hazard a guess, I'd say Marie's used PO34 for their vermillion. Old Holland uses PR251 and is, to this day, my favourite tube colour. I bought one three years ago and still use it when I'm painting red letter boxes in London and traffic lights at night. It's amazing.
I've used these back in college in the mid-90's. They are great for students on a tight budget. I still have the paintings made from these that have stand the test of time.
Marie's Master's oil paints are the best from the brand , the professional line is more like Gamblin's 1980's line and are still very very good and I would qualify it as professional line of paints. But the Master's line is excellent and the pigments are what any other higher end brands uses... Cheap but very excellent brand and I'm MH guy but I have been using some Marie's colors like cobalt violet and the vermillion and viridian. The professional line is called 1919 and I haven't been able to find pigment info on that line but the masters brand has pigment info on the tube they come in 60ml and 200ml tubes.
I love your voice! It is beautiful!
my grandmas name is marie and she was named by the boss of my grandmas mom and my grandmas mom worked at china
Can you please do review on MasterClass artist grade oil paint? Especially vs. W&N artist grade.
Some of the expensive pigments like cobalt, turquoise, and cads from MasterClass are apparently almost the same price as their earth colors :O
I can't believe how close those vermillian hues are. All 3 look extremely close.
I know! And I was just going "but this is cheap paint?? that you can get on temu???" and just confusion
I have the 50ml tubes of Maries, and they do have pigment info. But some of them (the chromes & hues) have NA pigments xD
The reason I hate titanium white for mixing is not just because it makes colors chalky. It changes the color entirely. Like if you started off with a deep, rich, transparent color ... and you mix titanium white into it. You get a freaking opaque flat pastel color. That's not what I wanted!! I just want that color but lighter :c
What white do you recommend? I’ve been looking at pw4/zinc white and pw5/lithopone white.
@@h3m1cuda I use zinc white for mixing and titanium for highlights.
You can actually make however rich a tint you want by carefully mixing and finding out the proportions you need.
@@h3m1cudaif you want a more transparent white pigment white 5 should be fine from what I understand. Since I am not personally a fan of semi-transparent whites I can't tell you from experience.
There is a transparent form of titanium White available in oil paints, or at least there was. Winsor and Newton Winton mixing white was one of the more transparent forms of titanium White. Depending upon How fine the pigment is ground, titanium white can be almost completely transparent.
If there is no ingredient list available don't trust the paints unless you can get independent verification of the light fastness and chemical stability of the colors.
Lamp black comes in at least two types, one has a rather bluish undertone and the other is brownish. The brownish version of lamp black looks exactly like Ivory black.
Decently truthful companies will give information even on their small tubes.
There are so many brilliant red pigments available many of which are not lightfast that it can be kind of scary.
Im not suppriesed is somewhat high quality since artists at china make such great paint and somepoint they probably hve use maries or a similar chinese brand like picasso studio
Love your reviews! Would love to know if you have tried RGH and Robert Doak? Both are reputable smal batch brands from NY.
I haven't heard of RGH but Robert Doak... I contacted them just to see if they still existed as their website doesn't seem to have been updated in some time and their 'about' says it's run by someone up there in the years and just never got a response. Brooklyn's a BIT out of the way for me so I gotta be sure that they're even still there.
My guess to why its called maries even though the logo is a horse is that on the their branding in chinese they have a phonetic transaltion for maries and the ma sound is made using the chinese word horse.
I used it in college. That's a really bad color, the bunch will lose its color in about 3 years. Its pigments are made of fabric dyes so you won't see its pigment information. I live in Vietnam, close to China, so this color is quite popular for beginners to learn how to draw.
Definitely not as light fast as the manufacturer claims. I have a painting sitting next to a West facing window, and after a month+ of sunlight bombardment, I can see discoloration in some parts.
…id rate the Marie brand “great for studies only “ …I used Royal & Langnickel paints which are super cheap and made great master copies
You have piqued my curiosity with your Jerry's Artarama comment at the end.
I made a video review on their Tusc and Pine paint, then I saw on my 'recommended' feed on youtube a video from them going "Our first review! What did we do wrong?" and I clicked it and then I saw my own video, had a panic and screamed because absolutely nobody tagged me and I did not know they even knew I existed :D Apparently, I was just the FIRST to make a video. Also I misunderstood what 'granulated' means in oil paint, as it means THE OPPOSITE of what I assumed.
@@CallyKariShokka LOL. I thought your review was good. You didn't give them the highest marks but from your tests, I don't think they deserved the highest acolades.
@@CallyKariShokka LOL. You have graduated into the big leagues of paint reviewing. Next step is sponsorships.
@@pjjmsn I technically qualified for youtube partner but I haven't done anything with it because.. I don't know what to do. xD Maybe make some videos about art stuff in new york city? I dunno!
@@CallyKariShokka I don't know either but for me the concept of your channel is great! You find unusual and rare paints in all price ranges and test them out. I am an artist, have a passion for oil paint and am a collector-type, so your channel is quite entertaining for me. On top of that, you have a great personality! I'd say keep doing what you are doing.
Whaat happened with Jerry’s?
I made a video review on their Tusc and Pine paint, then I saw on my 'recommended' feed on youtube a video from them going "Our first review! What did we do wrong?" and I clicked it and then I saw my own video, had a panic and screamed because absolutely nobody tagged me and I did not know they even knew I existed :D Apparently, I was just the FIRST to make a video. Also I misunderstood what 'granulated' means in oil paint, as it means THE OPPOSITE of what I assumed.
Good tests. Who knows what thier made from, could be anything. The first 2 look almost the same! Jerry's! I'm done with thier ordering system. Mechanized too much.
Yay all the vermillion!