Allan, you're one of my go to youtubers for watercolour. Never say goodbye please. I'd rather see video of yours using the paints, maybe evaluation after one year... something like that 😊
I appreciate the support! I'll never say goodbye to watercolors. I'm married to them. Haha. But yeah. That sounds interesting. I think i can make a re-review of the old paints ive used. But before that, i need to finish atleast more than 50sets more lined up for review. 😬
Awww, I'm so happy to see you get supplies from companies. You do really great reviews and you actually show the products in action by creating an artwork, not just swatching. Can't wait to see the works you create with these. Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year.
I'm happy to receive these items and review them honestly,.. coming from someone who almost got no good materials 20years ago. Haha. Merry Christmas and Happh New Year too, Phillip. 😊
Holbein gouache is undoubtedly one of the top gouache brands available in the market! I hope you’ll consider exploring and reviewing their Irodori sets in the future. I'm excited for part two of your unboxing and your upcoming reviews. Thank you for your honesty, and salute to you for staying true to your values by refusing to review products on a brand's terms. ☺
Thank you. I've been using Holbein Gouache for months now, and It's weird that I'm actually happier with the Holbein gouache than their watercolors. Haha. They're so creamy. I think it's just refreshing to use highly opaquenpaints after years of watercoloring. Haha. The Irodori sets are nicely themed sets. I believe there are 4 sets? Ohmy. That's 48 colors to collect. My wallet is shaking. 🤣 And thank you too for appreciating my work here. That means a lot. 🙏
Thank you! My cat loves being undet the tree. Glad he's mature enough now not to be playing anymore with the Christmas balls and the presents. 🤣 Merry Christmas too. 🥰
Thanks for sharing Allan, I love seeing people opening gifts! I might add a yellow ochre or warm gray if it was me maybe a lavender. What you bought looks awesome I really loved the dark blue. I look forward to seeing the other half of your haul. Have a happy Christmas! Safe travels.
It's my pleasure. I already have there Yellow Ochre. In oils, i love opaque paints. I love lavender and gray too but I'm still convincing myself to get multiple pigment-color this time since it's not much of an issue, unlike in watercolors. I love lavender for sunset skies. 😍
Merry Christmas, Allan! Thank you for all your hard work you put into your reviews, they are wonderful! Wishing you all the best in work and life and art in the New Year! -Heather
I love real cadmiums and cobalts. 🥰 I'm not sure how I'm gonna share my outputs here, given my name is Watercolors by Allan Jay Quesada. 😆 not sure how my watercolot-focused viewers will react. 🤣 but yeah, i heard MH oils are some of the best and so i got some tubes.
Allan, I enjoy this video so much this evening! I am super happy you are going back to oil painting. I also do oil paintings, Michael Harding are expensive. I have been seeing your reviews for over 3 years now and even waited when you took your year break to finish your PHD! I can't wait to see your other video. Maria
Hi Maria. I'm glad to hear you enjoyed the umboxing. Yes, I watch your channel too. Great work, and I see you're passionate about it. 🎨 keep ot up. 😊 PHD? I don't have PHD. But I took a break for 6mos last yr after my father died and I focused bit more on my project and mental health. 🙏
I also just bought my first tubes of michael harding oil paints! lovely color choices, im specially intrigued by that green umber 😍lovely video! marry christmas
So how are they, have you used them? I originally was about to get Terre Verte, but it got out of stock, so I instead got the Green Umber and oxide Chromium Green. And I'm happy. 😅 Thank you and Merry Christmas too! 🥰
@@AllanJayQuesada oh yes i started using them about a week ago. they are amazing! i only tried three colors to start, bright yellow lake, ultramarine blue and yellow ochre, they are all beautiful paints, i really appreciate that they labled the paint with drying speed and hight/low oil content, very useful for choosing colors. I already ordered 3 more tubes and can't wait to try them 😊
@ultramarine_finest oh my I'm so happy for you that you got to use them, enjoy them, and getting some more. I hope i could have time soon to sit on these oils. 🥰
@@AllanJayQuesada I guess it depends on what paper you use them. They do a bIt on impermeable papers but not on Bristol(I don’t like them on Bristol for that reason, but some people swear by it and hate impermeable papers). But for me it’s about the layering, transparency and luminosity
@gertietheduck hmmm. So i will need to explore other papers then.. aside from bristol, i remember using my markers on snow white and onion skin papers.. and they work well too, but you limit the layers because of the paper's light weight.
@ yeah, I think I quite like impermeable papers because the bottom layers get reactivated a bit so for me it helps blending, but a lot of people would find that really undesirable. I think it’s about what you are used to. It’s like different mediums.
@gertietheduck the old me (who did not like watercolors much), preferred not mixing markers and preferred layering instead. But now, i think I'm curious how markers could blend like watercolors. I think I'd like to explore that feature. 😊
@AllanJayQuesada I use the alcohol the most but the watercolor ones are fun to create cool textures by wetting with a brush like watercolor pencils, i have bought cheaper brands off Amazon but still think ohuhu are best quality for your money.😀
@elflordsjourneys wow so the water based behave like watercolors? That makes me more interested in these. I have only used alcohol markers before, so the waterbased are gonna give me new experience. Thank you for sharing this. 😊
I'm really glad you enjoy the travel sketch videos. Not many watch them in my channel. 😔 but i super.enjoy doing them, and if i will find time in my future tours, i definitely will do travel videos again. 🙏
@gertietheduck thank you. That means a lot. I guess those who don't prefer watching the travel sketch videos will prefer them in the future when they can relate better to the experience. And i guess i have attracted more viewers that are into reviews. Hehe. But that's ok as long as there are still folks like you who watch and love the travel videos. 🙏 😊
personally i would at a dark red like crimson lake . and a purple(violet) to get beter red distribution. I hope you enjoy oil paint as much as i do. a brand recommendation is old holland they have amazing oil paint.
@lottedekoning538 thank you. 🙏 yes, I really need a mid and deep red, like an Alizarin, but their mid reds are not the most lightfast.. though I know it is not much of a concern in oil.. a color I'm looking at is the Cadmium Red Deep. For the Purple, I'm torn between Manganese Violet and Ultramarine Pink. Actually, an artist I appreciate so much told me his top 2 brands are old holland and michael harding. It just so happened that michael harding was the one on sale in November, so i took advantage of the offer. 😅
@gertietheduck yeah, they're being playful. 🥰 If I were a rich man, i'd rather do weekly arthauls and reviews then donate the items than buy luxury brands. But that's just me. 😅
@ its not just you, hahahaha. I think we (in this small corner of the internet) would all just make art 24/7 and indulge our art curiosity if we were rich
The MH burnt umber dries very fast, within 24 hours. It's got it's uses. Get the red iron oxide - mixed with ultramarine you get transparent umber like brown which gives you warm sepia when mixed with white through to black which is great for making cool neutral greys when mixed with white. I recommend the carribean turquoise, it's a multi purpose colour for pretty greens when mixed with cad yellow lemon (which isn't too strong so you might find yourself using a little bit more than expected) and yellow ochre PY42. Also carribean turquoise mixed with warm white (pw6+tiny dash of PY42) will give you a tropical sky blue colour similar to cerulean. I also recommend Amethyst for floral and pretty blues when mixed with cobalt teal pg50. You chose well for the green umber. Great for taming the cad red light for skin tones.
Interesting about the burnt umber in oil paints drying fast -- it dries so hard-to-rewet in watercolor, as I'm sure you know. It seems to do that in every brand but I never thought about that extending to oil paint as well. Pigments do all have their own personalities, don't they?
You did that portrait of your mom at 10 years old??? Wow!!! You obviously have innate talent. I think portraiture is the the most difficult art form. Do you still do portraits? I'd love to see that on your channel. And yes, we appreciate you being 100% unbiased in your reviews! The oil paints look yummy 🙂
Yes, i did that when I was 10, i was on 4th grade and i used Marie's Oil paints. I could vividly remember that the small set of 12 colors then was 2USD. Haha. Sometimes I still do portraits for some projects if i will be required to. But i hate portraiture as you've said, it's difficult. While i think i can paint sensible lookinv portraits, copying faces is another skill, I'm not very confident of.. so i usually just paint the people i know or celebrities. Yes. Thanks! I'll always be unbiased, till I release my own handmade paints. 🤣
Love Fuumuui products. But I have ordered their brushes directly from their site, this over a month ago, Christmas is fast approaching I have NOT Received them yet. So disappointing 😔
Oh my. From what country are you? I think they ship from China. So I useally receieve my package in 7 to 12 days only. But can you track it? Is it moving. I hope it arrives soon in one piece. 🙏
You should record while out of the country even though they are work trips. That way you can write off everything for taxes and end up making money even though it technically costs you nothing. By recording and uploading will on location it will become a work expense. Oh wait, your tax laws maybe different from mine, but it sure doesn't hurt to check into it.
I sure would love to document the travels, but it will be challenging due to work load and the fact that my boss will be with me on the tour. Haha. I can take videos for sure and paint at the hotel, but that would be more of a narrated one. With regard to tax, I'm not exactly sure what you're pertaining to. When it comes to UA-cam income, I get tax from US since Google Adsense is a US Company. As my income gets transferred to a local bank, it is charged with some bank fees on top of the US Tax. All in all, around 20% of the gross income gets omitted because of the tax and charges. I heard taxes are bigger for US citizen creators.
Allan, you're one of my go to youtubers for watercolour. Never say goodbye please. I'd rather see video of yours using the paints, maybe evaluation after one year... something like that 😊
I appreciate the support! I'll never say goodbye to watercolors. I'm married to them. Haha. But yeah. That sounds interesting. I think i can make a re-review of the old paints ive used. But before that, i need to finish atleast more than 50sets more lined up for review. 😬
@@AllanJayQuesada 50 new set = 50 Allan's video! Yum!!
Oh my. I actually have that number on deck. Imagine the seatch cards after. 🤣
Awww, I'm so happy to see you get supplies from companies. You do really great reviews and you actually show the products in action by creating an artwork, not just swatching. Can't wait to see the works you create with these. Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year.
I'm happy to receive these items and review them honestly,.. coming from someone who almost got no good materials 20years ago. Haha. Merry Christmas and Happh New Year too, Phillip. 😊
Holbein gouache is undoubtedly one of the top gouache brands available in the market! I hope you’ll consider exploring and reviewing their Irodori sets in the future. I'm excited for part two of your unboxing and your upcoming reviews. Thank you for your honesty, and salute to you for staying true to your values by refusing to review products on a brand's terms. ☺
Thank you. I've been using Holbein Gouache for months now, and It's weird that I'm actually happier with the Holbein gouache than their watercolors. Haha. They're so creamy. I think it's just refreshing to use highly opaquenpaints after years of watercoloring. Haha. The Irodori sets are nicely themed sets. I believe there are 4 sets? Ohmy. That's 48 colors to collect. My wallet is shaking. 🤣
And thank you too for appreciating my work here. That means a lot. 🙏
Aw, your cat is cute snuggled on the mat under the tree! 🐈 🥰 Also, your tree looks very nice as well. Merry Christmas Allen!
Thank you! My cat loves being undet the tree. Glad he's mature enough now not to be playing anymore with the Christmas balls and the presents. 🤣 Merry Christmas too. 🥰
Thanks for sharing Allan, I love seeing people opening gifts! I might add a yellow ochre or warm gray if it was me maybe a lavender. What you bought looks awesome I really loved the dark blue. I look forward to seeing the other half of your haul. Have a happy Christmas! Safe travels.
It's my pleasure. I already have there Yellow Ochre. In oils, i love opaque paints. I love lavender and gray too but I'm still convincing myself to get multiple pigment-color this time since it's not much of an issue, unlike in watercolors. I love lavender for sunset skies. 😍
Merry Christmas, Allan! Thank you for all your hard work you put into your reviews, they are wonderful! Wishing you all the best in work and life and art in the New Year! -Heather
Merry Christmas too, Heather. Hope you have a wonderful journey too through 2025. Happy painting. 🎨 🖌 🙏
Real cadmiums! I love oil painting, can't wait for you to make videos. Those paints are supposed to be great $$$
I love real cadmiums and cobalts. 🥰 I'm not sure how I'm gonna share my outputs here, given my name is Watercolors by Allan Jay Quesada. 😆 not sure how my watercolot-focused viewers will react. 🤣 but yeah, i heard MH oils are some of the best and so i got some tubes.
Vey interesting !
Looking forward for the watercolor unboxing . Thank you .
Happy Holidays !
Thank you. Happy Holidays too. 🥰🎄
Allan, I enjoy this video so much this evening! I am super happy you are going back to oil painting. I also do oil paintings, Michael Harding are expensive. I have been seeing your reviews for over 3 years now and even waited when you took your year break to finish your PHD! I can't wait to see your other video. Maria
Hi Maria. I'm glad to hear you enjoyed the umboxing. Yes, I watch your channel too. Great work, and I see you're passionate about it. 🎨 keep ot up. 😊 PHD? I don't have PHD. But I took a break for 6mos last yr after my father died and I focused bit more on my project and mental health. 🙏
@@AllanJayQuesada Thank You for watching my channel. Sorry I probably confuse you with another person who was doing a PHD.
Haha. No worries, i get confised too like that often. Happy painting Maria. Enjiy your new DS and Roman Szmal paints. 😊
We hope you enjoyed our gift.🥰
@@Fuumuui0426 yes ofcourse. I love them all. 😊 beautiful items and unique. Thank you, Chrisky. 🙏
I also just bought my first tubes of michael harding oil paints! lovely color choices, im specially intrigued by that green umber 😍lovely video! marry christmas
So how are they, have you used them? I originally was about to get Terre Verte, but it got out of stock, so I instead got the Green Umber and oxide Chromium Green. And I'm happy. 😅
Thank you and Merry Christmas too! 🥰
@@AllanJayQuesada oh yes i started using them about a week ago. they are amazing! i only tried three colors to start, bright yellow lake, ultramarine blue and yellow ochre, they are all beautiful paints, i really appreciate that they labled the paint with drying speed and hight/low oil content, very useful for choosing colors. I already ordered 3 more tubes and can't wait to try them 😊
@ultramarine_finest oh my I'm so happy for you that you got to use them, enjoy them, and getting some more. I hope i could have time soon to sit on these oils. 🥰
@@AllanJayQuesada thank you, that's really sweet! i hope you enjoy them as much as i do!
Oh wow, lucky you! The Ohuhu alcohol markers are fab! Hope you enjoy them. In a way they are very similar to watercolour, for me
Oh that's interesting. How similar? Like they blend like watercolor?
@@AllanJayQuesada I guess it depends on what paper you use them. They do a bIt on impermeable papers but not on Bristol(I don’t like them on Bristol for that reason, but some people swear by it and hate impermeable papers). But for me it’s about the layering, transparency and luminosity
@gertietheduck hmmm. So i will need to explore other papers then.. aside from bristol, i remember using my markers on snow white and onion skin papers.. and they work well too, but you limit the layers because of the paper's light weight.
@ yeah, I think I quite like impermeable papers because the bottom layers get reactivated a bit so for me it helps blending, but a lot of people would find that really undesirable. I think it’s about what you are used to. It’s like different mediums.
@gertietheduck the old me (who did not like watercolors much), preferred not mixing markers and preferred layering instead. But now, i think I'm curious how markers could blend like watercolors. I think I'd like to explore that feature. 😊
wow, i mostly see those oil paints from foreign artists. just cant wait to see how you would use it sir allan 😍
I have both ohuhu alcohol and water based markers, love using them both.😊
Oh great. Which one do you prefer?
@AllanJayQuesada I use the alcohol the most but the watercolor ones are fun to create cool textures by wetting with a brush like watercolor pencils, i have bought cheaper brands off Amazon but still think ohuhu are best quality for your money.😀
@elflordsjourneys wow so the water based behave like watercolors? That makes me more interested in these. I have only used alcohol markers before, so the waterbased are gonna give me new experience. Thank you for sharing this. 😊
@AllanJayQuesada oh yes. You can get amazing blooms and textures when the colors collide.😀
@@elflordsjourneys wow.. wait. Do they also granulate? Like the earths and ultramarine?
Are you going to do some sketching and painting while abroad? I really enjoyed your videos from when you visited India and Bangkok!
I'm really glad you enjoy the travel sketch videos. Not many watch them in my channel. 😔 but i super.enjoy doing them, and if i will find time in my future tours, i definitely will do travel videos again. 🙏
@ it’s a real shame re people not watching - you are so exquisitely skilled and I love “ coming along” to your trips!
@gertietheduck thank you. That means a lot. I guess those who don't prefer watching the travel sketch videos will prefer them in the future when they can relate better to the experience. And i guess i have attracted more viewers that are into reviews. Hehe. But that's ok as long as there are still folks like you who watch and love the travel videos. 🙏 😊
@@AllanJayQuesada I like both - I just really enjoy your vibe and your art!
@gertietheduck thank yo so much. 🙏 😊
personally i would at a dark red like crimson lake . and a purple(violet) to get beter red distribution. I hope you enjoy oil paint as much as i do. a brand recommendation is old holland they have amazing oil paint.
@lottedekoning538 thank you. 🙏 yes, I really need a mid and deep red, like an Alizarin, but their mid reds are not the most lightfast.. though I know it is not much of a concern in oil.. a color I'm looking at is the Cadmium Red Deep. For the Purple, I'm torn between Manganese Violet and Ultramarine Pink. Actually, an artist I appreciate so much told me his top 2 brands are old holland and michael harding. It just so happened that michael harding was the one on sale in November, so i took advantage of the offer. 😅
OMG the Panda text on the bag is made to look like Prada branding - too funny and cute!
I have no idea about luxury brands (only luxury paints 🤣) so i had to google Prada. And yes, the fonts have semblance. 😅
@@AllanJayQuesada it’s definitely deliberate and hilarious. Love it! I don’t wear luxury brands either, haha
@gertietheduck yeah, they're being playful. 🥰 If I were a rich man, i'd rather do weekly arthauls and reviews then donate the items than buy luxury brands. But that's just me. 😅
@ its not just you, hahahaha. I think we (in this small corner of the internet) would all just make art 24/7 and indulge our art curiosity if we were rich
Hahaha. Wishes. 🤣
The MH burnt umber dries very fast, within 24 hours. It's got it's uses. Get the red iron oxide - mixed with ultramarine you get transparent umber like brown which gives you warm sepia when mixed with white through to black which is great for making cool neutral greys when mixed with white. I recommend the carribean turquoise, it's a multi purpose colour for pretty greens when mixed with cad yellow lemon (which isn't too strong so you might find yourself using a little bit more than expected) and yellow ochre PY42. Also carribean turquoise mixed with warm white (pw6+tiny dash of PY42) will give you a tropical sky blue colour similar to cerulean. I also recommend Amethyst for floral and pretty blues when mixed with cobalt teal pg50. You chose well for the green umber. Great for taming the cad red light for skin tones.
Interesting about the burnt umber in oil paints drying fast -- it dries so hard-to-rewet in watercolor, as I'm sure you know. It seems to do that in every brand but I never thought about that extending to oil paint as well. Pigments do all have their own personalities, don't they?
Wow. Thank you for these suggestions. I'll keep all these in mind. But 24hrs for burnt umber to dry? That's instant. Maybe i need a retardant incase?
Yes they do. Many earth pigments dry fast unless there's honey. In oils the solution can be a retardant.
You did that portrait of your mom at 10 years old??? Wow!!! You obviously have innate talent. I think portraiture is the the most difficult art form. Do you still do portraits? I'd love to see that on your channel. And yes, we appreciate you being 100% unbiased in your reviews! The oil paints look yummy 🙂
Yes, i did that when I was 10, i was on 4th grade and i used Marie's Oil paints. I could vividly remember that the small set of 12 colors then was 2USD. Haha. Sometimes I still do portraits for some projects if i will be required to. But i hate portraiture as you've said, it's difficult. While i think i can paint sensible lookinv portraits, copying faces is another skill, I'm not very confident of.. so i usually just paint the people i know or celebrities.
Yes. Thanks! I'll always be unbiased, till I release my own handmade paints. 🤣
Love Fuumuui products. But I have ordered their brushes directly from their site, this over a month ago, Christmas is fast approaching I have NOT Received them yet. So disappointing 😔
Oh my. From what country are you? I think they ship from China. So I useally receieve my package in 7 to 12 days only. But can you track it? Is it moving. I hope it arrives soon in one piece. 🙏
Hi, can you contact me? I will check for you, usually you don't need to wait so long.🤔
Good you expose that companies offer to pay money for favourable reviews.
Yes, many companies do that. I'm glad not all. 🙏
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You could do a marker drawing of your gift from Fuumuui?
Hmm. I'm already planning to do landmarks for the sketchbook. But that's a great suggestion. 🙏
You should record while out of the country even though they are work trips. That way you can write off everything for taxes and end up making money even though it technically costs you nothing. By recording and uploading will on location it will become a work expense. Oh wait, your tax laws maybe different from mine, but it sure doesn't hurt to check into it.
I sure would love to document the travels, but it will be challenging due to work load and the fact that my boss will be with me on the tour. Haha. I can take videos for sure and paint at the hotel, but that would be more of a narrated one. With regard to tax, I'm not exactly sure what you're pertaining to. When it comes to UA-cam income, I get tax from US since Google Adsense is a US Company. As my income gets transferred to a local bank, it is charged with some bank fees on top of the US Tax. All in all, around 20% of the gross income gets omitted because of the tax and charges. I heard taxes are bigger for US citizen creators.
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