Thank you for reviewing this palette, Lindsay! The indigo reminded me of P's G, too (one of my faves). I loved your Big Ben painting. And baby poop, aahahahaaa! 😂
I'm an absolute sucker for small palettes with a lot of distinct wells - I really don't need any new sets, but if I were to buy one just the mixing wells alone would be enough to move this set to the top of my list 😅
I really enjoyed this excellent review and seeing the color swatches. I have no color knowledge for mixing colors but, I really like your watercolor reviews. I was hoping that when I stamp and color cards like Koi in water, I could add some watercolor to add the water. Maybe I could learn to add watercolors to other kinds of scenes on cards done in pencil, marker and other media. The art you did with this set was really impressive. Thank you for sharing it!
Although I am not needing more paints, I still enjoy your trustworthy reviews, and can always learn more from you! Thank you for sharing your vast knowledge.
The Sap Green is made with the discontinued Quin Gold, PO49. I have a Meiliang set which has the same pigment info for its Sap Green. Pretty sure Meiliang and Pretty Excellent are the same. Interesting that these budget sets are using PO49 in their mixes. Anyway, looks like a nice little set! Thanks - I always enjoy your reviews! 😀
Hullo Lindsay, thank you for sharing your wonderful review of this palette and paints! I am at a point in my art journey where I just don’t want to use student grade anything! I understand why you are doing reviews of these products and I do like the palette! I have always thought there must be a better palette out there! I usually grab a porcelain plate, I have a short stack near my painting area that I purchased from my local thrift store or my wife keeps me in mind when going to yard sales and will pick up the occasional plate that looks like a good mixing plate! I do drop them less these days, but I am dead clumsy. Thank you for sharing your expertise with us! Please take care, be safe and enjoy your week! EDIT: I have skipped quite a few commercials in this video, they are sticking ads with 20 minutes and longer times! This is bad, I will set through a 2, 3, even 5 minute ad but I just don’t want to lose my thoughts and watch a long advertisement. I have no idea how this is set in your UA-cam settings or if you can! WEIRD!
Usually, you can click a button to skip through an ad after about 5 seconds. The ones you have to watch usually last about 15-30 seconds. Twenty minutes is ridiculous; that's basically an infomercial.
@@Julia94549 Oh, yes I know that. I try to watch ads for the Artists I truly enjoy and want to support! If you click off of every advertisement, the person will not receive the ad monies for the video! Like I said in my comment, I watch the Ads up to 5 minutes. Some I might have to click skip after 3 if I am disgusted by the subject or completely turned off. I have watched some real goofy ads on a subject I have no intention of buying participating in or ever looking into! I was just trying to let Lindsay know that someone or something is giving her videos to long ads!
I still love my MeiLang but I will say there’s probably too many blues, reds, and greens so for folks ok with doing some mixing and that want a neat palette that new one might be a good choice. But again, still use my Mei Lang all the time haha.
Beautiful colours in the Paul Rubén’s watercolours I have the twenty four tubes they are great quality I am trying to get their pans as well! Thank you for your great reviews! Too! 😊
I really like the palette these comes in - that would be pretty useful (it looks like). Not fully happy about the shininess at strong mass tone, but several watercolors do that - even my Schminke watercolors. Great review!
Personal preference is so funny. I love Raw Umber and it's one of the colours I buy in different brands, especially in oils. I wonder how much that has to do with living in Scotland where it's a lot more dull and cold 😂 I use it in landscapes all the time to push back my greens because alot of the time they need muted, lol
A plus for the P Rubens is the extra mixing space and the overall size of the palette. I already have the Pretty Excellent set, but good to know for the future.
Thanks for the review! A lot of the multi-pigment colours are also the same pigments as Phoenix and Cotman. What they call Indigo is the same as the Cotman Payne’s grey (which is still one of my favourite Payne’s greys, that why I know this off the top off my head). The only ones that are different, as far as I can tell, are the Purple lake and the Hooker’s green. Did you say this one has PO49? That is the real quin gold, if they still have a stash of the pigment it they should just make quin gold with it… I do like the palette, but I’m not sure I need more student grade paint 😂
Great video! Side note: I def don't think those pigment numbers are correct. Since PO49 is the out of production Quin Gold. PR88 and PY153 are both out of production as well- tho a few brands still use PY153 from leftover pigment like Sennelier. Da Vinvi uses PR88 in a mix but both all 3 pigments to purchase somewhere would be incredibly expensive...Actually a lot of the pigments said to be used for this set are pretty expensive...I personally believe these overseas makers kind of just look up pigments used for the typical watercolor name and just put those down- without realizing that a few of the pigments they listed are out of production...So of course before selling anything made by Paul Ruben or these other similar sets with suspiciously same pigments definitely do lightfast tests of your own. Of course, these are just my opinions, and they are made without malicious intent. Spread the love. ❤❤❤ Anyway, great video Lindsay, thanks so much for sharing. Much love
Some of the pigments remind me of old cotman watercolors, i wonder if they copied them. I have an old tube of cotman hookers green dark and it uses the same pigments they listed. And I know they also had a gamboge that used py153, along with other colors that also match. The rest I would have to check
I have an older tube of Cotman Purple Lake made with PR88 Thionigo, made in the UK. Da Vinci also has a similar color Thionigo Violet which I think is a combination of PV19 and PR88, very beautiful. Hope that helps. Will have to look up lightfast etc. Good review.
Thanks for the review. The case looks sturdy. I did buy the new pretty excellent and when I got then the pans had all come out so I worry about taking it on the go. I do really like the paint though. Since you are working on a review, I will give you a heads up on the color names. They are different on the box, than on the swatch sheet, than on the paints itself. The numbers are at least the same.
I’m a sucker for cute palettes, you have given a lot of people that disease! These dont look like much new, although as others have noted, they are claiming some weird pigments, with PO49 quin gold and PR88 thioindigo ( which has poor lightfastness). I’ve noticed a few other brands using PR88 though. And PR206 is discontinued, but they might have inventory. You can always increase flow by adding a few drops of ox gall or synthetic ox gall to your clean water. And thanks for giving the best explanation of Chinese White and how to use it on You Tube. It wasn’t until I started with playing with gouache in the 30 days class that I really understood how to use PW4 and PW6.
The Gamboge Hue is really pretty. And it's PY153? I thought PY153 got discontinued? 😮 And both the Sap Green and Hooker's Green Light have PO49 in it? The original Quin Gold pigment that also got discontinued? Wow. Now I really want to get my hands on this set. 😆
Yes, I think they either have vast pigment stores or they are using old information (like they are repackaging a previous line but none of the pigment info seem wrong on the other colors so that's a good sign)
As always thanks Lindsey for this review!!! I love Paul Rubens, but I think I will skip this pallet.... love the look of that perm rose tho! I'm constantly looking for pink shades and even more attempting to mix different shades of pink. The Big Ben painting I absolutely LOVE!!!!! I fell in love with him on my first trip to London. I gravitate towards things that have him on it. Lol thanks for the wonderful review!
These are on their way today, as I used your really awesome Amazon link to purchase them at 17 bucks! 💃🏻 I needed another watercolor palette like … yea… 🕳️ Buuuuut at least I’m in good company as I satisfy my passions and joys with others like myself 😂
I have the Pretty Excellent 48 set, and it seems to have pigment information (not on the box, wrapper, or swatch sheet, but on the plastic overlay) for everything except the glitter colors. According to the overlay, the white is PW4. The overlay also has stars on it, but I'm not sure if that is lightfast information or not as the PW4 has 5 stars, and everything else has 4 stars (except the glitter colors).
Paul Rubens continues to offer new palettes/paint sets, however they don’t feel like they are improving anything. They’re earlier artist and budget paints are really nice. I enjoy them a lot! I understand they need to stay in business and keep making money. Budget sets are great for being able to access decent watercolors at a lower cost. I’m not a fan of the shine though. So… I’m kinda torn on this one. I really like the palette design though!
❤❤ Thank you Lindsay. I have a question. How do you tell the difference between student grade PR waterproof and their professional and also whats rhe difference between their student grade line and their pretty excellent line and which is better. ❤ I have yet to try their paints but i want to and i actually love their sketchbooks
I think their student grade pans (both full pr student pans and pretty excellent) are better than their student grade tubes but their artist grade tubes are as good if not better than their artist grade pans.
Hello Lindsay, I watched both videos about Paul Rubens set, the Qiaomei and the Gucai set, but dont know what is the difference in quality between those two sets, would you make a video comparing those two?
They are different types of paint. The qiaomei is more like a western watercolor, and the gauci is mote 9f an Eastern watercolor that you would use on rice paper. It really depends on what you prefer for colors and if you want tubes or pans. Thr gauci have a bit of a smell, and I think they might use an animal binder like a lot of gansai paints do.
I think the formulation is the same as pretty excellent and maybe they have a big store of these pans. Or maybe it's an error. I'm not that familiar with pr88 tooffer an opinion but the pr206 seems typical.
Every time I read the name, or someone says the name, Paul Rubens… I have always thought about “PeeWee”Herman. It’s just hitting me harder this week. 😞
Love your reviews! You are my go to for realistic reviews! You are helping me build up a very solid base of supplies for mixed media.
Awesome! Thank you!
If I'm just doing cards I don't mind the shine and would rather not use my expensive artist grade just for cards. Thanks Lindsay 💜
You are so welcome!
Thank you for reviewing this palette, Lindsay! The indigo reminded me of P's G, too (one of my faves). I loved your Big Ben painting. And baby poop, aahahahaaa! 😂
I'm an absolute sucker for small palettes with a lot of distinct wells - I really don't need any new sets, but if I were to buy one just the mixing wells alone would be enough to move this set to the top of my list 😅
Great swatching and product review, Lindsay! Your WWCprompt looked spookily amazing. Thanks for posting! 🎉
You are so welcome!
Thanks Lindsay! I have been learning so much about pigments over the past few months from you.
I'm so glad!
Lovely review, great look at these paints. Thanks Lindsay.
My pleasure!
I watch and enjoy all of your videos! I think you are honest and very entertaining !
I appreciate that!
I knew tonight was going to be a good night as soon as your video popped up! This pallet is really nice!
It popped up early, I usually post at noon 😆
I love that palette. Thank you for another great review.
You are so welcome!
I really enjoyed this excellent review and seeing the color swatches. I have no color knowledge for mixing colors but, I really like your watercolor reviews. I was hoping that when I stamp and color cards like Koi in water, I could add some watercolor to add the water. Maybe I could learn to add watercolors to other kinds of scenes on cards done in pencil, marker and other media. The art you did with this set was really impressive. Thank you for sharing it!
Although I am not needing more paints, I still enjoy your trustworthy reviews, and can always learn more from you! Thank you for sharing your vast knowledge.
Glad you like them!
Thanks that is great information! Always enjoy your reviews.
My pleasure!
The Sap Green is made with the discontinued Quin Gold, PO49. I have a Meiliang set which has the same pigment info for its Sap Green. Pretty sure Meiliang and Pretty Excellent are the same. Interesting that these budget sets are using PO49 in their mixes. Anyway, looks like a nice little set! Thanks - I always enjoy your reviews! 😀
The case looks nice. Thanks for the review Lindsay!
No problem!!
Hullo Lindsay, thank you for sharing your wonderful review of this palette and paints! I am at a point in my art journey where I just don’t want to use student grade anything! I understand why you are doing reviews of these products and I do like the palette! I have always thought there must be a better palette out there! I usually grab a porcelain plate, I have a short stack near my painting area that I purchased from my local thrift store or my wife keeps me in mind when going to yard sales and will pick up the occasional plate that looks like a good mixing plate! I do drop them less these days, but I am dead clumsy. Thank you for sharing your expertise with us! Please take care, be safe and enjoy your week! EDIT: I have skipped quite a few commercials in this video, they are sticking ads with 20 minutes and longer times! This is bad, I will set through a 2, 3, even 5 minute ad but I just don’t want to lose my thoughts and watch a long advertisement. I have no idea how this is set in your UA-cam settings or if you can! WEIRD!
Wow. That is extreme, thanks for letting me know!
Usually, you can click a button to skip through an ad after about 5 seconds. The ones you have to watch usually last about 15-30 seconds. Twenty minutes is ridiculous; that's basically an infomercial.
@@Julia94549 Oh, yes I know that. I try to watch ads for the Artists I truly enjoy and want to support! If you click off of every advertisement, the person will not receive the ad monies for the video! Like I said in my comment, I watch the Ads up to 5 minutes. Some I might have to click skip after 3 if I am disgusted by the subject or completely turned off. I have watched some real goofy ads on a subject I have no intention of buying participating in or ever looking into! I was just trying to let Lindsay know that someone or something is giving her videos to long ads!
As soon as you mentioned the purple color, I guessed Pretty excellent. I love them for my art journal/ card making
That was my exact thought too!
Great review as always, thanks Lindsay
My pleasure!
Hey Lindsay, maybe you can do a video explaining the difference between mixing white and opaque white. Because I don't know
I did this video on that topic ua-cam.com/video/fk4wHDsbl58/v-deo.html
I love your spooky Big Ben!
This palette design is great!
I still love my MeiLang but I will say there’s probably too many blues, reds, and greens so for folks ok with doing some mixing and that want a neat palette that new one might be a good choice. But again, still use my Mei Lang all the time haha.
Beautiful colours in the Paul Rubén’s watercolours I have the twenty four tubes they are great quality I am trying to get their pans as well! Thank you for your great reviews! Too!
😊
Have fun!
I really like the palette these comes in - that would be pretty useful (it looks like). Not fully happy about the shininess at strong mass tone, but several watercolors do that - even my Schminke watercolors. Great review!
Thanks! Do you have this one?
@@thefrugalcrafter no, I don't have this one, at least not yet!
Thanks Lindsay, I am happy with my "Pretty Excellent" paints.
Glad you like them!
Personal preference is so funny. I love Raw Umber and it's one of the colours I buy in different brands, especially in oils. I wonder how much that has to do with living in Scotland where it's a lot more dull and cold 😂 I use it in landscapes all the time to push back my greens because alot of the time they need muted, lol
Good point!
I agree, I use raw umber all the time to push colors back. It’s useful for fading yellow flowers too.
A plus for the P Rubens is the extra mixing space and the overall size of the palette. I already have the Pretty Excellent set, but good to know for the future.
I totally agree!
Thanks for the review! A lot of the multi-pigment colours are also the same pigments as Phoenix and Cotman. What they call Indigo is the same as the Cotman Payne’s grey (which is still one of my favourite Payne’s greys, that why I know this off the top off my head). The only ones that are different, as far as I can tell, are the Purple lake and the Hooker’s green. Did you say this one has PO49? That is the real quin gold, if they still have a stash of the pigment it they should just make quin gold with it… I do like the palette, but I’m not sure I need more student grade paint 😂
I hear you! They are a huge company that serves a large market so I bet they have big stores of pigment.
i love your painting ,i have lots of tubes of paul rubens and the 24 pink tin ,i should get that palette out ,thank you
The pink tin is better paint
Great video! Side note: I def don't think those pigment numbers are correct. Since PO49 is the out of production Quin Gold. PR88 and PY153 are both out of production as well- tho a few brands still use PY153 from leftover pigment like Sennelier. Da Vinvi uses PR88 in a mix but both all 3 pigments to purchase somewhere would be incredibly expensive...Actually a lot of the pigments said to be used for this set are pretty expensive...I personally believe these overseas makers kind of just look up pigments used for the typical watercolor name and just put those down- without realizing that a few of the pigments they listed are out of production...So of course before selling anything made by Paul Ruben or these other similar sets with suspiciously same pigments definitely do lightfast tests of your own. Of course, these are just my opinions, and they are made without malicious intent. Spread the love. ❤❤❤ Anyway, great video Lindsay, thanks so much for sharing. Much love
Good points
I totally believe that you have caught the translator’s out! I think someone is cutting corners on English translation sheets!
Some of the pigments remind me of old cotman watercolors, i wonder if they copied them. I have an old tube of cotman hookers green dark and it uses the same pigments they listed. And I know they also had a gamboge that used py153, along with other colors that also match. The rest I would have to check
I have an older tube of Cotman Purple Lake made with PR88 Thionigo, made in the UK. Da Vinci also has a similar color Thionigo Violet which I think is a combination of PV19 and PR88, very beautiful. Hope that helps. Will have to look up lightfast etc. Good review.
Thanks for the info!
@@thefrugalcrafter seems like it's a mostly extinct lake pigment 💜
Thanks for the review. The case looks sturdy. I did buy the new pretty excellent and when I got then the pans had all come out so I worry about taking it on the go. I do really like the paint though.
Since you are working on a review, I will give you a heads up on the color names. They are different on the box, than on the swatch sheet, than on the paints itself. The numbers are at least the same.
I noticedcthat 😆 the numbers match tho!
I’m a sucker for cute palettes, you have given a lot of people that disease! These dont look like much new, although as others have noted, they are claiming some weird pigments, with PO49 quin gold and PR88 thioindigo ( which has poor lightfastness). I’ve noticed a few other brands using PR88 though. And PR206 is discontinued, but they might have inventory. You can always increase flow by adding a few drops of ox gall or synthetic ox gall to your clean water. And thanks for giving the best explanation of Chinese White and how to use it on You Tube. It wasn’t until I started with playing with gouache in the 30 days class that I really understood how to use PW4 and PW6.
I wonder if those are
The actual pigments
Cha ching. I’m glad I grabbed this set. I gave my Pretty Excellent set to my granddaughter. I may end up getting the new one also.
Right on!
The Gamboge Hue is really pretty. And it's PY153? I thought PY153 got discontinued? 😮
And both the Sap Green and Hooker's Green Light have PO49 in it? The original Quin Gold pigment that also got discontinued?
Wow. Now I really want to get my hands on this set. 😆
Prodigal son has quin gold made with PO49. I bought 3 pans while he still has it.
Yes, I think they either have vast pigment stores or they are using old information (like they are repackaging a previous line but none of the pigment info seem wrong on the other colors so that's a good sign)
As always thanks Lindsey for this review!!! I love Paul Rubens, but I think I will skip this pallet.... love the look of that perm rose tho! I'm constantly looking for pink shades and even more attempting to mix different shades of pink. The Big Ben painting I absolutely LOVE!!!!! I fell in love with him on my first trip to London. I gravitate towards things that have him on it. Lol thanks for the wonderful review!
You are so welcome!
These are on their way today, as I used your really awesome Amazon link to purchase them at 17 bucks! 💃🏻 I needed another watercolor palette like … yea… 🕳️
Buuuuut at least I’m in good company as I satisfy my passions and joys with others like myself 😂
Hope you like it!
I have the Pretty Excellent 48 set, and it seems to have pigment information (not on the box, wrapper, or swatch sheet, but on the plastic overlay) for everything except the glitter colors. According to the overlay, the white is PW4. The overlay also has stars on it, but I'm not sure if that is lightfast information or not as the PW4 has 5 stars, and everything else has 4 stars (except the glitter colors).
Love these paints. No other pallets have a purple like theirs!
Thanks for sharing!
Paul Rubens continues to offer new palettes/paint sets, however they don’t feel like they are improving anything. They’re earlier artist and budget paints are really nice. I enjoy them a lot! I understand they need to stay in business and keep making money. Budget sets are great for being able to access decent watercolors at a lower cost. I’m not a fan of the shine though. So… I’m kinda torn on this one. I really like the palette design though!
I totally agree!
❤❤ Thank you Lindsay.
I have a question. How do you tell the difference between student grade PR waterproof and their professional and also whats rhe difference between their student grade line and their pretty excellent line and which is better. ❤
I have yet to try their paints but i want to and i actually love their sketchbooks
I think their student grade pans (both full pr student pans and pretty excellent) are better than their student grade tubes but their artist grade tubes are as good if not better than their artist grade pans.
Put the swatch sticker on the back of the multi-compartment mixing tray....
Pr88…doesn’t Davinci have that one in their thioindigo violet? I think one other one too… pretty color.
Hello Lindsay, I watched both videos about Paul Rubens set, the Qiaomei and the Gucai set, but dont know what is the difference in quality between those two sets, would you make a video comparing those two?
They are different types of paint. The qiaomei is more like a western watercolor, and the gauci is mote 9f an Eastern watercolor that you would use on rice paper. It really depends on what you prefer for colors and if you want tubes or pans. Thr gauci have a bit of a smell, and I think they might use an animal binder like a lot of gansai paints do.
I was curious to see if these were the same as the pretty excellent set!
Yes and no, some colors seem to be the same.
Hi Lindsay, how would you compare this set with the 24 qiao mei tubes please?
They are equivalent, I have a review of the tubes where I compare the pans here: ua-cam.com/video/hHeP1dsWNfg/v-deo.htmlsi=UuUsYhdLoLoK4L6n
The gamboge looks like quin gold.
So, I'm guessing that these are more student grade as compared to Paul Ruben's artist fine watercolors?
LOL! I literally just asked about the professional grade PR. I should have waited 5 seconds!
The link is going to the wrong product. Do you know if it is still available? Thanks
It must have sold out.
put the sticker on the bottom of the removable pallet.
It might be because Chinese read right to left?
Maybe
Its crazy, isn't pr206 running out and pr88 already extinct?
I think the formulation is the same as pretty excellent and maybe they have a big store of these pans. Or maybe it's an error. I'm not that familiar with pr88 tooffer an opinion but the pr206 seems typical.
Now, who did they steal these from?
Every time I read the name, or someone says the name, Paul Rubens… I have always thought about “PeeWee”Herman. It’s just hitting me harder this week. 😞