And of course as things occur to me AFTER the video is published, I am pretty sure that the formula for Rembrandt watercolours is different for the tubes than with their dry half pan sets. I think the dry half pans will rewet more easily, and the tube paints are designed to be used wet, rather than pouring them out into a palette and letting them dry. I definitely noticed that they were a lot easier to use straight out of tube, but after a few days in my palette they had dried to rocks. Just something to think about when shopping around!
I know this is 6 months late but that's odd. I live in a desert (Arizona) and mine didn't dry down to rocks. Very easy to re-wet. I wonder what the difference is.
I understanded only one where is difference is beetween pan and tube is winsor newton professional. but i dont know its true or not. Ps. and least dried Van Gogh from same factory is not nice at least some colours are plain terrible also disliked dried w&n professional. and few daniel smiths what are dried.(not all) and even these ds paints only in 8 hues.
When I first started watching, I was so envious that you got such a deal on those paints. After watching the video though, that feeling evaporated. I was underwhelmed by these paints and that buff titanium seems to have a really low tinting strength compared to other top brands. It would be interesting to compare some half pans to the tubes to see if the results are better. The azo yellow is nice though, and pops against the other colors. It is always a pleasure to watch your videos. Thanks for saving me some money.
I am glad it helped! From all accounts the half pan sets rewet more easily and the tubes should be used as wet paint, not poured and dried. I am SO glad I didn't spend $200+ on these, haha! 😂
Thank you for being honest about how they handled! And the non-rewetting issue is huge! I'm a newbie to watercolor but I love da vinci and just got 2 tubes of Daniel smith that I enjoy. I think I'll stick with those for a while. If I spend money on something new, I think it will be sennelier. 🙂
I really love Sennelier watercolours! I have a half pan set of Rembrandts to try out as well, to see if they will behave better. Hopefully will get to that soon!
What a fantastic deal you got! Especially when it comes to the spark and chameleon colors - those are quite pricey when not on sale. Thank you for sharing what the swatches look like!
I was so happy to find them as cheap as I did! The sparkly ones are all series 3 if I'm not mistaken, and those retail for AU$17-18 each. I scored a mega bargain! 😂
I really enjoy your reviews! You sound so on point on what works or doesn't work for you with these supplies, both while swatching them and while using them in an actual painting. Very glad I found your channel.
Thank you, I try to be as honest as possible, and make my videos useful. There are so many art supplies out there to choose from, it isn't always easy to pick the best things!
Ah, I was so excited when I saw your thumbnail today! Oh my goodness - the Cobalt Violet Light - just wait 'til you see my video this Friday. Boy oh boy. My mouth literally dropped open momentarily when you swatched the sparkly paint on the black paper. What a difference! The photos you took are beautiful - I see many nice paintings in your future. Very interesting what you thought about the paints. Good to know. My Rembrandt pan set re-wets really easily, so I wonder if the binder is slightly different in the pans versus the tubes? Good thing you bought them on discount!
I was thinking of you when I was swatching mine, and that the ready made half pan set seems to rewet more easily. I think it is like Winsor & Newton where the formulas for tubes vs pans is considerably different, and the tubes are meant to be used wet rather than letting them dry. Cobalt Violet...so pretty....so treacherous, lol! Thank you - I am looking forward to watching your video a bit later today when I get some chill out time, yay!
I'm also glad you got these on sale and didn't spend 200$ on them! Even just watching you swatch them, they don't spread out like most other paints do. I love all the photos you took and the picture you picked was particularly nice!
Thank you! I would have had serious buyer's remorse at $200. $40 is ok, and the glittery ones are very pretty so I hope to use them in other projects. 😆
Hi, Becky. I'm not sure how I managed to miss this a year ago, but you've just saved me a lot of money and heartache. I've been looking at Rembrandt and wondering, and now I wonder no more. I'm not in any hurry, anyway, as I have a decent stock of my colours in the paint drawer at the moment. I have the buff titanium in my Jackson's basket, but seeing it here, it will now be removed. I wonder why Winsor and Newton don't do one? Hey, ho, I'll do without it for now and go on mixing a touch of titanium white for muting my colours for the painted houses here. I was attracted to the Buff Titanium because it granulates, and that would have been helpful... Thanks again, Becky! I'll come back and watch the painting section later, as I'm supposed to be doing something else right now, and I've finished my cup of tea ...
I have 6 tubes of Rembrandt. They pour up in pans fine here. But our humidity here is atrocious. We have small dehumidifiers in all the closets & big one we roll from room to room in the summer. Even my few Qor tubes won't dry in a pan. So if you ever decide to get rid of the Rembrandt contact me first!😉
Haha it sounds like the perfect environment for the Rembrandts! Right now we are getting a lot of humidity, but most of the time it is insanely dry here.
My first professional paints where Rembrandts and I really love them, although I got the half pans, the chameleon colours do show the three colours when they are tilted, I love them! I used them in my colouring books to add some sparkle over a watercolour background. Not sure I’d use them in my watercolour paintings though.
I still have yet to review the half pan set I bought in Greece - it's on the list to do soon! I do love sparkly paints, but it is a struggle to not over-use them in a painting, haha!
omg those are such a steal! especially the chameleon and spark colours! luckkyy~ i'm kinda sad you don't like the rembrandts but of course, it's preference. 😄
I do love the sparklies! It's not that I dislike them but they just didn't fill me with as much glee as other paints I've tried. They may well grow on me with time, I hope 😊
I recently bought a heap of Rembrandt half pans for really cheap then added a couple of tubes to add to it to round it out. They have finally arrived and am now waiting for a palette to put them in. So this is very useful to me.
I think the ready made half pans will rewet more easily than the tube paints once dried. The tubes seem to be better used with the paint still wet, at least from what I've experienced so far! I hope you like them 😊
@@BeckyTregear its not my favoriete brand, its easy to get for me because i am from the Netherlands. Loved your video. I think you will like the dusk colors and you will like how easy they rewet. :)
I have a 48 pallette of half pans and they're wonderful paints. I get more joy from Daniel Smith primateks though, so I rarely reach for my pretty Rembrandts. I am very happy to bring them out today to play with and mix colors that you suggest.
I really want to like them more than I do, because they're honestly great quality paints but they don't have the WOW factor for me, like some other brands do. I did also buy a wooden half pan set of Rembrandts, and did a review on those as well. For some reason I like them better in that set, lol!
You can see my favorite Rembrandt watercolors in my watercolor palette video. I love the indigo and green gold the most! They reweat super well. I also love the dusk colors.
Thank you so much for trying these paints out. These would not be good for me living in central Florida in the US. They would never re-wet here because of the heat. Thank you again, Love your content!
I am glad it was helpful! We have been going through a summer heatwave (90+) and they've dried rock hard. I think gentler European weather conditions would be kinder to these paints, lol.
I really loved this video, I was curious about this watercolour brand the metallic ones are my favourite as I'm into those lately so I'm going to add them to the collection for sure at one point
Thank you for this review. I really appreciate it and also so glad ypu only spent $40 instead of hundreds. I mean $40 is a lot of money but if you've ever bought professional grade paints then its not as much. I've never really thought of buying them idky, but they never seem to interest me for whatever reason. Have a great day
$40 is a small price to pay, when buying this many tubes from a retail store would probably cost closer to $400...ahhh watercolour paints are so expensive! 😭
Coming back an hour later, I've just watched the painting part. When you said, "Stuffy", I smiled and thought, "Old-fashioned, story-book, Granny-ish?" She was always round, and kind, understanding and smiling, but staid, calm and sensible. The elements missing in these paints, perhaps? (I'm great-great-granny age - my youngest great-great nephew is under five - I'm all of the above, but also, essentially adventurous, curious and joyous! Adults tend to eye me warily if they don't know me well, children and animals love me without question (sooo precious to me!!!). Anyway, back to the painting: at 17:47 the lotus flower was jumping off the page to me, but the end result, when it was dry, was disappointingly dull. Compared to the Van Gogh made it even sadder! Just a thought: have you tried them on a different paper since then? Even so, it's cured my curiosity about them. I did buy the Rembrandt sepia a while ago, and used it a couple of times, but as my plein air experiment so far has mostly been pencil and watercolour pencil (wet and dry) I haven't given it a fair trial yet. I have some W&N sepia, which love, but curiosity after an ArtTube video drove the purchase of the Rembrandt. At least it wasn't expensive at the time I bought it. 😄
Stuffy...yes maybe grannyish, or very starched shirt conservative type. I need to give these paints another chance and spend more time with them. When I was in Greece I picked up a half pan set of Rembrandts which were in a beautiful wooden box and I couldn't resist them. I'm hoping to test those out soon, and it will be interesting to compare pan with tube formula to see if they perform the same or are slightly different (like Winsor & Newton). I'll be testing them on a different paper as well. My Etchr sketchbook completely died during filming this week so I'm going to have to abandon it and start in a fresh cotton book. I have a few vids which I'm making at the same time so I'm not sure in which order they'll appear.
@@BeckyTregear There's some lovely work in that book, Becky. A pest that the paper finally gave up in the middle of filming, though. I'll look forward to seeing you using that 'Greece Set''' and seeing if there's a difference, cos under every 'starched / stuffed shirt a heart still beats, even though the stuffed shirt can be incredibly frustrating in some circumstances, so maybe there'll be hope for those tubes. Maybe stir a minute drop of glycerine into the hard-to-wet ones before leaving to dry another time? Pan v poured tubes: It's puzzled me since seeing so many artists struggling with this. I've used W&N poured tubes ever since I discovered they were cheaper than pans, so probably around 1998? Using them is no different from using the not-poured W&N pans in my play palette. But I'm also puzzled that that some ArtTubers find both hard to rewet. I think that may be down to climate? Maybe it's all down to familiarity with a brand? We have _way_ too much choice these days! I'm cautious about commenting too much, as my not having the budget to experiment much between brands these days, and don't get to places where freebies are given out limits my present-day experience. I have tried other brands, though. There are three Schmincke (from tubes) and a White Knights in that play palette, though, as well as that poured Rembrandt sepia, and I don't notice a difference in wetting between the two. I haven't used them enough yet to have thoughts on the paint comparisons. I'm talking too much again (!!!) and work is calling! Oops!!! A bientôt. 😊
Nice haul! I've got a set of Mjello Mission Gold that's coming to me via a relative. But since international travel has gone back to restrictions, that paint set is stuck overseas! These Rembrandt would be great for Manga art, you don't need blending in that art style.
Oh it is such a pain not being able to travel overseas properly anymore! We are basically trapped in Australia for the indefinite future, lol. Manga art would be a good use, or even botanticals for their delicate qualities.
I have a few rembrandts pan, and I like some of the colours but not all. I am not over keen on colours with 2 or 3 pigments as I feel they get muddy and dull. However some of my favourites are 2 pigments, but it depends on how you paint I guess.
As for Rembrands themselves, I prefer them to Van Goghs. In Van Gogh's line I only like Ultramarine deep and Transparent Yellow Green (now Transparent Yellow Medium). But Rembrandts feel like they have more weigh and character to them. While Van Goghs are hard to tame for me :) Both are on the pricey side for me though. So I mostly stick to the White Nights as a very well balanced paint in all aspects
Even the way these paints lay down looks a bit different than others I’ve seen you use! Interesting🤔 it was fun watching you pour (I dont think Id be successful at that), the swatches were fun and I even enjoyed watching the messy swatches when the paint ran😂 reminds me more of myself🤣 lotuses are so weirdly shaped they always seem to make a good art piece!! Still, I was hoping you’d paint the photograph with your head in the fairy lol
Haha a fairy self portrait! 🤣 Yes these watercolours are much more traditional and don't behave the way more modern ones do. It's interesting to see how newer brands have evolved them to be more intense or run further.
Thank you for the review 😊 I had considered getting a few to try but I don't think they'll be my cup of tea. The viridian does look odd for a pthalo. I think I might try a few sennelier instead. I am still madly in love with my schmincke though! Do you recommend any favourites/ odd pigments in the sennelier? (Sorry, I know this isn't a sennelier video 😅)
I definitely have more fun with the Senneliers! I'm a real fan of their Forest Green, also Helios Purple and Cinereous Blue (even though that is blue mixed with white, it is just a lovely shade). Somewhere in my video backlog I swatched out the entire collection of them, if you want to see all of the colour options. 😊
@@BeckyTregear thank you🙂 I have watched your video, but I end up with so many colours... the cinereous blue does always get me though. I'll add your recommendations to my next order. I'm trying to be good at the moment so it might be a while 😄
From everything I've seen, the dry palettes rewet much more easily, probably due to the formula being different than in the tubes. Winsor & Newton do that too, so it's not unheard of. I liked the Van Gogh half pans so I expect the Rembrandts would be like that too! 😊
I found a great art story here and I'm curious to know if you have some book of different techniques for different mediums that you think would be good for a beginner? Those look quite good tbh ☺️
I have a few general books, there are so many out there it is hard to know which one to pick! A couple I have which I quite like are Artist's Painting Techniques and Artist's Drawing Techniques by the book company DK.
Loving those chameleon paints. I was wondering about these paints so glad to see them in action. Another color I am interested in is dusk pink I think its called by Rembrandt as well. I was also wondering what the difference is between a watercolor paint with white added to the tube and a gouache paint....When is a watercolor not a watercolor?? Sorry if its a silly question I'm a bit confused lol...Thanks Becky nice to some pics of the water garden I'm trying to get to Melbourne to get some ref material...Cheers.:)
White watercolour has more finely ground pigments the white gouache. They are same ingredients more or less, pigment size is the deciding factor and bigger pigments are more opaque, but professional gouache will have varying transparency just like watercolour. Professional gouache is also single pigment or without white pigment, white is often added as filler is cheaper gouache. (exceptions in professional e.g. Pastel colours).
What Margaret said about gouache! 😂 I wouldn't mind trying the dusk colours, but for now I don't see me buying more Rembrandts unless I find them for cheap prices again. I'm pretty sure that was a one time thing! The Blue Lotus gardens are very nice, but they're only open to the public from December 26 to maybe April each year. They're just outside of Warburton. 😊
@@BeckyTregear Yes the lotus gardens are lovely Im just a few too many hours away..lol I generaaly stay in Melbourne with relatives and do all my favorite haunts...
I saw another youtuber who suggested a ruffing up your palette with a mr clean eraser or the like to keep it from beading up. Apparently giving your palette a good scrub with alcohol works too. Sorry for all the edits. I’m a bit brain foggy today.
Rembrandt work on Saunders Waterford and Fabriano Artistico Mould made natural tone paper. On others, especialy on Arches or Hahnemuhle, none will like these watercolors. All brands work differently, paper is the no1 important factor, on watercolor painting!
no they are quite different, the interference and metallics are made of mica and are "pearlescent/metallic" . Spark and chameleon are unique in that they are glass particles so they "glitter/sparkle" vs "sheen/shimmer" , you will notice a big difference in how they reflect light
@@BeckyTregear :D and the candies are just my favorites (at least they used to be one month ago , I am on a diet now :D) :))) I can remeber the crunchy creamy huzelnut flavor :D
Can u compare it to Mijello Mission gold and Daniel smith watercolors? Currently using these two watercolors brand and I don’t want to downgrade if Rembrant is not any better
I haven't really used Mission Gold, aside from a couple of samples which seemed nice. I love my Daniel Smith watercolours - you can't really go wrong with those! Rembrandts are of high quality, I just struggled to love them as much as DS.
Hi Becky! I don't have these paints, but maybe the reason why they dry like that and it seams so difficult to rewet it's because they are very old and have been badly storaged? As you said, weather is important. I have seen other reviews and they look very good. Please, check out the video series about this brand on Mandy's youtube channel: ua-cam.com/video/j14X8HAs49I/v-deo.html&ab_channel=MandyvanGoeije She is a fantastic artist and have some very interesting videos talking about Rembrandt watercolour paints. It's very professional and you will get all your questions answered ;) Have a nice weekend!
Hmmm. These paints seemed a little uncooperative at times. I guess - in arting - sometimes we swatch the paints, othertimes the paints swatch us! 🤪 LOL @ the 'Liar Liar' quote.
They were very uncooperative by comparison to other paints in my collection! It is also ridiculously hot so everything dries really fast at the moment. I really have had better! 😂
"Royal Talens Rembrandt watercolour paints are all vegan except Lamp Black." according to Lawrence Art Supplies. Lamp Black would contain bone which is why that one's technically not vegan.
@@BeckyTregear yes but from what i’ve known watercolor usually uses glycerin too, but im not sure whenever they use the plant based one or animal based one (if you know something about this please do let me know)
@@urm8936 I haven't heard mention of glycerine being used in these particular watercolours; I guess the only way to be sure would be to write to them directly and ask? Sorry I can't help further, I really don't know for sure.
PV14 is a genuine cobalt based pigment. It's a heavyweight pigment with large particles, it's also expensive. Those are the reasons why it's so problematic. But still it's beautiful
Right, it's expencive so some manufactures add more binder to it to keep prices sane :) It's also heavy, hence the trouble keeping consistency smooth in the wet paint. Still, it's a beautiful shade of rose-violet colour and it granulates nicely
I can hear your disappointment about the paints in your voice. I haven't tried Rembrandt yet, but I felt the same way when I bought the Art Spectrum paints. They are very vibrant and lovely but when they dry in the palette most of them crack, very very badly. By adding glycerin I didn't make it much better. I mean they work fine (except of the Ultramarine Blue which is gummy, like working with glue and unusable), but I hate the look of the dried paints. It makes the palette so ugly. This never happens with my Schmincke paints. So different problem but I can imagine how disappointed you are.
Oh I totally understand that! My Art Spectrum set is looking pretty battered, though I have managed to minimise the cracking on most of them. But definitely other paints just look so much nicer, don't they? Oh well, I guess we can't love everything!
And of course as things occur to me AFTER the video is published, I am pretty sure that the formula for Rembrandt watercolours is different for the tubes than with their dry half pan sets. I think the dry half pans will rewet more easily, and the tube paints are designed to be used wet, rather than pouring them out into a palette and letting them dry. I definitely noticed that they were a lot easier to use straight out of tube, but after a few days in my palette they had dried to rocks. Just something to think about when shopping around!
Oh, wow. That's really good to know. Thanks!
@Carey I don't think it would make a huge difference in this case but it might be worth a try. 😊
I know this is 6 months late but that's odd. I live in a desert (Arizona) and mine didn't dry down to rocks. Very easy to re-wet. I wonder what the difference is.
I understanded only one where is difference is beetween pan and tube is winsor newton professional. but i dont know its true or not. Ps. and least dried Van Gogh from same factory is not nice at least some colours are plain terrible also disliked dried w&n professional. and few daniel smiths what are dried.(not all) and even these ds paints only in 8 hues.
When I first started watching, I was so envious that you got such a deal on those paints. After watching the video though, that feeling evaporated. I was underwhelmed by these paints and that buff titanium seems to have a really low tinting strength compared to other top brands. It would be interesting to compare some half pans to the tubes to see if the results are better. The azo yellow is nice though, and pops against the other colors. It is always a pleasure to watch your videos. Thanks for saving me some money.
I am glad it helped! From all accounts the half pan sets rewet more easily and the tubes should be used as wet paint, not poured and dried. I am SO glad I didn't spend $200+ on these, haha! 😂
Incandescent light helps the chameleon paints change colour 💡
Different lighting and angles makes huge difference
Oh for sure! Under the studio lights it is hard to see their full spectrum. Natural light was better 😊
They are my favorite brand. Way to go!
Oh great! Which are your favourite colours?
Thank you for being honest about how they handled! And the non-rewetting issue is huge! I'm a newbie to watercolor but I love da vinci and just got 2 tubes of Daniel smith that I enjoy. I think I'll stick with those for a while. If I spend money on something new, I think it will be sennelier. 🙂
I really love Sennelier watercolours! I have a half pan set of Rembrandts to try out as well, to see if they will behave better. Hopefully will get to that soon!
What a fantastic deal you got! Especially when it comes to the spark and chameleon colors - those are quite pricey when not on sale. Thank you for sharing what the swatches look like!
I was so happy to find them as cheap as I did! The sparkly ones are all series 3 if I'm not mistaken, and those retail for AU$17-18 each. I scored a mega bargain! 😂
I really enjoy your reviews! You sound so on point on what works or doesn't work for you with these supplies, both while swatching them and while using them in an actual painting. Very glad I found your channel.
Thank you, I try to be as honest as possible, and make my videos useful. There are so many art supplies out there to choose from, it isn't always easy to pick the best things!
I really love those colors…all of them the sparkly colors are. Gorgeous
The sparkly ones are definitely my favourite!
Ah, I was so excited when I saw your thumbnail today! Oh my goodness - the Cobalt Violet Light - just wait 'til you see my video this Friday. Boy oh boy. My mouth literally dropped open momentarily when you swatched the sparkly paint on the black paper. What a difference! The photos you took are beautiful - I see many nice paintings in your future. Very interesting what you thought about the paints. Good to know. My Rembrandt pan set re-wets really easily, so I wonder if the binder is slightly different in the pans versus the tubes? Good thing you bought them on discount!
I was thinking of you when I was swatching mine, and that the ready made half pan set seems to rewet more easily. I think it is like Winsor & Newton where the formulas for tubes vs pans is considerably different, and the tubes are meant to be used wet rather than letting them dry. Cobalt Violet...so pretty....so treacherous, lol! Thank you - I am looking forward to watching your video a bit later today when I get some chill out time, yay!
I'm also glad you got these on sale and didn't spend 200$ on them! Even just watching you swatch them, they don't spread out like most other paints do. I love all the photos you took and the picture you picked was particularly nice!
Thank you! I would have had serious buyer's remorse at $200. $40 is ok, and the glittery ones are very pretty so I hope to use them in other projects. 😆
Hi, Becky. I'm not sure how I managed to miss this a year ago, but you've just saved me a lot of money and heartache. I've been looking at Rembrandt and wondering, and now I wonder no more. I'm not in any hurry, anyway, as I have a decent stock of my colours in the paint drawer at the moment.
I have the buff titanium in my Jackson's basket, but seeing it here, it will now be removed. I wonder why Winsor and Newton don't do one? Hey, ho, I'll do without it for now and go on mixing a touch of titanium white for muting my colours for the painted houses here. I was attracted to the Buff Titanium because it granulates, and that would have been helpful...
Thanks again, Becky! I'll come back and watch the painting section later, as I'm supposed to be doing something else right now, and I've finished my cup of tea ...
I have 6 tubes of Rembrandt. They pour up in pans fine here. But our humidity here is atrocious. We have small dehumidifiers in all the closets & big one we roll from room to room in the summer. Even my few Qor tubes won't dry in a pan. So if you ever decide to get rid of the Rembrandt contact me first!😉
Haha it sounds like the perfect environment for the Rembrandts! Right now we are getting a lot of humidity, but most of the time it is insanely dry here.
My first professional paints where Rembrandts and I really love them, although I got the half pans, the chameleon colours do show the three colours when they are tilted, I love them! I used them in my colouring books to add some sparkle over a watercolour background. Not sure I’d use them in my watercolour paintings though.
I still have yet to review the half pan set I bought in Greece - it's on the list to do soon! I do love sparkly paints, but it is a struggle to not over-use them in a painting, haha!
omg those are such a steal! especially the chameleon and spark colours! luckkyy~ i'm kinda sad you don't like the rembrandts but of course, it's preference. 😄
I do love the sparklies! It's not that I dislike them but they just didn't fill me with as much glee as other paints I've tried. They may well grow on me with time, I hope 😊
I recently bought a heap of Rembrandt half pans for really cheap then added a couple of tubes to add to it to round it out. They have finally arrived and am now waiting for a palette to put them in. So this is very useful to me.
I think the ready made half pans will rewet more easily than the tube paints once dried. The tubes seem to be better used with the paint still wet, at least from what I've experienced so far! I hope you like them 😊
Sparkle & chameleon are also gorgeous mixed into other colors for a subtle flicker of light
I imagine they would mix well with other paints! I love sparkly things 😁
I loved your lotus and your guide to paints and its consistency. thank you.
Thanks! 😊
I love Rembrandt paints!
Oh yay, I was hoping someone would! They really are very fine quality, I just didn't have the best time with them.
@@BeckyTregear its not my favoriete brand, its easy to get for me because i am from the Netherlands. Loved your video. I think you will like the dusk colors and you will like how easy they rewet. :)
I have a 48 pallette of half pans and they're wonderful paints. I get more joy from Daniel Smith primateks though, so I rarely reach for my pretty Rembrandts. I am very happy to bring them out today to play with and mix colors that you suggest.
I'm sure the 48 palette would be lovely! ❤️
Great selection! What a find! 🌺
It really was! No doubt a single occurrance, I just happened to get lucky that day!
Thank you for the honest review. I was considering trying this brand but I don't think they are for me.
I really want to like them more than I do, because they're honestly great quality paints but they don't have the WOW factor for me, like some other brands do. I did also buy a wooden half pan set of Rembrandts, and did a review on those as well. For some reason I like them better in that set, lol!
I'll look for that review 😀I'm on a limited budget anyway so I can't buy everything and if it's not going to wow me why waste money 🤣
I’m paraphrasing what you said: the paints didn’t really run much in the water they ran into each other 🤣😂. Anyway, I really liked your flower. 🤩
They really misbehaved for me! I was so mad doing that second swatch, lol!
You can see my favorite Rembrandt watercolors in my watercolor palette video. I love the indigo and green gold the most! They reweat super well. I also love the dusk colors.
Thank you, I always love an indigo!
it is a very pretty lily 😀 and sometimes we just dont get a long with supplies as much as we thought we would
It happens, we can't like everything I guess! And thank you :-)
Hi! PV 14 is one the best watercolor pigments and most expensive.
Another really fun video, we both enjoyed it ☺️
Oh yay, I'm glad! Thank you 😌💕
Thank you so much for trying these paints out. These would not be good for me living in central Florida in the US. They would never re-wet here because of the heat. Thank you again, Love your content!
I am glad it was helpful! We have been going through a summer heatwave (90+) and they've dried rock hard. I think gentler European weather conditions would be kinder to these paints, lol.
Stuffy watercolours love that description:)). Your painting is stunning though Becky. Thanks for the review.
Haha thank you; it is the first word which came to mind that fit what I was thinking. 😂
I really loved this video, I was curious about this watercolour brand the metallic ones are my favourite as I'm into those lately so I'm going to add them to the collection for sure at one point
Those ones are gorgeous! I am not sure which other colours might be in the range, but I think there are a few more than what I have.
Thank you for this review. I really appreciate it and also so glad ypu only spent $40 instead of hundreds. I mean $40 is a lot of money but if you've ever bought professional grade paints then its not as much. I've never really thought of buying them idky, but they never seem to interest me for whatever reason. Have a great day
$40 is a small price to pay, when buying this many tubes from a retail store would probably cost closer to $400...ahhh watercolour paints are so expensive! 😭
Coming back an hour later, I've just watched the painting part. When you said, "Stuffy", I smiled and thought, "Old-fashioned, story-book, Granny-ish?" She was always round, and kind, understanding and smiling, but staid, calm and sensible. The elements missing in these paints, perhaps?
(I'm great-great-granny age - my youngest great-great nephew is under five - I'm all of the above, but also, essentially adventurous, curious and joyous! Adults tend to eye me warily if they don't know me well, children and animals love me without question (sooo precious to me!!!).
Anyway, back to the painting: at 17:47 the lotus flower was jumping off the page to me, but the end result, when it was dry, was disappointingly dull. Compared to the Van Gogh made it even sadder! Just a thought: have you tried them on a different paper since then?
Even so, it's cured my curiosity about them. I did buy the Rembrandt sepia a while ago, and used it a couple of times, but as my plein air experiment so far has mostly been pencil and watercolour pencil (wet and dry) I haven't given it a fair trial yet. I have some W&N sepia, which love, but curiosity after an ArtTube video drove the purchase of the Rembrandt. At least it wasn't expensive at the time I bought it. 😄
Stuffy...yes maybe grannyish, or very starched shirt conservative type. I need to give these paints another chance and spend more time with them. When I was in Greece I picked up a half pan set of Rembrandts which were in a beautiful wooden box and I couldn't resist them. I'm hoping to test those out soon, and it will be interesting to compare pan with tube formula to see if they perform the same or are slightly different (like Winsor & Newton). I'll be testing them on a different paper as well. My Etchr sketchbook completely died during filming this week so I'm going to have to abandon it and start in a fresh cotton book. I have a few vids which I'm making at the same time so I'm not sure in which order they'll appear.
@@BeckyTregear There's some lovely work in that book, Becky. A pest that the paper finally gave up in the middle of filming, though. I'll look forward to seeing you using that 'Greece Set''' and seeing if there's a difference, cos under every 'starched / stuffed shirt a heart still beats, even though the stuffed shirt can be incredibly frustrating in some circumstances, so maybe there'll be hope for those tubes. Maybe stir a minute drop of glycerine into the hard-to-wet ones before leaving to dry another time?
Pan v poured tubes: It's puzzled me since seeing so many artists struggling with this. I've used W&N poured tubes ever since I discovered they were cheaper than pans, so probably around 1998? Using them is no different from using the not-poured W&N pans in my play palette. But I'm also puzzled that that some ArtTubers find both hard to rewet. I think that may be down to climate?
Maybe it's all down to familiarity with a brand? We have _way_ too much choice these days! I'm cautious about commenting too much, as my not having the budget to experiment much between brands these days, and don't get to places where freebies are given out limits my present-day experience. I have tried other brands, though. There are three Schmincke (from tubes) and a White Knights in that play palette, though, as well as that poured Rembrandt sepia, and I don't notice a difference in wetting between the two. I haven't used them enough yet to have thoughts on the paint comparisons.
I'm talking too much again (!!!) and work is calling! Oops!!! A bientôt. 😊
I've never used them. Thanks for the review. I stick to my White nights. I hope you had a great Australia's Day.
See you later.
White nights are great! 💜 It was very hot for Australia Day this year; we went to IKEA for part of it! 😂
Nice haul! I've got a set of Mjello Mission Gold that's coming to me via a relative. But since international travel has gone back to restrictions, that paint set is stuck overseas! These Rembrandt would be great for Manga art, you don't need blending in that art style.
Oh it is such a pain not being able to travel overseas properly anymore! We are basically trapped in Australia for the indefinite future, lol. Manga art would be a good use, or even botanticals for their delicate qualities.
Woohoo! What a score! Thanks for showing us what you got. Hopefully next time im at a market i snag a deal like this too :)
I got so lucky that day! 😆
I only have dusk pink, yellow and green. That olive is pretty.
The olive was my favourite in this set! ❤
I have a few rembrandts pan, and I like some of the colours but not all. I am not over keen on colours with 2 or 3 pigments as I feel they get muddy and dull. However some of my favourites are 2 pigments, but it depends on how you paint I guess.
I haven't used them since I made this video - I need to get them out again and give them another chance I think!
As for Rembrands themselves, I prefer them to Van Goghs. In Van Gogh's line I only like Ultramarine deep and Transparent Yellow Green (now Transparent Yellow Medium).
But Rembrandts feel like they have more weigh and character to them.
While Van Goghs are hard to tame for me :)
Both are on the pricey side for me though.
So I mostly stick to the White Nights as a very well balanced paint in all aspects
White Nights are lovely paints; I need to get my set out and use it again! 😊
White Nights are nice and have a warm feel to them :)
Using them again sounds like a good idea!
I love your reviews!
Thank you, I'm glad you like them!
I wonder if the Rambrandt pan watercolors are easier to work with than the tubes.
I have just done a video on a pan set (wooden box) if you want to see how they went! The pans were easier for sure, aside from Viridian.
wow - what a deal!
Even the way these paints lay down looks a bit different than others I’ve seen you use! Interesting🤔 it was fun watching you pour (I dont think Id be successful at that), the swatches were fun and I even enjoyed watching the messy swatches when the paint ran😂 reminds me more of myself🤣 lotuses are so weirdly shaped they always seem to make a good art piece!! Still, I was hoping you’d paint the photograph with your head in the fairy lol
Haha a fairy self portrait! 🤣 Yes these watercolours are much more traditional and don't behave the way more modern ones do. It's interesting to see how newer brands have evolved them to be more intense or run further.
@@BeckyTregear you now know what the people want. Yourself as a fairy!😂
Beautiful!
Thank you!❤
Thank you for the review 😊 I had considered getting a few to try but I don't think they'll be my cup of tea. The viridian does look odd for a pthalo. I think I might try a few sennelier instead. I am still madly in love with my schmincke though! Do you recommend any favourites/ odd pigments in the sennelier? (Sorry, I know this isn't a sennelier video 😅)
I definitely have more fun with the Senneliers! I'm a real fan of their Forest Green, also Helios Purple and Cinereous Blue (even though that is blue mixed with white, it is just a lovely shade). Somewhere in my video backlog I swatched out the entire collection of them, if you want to see all of the colour options. 😊
@@BeckyTregear thank you🙂 I have watched your video, but I end up with so many colours... the cinereous blue does always get me though. I'll add your recommendations to my next order. I'm trying to be good at the moment so it might be a while 😄
@@chaosinca No worries! You'll see in my latest video that I haven't been very good, haha. 😂
Oooh i would love to try these bad boys. Sorry you didn't like them much. Have you tried their palettes? Are those better?
From everything I've seen, the dry palettes rewet much more easily, probably due to the formula being different than in the tubes. Winsor & Newton do that too, so it's not unheard of. I liked the Van Gogh half pans so I expect the Rembrandts would be like that too! 😊
@@BeckyTregear I still want to try both van gogh and Rembrandt but might do the palettes
I found a great art story here and I'm curious to know if you have some book of different techniques for different mediums that you think would be good for a beginner?
Those look quite good tbh ☺️
I have a few general books, there are so many out there it is hard to know which one to pick! A couple I have which I quite like are Artist's Painting Techniques and Artist's Drawing Techniques by the book company DK.
@@BeckyTregear I'll check those out thanks :)
Loving those chameleon paints. I was wondering about these paints so glad to see them in action. Another color I am interested in is dusk pink I think its called by Rembrandt as well. I was also wondering what the difference is between a watercolor paint with white added to the tube and a gouache paint....When is a watercolor not a watercolor?? Sorry if its a silly question I'm a bit confused lol...Thanks Becky nice to some pics of the water garden I'm trying to get to Melbourne to get some ref material...Cheers.:)
White watercolour has more finely ground pigments the white gouache. They are same ingredients more or less, pigment size is the deciding factor and bigger pigments are more opaque, but professional gouache will have varying transparency just like watercolour. Professional gouache is also single pigment or without white pigment, white is often added as filler is cheaper gouache. (exceptions in professional e.g. Pastel colours).
What Margaret said about gouache! 😂 I wouldn't mind trying the dusk colours, but for now I don't see me buying more Rembrandts unless I find them for cheap prices again. I'm pretty sure that was a one time thing! The Blue Lotus gardens are very nice, but they're only open to the public from December 26 to maybe April each year. They're just outside of Warburton. 😊
@@BeckyTregear Yes the lotus gardens are lovely Im just a few too many hours away..lol I generaaly stay in Melbourne with relatives and do all my favorite haunts...
@@BeckyTregear What did Margarite say about gouache I cant find post?
@@pennypop408 oh I see it in this thread? Under your comment, above my reply.
I saw another youtuber who suggested a ruffing up your palette with a mr clean eraser or the like to keep it from beading up.
Apparently giving your palette a good scrub with alcohol works too. Sorry for all the edits. I’m a bit brain foggy today.
Yes, they can definitely be roughed up; I just got a bit lazy here, haha!
indeed good know this rewetting thing makes me wonder if i get them or not. allready thinked get only few special cases.
I have a set of the half pans, which I am hoping to review soon. We'll see how those rewet too!
ones with pigments with code py129 and py128 mainly. and their glass pigments etc.
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Rembrandt work on Saunders Waterford and Fabriano Artistico Mould made natural tone paper. On others, especialy on Arches or Hahnemuhle, none will like these watercolors. All brands work differently, paper is the no1 important factor, on watercolor painting!
That is so true! The Hahnemuhle sketchbook I have now is hopeless with any watercolour, even though it is 100% cotton. 😭
Keep painting and have, a very Merry Christmas!!@@BeckyTregear
The Van Gogh Interference set of paints has a similar effect as the chameleon shades…
I will look out for those! 💜
no they are quite different, the interference and metallics are made of mica and are "pearlescent/metallic" . Spark and chameleon are unique in that they are glass particles so they "glitter/sparkle" vs "sheen/shimmer" , you will notice a big difference in how they reflect light
I keep my tubes also in Ferrero Rocher boxes :)))
I love their clear boxes; they are perfect for art supplies storage! 😂
@@BeckyTregear :D and the candies are just my favorites (at least they used to be one month ago , I am on a diet now :D) :))) I can remeber the crunchy creamy huzelnut flavor :D
Can u compare it to Mijello
Mission gold and Daniel smith watercolors? Currently using these two watercolors brand and I don’t want to downgrade if Rembrant is not any better
I haven't really used Mission Gold, aside from a couple of samples which seemed nice. I love my Daniel Smith watercolours - you can't really go wrong with those! Rembrandts are of high quality, I just struggled to love them as much as DS.
@@BeckyTregear thankyou for the reply!
Hi Becky! I don't have these paints, but maybe the reason why they dry like that and it seams so difficult to rewet it's because they are very old and have been badly storaged? As you said, weather is important. I have seen other reviews and they look very good. Please, check out the video series about this brand on Mandy's youtube channel: ua-cam.com/video/j14X8HAs49I/v-deo.html&ab_channel=MandyvanGoeije She is a fantastic artist and have some very interesting videos talking about Rembrandt watercolour paints. It's very professional and you will get all your questions answered ;) Have a nice weekend!
Thank you! I actually follow Mandy, she has some very useful videos! ❤️
I don't think I have any watercolors with honey in them.
Try a few M.Grahams....they're so beautiful!
Hmmm. These paints seemed a little uncooperative at times. I guess - in arting - sometimes we swatch the paints, othertimes the paints swatch us! 🤪 LOL @ the 'Liar Liar' quote.
They were very uncooperative by comparison to other paints in my collection! It is also ridiculously hot so everything dries really fast at the moment. I really have had better! 😂
'insert expletives here' 😂😂😂😂😂
Many thereof! 😂
hey! do you know whenever they’re vegan friendly or not? i’ve been doing some research yet im still confused😭
"Royal Talens Rembrandt watercolour paints are all vegan except Lamp Black." according to Lawrence Art Supplies. Lamp Black would contain bone which is why that one's technically not vegan.
@@BeckyTregear yes but from what i’ve known watercolor usually uses glycerin too, but im not sure whenever they use the plant based one or animal based one (if you know something about this please do let me know)
@@urm8936 I haven't heard mention of glycerine being used in these particular watercolours; I guess the only way to be sure would be to write to them directly and ask? Sorry I can't help further, I really don't know for sure.
@@BeckyTregear it’s totally okay, thank you for replying!
PV14 is a genuine cobalt based pigment. It's a heavyweight pigment with large particles, it's also expensive. Those are the reasons why it's so problematic. But still it's beautiful
Yeah I made a mistake on that one, had it confused with another paint in my collection that was a hue! And yes, it is hugely problematic. 😂
Right, it's expencive so some manufactures add more binder to it to keep prices sane :) It's also heavy, hence the trouble keeping consistency smooth in the wet paint. Still, it's a beautiful shade of rose-violet colour and it granulates nicely
I can hear your disappointment about the paints in your voice. I haven't tried Rembrandt yet, but I felt the same way when I bought the Art Spectrum paints. They are very vibrant and lovely but when they dry in the palette most of them crack, very very badly. By adding glycerin I didn't make it much better. I mean they work fine (except of the Ultramarine Blue which is gummy, like working with glue and unusable), but I hate the look of the dried paints. It makes the palette so ugly. This never happens with my Schmincke paints.
So different problem but I can imagine how disappointed you are.
Oh I totally understand that! My Art Spectrum set is looking pretty battered, though I have managed to minimise the cracking on most of them. But definitely other paints just look so much nicer, don't they? Oh well, I guess we can't love everything!