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just got these. Swatched and love the bright saturated colors. I have't painted with them yet.

Rosa Gallery and Roman Szmal look rather decent.

Which beginner set is the one to get... There isnt a final video where you compare 😢

Hi there, where can i find the last video of this series where you compare all of the beginner sets and decide on the top one....thats what i watch all the videos to find out xxxx

You do an excellent job of evaluating all of these brands, pigments, and hues. I'm in agreement with your picks and ratings after watching more than a handful of your videos. I haven't used some of the brands I have yet, but I'm a DaVinci fan already. Nice reviews.

I like the DaVinci too, but the nice thing is you can mix almost anything in to get what you want.

Hi Mina! out of all of the lovely colours you chose what are your top 3? thank you!!!

Mijaelo's and shinhan's are my favorite (I own non of them tho). Will probably buy the mijaelo one

They are $20 on Amazon today.

How do these stack up to other student grades?

I just found your color comparison series…This is so wonderful. It’s just what I was looking for! Thank you so much for making these videos Mina!!!! 🎉🎉🎉❤

Daniel smith quin gold deep....i have used it when i wanted 🎉 something sheer...rather than raw suenna ir any of the ochres. W I phich often i think as being to opaque..,? Loved this comparis I n..thanx

Sch stinke,

Gorgeous colors, but they look very opaque.

Thank you so much for this video!! I have been wondering how these colors compare to paints I have and this is a tremendous help.

I’d love to see a Cerulean comparison too.

Do you think adding glycerin or honey to the Prussian blue would help?

Thanks for this demo and all the detailed info. I have been wanting to try some from this brand, having heard good things. Looking for some single pigment colours with good transparency for mixing--easily identified thanks to swatch card and seeing the paints swatched and dry. Wonderful! I had my eye on the PR122 and PB60. Will probably also try the PO73, PG7, and PY150. Happy to be able to support a Ukrainian company, one tube of watercolour at a time.

Thank you!❣

So sweet with your daughter ❤❤❤

😢 No magenta! 😢 That's a deal breaker for me. 😢

Thanks for swatching these and showing how they can be used in mixed media. I got some recently and really love the smooth mat finish of them. One question I have is if its possible to slow down the drying time so that I can paint without rushing or risk having the paints dry on the palette (without using too much water and thinning it). Have you tried any mediums or anything else to give more working time with these paints?

I love DaVinci paints so much. I always love seeing other artists use them, as they are massively under-rated. They are my go-to brand!

Love your swatching. I think this might be my new brand

Fun, pretty colors

Thank you so much!

Working a job, outside of motherhood, even part time, is challenging especially when you have two young children AND a husband that travels for work and cannot be there to give you relief. It does place a huge burden on you. And it really doesn't matter how much or how little either of you make financially in your jobs. What really matters is the hours and the amount and kinds of responsibilities you each have to carry. If he gets to unwind in the evening without the demands of children, doing the wash, and handling social obligations, and gets off on the weekends, and can take sick days without worrying about caring for 2 little ones, but you cannot do any of that, then you in fact have the more demanding job. Give yourself time to get used to the new routine of a part-time job and find ways to balance your life again. Hopefully, your husband will help pick up some of the home responsibilities now that you've added a part-time job to your own schedule. Too often, women wind up picking up a job outside the home and are still expected to do everything else. And I speak from a really positive experience where I was the one making a higher income and my husband was tremendously supportive. We carried the home burdens equally. Our paychecks didn't come into the equation.

Thank you🎉 very useful.

I wonder if anybody has tried mixing indanthrone with a granulating hematite? Would that be nice?

You're right. That's why I use Quinacridone Violet by Daniel Smith. Their magenta uses PR202,.

So many beautiful shades ❤ also watching you pour them into a full sized pan…so satisfying.

I think W&N has the best version. Without the brown influence, it's too much like Sap Green. If you want a variety look into Raw Umber!

I really love W&N's other PR206 that they call Permanent Alizarin Crimson! It's much redder and brighter than the Brown Madder. I agree the disagreement between Daniel Smith and Qor's names for the earth quins is super confusing.

Apparently they have changed the formula and these are vegan now. I just got the 48 set, haven't opened it yet, and feel guilty. Probably about half the colors aren't very lightfast. Wondering whether I should keep them. Have you ended up using them much? I can see how they behave differently than regular watercolors; I know they are formulated to be used on japanese papers like sumi paper and etegami postcards. I was surprised at how they backran so much in your swatches!

YOUR SERIE of comparaisons are 👌🫶👌!! Wish you do more 😁🌸🦄🌸

17:12 One question: are these Winsor & Newton or White Nights? I ask these because you said that the orchid colors were White Nights but here you say these are Winsor & Newton. New subscriber here. Thanks for your videos 👍🏻👍🏻

The pigment info is super sus!! And the color names are hilarious. I'm shocked I've heard so many people be quite positive about this line.

I have Van Gogh PBk11, which is a little underwhelming , although I ought to play with it more. I love the Mjello Cobalt Black, had to pay a pretty penny for it in the states -- wish Jackson's would carry the full line, although the prices seem to have shot up lately even there. And I do have a small tube of DS hematite which I *always forget about!*

The Paul Rubens must have brightener added!

I have a pan of the Schmincke Blueish version, which I got in a square palette, and a small tube of W&N. The Schmincke seems to have less value range at least on your swatch here. Mostly I use them for painting cast shadows from fruit. The one thing I wish is that we could have seen the Payne's and Indigo swatches together! I guess I'll just have to look at my own LOL

I just have Qor, which has such a great value range, and also a handmade genuine indigo just for pigment nerding. So odd that Schmincke combined phthalo with the genuine (I saw this in a later Chinese palette too, perhaps a Rubens brand.) I guess they figure when the original fades away you still have a bit of blue there LOL

I ordered some open stock as well, after getting the same pure pigment set. I got Violet Lake because it *used* to be Perelyne Violet, but the tube I got was a mix. I actually got a refund from the seller, because of the discrepancy, but to be fair it is nice. So you were right on thinking it looks like Perelyne Violet! I also have the PR207, the PR209, the PY138, the PB60, and that amazing Cobalt Black. I have gotten the speckling too, with different brands -- mostly with certain pigments which are extremely fine. The worst speckling paint I have is W&N Aqua Green Phthalo, the special one that's not got a pigment number because it's an automotive pigment. It speckles horribly! In fact I've mostly experienced that with phthalos.

This is making me want to bust out my Mjello Prussian. I also have DS and Qor, and a tube of M. Graham gouache in this color. I don't know why I don't use it more in sketchbook.

Sorry to hear you were sick, glad you're feeling better! I love the way you did the flowers with spatter :)

Oh the DaVinci "New Gold" (replacing the Quin Gold hue) is PR101 and PY83 (dialyride yellow). Definitely an unusual mix, surprising they decided to remove the PY150 entirely. Interesting that they don't even sell a PY83, why not just use the Hansa Yellow Deep? Maybe to increase the mystique or make it harder to mix LOL

DaVinci is the most underrated paint in the US. Oldest US watercolors; a family owned company, and the CEO will answer your emails if you write through the website. Love the option of 8ml, 15ml and 37ml tubes, and the fact that they show the pigment numbers in their thumbnails. I wish I had discovered them earlier in my watercolor journey! Your palette and mine are very similar :) I believe their lavender is actually made with PV15, Ultramarine Violet, you might have a typo on your swatch.

My first was Schmincke's -- and I liked it fine until I tried DS and Qor and Mjello! I agree the Sennelier looks beautiful. I also have DaVinci PR202 and it's a bit of a letdown. I ended up with a pan of Schmincke PV42 which was fun to try, but is weakly tinting so annoying to use. It looks from some swatching I saw on another channel that Daniel Smith's version is much stronger. I do think it's slightly less lightfast than PR122 -- but all reds and pinks and purples are prone to fading worse than other hues, sadly!

You are right that it's so important to understand pigments. I was watching Jenna Rainey swatch the entire Maimeri line earlier. She has over 330k subscribers and 5 watercolor books out. She couldn't pronounce Quinacradone 🤣😂 in fact she was mystified by how to pronounce many of the pigment names, like Pyrrole. She of course didn't discuss the pigments at all. Oh, and she confused the price series, with the lightfastness rating. She also had health concerns about cad and cobalt pigments, but didn't know cerulean is a cobalt. The concerns about cobalts are more environmental, unless you are drinking your paint water. I couldn't finish watching!

I love the original Alizarin and these are some of my faves. I do love the Mjello PR176 so much, as well as the W&N PR206 -- what a shame that pigment is discontinued. The W&N pigment is so different to other PR206s. The Rosa is really different, because it's Napthol Red, it's also too bad Napthols are not more lightfast. I also like the DaVinci -- although it doesn't swatch out as well as others, but it paints fine.

My all time favorite is DaVinci's Cobalt Turquoise, and it is SUCH A VALUE for those of us in the US. It's not any weaker than the more expensive brands, and I like that it's bluer than the Daniel Smith, which I find too green. Lindsay Weirich used to love the Lukas, but observed the same thing you did on her latest tube -- it got chalky and they changed the pigment they previously used. I guess Sakura bought Lukas a while back.