Your history regarding Winsor and Newton is a little incorrect. The pigment was a popular artist's color for a couple of hundred years, from the 17th to 19th century. Back then it had a slightly different name - it was called Pink Color. Older companys than Winsor and Newton were already selling it before Winsor and Newton was founded. Unfortunately Winsor and Newton introduced a newer method for producing Rose Madder from the madder root, and successfully marketed it as being highly lightfast. They were lying, but artists fell for their marketing lie and Rose Madder became very popular and this was part of why Pink Color stopped being produced by other companies as they replaced Pink Color with Rose Madder in their own ranges and Pink Color died out. In the 1980's and 1990's artists started challenging the Winsor and Newton lighfastness claims because independant testing was proving that Rose Madder was fugitive, and that started a rapid decline in the sale of genuine Rose Madder. Winsor and Newton was already making the superior Permanent Rose but many artists were asking for a softer, more subtle pinkish color, and it was a result of this that Winsor and Newton re-introduced Pink Color, but re-named it Potter's Pink, mostly because it was a pigment commonly used in the ceramics in the ceramics industry where it was commonly called Potter's Pink. This was its first return to artists colors since the late 19th century, but Winsor and Newton shouldn't get too much credit for this since they were also responsible for killing it off back then. It is a fabulous color and it is such a shame that so many artworks were damaged over the years while it wasn't available and artists were believing the Winsor and Newton lie that their genuine Rose Madder was durable and were using it instead of this wonderful, and absolutely lightfast pigment.
When an artist quality watercolor paint comes out of the tube with some extra binder you should either pour it off or stir it back into the paint in the tube.
A. Gallo is cost prohibitive for most people. I have had that binder problem with all 3 of the brands you swatch. This isn’t a very scientific comparison in my opinion.
Your history regarding Winsor and Newton is a little incorrect. The pigment was a popular artist's color for a couple of hundred years, from the 17th to 19th century. Back then it had a slightly different name - it was called Pink Color. Older companys than Winsor and Newton were already selling it before Winsor and Newton was founded.
Unfortunately Winsor and Newton introduced a newer method for producing Rose Madder from the madder root, and successfully marketed it as being highly lightfast. They were lying, but artists fell for their marketing lie and Rose Madder became very popular and this was part of why Pink Color stopped being produced by other companies as they replaced Pink Color with Rose Madder in their own ranges and Pink Color died out.
In the 1980's and 1990's artists started challenging the Winsor and Newton lighfastness claims because independant testing was proving that Rose Madder was fugitive, and that started a rapid decline in the sale of genuine Rose Madder. Winsor and Newton was already making the superior Permanent Rose but many artists were asking for a softer, more subtle pinkish color, and it was a result of this that Winsor and Newton re-introduced Pink Color, but re-named it Potter's Pink, mostly because it was a pigment commonly used in the ceramics in the ceramics industry where it was commonly called Potter's Pink. This was its first return to artists colors since the late 19th century, but Winsor and Newton shouldn't get too much credit for this since they were also responsible for killing it off back then.
It is a fabulous color and it is such a shame that so many artworks were damaged over the years while it wasn't available and artists were believing the Winsor and Newton lie that their genuine Rose Madder was durable and were using it instead of this wonderful, and absolutely lightfast pigment.
Thank you for the info!
When an artist quality watercolor paint comes out of the tube with some extra binder you should either pour it off or stir it back into the paint in the tube.
I did, but this pigment is chunky and the Daniel Smith formula is not the easiest to work with ( just for this pigment only)
All of the colors look fairly comparable but I agree that the Schmincke might be the best. Nice mixes and thank you for posting this video. :)
Thank you so much! 💕
Love the A Gallo one.
The A Gallo was a pleasant surprise!
Nice video!😍
Thank you!
A. Gallo is cost prohibitive for most people. I have had that binder problem with all 3 of the brands you swatch. This isn’t a very scientific comparison in my opinion.
Does It need to be?