I do like these natural colour hues. Actually, this natural Lapis Lazuli is probably one of the best I have seen. A number of manufacturers have tried to offer this pigment including a special edition from Schmincke and all were almost unusable weak, even straight from the tube, and often contained odd flecks from impurities within the source mineral. The quality of mineral required to obtain a much more vivid pigment would need to be of gem quality which is becoming increasingly rare and would make it prohibitively expensive... I think they have done an incredible job in producing this to the quality they have.
Hello Teoh, a note on the burnt marking on the underside of the wooden box. It is the marking to indicate that the wood as been treated against bugs and can be shipped internationally with out any risk of introducing non indigenous species to the country of import.
Five years on. Surprisingly the swatch out I kept in the open (top of box) shows only one drastic change and that is to the yellow plant based colour, I think it is wold. It has changed completely to a blueish white. The yellow next to it in the 12 half pan box has slightly browned but has not faded. This is true of all the other colours, minor shifts in hue but no fading. I added Scm. Lapis, W&N Rose madder, and Kremer gold and silver to make a set of 16 housed an a heavyweight Fome palette. My exposed sample has been knocking about on my desk which gets direct sunlight, and I think framed under UV glass these colours would all last well, in a book they will be fine. Except for the one colour which can be compensated for by mixing a very similar colour from transparent pigment based watercolours, I am still as pleased with these paints as when I received them. The colours have a pleasing softness and harmony together, and my additions just enhance the selection.
FYI - The pronunciation of malachite is MAL-a-kite (long “I” sound.) I don’t know the correct phonetic representation . Not intended as a criticism - especially since you speak more languages than I! - but you were struggling with the word. 😊 Most of the colors are really lovely, but these are quite expensive sets if one wanted only a couple of the paints. Thank you for the review!
Beautiful colors and really like that packaging they come in! Always so great to see a new watercolor product on the market. I get so hooked on Daniel Smith, M. Graham, and Schmincke that I forget about the smaller, private companies that are so worth checking out! Thank you, Teoh, and I hope you are well! :)
These are really special, lovely pigments used by the Old Masters, at least 4 pigments here used in Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring, Weld Yellow, Indigo, Cochineal, Lapis Lazuli, and more if add the earth pigments. I have not seen Weld Yellow in any other current watercolour brands before. Really great!
I bought three of these to add more blues to my gemstone watercolor set which I made from scratch out of stones that I crushed finely and mixed with homemade binder. I bought Nila Colori's Smalt Blue, Egyptian blue and Blue Verditer, but I haven't tried them yet which led me to your video. About Ultramarine and Lapis lazuli, they are different pigments, and I have made my own paint from both. Lapis lazuli is a natural mineral while ultramarine is a synthetic blue. Both are great and you can get a color that is as saturated as ultramarine from Lapis lazuli through an extremely complex extraction method, this seems genuine crushed Lapis lazuli without the complex extraction. You can see more about it by searching RUclips for "Master Pigments Fra Angelico blue".
Bravo for another wonderful video. Very curious about this palette as it uses some HIGHLY fugitive pigments. Cochineal is widely considered very fugitive. I was delighted to see the natural indigo though I don't know what I'd use such a dark natural pigment for. As a few others have mentioned, Malachite is pronounced with a hard "K" for the CH. It's named for the stone it comes from and is occasionally spelled with a Q in other languages (in Spanish for example, "MALAQUITE". The Lapis Lazuli here is prettier than the Daniel Smith which I own and find very disappointing. It is not as intense here (or in Daniel Smith) because it's such a horribly expensive stone it would be cost-prohibitive at stronger strength ($100 a tube and up). But this version here is much more beautiful in wash than the Daniel Smith.
I wait to see how you are going to use these colors and if they please you in drawing, I hope that the natural pigments justify this price. Thank you for sharing Teoh.
That looks like one of the better ultramarine blues that's you can get in watercolor. Would like to be a pan to try myself and see if it can become my .ain't ultramarine blue on my pallette
These are the last item on my watercolour wish list, but I am on a self-imposed ban till next year! It was lovely seeing them being used, it will be interesting to see how they work for you. The earthy tones are lovely. So nice to see a pretty Lapis lazuli, the ds looks so disappointing, and the schminke is nice but not such a pure looking colour. Thanks for this video.
I admire your self restraint. Any tips on not buying stuff I don't need? I'm doing my best but not sure I'll be able to hold out if I see something really pretty on a good offer! Hopeless..... this is with the incentive if being in the middle of a house purchase too!
Dee S Same here. I can usually restrain myself from buying most things, but not art supplies lol. I just can't resist. Especially when the art store has good sales and coupons....
Hi Linda, This is my last restraint for the year. Lapis Lazuli is what is presented. I have it from other vendors. Not my favorite. The pricing is not too bad compared to other handmade colors. I purchased the 8 whole pan set.
Never heard of these. They look lovely. Thanks for the review. I really must stop watching, you always make me want to spend money. That raw umber earth looks particularly good. Also, malachite is pronounced Mal a kite. It is a copper corrosion product.
I'm really enjoying looking at natural pigments. Stoneworks Mill (I saw @Dayi Tofu's channel) is also just as lovely and quite similar! Especially those almost pastel (!?) yellows. Also - it must be the paper... maybe - try again! Paint on some arches... just for fun! Cheers!
I was going to order some a while ago from this company, but the shipping was going to be $80 to Australia, so needless to say I did not go ahead. shame.
Wow! These are beautiful colors and packaging as well! Have you heard of Pigment Tokyo? They also make pigments out of natural things and they have over 4,000 different colors from what I understand. I will have to check this Italian company out as well! I really like the Lapis Lazuli colors as well as the other blues. I think the Ultramarine is my favorite color in this set.
Really wanna see one illustration paint with it. I am in love and wanna to test it ! I hesitate to buy some kremer watercolor but this paint are really beautiful too !
The Kremer colours are a bit most robust I think, very very light stable, these Nila Colori ones are a bit more specialist in a way, being vegetal and mineral rather than pigment. I think it depends on your needs, if your work is mainly in notebooks or to be reproduced these could be lovely, for more general work and likely to be hung or displayed probably Kremer will have a longer life. Both look great so good luck whatever you do.
Doubt I'll be getting these any time soon. Really nice colors though. Does it bother you how the ink repels the color? How will you get around this if you do urban sketching with pen first?
One day, could you please look at Dr PH Martin Hydrus watercolors? Kendyll Hillegas has been using them lately and they seem nice, wanted your opinion on them. Thanks
I think the YT channel Watercolor Misfit has reviews for them. I'm not going to be reviewing them anytime soon. I've too many supplies I need to finish using soon.
That ultramarine is so beautiful. Is that really real ultramarine from Lapis? Wow I think the reason why Lapis isn't as intense as their ultramarine because it's freaking expensive. If I remember, DS also has Lapis in their primatek series. It's even worse than this.
sorry about this because it doesn't have anything to do with the video, but the new ipad pro came out and the 12.9 inch is more expensive than the last generation (when they came out), do you think that it is worth it? I'll be waiting for the review.
I'll make a video talking about the new iPad features and specs tomorrow. From what I can see, the iPad Pro 2017 is more worth the money. Drawing experience is already very good on the iPad Pro 2017 and it's not going to be that different with the 2018 model. Main difference comes down to the additional shortcuts (tap and double tap on Apple Pencil 2018 to access tools, functions), but for that you are paying a HUGE price difference.
Teoh Yi Chie I’m excited to watch the video. The one thing that get me to want the 2018 version is the fact that I can use rhe desktop version of the Autocad. I’ll see if by December (that’s when I will buy an ipad) there’s still the 12.9 inch 2017 in the malls where I’m buying, since apple stopped selling the 12.9 inch in their store only the 10.5 inch remains. Thanks for the response and I’ll be waiting for the video.
usually like most things that you review, but this set does nothing for me. The packaging is impractical especially with the foam base. And the wax seal on the small tin seems quite gimmicky. I don't like the quality of the paints either and there seems to be something strange going on with binder being repelled by the ink, as well as an issue with intensity or finish of most of the paints. I will pass on these.
I love the packaging. Love it when a company spends their time presenting their product.
I do like these natural colour hues. Actually, this natural Lapis Lazuli is probably one of the best I have seen. A number of manufacturers have tried to offer this pigment including a special edition from Schmincke and all were almost unusable weak, even straight from the tube, and often contained odd flecks from impurities within the source mineral. The quality of mineral required to obtain a much more vivid pigment would need to be of gem quality which is becoming increasingly rare and would make it prohibitively expensive... I think they have done an incredible job in producing this to the quality they have.
the best original Lapislazzuli genuine watercolor is produced by Zecchi. It's intense like the syntetic french ultramarine
Hello Teoh, a note on the burnt marking on the underside of the wooden box. It is the marking to indicate that the wood as been treated against bugs and can be shipped internationally with out any risk of introducing non indigenous species to the country of import.
I didn't know that. Thanks! Cool
Lovely palette. Can't wait to see you paint with them.
Five years on. Surprisingly the swatch out I kept in the open (top of box) shows only one drastic change and that is to the yellow plant based colour, I think it is wold. It has changed completely to a blueish white. The yellow next to it in the 12 half pan box has slightly browned but has not faded. This is true of all the other colours, minor shifts in hue but no fading. I added Scm. Lapis, W&N Rose madder, and Kremer gold and silver to make a set of 16 housed an a heavyweight Fome palette. My exposed sample has been knocking about on my desk which gets direct sunlight, and I think framed under UV glass these colours would all last well, in a book they will be fine. Except for the one colour which can be compensated for by mixing a very similar colour from transparent pigment based watercolours, I am still as pleased with these paints as when I received them. The colours have a pleasing softness and harmony together, and my additions just enhance the selection.
FYI - The pronunciation of malachite is MAL-a-kite (long “I” sound.) I don’t know the correct phonetic representation . Not intended as a criticism - especially since you speak more languages than I! - but you were struggling with the word. 😊 Most of the colors are really lovely, but these are quite expensive sets if one wanted only a couple of the paints. Thank you for the review!
Beautiful colors and really like that packaging they come in! Always so great to see a new watercolor product on the market. I get so hooked on Daniel Smith, M. Graham, and Schmincke that I forget about the smaller, private companies that are so worth checking out! Thank you, Teoh, and I hope you are well! :)
These are really special, lovely pigments used by the Old Masters, at least 4 pigments here used in Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring, Weld Yellow, Indigo, Cochineal, Lapis Lazuli, and more if add the earth pigments. I have not seen Weld Yellow in any other current watercolour brands before. Really great!
They look very nice. the packaging is lovely. Can't wait for the full review and mixing some of the colors.
Hi Teoh,
Thank you for the review. I purchased the 8-whole pan set. Lovely colors.
Great review! I am learning so much from watching your channel. I love the granulating earth and blues so the mineral pigments are of interest to me.
Thank you for the quick review!
the weld yellow and maia green are very pretty! GOOD video as always Teoh
These look interesting, I’ve never heard of them previously so thanks for your review!
I bought three of these to add more blues to my gemstone watercolor set which I made from scratch out of stones that I crushed finely and mixed with homemade binder.
I bought Nila Colori's Smalt Blue, Egyptian blue and Blue Verditer, but I haven't tried them yet which led me to your video.
About Ultramarine and Lapis lazuli, they are different pigments, and I have made my own paint from both. Lapis lazuli is a natural mineral while ultramarine is a synthetic blue.
Both are great and you can get a color that is as saturated as ultramarine from Lapis lazuli through an extremely complex extraction method, this seems genuine crushed Lapis lazuli without the complex extraction.
You can see more about it by searching RUclips for "Master Pigments Fra Angelico blue".
thanks for this review , it's very interresting to view the real colors on paper
I'll be interested to see what you think of this paint as I have been thinking of ordering a small set. Great to see all the swatches!
Bravo for another wonderful video.
Very curious about this palette as it uses some HIGHLY fugitive pigments. Cochineal is widely considered very fugitive. I was delighted to see the natural indigo though I don't know what I'd use such a dark natural pigment for.
As a few others have mentioned, Malachite is pronounced with a hard "K" for the CH. It's named for the stone it comes from and is occasionally spelled with a Q in other languages (in Spanish for example, "MALAQUITE".
The Lapis Lazuli here is prettier than the Daniel Smith which I own and find very disappointing. It is not as intense here (or in Daniel Smith) because it's such a horribly expensive stone it would be cost-prohibitive at stronger strength ($100 a tube and up). But this version here is much more beautiful in wash than the Daniel Smith.
Thank you!!! I look forward to seeing how your paintings come along :-) Love wishes for your family, your lovely wife, and baby girl
Thanks :-)
I wait to see how you are going to use these colors and if they please you in drawing, I hope that the natural pigments justify this price. Thank you for sharing Teoh.
I love the wooden box. How about gluing a thin sheet of white plastic to the underside of the slide off lid, as a mixing palette?
The burnt sienna looks super nice!
Appreciate your review. TY Also enjoyed your live stream :) Tiffany is darling; I can see your love for her.
The colors actually look really nice!
Can't wait to see how it will look like when used in sketching! 😊
The granulation is interesting, I like the resist from the ink. Is it due to magnetic repulsion or the binder?
Thanks for the review Teoh!
That looks like one of the better ultramarine blues that's you can get in watercolor. Would like to be a pan to try myself and see if it can become my .ain't ultramarine blue on my pallette
really watching your videos is so enjoyable
Lapis is/was also very prominent in Egypt as it was used for jewelry back in ancient Egypt between royalty and the Pharaohs.
I love this .. I'm such a palette junkie but these are a bit out of my budget.. Enjoy them Teoh. !
Malachite (prounounced mala-kite)...copper carbonate hydroxide (i had to look it up...😊)
Gorgeous paints. I hope you will paint with them. ^_^
Thank you Teoh !
These are the last item on my watercolour wish list, but I am on a self-imposed ban till next year! It was lovely seeing them being used, it will be interesting to see how they work for you. The earthy tones are lovely. So nice to see a pretty Lapis lazuli, the ds looks so disappointing, and the schminke is nice but not such a pure looking colour. Thanks for this video.
I admire your self restraint. Any tips on not buying stuff I don't need? I'm doing my best but not sure I'll be able to hold out if I see something really pretty on a good offer! Hopeless..... this is with the incentive if being in the middle of a house purchase too!
Dee S Same here. I can usually restrain myself from buying most things, but not art supplies lol. I just can't resist. Especially when the art store has good sales and coupons....
Hi Linda,
This is my last restraint for the year. Lapis Lazuli is what is presented. I have it from other vendors. Not my favorite. The pricing is not too bad compared to other handmade colors. I purchased the 8 whole pan set.
Never heard of these. They look lovely. Thanks for the review. I really must stop watching, you always make me want to spend money.
That raw umber earth looks particularly good.
Also, malachite is pronounced Mal a kite. It is a copper corrosion product.
I'm really enjoying looking at natural pigments. Stoneworks Mill (I saw @Dayi Tofu's channel) is also just as lovely and quite similar! Especially those almost pastel (!?) yellows. Also - it must be the paper... maybe - try again! Paint on some arches... just for fun! Cheers!
I'll try again on higher quality paper.
I was going to order some a while ago from this company, but the shipping was going to be $80 to Australia, so needless to say I did not go ahead. shame.
Wow. The shipping is insane 😱
@@teohyc I thought it must have been a typo so emailed them and they said it was right
they look so nice :)
Wow! These are beautiful colors and packaging as well! Have you heard of Pigment Tokyo? They also make pigments out of natural things and they have over 4,000 different colors from what I understand. I will have to check this Italian company out as well! I really like the Lapis Lazuli colors as well as the other blues. I think the Ultramarine is my favorite color in this set.
Thanks for the info. I've not heard of that company before
the color repelling must be caused by the water resistance/proofness of the ink
Nice video! Didn't know these paints! I still hope to see you do a video review of Holbein, to update the one in the website. :)
Lovely paints by the look of them. Are you not supposed to use them in the wooden box? The presentation really is lovely, I must say!
Really wanna see one illustration paint with it. I am in love and wanna to test it ! I hesitate to buy some kremer watercolor but this paint are really beautiful too !
The Kremer colours are a bit most robust I think, very very light stable, these Nila Colori ones are a bit more specialist in a way, being vegetal and mineral rather than pigment. I think it depends on your needs, if your work is mainly in notebooks or to be reproduced these could be lovely, for more general work and likely to be hung or displayed probably Kremer will have a longer life. Both look great so good luck whatever you do.
Doubt I'll be getting these any time soon. Really nice colors though. Does it bother you how the ink repels the color? How will you get around this if you do urban sketching with pen first?
Not sure why it repels. It is irritating. You really can't tell when it will happen. Or just use pencil.
@@teohyc True. I noticed it was worse on some colors than others.
has more dark colors wich is good but over price for me seems more advance pallet since need nother tray to store them in to use
Never heard of them before. From this video I think I should check them out, hmm
Intensity wise seems to be less strong....ultramarine however is really strong.... genuine indigo too
One day, could you please look at Dr PH Martin Hydrus watercolors? Kendyll Hillegas has been using them lately and they seem nice, wanted your opinion on them. Thanks
I think the YT channel Watercolor Misfit has reviews for them. I'm not going to be reviewing them anytime soon. I've too many supplies I need to finish using soon.
love that indigo :)
/what is the brand for this sketchbook u used in this video?
thx in advance
Hahnemuhle sketchbook
no one hate cuZ this is great
The price doesn't seem to be too expensive for the paint
Hi Teoh. You can also call it mal ah kite. Your country is beautiful!
Kite like the ones in the sky? Or kit? 😂
That ultramarine is so beautiful. Is that really real ultramarine from Lapis? Wow
I think the reason why Lapis isn't as intense as their ultramarine because it's freaking expensive. If I remember, DS also has Lapis in their primatek series. It's even worse than this.
Mala Kite
You should try "Zecchi" watercolour too! www.zecchi.it/products.php?category=24
www.zecchi.it/products.php?category=34
sorry about this because it doesn't have anything to do with the video, but the new ipad pro came out and the 12.9 inch is more expensive than the last generation (when they came out), do you think that it is worth it? I'll be waiting for the review.
I'll make a video talking about the new iPad features and specs tomorrow. From what I can see, the iPad Pro 2017 is more worth the money. Drawing experience is already very good on the iPad Pro 2017 and it's not going to be that different with the 2018 model. Main difference comes down to the additional shortcuts (tap and double tap on Apple Pencil 2018 to access tools, functions), but for that you are paying a HUGE price difference.
BUy a nice hardly used 10.5 pro with pencil, case and keyboard for around $525...... I just did!!
Teoh Yi Chie I’m excited to watch the video. The one thing that get me to want the 2018 version is the fact that I can use rhe desktop version of the Autocad. I’ll see if by December (that’s when I will buy an ipad) there’s still the 12.9 inch 2017 in the malls where I’m buying, since apple stopped selling the 12.9 inch in their store only the 10.5 inch remains. Thanks for the response and I’ll be waiting for the video.
Teoh Yi Chie do you think that the 11 inch will be more worth it for artist or the 2017 12.9 inch?
It is italian! It is Nila colòri and not còlori.
Try selling chrysanthemum logo stuff in china 😂. They call them “butthole flowers” because of how they look.
usually like most things that you review, but this set does nothing for me. The packaging is impractical especially with the foam base. And the wax seal on the small tin seems quite gimmicky. I don't like the quality of the paints either and there seems to be something strange going on with binder being repelled by the ink, as well as an issue with intensity or finish of most of the paints. I will pass on these.