A Hidden Gem- Rosa Galleria Watercolors- Unbox & Swatch
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Mentioned in this Video:
St Petersburg White Nights, Yarka St Petersburg, Yarka Student Three Way Comparison: tinyurl.com/ac...
Yarka Student Watercolors- Unbox and Swatch: tinyurl.com/52...
Yarka Student Watercolor Challenge and Tutorial: tinyurl.com/kv...
Yarka St Petersburg Unbox and Swatch: tinyurl.com/5a...
St Petersburg White Nights Unbox and Swatch: tinyurl.com/uc...
St Petersburg White NIghts Fieldtest: tinyurl.com/wj...
Roman Szmal Aquarius Watercolor Unbox and Swatch: tinyurl.com/3t...
Da Vinci Artist Watercolors Unbox and Swatch: tinyurl.com/fp...
Get Your Own: amzn.to/3i324Gr
$36.90 on Amazon
Shownotes: tinyurl.com/4d...
Rosa Galleria Store on Amazon: tinyurl.com/2y...
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• Organic and inorganic pigments
• Organic gumarabic
• High pigment concentration
• Clear and vibrant colours
• The colours and theirs hues in the tubes are identical as in the pans
They make paints, canvases, easels and wood supplies, brushes and palette knives, artbooks and paper, accessories, hobby and craft supplies
The packaging:
Cardboard box with a cardboard belly band. Bright, professional, and attractive- not shrink wrapped.
Belly band contains paint names, pigment info, lightfast info, and transparency info- GOOD JOB ROSA, I really appreciate this!
Packaging is pretty simple, there's a somewhat generic metal painting tin inside the cardboard box, inside the tin are wells for mixing and three rows of whole pans, each individually wrapped with their color name, color number, lightfast info, and opacity.
Colors in this set listed in the linked shownotes
Swatching:
When testing watercolors I'm testing
How easy they are to activate
Looking for muddiness/optical brighteners and extenders
Opacity
Granulation
Ability to blend/wash out
Liftability
These are beautiful, saturated colors that are quick to activate, but do muddy the water quickly.
I like the color selection, how clean the colors are, the granulation. There's definitely some opacity to them, but I think you can avoid muddiness, and they're really responsive paints. I think these would be EXCELLENT paints for folks who want professional quality paints that are quite affordable, available in larger pan sizes, and are immediate to work with. These could be great for artists who work large, or just impatient artists.
Color Mixing:
Manual/ Atomic Mixing: Oh man, these mix so well. You can get some really pretty mixes from these, both secondary colors, and 'fun' colors. There's a bit of granulation, so you can get some really pretty separation, and the blues (ultramarine and cobalt)+ reds (Carmine and Madder Red) make for some really purples and red violets. I'm glad they also included a strong, dark purple-- you can't really mix that. These are fun.
Optical Mixing/Glazing:
Despite allowing the grid to dry for a day, the colors still reactivated readily when glazed. I'm not sure if I applied the paint too thickly (kinda doubtful, but willing to consider it) or if it's the paint itself, or maybe the high humidity right now- I'll keep an open mind during fieldtest, but also try to be aware that these paints might not do well with glazes or optical mixing, especially with strong concentrations.
Wet into Wet: Colors seem to diffuse easily and quickly into water. Straight from the pan, color control can be a bit challenging, as these are somewhat sticky, readily activated paints.
Pros:
Very affordable, especially for professional-quality paints
Full pans, so you get a lot of paint for your $$
Great color selection- 21 colors and no white in sight feels so right
Mix beautifully and cleanly
Cons:
With paints this great, you just wanna be able to order open stock and fill up that palette and doesn't seem to be an option if you're in the US (although lemme know in the comments, with LINKS, if I'm wrong!)
Do muddy the water quickly, so you're gonna want frequent water changes for the best representation of these paints
May not do well with multilayer illustrations or illustrations/paintings that require glazes
Verdict
Yanno how I often say skip student grade and go with a good, inexpensive professional grade? And how I've reviewed quite a number of cheaper professional grades that are really excellent. This is going into that list, for sure. I hope as Rosa becomes more popular, it's more commonly available in the US without a huge hike in pricetag.
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My oldest brother was a pilot for UPS, flying all over the world. It finally dawned on me about a year ago to wonder about the potential for professional watercolors made in other countries that maybe I was not aware of. I did a google search and found information on Rosa which was quite significant for me as my brother just happened to be in Ukraine at that moment. I sent him a text message and asked if he had time and happened by an art supply store if he could pick me up a few of them to try out. Less than an hour later I received a text message back along with a picture of 68 tubes of Rosa watercolors. He had immediately run out and purchased for me every color they had in the store. I don't recall the exact price per tube now, but in US dollars the total cost to him was approximately 120.00 for 68 10ml tubes. I have sincerely enjoyed using the Rosa watercolors and I would definitely recommend them. I pray for the people of Ukraine that they will survive the horrible invasion by Russia they are fighting against at this time.
😯 You are blessed with a great big brother. I have had a hard time getting a few of their tube paints, that are always sold out or the shipping is expensive.
Fantastic value. What a nice brother! I hope more becomes available very soon! I'm envious. 68 colours. Brill!
On the German Amazon There is Rosa Gallerie in metal cases 12, 21, 28 cuvettes, also 14 pieces in 10ml tubes in a wooden case, from 7 Artists supplier. Now in the same place on Amazon there is a Rosa Gallerie set of 21 single-pigment paints. I recently managed to order a Rosa Gallerie classic 28 pieces in a metal case on Amazon. The watercolors by Rosa Gallerie are really of very good professional quality. I really like these colors.
Oh god, I got a tube of Rosa Gallery for free when I ordered a large order of open stock white nights on Etsy. The seller no longer has any listings, sadly. But I absolutely loved the one tube I got of English red. It quickly became my favorite. I haven’t tried the pans yet but I am more than impressed with the quality of the tube. It’s such a nice color. And I personally don’t sell artwork so I’m not worried about lightfastness ratings. I only care about what looks good now and not for the long term so I happily use whatever I think looks great and I was happily surprised with Rosa. I appreciate the review and I just threw a Rosa palette in my cart. Thanks for the excellent review!
On the German Amazon There is Rosa Gallerie in metal cases 12, 21, 28 cuvettes, also 14 pieces in 10ml tubes in a wooden case, from 7 Artists supplier. Now in the same place on Amazon there is a Rosa Gallerie set of 21 single-pigment paints. I recently managed to order a Rosa Gallerie classic 28 pieces in a metal case on Amazon. The watercolors by Rosa Gallerie are really of very good professional quality. I really like these colors.
Thanks for this review! I have recently bought both rosa( monopigmented set (21 pans)) and white nights(48 pan set) and honestly what I have found on different papers especially cotton the Rosa's are much more vibrant and a bit easier to use. They don't get as goopy as w/n and I feel you don't use as much paint either. Rosa's are much cheaper too. But I do enjoy both paints though. But I definitely think roman szmals are better quality than w/n. I wish I knew about Rosa's at the beginning of my love of watercolors thought. But regardless I would have wanted to try other brands anyway lol don't we all? Have a great day
Thank you for the review. The Rosa 28 Classic set is $49 and the Winsor Newton Cotman 45 half pan set with 5 duplicates is over $ 60. Will definitely be going with Rosa Gallery.
I have the Botanical set by Rosa and it’s just great. no problem with drying and layering at all
i discovered rosa several months ago from frugal crafter video- can paints this cheap be any good/ and yes they are. i have bought them off amazon and etsy. and with this video i am going to get another set!
i have had a yarka set for 20 years and thought they were good. i also got a white nights but prefer rosa in performance
Oh man, I really like the tin and the colours. I have the White Nights but I wouldn't mind getting them for those large pans.
maybe it's the climate, but i would guess, not completely dried paint (lower red and blue bands look like quite OK), it does layer well, actually that is the way to paint with these paints, since first layer usualy sinks (depending on paper) and colours become bleak, not that intense, but later layer gets really really vibrant. guess in this regard, these paints are closer to sennelier (not saying they are the same, that would be wrong).
I have also bought a smaller pan set in a tin, of all places, on Walmart website.
That's really cool! Hopefully it makes the palette even more accessible to people! I hope this brand can increase in popularity and exposure without increasing too much in cost!
Insightful video Becca! I'd love a White Nights and Roman Szmal comparison!!!
Thanks, Liz! I'll start diggin for that palette!
@@Nattosoup Awesome! No problem! Take your time and do it whenever you can since I know you're in an evacuation! 😊
@@Nattosoup I did a search and all of their colors such as Magenta Rose, Quinacridone Gold, Quinacridone Violet etc can be purchased on Rusart . It’s a Canadian website. The Etsy seller is out of a lot of these colors most of the time. Rusart does ship to USA 🇺🇸 and accepts PayPal. Hope this helps.
Which would you say are better Rosa Gallery or Roman Szmal? I wanted to get Szmal but the only store in UK is Jacksons and the cost twice as much as Rosa Great video thank you.
The Roman Szmal brand is made in Poland.
I know you mostly want to review new stuff, but you didn't do this kinda review with these tests for the kuretake gansai tambi right? Would love to see that!
I feel like these will go up in price--and I'm tempted to get the 24 set for $28 in the cardboard box and add a magenta rose...but I have white nightsssss!! Ughhh...🤣
🤣🤣🤣🤣 Jackson Pollack was drunk AF 🥃 🍻 too. Rest his soul. That's how he died. Along with a passenger..😢 Thanks for the laugh on his process. 🎨
Rosa Gallery is the professional line, they also have a student line :)) also your pronounciation of Szmal is almost right- it's "shm"(you make a right sound!
Hi from Thibodaux, Louisiana! Going get these paints NOW!!! Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for the first impressions. I do like the form of their pans, which is unusual with the "rounded" edges. So far I only got to try those from the tubes and they performed very well for me. The company is very nice and communicative, I had very nice chats with them and they claim the paints to be vegan, which is nice too.
Nice to see an unboxing and swatch of the Rosa. I've had my eye on these paints, but haven't pulled the trigger. I keep wondering if I would prefer the White Knights. Your video has been helpful.
I really like the look of these, but since I do a lot of florals I am considering their botanical set, however it does include a white which I probably would not get.
In your opinion, what lower cost of professional watercolor set would you prefer for a beginner/almost intermediate colorist? I don't see the Roman szmals watercolor in Amazon right now.
On German Amazon 7 Artists there is a Posa Gallerie set, artistic Botanical watercolors 28 jars of vibrant colors, high quality artistic watercolors in a multi-purpose metal box with mixing palette, artistic watercolor box, watercolor paint box
Hi Becca, Love your channel, your amazing creations and your very informative reviews, Thanks for your hard work and love for watercolor 🌹🙋♀️❤️ one question dear would you recommend this Rosa paints for beginners better than the MaiLiang? Thanks so much, waiting for your recommendation so I can place my order ❤️❤️