Interesting video, so glad someone finally did a real test after years of rumors! I used WN for years and still prefer some of their colors. A few tips that have helped me: 1. a drop of glycerin helps tube paint rewet in pans, especially for the mineral colors like potter's pink, etc or if you have old tubes that have hardened (a common problem for earlier WN formulations). I just attended a WN demo and found out that they use already use glycerin in their paints so it makes sense that it works. This tip works for other mineral paint brands that are hard to rewet, or you can use honey (but honey can make the paint sticky and attract bees in some climates) 2. If you have trouble with the caps being too tight, just soak the tubes in water for awhile and they open really easily--occasionally it will take an overnight soak for old tubes to open, but it beats twisting the cap with pliers until the tube breaks. Hope this helps the earlier commenter who is going to try glycerin and honey, would like to hear her experience with it! Thanks for sharing, Becca!
I only have one tube of Winsor Newton, a dioxazine, purple and it rewets as well as any of my Daniel Smith and I've had that pan dried for years. I think the pigments more dictate the rewetting within a single brand than pan versus tube (Potter's Pink, real Veridian, etc are hard to rewet no matter the brand). I have some Daniel Smith pans that don't rewet as well as the tubes I poured and dried. And their stick watercolors don't rewet as well. I bought a bunch of those thinking that I was money smart and am not thrilled. Anyway, pan, tube, pigment, all play a role in rewetting, more than brand, no matter what Winsor Newton tells us.
Hi Becca, these are Windsor Newton Artist version, right? Have you done similar testing for Cottman version or the student version (dry 1/2 - pan vs tubest). I'm novice in Watercolor, so pardon my silly questions. And what is the difference (paint colors n mixture technicals) between WN Artist Brand n WN Cottman Student Brand, other than the price? Above video is very informative. Thank you very much. And Happy New Year -- Ghent (j-ent).
How do the dried tube pans look better than the fresh tubes lol. I don't think the regular pans look any worse than fresh or dried tube. The mass tone swatch could easily be user error, ie not soaking for long enough.
I've seen a RUclips video about a guy who tested a yellowish colour and alizarin crimson's lightfastness, one year of exposure to the sun. The result given was that the genuine pigment for alizarin crimson isn't that lightfast :( (Edit oh wait, I paused your video to talk about alizarin crimson just before you talked that this color isn't too lightfast, my bad)
I loved your review so much!! I would appreciate if you add some text in the vedio for example write the price it will be easy for non English people to follow up :D thnx
Interesting video, so glad someone finally did a real test after years of rumors! I used WN for years and still prefer some of their colors. A few tips that have helped me: 1. a drop of glycerin helps tube paint rewet in pans, especially for the mineral colors like potter's pink, etc or if you have old tubes that have hardened (a common problem for earlier WN formulations). I just attended a WN demo and found out that they use already use glycerin in their paints so it makes sense that it works. This tip works for other mineral paint brands that are hard to rewet, or you can use honey (but honey can make the paint sticky and attract bees in some climates) 2. If you have trouble with the caps being too tight, just soak the tubes in water for awhile and they open really easily--occasionally it will take an overnight soak for old tubes to open, but it beats twisting the cap with pliers until the tube breaks. Hope this helps the earlier commenter who is going to try glycerin and honey, would like to hear her experience with it!
Thanks for sharing, Becca!
I only have one tube of Winsor Newton, a dioxazine, purple and it rewets as well as any of my Daniel Smith and I've had that pan dried for years. I think the pigments more dictate the rewetting within a single brand than pan versus tube (Potter's Pink, real Veridian, etc are hard to rewet no matter the brand). I have some Daniel Smith pans that don't rewet as well as the tubes I poured and dried. And their stick watercolors don't rewet as well. I bought a bunch of those thinking that I was money smart and am not thrilled. Anyway, pan, tube, pigment, all play a role in rewetting, more than brand, no matter what Winsor Newton tells us.
I’ve been curious about this since I first heard of that claim; thanks for the thoughtful look at all three options!
There's a recipe to make the dry tube paints easier to rewet using glycerin honey and oxgall not sure what it is but I'm about to test it out
And? I'd love to know!
Hi Becca, these are Windsor Newton Artist version, right? Have you done similar testing for Cottman version or the student version (dry 1/2 - pan vs tubest). I'm novice in Watercolor, so pardon my silly questions. And what is the difference (paint colors n mixture technicals) between WN Artist Brand n WN Cottman Student Brand, other than the price? Above video is very informative. Thank you very much. And Happy New Year -- Ghent (j-ent).
I use tubes dryed up in pans and they look the same to me.
Txs for this test.
So you use paint from the tube into water and then use it?
How do the dried tube pans look better than the fresh tubes lol. I don't think the regular pans look any worse than fresh or dried tube. The mass tone swatch could easily be user error, ie not soaking for long enough.
Where did you purchase the tin palette in the video at around 20:06? It holds so many colors and I really like this. Thank you.
Looks like a Jackson’s. U can get plenty of halfpans in one of theirs
@@21Parmesh Thank you.
I've seen a RUclips video about a guy who tested a yellowish colour and alizarin crimson's lightfastness, one year of exposure to the sun. The result given was that the genuine pigment for alizarin crimson isn't that lightfast :(
(Edit oh wait, I paused your video to talk about alizarin crimson just before you talked that this color isn't too lightfast, my bad)
I loved your review so much!!
I would appreciate if you add some text in the vedio for example write the price it will be easy for non English people to follow up :D thnx
That is why you pay more for the pan colors
Pan colors have more pigment and don’t have gum Arabic in them