My goodness thank you for doing this! I am in Arizona girl and the colors in this set are so perfect for our early morning and evening landscapes. I will have to save my pennies to get it but I will definitely be working toward that. Every single color is ideal for me. Strangely enough especially the ones that you don't like and a few of the ones that you do 😊.
I'm glad you enjoyed this and can find a use for them. It's more that I don't have a purpose for them than I don't like them. I think their granulating sets are some of the best around. I hope you enjoy them when you pick them up. 🙂
I'm totally loving the granulation and separation as well. Immediate texture from zero effort! When I first saw the Hematite Mist I fell in love but it was only available in a set and I didn't need the other hues that came with it, so I mixed my own. I took Daniel Smith's French Ultramarine (PB29) and Winsor & Newton Pro Indian Red (PR101) and mixed them together on a sheet of glass (which I took out of an old picture frame) using a palette knife until they were completely incorporated. It dried down beautifully with no cracks, re-wets like a dream, and looks identical to White Night's version!
I absolutely love this set. It makes some of the most beautiful, celestial skies you will ever see. I’m a fantasy and magical painter and when you mix some of these colors to get the northern lights, it is outstanding! So far everything by white nights I have loved. And I like you, I am wanting a complete palette of granulating colors. I guess it is a new thing?!
I agree, these are wonderful and all of their granulating colors are. It's not a new thing for me. Ever since I first used the Daniel Smith Primateks I have wanted a full palette of granulating colors. They are out there but not many are this special. 🙂
I really like this set for moody waterscapes. The pans are quite similar in colour and in my haste to grab a blue I accidently picked up a green. I turned my beautiful lake into a swamp!
Thank you for this video, I am really into blues and dark greens, especially granulating. I was thinking about getting this set for a long time. Now I think though a lot of colors look nice, I could just mix them from tons of ultramarines I already bought ) The set you reviewed earlier definitely looks more interesting. But again, it was the second attempt and this one was the first try, maybe not entirely amazing, but still OK.
I agree. I definitely liked the previous set better but I did include 4 of these into that set and I'm very happy with the 12 I landed on. These are some of the nicest paints I've worked with and inspire me to create so I think they did their job here. 👍🏻
The Aquamarine Mist will work beautifully for some seashore waters, because if you’ve ever been to the Florida Emerald coast on a beautiful calm summer day, I guarantee you that you’ll see that color!
I know what you mean about the water in Florida. I lived in Hawaii for 20 years. The clean water with the white sand...That color is stunning! The way the darker blue separates from the aqua color...and when it dries, it even looks like there is a viridian green at the edges. So cool!
Awww Pete, I laughed WITH YOU so hard at some of the points in your video. It was a blast to watch!! Thank you for your genuine self and your passion for creating with us all!! Love how you took the time to swatch both ways. It truly gives a more well rounded understanding on how it would perform with different styles of painting. Create with wild abandon!! You are a blessing. 😘
Hey Pete, i noticed on your watercolour videos you prefer to use water brush pen. How do handle water control? Because thats my trouble with those pens. Thanks for sharing?
I do have a video on how to control the water on a water brush. I used to have the same problem and then I made myself use them continuously and now I'm more comfortable using them than traditional brushes. Go to my page and look up "how to use a water brush" and let me know if that helps you. It's easier to see than to explain. If you need more help please let me know.
Really enjoyed this. I write down the pigments and see how my own mixes go and chronicle this for my own education. I don't run out and acquire, cause I can't afford to not cause I don't want to fill up my world with paint and cool stuff
I enjoy your commentary and reflections. Thanks for the swatches! I have a big White Nights single pigment collection...so I will try mixing these mist and shadow colours with what I have. Thanks for adding all the pigment information, it will make my experiment easier.
Your swatch videos clarify for me why I enjoy black and white so much. My mind boggles at all the color changes. Sigh. Maybe this is why I write instead of working on visual arts. Come to think of it, words on a page are generally black on white… fortunately I can enjoy your color choices without being able to use them myself. 😃😃💕💕
The day has come, these "secret" messages are simply the papers that say that your watercolour set had been checked and it meets all the requirements. White nights does this with all of its products, not only the watercolour sets. If I'm not mistaken, it's just the echos of USSR period, when all things had to have these papers
It's also a trackability tool. For items produced in great numbers it's not very practical to mark each single item for trackability, but rather a batch or lot. Marking the product by batch it was checked with is just one of the ways to do it. Also if the client has complains, they can report it using information from this paper and it will help narrow down the problematic volume. Not sure if this still works this way, though. Mostly looks like it's a "nostalgie" touch.
@@IllustrationsByPete before the horizontal line they write the address of the factory - the factory of art materials "Nevsky palette" 197342 (the index) St.Petersburg, Serdobolskaya street, 68. and the phone number. Then they write in bold "Checked by devision of technological control" And the last 3 lines say "We kindly ask you to report about any defects that you have encountered. You should write the serial number of your set on this paper and add it to your letter".
I am new to using watercolours and found this fascinating. Agree with you about the colour names and I love the little pop ups you add in editing 😄 I have been watching your videos for ages now but usually on a different device and can't post comments on it. Looking forward to the video you're going to do on basic colours theroy and the link to the pigment data base is very useful. Thank you for it all .
Hi! Welcome to the obsession that is watercolor. I'm glad you've been enjoying the videos and find them helpful. The color theory is already up on the channel. I hope you enjoy it and I look forward to hearing from you again. 🙂
Another good swatching!! Thank you for putting all the description symbols and pigment numbers in-that helps me a lot!! Sky blue Shadow looks green on my screen … and you’re right, turquoise should be bluish-green, not greenish-blue!!
Typically turquoise is more green (think vacation waters in Bahamas on brochures). I think of it as a bluish green, but with the base color green. Teal is more blue to me, like a greenish blue with blue as the base so I typically find it to be darker. I feel like the watercolor companies use teal and turquoise interchangeably though so it’s kind of a moot point 😂. This is why I love swatch videos so much because the same color names vary brand to brand so much!
The paper you called a secret message is the thing you send with number of restock(партия) it was made. You might want to send it in a mail to factory if something is wrong with paints(mistake in process of making or smth like that) Sorry, I don't speak English very well
I really liked the other set of colors better, but there are a few in this bunch that I would like to have. Some of the names baffle me. I’m with you on that one. Thank you for these videos, they are very helpful. BTW The Sky Blue Mist looks quite green to me…..🤷🏼♀️
I enjoy watching your swatching demos and your art is crazy great. I haven’t watched this shadow/mist until the end but it clearly looks like that someone labeled things incorrectly. Coulda’ been the company, coulda’ maybe been the swatcher? What did you eventually determine, if anything? Thanks! (I am pretty sure Hematite and gray rose are switched and a couple of the shadows shoulda been mists.
I always assume I am to blame. That's ok. I think the shadows are all mixed with black and the mists are not. Something like that, so it's determined by the pigments not the end result. Thank you for the feedback, I plan on doing many more swatching vids in the future. I appreciate you! 🙂
Got to admit that I never go by the names, I always look at the color and if I like it I use it :D. Interesting colors that's for sure! PS - Ever thought about doing something like a chromatography test with these inks to actually see what kind of colors the combined into them? Like they do for fountain pen ink?
I agree, if I like it then I use it. They give me enough pigment info to get a pretty good idea of what they are doing. Like I know that with earth colors, leaving them raw keeps them more yellow/brown while heating them makes them more red/deep. But I'm fine with what they provide. That may be a solution for the Daniel Smith Primateks though since they tell you one component but not the pigment they mix it with.
These were the first they released. I have all of them. I love hematite mist. It's great for shadows. Well, most of these are great for shadows, hence their names LOL
I combined the 2 sets with my favorites from both and I'm very happy with what I ended up with. It's the palette I leave on the end table so I can grab it anytime. 🙂
“you can’t mix with black” they said 😅 I don’t understand all the prohibitions - I like all colours and mixing everything with everything! I’m happy, they mix with black
Thank you! I considered asking for this set for my birthday, but after your review, I see that I don't like the colors nearly as much as the original granulating set!
It’s just that they call every colour based on PBk11 a shadow. And every colour based on the other pigments/mixes (even black pigments, like PBk7) a mist. They assume that PBk11 based colours look more intense or more shadowy, dark, than colours based on the other pigments. Mists are milder, gentler in their book. That’s where this naming is coming from. Something of that sort.
Your grey rose mist hasnt come out as well as it should I don’t think.. a little bit the same with your hematite. They’re two of my favourites! I think I have all of this granulating range now except for one.. the green shadows, Ruby mist, scarlet mist and turquoise rose mist are so lovely too, I can’t remember which ones were in your previous swatch now except for rose mist (which is now my all time favourite watercolour paint ever). It’s disappointing that they don’t do much with pinks though!
All those others were in the other palette and I love them. At the end when I did the wet in wet, the grey rose came out a little better but maybe the camera didn't pick it up so well. I really like their granulating colors. I also wish they added more yellows and true oranges but I enjoy what I have.
@@IllustrationsByPeteOh fair enough! I definitely didn’t get distracted before the very end by the postie delivering a couple of new watercolour pans 🤭 they do have yellow tuff (P.Bk, P.Y34) but it comes out looking like a granulating raw sienna crossed with a yellow ochre I think.. Rosa gallery golden brown is one of the craziest granulations I’ve used yet. It comes out differently every time but it has such a strong colour change and split!
@@IllustrationsByPete they’re so lovely. I hope you do love them. Weird question but your Yellow Tuff, does it smell really different? Mine smells sorta like brown sugar.. and was so noticeable when I opened the packet and still is
It might not be relevant for you, since you seem to usually use Arches paper. However, from what I heard, the granulating effect is better on cellulose paper, so might want to try it 😁 (The hypothesis is that cotton paper absorb some of the color so there's less possibility for the granulating effect to shine) Found this video and channel by looking for this set (a family member is sending it to me from Russia). I liked it, wil explore this channel more
Thank you! I hope you enjoy the content here. I have heard that but I didn't notice that much of a difference. I use these on both and don't see much difference. They are pretty on everything. 🙂
Thank you for your reply! I will, thanks! Oh... sorry for the wrong information then 🙁 I am impatient to try them, I am looking for the delivery order multiple times a day 😆 (They sent me the 21 set. Those colors are so pretty!) Have a great evening/night!
No apology necessary. You're not the first person to say that. I could be missing something myself. Let me know your experience. I hope you enjoy them. 🙂
It is so refreshing to find someone that is down to earth and explains well.
Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed this. 🙂
“I mess a lot of things up sometimes” is the story of me life haha. These are gorgeous!
Me too. Lol. I agree, they really are. 🙂
My goodness thank you for doing this! I am in Arizona girl and the colors in this set are so perfect for our early morning and evening landscapes. I will have to save my pennies to get it but I will definitely be working toward that. Every single color is ideal for me. Strangely enough especially the ones that you don't like and a few of the ones that you do 😊.
I'm glad you enjoyed this and can find a use for them. It's more that I don't have a purpose for them than I don't like them. I think their granulating sets are some of the best around. I hope you enjoy them when you pick them up. 🙂
Love this set! Dark Shadows and Taiga Mist are definitely my favorites!
This is a beautiful set. I'm glad you enjoyed this. Their granulating sets are top notch. 👍🏻
I'm totally loving the granulation and separation as well. Immediate texture from zero effort!
When I first saw the Hematite Mist I fell in love but it was only available in a set and I didn't need the other hues that came with it, so I mixed my own. I took Daniel Smith's French Ultramarine (PB29) and Winsor & Newton Pro Indian Red (PR101) and mixed them together on a sheet of glass (which I took out of an old picture frame) using a palette knife until they were completely incorporated. It dried down beautifully with no cracks, re-wets like a dream, and looks identical to White Night's version!
Very good info. Thank you!
My goodness, I love this set! That Dark blue shadows is glorious! The pbk11 as a black is very granulating so a good choice that they added it.
They are very nice. 👍🏻
I absolutely love this set. It makes some of the most beautiful, celestial skies you will ever see. I’m a fantasy and magical painter and when you mix some of these colors to get the northern lights, it is outstanding! So far everything by white nights I have loved. And I like you, I am wanting a complete palette of granulating colors. I guess it is a new thing?!
I agree, these are wonderful and all of their granulating colors are. It's not a new thing for me. Ever since I first used the Daniel Smith Primateks I have wanted a full palette of granulating colors. They are out there but not many are this special. 🙂
@@IllustrationsByPete agree. I love me some Daniel Smith too. Lol I was just checking out your website.
Thank you. Is there anywhere I can see your work? It sounds like something I would really enjoy.
Oh wow thanks so much! I am russian and now visiting for the 1st time in 2years, so it's a perfect moment to grab one of these. Thank you!!
I'm glad you enjoyed this. I hope you have a great time while you're visiting. 🙂
@@IllustrationsByPete That's very kind of you, thanks😊
I really like this set for moody waterscapes. The pans are quite similar in colour and in my haste to grab a blue I accidently picked up a green. I turned my beautiful lake into a swamp!
Been there. 😂 If I didn't use a small swatch card in the set then I'd be lost.
Thank you for this video, I am really into blues and dark greens, especially granulating. I was thinking about getting this set for a long time. Now I think though a lot of colors look nice, I could just mix them from tons of ultramarines I already bought )
The set you reviewed earlier definitely looks more interesting. But again, it was the second attempt and this one was the first try, maybe not entirely amazing, but still OK.
I agree. I definitely liked the previous set better but I did include 4 of these into that set and I'm very happy with the 12 I landed on. These are some of the nicest paints I've worked with and inspire me to create so I think they did their job here. 👍🏻
The Aquamarine Mist will work beautifully for some seashore waters, because if you’ve ever been to the Florida Emerald coast on a beautiful calm summer day, I guarantee you that you’ll see that color!
Thanks for the info. I'll keep my eyes peeled next time I go down to visit. 🙂
@@IllustrationsByPete It is breathtaking!
I know what you mean about the water in Florida. I lived in Hawaii for 20 years. The clean water with the white sand...That color is stunning! The way the darker blue separates from the aqua color...and when it dries, it even looks like there is a viridian green at the edges. So cool!
@@juleeahlman It’s absolutely stunning!
Awww Pete, I laughed WITH YOU so hard at some of the points in your video. It was a blast to watch!! Thank you for your genuine self and your passion for creating with us all!! Love how you took the time to swatch both ways. It truly gives a more well rounded understanding on how it would perform with different styles of painting. Create with wild abandon!! You are a blessing. 😘
Sorry, for some reason your comment was held for review. Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed this. I appreciate you. 🙂
@@IllustrationsByPete You are very welcome!! So glad you found my comment. Carry on creating more fabulous content!!! xoxo
Hey Pete, i noticed on your watercolour videos you prefer to use water brush pen. How do handle water control? Because thats my trouble with those pens. Thanks for sharing?
I do have a video on how to control the water on a water brush. I used to have the same problem and then I made myself use them continuously and now I'm more comfortable using them than traditional brushes. Go to my page and look up "how to use a water brush" and let me know if that helps you. It's easier to see than to explain. If you need more help please let me know.
Really enjoyed this. I write down the pigments and see how my own mixes go and chronicle this for my own education. I don't run out and acquire, cause I can't afford to not cause I don't want to fill up my world with paint and cool stuff
That's a good idea. 👍🏻
I enjoy your commentary and reflections. Thanks for the swatches! I have a big White Nights single pigment collection...so I will try mixing these mist and shadow colours with what I have. Thanks for adding all the pigment information, it will make my experiment easier.
I'm glad you enjoyed this. 🙂
Your swatch videos clarify for me why I enjoy black and white so much. My mind boggles at all the color changes. Sigh. Maybe this is why I write instead of working on visual arts. Come to think of it, words on a page are generally black on white… fortunately I can enjoy your color choices without being able to use them myself. 😃😃💕💕
Sometimes simplicity is complex enough. 🙂
For me, writing is much harder. There are more words to choose from than there are colors. 😂
I totally agree with your opinion about the greens in these both sets.
Thank you. The paints are pretty great but color matters to me.
I just got both sets Pete and I too an gonna make swatching video! I love my White Nights and so glad that you do too!
They are beautiful. 🙂
I adore your banter!
Thank you! It's the one move I have to entertain. 🙂
The day has come, these "secret" messages are simply the papers that say that your watercolour set had been checked and it meets all the requirements. White nights does this with all of its products, not only the watercolour sets. If I'm not mistaken, it's just the echos of USSR period, when all things had to have these papers
Just another clue. Now what do they mean by that? 🤔
It's also a trackability tool. For items produced in great numbers it's not very practical to mark each single item for trackability, but rather a batch or lot. Marking the product by batch it was checked with is just one of the ways to do it.
Also if the client has complains, they can report it using information from this paper and it will help narrow down the problematic volume.
Not sure if this still works this way, though. Mostly looks like it's a "nostalgie" touch.
@@IllustrationsByPete before the horizontal line they write the address of the factory - the factory of art materials "Nevsky palette" 197342 (the index) St.Petersburg, Serdobolskaya street, 68. and the phone number.
Then they write in bold "Checked by devision of technological control"
And the last 3 lines say "We kindly ask you to report about any defects that you have encountered. You should write the serial number of your set on this paper and add it to your letter".
@@IllustrationsByPete So it's just for feedback if you have some issues with your art supplies
Thank you, I appreciate all the info. I'm just having some fun with it. 🙂
I am new to using watercolours and found this fascinating. Agree with you about the colour names and I love the little pop ups you add in editing 😄 I have been watching your videos for ages now but usually on a different device and can't post comments on it. Looking forward to the video you're going to do on basic colours theroy and the link to the pigment data base is very useful. Thank you for it all .
Hi! Welcome to the obsession that is watercolor. I'm glad you've been enjoying the videos and find them helpful. The color theory is already up on the channel. I hope you enjoy it and I look forward to hearing from you again. 🙂
Another good swatching!! Thank you for putting all the description symbols and pigment numbers in-that helps me a lot!! Sky blue Shadow looks green on my screen … and you’re right, turquoise should be bluish-green, not greenish-blue!!
Thank you Anna! I'm glad you enjoyed it. Nice to know that all the info helps. 🙂
Typically turquoise is more green (think vacation waters in Bahamas on brochures). I think of it as a bluish green, but with the base color green. Teal is more blue to me, like a greenish blue with blue as the base so I typically find it to be darker. I feel like the watercolor companies use teal and turquoise interchangeably though so it’s kind of a moot point 😂. This is why I love swatch videos so much because the same color names vary brand to brand so much!
I think they are confusing the two.
The paper you called a secret message is the thing you send with number of restock(партия) it was made. You might want to send it in a mail to factory if something is wrong with paints(mistake in process of making or smth like that)
Sorry, I don't speak English very well
Thank you for the info. 👍🏻
Yay! So excited!
🙂
I really liked the other set of colors better, but there are a few in this bunch that I would like to have. Some of the names baffle me. I’m with you on that one. Thank you for these videos, they are very helpful. BTW The Sky Blue Mist looks quite green to me…..🤷🏼♀️
I agree. I did pull 4 colors out of the other set and include 4 from this set. I'm glad you enjoy these. 🙂
Your comment about the Dark Blue Shadows and the Blue Shadows is exactly what I think everytime I'm looking to use this colors. I get confused lol...
Don't feel bad. I was told all the shadow colors have a black pigment in them. It makes sense that way but it doesn't reflect in the actual colors.
The sky blue shadow looks green because they use cobalt turquoise variation of PB28.
Very helpful Video!! Tanks
Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed it. 🙂
I enjoy watching your swatching demos and your art is crazy great. I haven’t watched this shadow/mist until the end but it clearly looks like that someone labeled things incorrectly. Coulda’ been the company, coulda’ maybe been the swatcher? What did you eventually determine, if anything? Thanks! (I am pretty sure Hematite and gray rose are switched and a couple of the shadows shoulda been mists.
I always assume I am to blame. That's ok. I think the shadows are all mixed with black and the mists are not. Something like that, so it's determined by the pigments not the end result. Thank you for the feedback, I plan on doing many more swatching vids in the future. I appreciate you! 🙂
@@IllustrationsByPete Thank you for your reply & that clarification . 👍🏻😁
Thanks! I'd watch a granulated paint swatch series! Just an idea
That is a great idea! 🙂
Got to admit that I never go by the names, I always look at the color and if I like it I use it :D.
Interesting colors that's for sure!
PS - Ever thought about doing something like a chromatography test with these inks to actually see what kind of colors the combined into them?
Like they do for fountain pen ink?
I agree, if I like it then I use it. They give me enough pigment info to get a pretty good idea of what they are doing. Like I know that with earth colors, leaving them raw keeps them more yellow/brown while heating them makes them more red/deep. But I'm fine with what they provide. That may be a solution for the Daniel Smith Primateks though since they tell you one component but not the pigment they mix it with.
These were the first they released. I have all of them. I love hematite mist. It's great for shadows. Well, most of these are great for shadows, hence their names LOL
I combined the 2 sets with my favorites from both and I'm very happy with what I ended up with. It's the palette I leave on the end table so I can grab it anytime. 🙂
The ones called shadows all have black and the others dont. If you pre-wet them they separate better and you see the colors more.
That's a good observation. Thanks!
Have you have mixed the labels? Cause it really seems like the names don’t match the colors
That's what I thought too, but I double checked everything and it was correct. Just strange naming for these.
“you can’t mix with black” they said 😅 I don’t understand all the prohibitions - I like all colours and mixing everything with everything! I’m happy, they mix with black
I'm with you. If it works, it works. 👍🏻
Thank you! I considered asking for this set for my birthday, but after your review, I see that I don't like the colors nearly as much as the original granulating set!
I agree. The other set is much more my speed. Glad I could help. 🙂
I have hematite mist and its one of my favs atm
These are beautiful paints. So many are wonderful. 👍🏻
It’s just that they call every colour based on PBk11 a shadow.
And every colour based on the other pigments/mixes (even black pigments, like PBk7) a mist.
They assume that PBk11 based colours look more intense or more shadowy, dark, than colours based on the other pigments.
Mists are milder, gentler in their book.
That’s where this naming is coming from.
Something of that sort.
Thank you for the info. 👍🏻
@@IllustrationsByPete You are welcome! 😊
Your grey rose mist hasnt come out as well as it should I don’t think.. a little bit the same with your hematite. They’re two of my favourites!
I think I have all of this granulating range now except for one.. the green shadows, Ruby mist, scarlet mist and turquoise rose mist are so lovely too, I can’t remember which ones were in your previous swatch now except for rose mist (which is now my all time favourite watercolour paint ever). It’s disappointing that they don’t do much with pinks though!
All those others were in the other palette and I love them. At the end when I did the wet in wet, the grey rose came out a little better but maybe the camera didn't pick it up so well. I really like their granulating colors. I also wish they added more yellows and true oranges but I enjoy what I have.
@@IllustrationsByPeteOh fair enough! I definitely didn’t get distracted before the very end by the postie delivering a couple of new watercolour pans 🤭 they do have yellow tuff (P.Bk, P.Y34) but it comes out looking like a granulating raw sienna crossed with a yellow ochre I think.. Rosa gallery golden brown is one of the craziest granulations I’ve used yet. It comes out differently every time but it has such a strong colour change and split!
That sounds great! I'll have to try it. I'm reviewing some Rosa's next month. I hope they turn out as good as everyone says. 👍🏻
@@IllustrationsByPete they’re so lovely. I hope you do love them. Weird question but your Yellow Tuff, does it smell really different? Mine smells sorta like brown sugar.. and was so noticeable when I opened the packet and still is
No, I didn't notice it. I wish it did. That sounds great! 😂
It might not be relevant for you, since you seem to usually use Arches paper. However, from what I heard, the granulating effect is better on cellulose paper, so might want to try it 😁
(The hypothesis is that cotton paper absorb some of the color so there's less possibility for the granulating effect to shine)
Found this video and channel by looking for this set (a family member is sending it to me from Russia). I liked it, wil explore this channel more
Thank you! I hope you enjoy the content here. I have heard that but I didn't notice that much of a difference. I use these on both and don't see much difference. They are pretty on everything. 🙂
Thank you for your reply!
I will, thanks!
Oh... sorry for the wrong information then 🙁
I am impatient to try them, I am looking for the delivery order multiple times a day 😆 (They sent me the 21 set. Those colors are so pretty!)
Have a great evening/night!
No apology necessary. You're not the first person to say that. I could be missing something myself. Let me know your experience. I hope you enjoy them. 🙂
This insert says “Checked by Quality Control Department, for quality issues please contact this address”
Thank you. 🙂
Oh, I just noticed that swatches look like exclamation marks!
That's my happy accident. 🙂
@@IllustrationsByPete 😃
And I miss Bob Ross. His happy little accidents help people get through all hardships.
I miss him too. I still go back and watch his show for inspiration. 🙂