Product Review 42: Jackson's Art Supplies Watercolours - 12 full-pan set and tubes
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- Опубликовано: 8 фев 2025
- The lovely people at Jackson's Art Supplies in the UK sent me these paints to try out and see what my thoughts were - I've posted more information and links to buy these products over on my website:
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I love Jacksons watercolour. I love how the tube pain remains soft and re-wets instantly (except when they get covered in dog hair) The only colour I was disappointed in was my Raw Sienna. I have always loved WN Raw Sienna with its very transparent yellow hue. Jacksons PBr7 is more opaque and a muddy brown.
Wonderful video, thank you! I was utterly transfixed by all the information you poured out, and watching these beautiful, beautiful paints. I will definately buy Jackson's paints, or ask them for Christmas, as all my money is already earmarked. The curse of a big family.. Hope you're feeling better!
+dryad They are at a “special price” until Monday I believe but are super economical anyway - and they may have post-Xmas sales too (just come back to my website and follow the affiliate links - guy’s gotta eat ;) ). There’s brush reviews of their own brand products coming tomorrow!
Thank you, glad to see you doing vids again
You're welcome!
I just found your channel and am very impressed with your dedication and very clear explanation. Funny enough I just ordered this Jackson watercolour paint set in tubes .
Also I got the huge porcelain 32 well palette . I so enjoyed this comprehensive review , thank you .
You’re welcome :)
Great review, thank you very much for sharing. I also love Jackson's watercolors, have bought some individual full pans. Now I'm wondering, whether you're able to squeeze another 7 full pans in the middle of those two rows to have 21 full pans. Would you please try and let me know? Thank you very much in advance!
Hello fellow EDSer! I don’t often meet men with EDS. Thank you for this video. I have been on the fence about whether to buy a Jackson’s set or a White Nights, and this video makes me lean toward a Jackson’s custom set, and your advice helps me decide which colors to choose for my palette.
Blokes with EDS aren’t that uncommon online - Twitter has lots of us - but I met my first just before Christmas, IRL!
The Jackson’s paints are lovely and super high quality. If you’re a tube/big paintings person, buy the tubes as they give you options, but if you only use pans, obviously they’re easiest. Here is my current set of recommendations which slightly updates my views in the video:
WARM BLUE: Ultramarine Light (PB29) unless you do a lot of seascapes or storms, in which case Ultramarine Deep (PB29).
COOL BLUE: Phthalocyanine Blue (PG15:3, this is the green shade or GS, FYI)
WARM RED: Cadmium Red Light (PR108).
COOL RED: Carmine (PV19)
WARM YELLOW: Cadmium Yellow Light (PY35)
COOL YELLOW: Lemon Yellow (PY3)
EARTH RED: Burnt Sienna (PBr7)
EARTH YELLOW: Yellow Ochre (PY43)
Optional:
COOL GREEN: Viridian (PG18+PG7 NB: almost every Viridian on the market is doped with PG7 to liven it up - if at low conc they don’t have to put it on the label but Jackson’s do :) )
WARM GREEN: Perm. Sap Green (PB29+PY153 - if you want more flexibility, buy Jackson’s Yellow Light (PY153) and mix with Ultramarine yourself, instead of buying this green).
WARM VIOLET: Cobalt Violet Deep Hue (PR122+PV16)
COOL VIOLET: Perm. Magenta (PV19)
[violets are where the Jackson’s line really has a gap!]
WARM ORANGE: Red Orange (PO43+PY83)
COOL ORANGE: Cadmium Yellow Orange (PY35+PO20)
For most of these you can now get half pans for about £2.50 which would allow you to try them out alongside WN and then later on, replace things with full pans or tubes as you run out, I guess. As before, if you want to use the Jackson’s links from my video/website to get to their site, then fill your basket up and procure, I’d be very glad of the small commission and you don’t pay a penny more :)
Very informative as usual. These are now on my Christmas wish list. Thank you
I hope one of your family or friends obliges you - they're really cool and not a costly gift either (esp. at current Black Friday discount prices this week!).
Really love your videos. On the strength of this one, I ordered the 24 full pan set last week, on promotion. Seems to have shipped from Malmo. They are Currently in Toronto, and may take a few days to get to Ottawa, because we are having an exceptional snow storm, with most things cancelled tomorrow. Am pleased with most of the colours they have sent. Not ecstatic about the Alizarin crimson or cobalt violet deep hue, but we will see what they are like when they arrive. I can always substitute. Hope you are well.
Alison James The Alizarin Crimson seems to have changed: it is genuine PR83 and that actually can be anywhere from a scarlet to a crimson tbh and many ppl have reported a brown-Crimson. I have emailed Jackson’s to let them know about this feedback I’m getting. Additionally the other colour is PR122 Quin Red and PV16 Manganese Violet. The latter is a wonderful granulating warm violet and a great pigment but they have added PR122 to give it a bit of coolness and to fill in the gaps around the granulation, I expect. In use, I’m sure you will enjoy the latter paint, however! Thanks for your comments and feedback :)
Thank you for this prompt and informative reply.
As a follow up to this, I ordered my set from Jackson's just over a week ago and they arrived today in Ottawa, Canada in perfect condition and no duty to be paid. Really thrilled. Now to swatch them out. I ordered some watercolours a year ago from the USA. Also very nice, but I had to pay duty on them, which was really annoying. Yea, Jackson's and the UK. Disclosure. I am originally from the London area, but a long time ago.
I fed back to Jackson’s the Aliz Crim issues ppl were having and they have already replaced it (same day!) in their large sets with Perm Aliz Crim though I have suggested Carmine is a better option really in my hands. They will roll those out in due course but any issues with the AC, get yourself a Carmine ;)
Great review ! Looks like these paints are a definite contender ! Thanks so much, your videos are always informative.
+Kim Leon-Guerrero Yes they are - absolutely top quality!
Really thorough. And opinions were valuable. Thank you!
Thanks and you’re welcome. If you want to buy these paints, check the post on my website linked in the video description as it has some more useful info.
Great review. I'm a big fan of Jacksons I get nearly all my supplies from them. Jackson brand paint is great paint, it's made by the same people that make sennelier but it's cheaper. Like the Sennelier the tube paint doesn't fully dry.
I hate Sennelier's paints tbh - the pigment loads are far too low and you get through loads of it trying to get opacity or high chroma - great for glazing but nothing else - I found these paints to be very different and a pleasure to use - and with much more pigment. So many paints are made in the same factories but the formulations are obviously entirely different - it's much like saying supermarket own-brand and major brandnames are made by the same people - which they are - but it doesn't mean any ingredients are the same, they just use the same factory. Thankfully in this case, they have ended up with a better product than Sennelier at a fraction of the price ;)
I have tried same pigments from Jackson's and sennelier side by side. To me, absolutely indistinguishable. It's so strange you believe they differ so dramatically. But then again, judging from my swatches, sennelier has the same level of colour strenght as w&n (and most of the time they are both richer and more intense than schmincke).
There are v few pigment manufacturers and they probably all use variations on the same product to start with. I know Jackson’s ones are made to order (as they had stock issues and told me why) and aren’t just another brand relabelled or a product Sennelier sells themselves for example. They could well just use the same starting pigments - which shows you how big the Sennelier mark up is.
I have always been of the assumption that Jacksons watercolour is (or is made by) Sennelier, an opinion shared by many. If you look at the entire colour range offered by jacksons, they correlate to a colour by Sennelier sharing identical pigment combinations but sometines under different names. This is significant as companies tend to have their own unique signature pigment mixes, like their Sap Green PB29, PY154 , Naples Yellow PY35, PW4 & PW6 and there are many other unique combinations that differ from any other manufacturer too . Other things like Jacksons Renamed French Ultramarine - Ultramarine Deep, Sennelier do both but their French Ultramarine now contains PV19. They both share a honey based formula and I know of no other manufacturer of artist watercolour supplying units of 10ml and 21ml. So... Whats the juries verdict? From what I can see, Cass Arts own brand share the same commonalities and sold in 10ml tubes also.
I am in the states and I love Jacksons - great video- thank you
+coldmountainpix You’re welcome - glad Jackson’s sales to US are swift and cheap as I know how hard it is to get some products there - we have same kind of issues getting Ranger products in UK!
Another wonderfully all inclusive review! Jacksons Art has awesome customer service, fast international shipping, and great prices compared to prices for international brands found here in the US. I can't wait to check out their complete line. They've picked the perfect time to release them, just in time for the Holidays.
Yes they do - I think they're one of the best if not the best independent art shops in the world in terms of web presence etc. Their packaging is so high-end and significantly better than a lot of "brands" tbh - and a big focus on recycling/reuse - like these paints coming in little bags I can re-use rather than wrapped in plastic film.
Importantly these are not a new release - they just have a good discount right now. They've had these paints for some years now but have repackaged them I think in recent years. I asked them if I could try them out and review them and they were very generous with what they sent. If you want to buy them, click over to my website so you can see my recommendations for what to add/swap depending on what you plan to do - and buying via the affiliate links ain't a bad thing tbh ;)
The other wonderful thing about Jackson’s Watercolour catalogue is that they list all the pigments in all the different brands of paint
+anne percival Yes but check with the manufacturers’ websites as Jackson’s do sometimes get it wrong, or pigments change and they don’t update. I found most of Holbein were wrong for example, and other brands had them missing.
Terrific video and Beautiful paints! Thank you for your tip on painting a seascape with the alternating blues. I am going to give it a try : ) And as always, thank you for sharing.
You're welcome :)
PS: It works really well if you use French Ultramarine with Cobalt Violet or French Ultramarine with Ultramarine Red/Pink/Purple - any of those three pigments works well. I've done it with French Ultramarine and Ultramarine Green Shade before - that looked good - but Cobalt Blue would substitute really well as it's a similar hue to Ultramarine GS. I've added Viridian too. All of them give you water under different skies.
Thank you for the wonderful suggestions! I do love to paint water scenes and this will definitely be a help : )
+Pat M. Cobalt Purples of the very cerise kind with Viridian is another useful one - ends up with green flecks on pink and looks great hidden amongst blue.
Thanks for the review! I was curious about these paints, got a sample of their ultramarine with one of my orders, but couldn't find a good review about them so I was a little cautious. But they seem nice and the tree planting is a big bonus!
+Orsi Dirda I really like the tree planting - sure, it’s a gimmick but a nice one. They are excellent paints and when you consider the price, they are beyond excellent.
I don't need new paints, but that never stopped me from trying out something new :D I'll pick up a 3 colors set next time to experiment.
Have you tried Jackson's cerulean blue yet? I like W/N's cerulean blue but it is quite pricing. Your review made me to try Jackson's paint. Thanks!
I have it... I love it as a sky blue but it a different hue to WN - less green leaning slightly more towards Cobalt blue, so that wold make it like a cerulean blue red shade. This suits me better as I think it looks more natural. It is a beautiful paint to use, a very creamy consistency from pan or tube and produces wonderful granulation and "fluctuation" in mixes. From what I understand with a bit of digging, Jacksons watercolour is Sennelier.
This is possibly the only review I’ve found of these and I’ve been so curious, but I tried others first including Sennelier, which I’ve found wonderful so far. I’m intrigued even more to try these after reading your replies in the comments.
It’s Carryl They’re great and the price is excellent - has gone up a bit since I did this video but still VERY economical. They have tweaked the set as a result of this video to swap Cobalt Blue out and give you Phthalo Blue GS instead so you get a proper warm and cool.
I need a heads up. I ordered these because of the reviews I have seen and they arrived in the states yesterday. They are intense. They are also extruded pans which are hard to compare with tube color paints made with honey. I've noticed that extruded pans of honey based paint, like MaMeri Blu, and Sennelier, do not have the same paste quality in the pan. I have both versions of each brand. They look like other brands without honey in them. I have heard people say that Sennelier is a weak paint. Not by my thinking. To me the color glows, sometimes without glazing. I live near the headquarters of Daniel Smith and have used that paint for years. It is consistently brilliant.......but............I also compare lots of brands stateside,............ and ironically, Sennelier, with it's glow and glazing abilities and Mai Meri Blu, for the same reason, are my "go to's." So when I saw that the color swatching of most reviewers seemed to match Sennelier, I thought I'd buy the Jackson paint and save myself some money. Here's my issue. The Alizarin Crimson in my set looks more like the, Main Meri Blu's, Avignon orange. This color has disappeared from Mai Meri Blu's selection chart recently. All the other Alizarin Crimsons I own have a bluish appearance and lean toward dark, cool reds. Can anyone explain why this is? I checked the packaging and it matches the color in the pan, so it must not be a mistake. What don't I know? Help....
I can’t tell if you have PR83 Genuine Alizarin Crimson (sold as Alizarin Crimson) or the mixed pigment they sell as “Perm. Alizarin Crimson”. With respect to the former, it is PR83, not the usual alternative, synthetic pigments used in Alizarin Crimson Hues (more common as PR83 is fugitive). The colour of it isn’t always Crimson in mass tone - it can look warmer as you say - if it is made using chromium or iron to lake the anthraquinone from madder roots, it will be more brown or orange, aluminium or calcium give the bluer versions, but all are PR83 and totally within the normal range of this pigment. BUT you will still be able to mix oranges or purples with it - it kind of works either way as it’s a nearer neutral tone. Avignon Orange by Maimeri is PR206 Quin Burnt Scarlet (one of my favourite pigments - W&N sell it as Brown Madder). As a pigment, PR206 is very similar in colour and transparency to PR83 but darker in value in mass tone. If I were you, I would swap it out for “Carmine” (PV19 Quin Violet) in the Jackson’s line if you don’t get on with it. The mixed alternative I mentioned is PR179 Perylene Maroon, PR209 Quinacridone Red and PY83 Diarylide Yellow HR - this is more of a corally colour. If you have any issues with the colour and can’t get it to behave itself, please contact Jackson’s - they have a great customer services team. When they gave me paints for this review, they were a selection they made on the basis of the colours I like to review to make comparisons easier, and I have not used many other shades in the range so I can’t comment much on how the paint does in use, only on the pigments therein.
@@TheSpinDoctor You are a peach! Thank you for such a quick response. The packaging says that it is PR83. I'm still not sure if this is closer to Schmencke or Mai Meri Blu. I must be using it improperly because I am not getting the glow. I do get that with the Mai Meri Blu pans and it just isn't coming through. It could be the paper I'm using also. I'm using a 12 x 16 block of Fluid CP 140 lbs. Huge intensity of color, yes. Glow, not so much. I, obviously have little knowledge of the properties of pigment and I thank you for your gracious expertise. I know enough to go by the look and feel of a brand, it's opacity and a few single pigments. Not much knowledge of anything more, except that I usually prefer working with Transparent color. For example, I'll use a Hansa Yellow or a Pyrrole red over a cadmium, although I heard that you say prefer a true cadmium red light, if possible. Correct me if I am wrong but I did hear that Blockx pigments are very transparent, as well as intense. What is your personal take on this brand? I was wondering if I should invest in a sampler. To ship it here costs 9 euros. Seems a bit high for a 2 page sampler sheet, above the cost of the sheet itself. But if the paint is worth the price then perhaps I should do that. I live on the West Coast of the USA but I can ususaly get most paint stateside. Blockx is harder to find. Again, many, many Thanks!
I have never tried Blockx actually - it isn’t that widely used in the UK or USA so I haven’t been in a hurry to review it but I can add it to the list. I’ve also not tried Fluid paper but the paper you are using _does_ make a difference - I have a “size matters” video in my Colour Chemistry playlist which shows how vivid (or not) the same paint looks on various different papers with different levels of sizing: it matters a lot. In terms of which paints I use, I prefer to have transparent cools and more opaque warms - this is because in landscapes your distant elements are cooler and using transparent cools makes it easier for me to make that transition feel better.
@@TheSpinDoctor You are so good at this and I have so much to learn. Thank you, so very much. I will contact Jacksons about this and a few other questions. I prefer transparent colors the majority of the time.........Still a lot of learning to do.
I’ve had another person query the Aliz Crim issue so I have contacted Jackson’s myself to try and find out more.
great am in the process of getting about 14 colour for my new set
+Ian Jackson They have great offers on at the moment on the individual pans.
i came here exactly because of the Phtalo Blue. i made a mistake, i was buying some student-grade watercolor tubes online (other brand) and i just got stucked with two granulating blues ( ultramarine deep and Prussian Blue) and i just realized it during my swatches that the ultramarine granulates. i don't regret it anyways because ultramarine mixes some BEAUTIFUL granulating almost mutey turquoises with Viridian and also STUNNING granulating vivid bright purples with Quin. Rose, and prussian blue is just perfect by it's own. but i feel like needed a non-granulating blue for when i do not desire these effects since i don't use granulation as much. but thank you for sharing your oppinion on these, i think i'll get them instead of the cotmans since i don't like the cotman watercolors, they seem and feel kinda weak and with a lot more filler in them, and also the price difference is not that much so i consider it a plus considering that the quality seems to be a lot better....
White Nights are worth a look too - they are Schmincke Horadam like in quality and style and are a professional paint but cheaper than Cotman and you get large pans - I have a review video also. I very highly rate the Jackson’s brand though - I think they would last longer than White Nights as the latter wet more easily so you lift more from the pan each time, but given how cheap they are etc. I strongly recommend you try having your warm colours as more opaque, more granulating colours (Cad Yellow, Cad Red, Ultramarine) and your cools as more transparent, non-granulating colours (Hansa Yellow Lt, Quinacridone Rose, Phthalo Blue GS) as then your main vivid foreground colours found in nature will be the bright and clean mixes whereas your background, distant and darker colours will be muted and granulating and your mid-distance ones will be a hybrid. Example - a plant amongst bushes and distant leaves with hills in background - a vivid transparent green from cool blue plus cool yellow for foreground; muddier olive green with granulation for distance using warm blue and cool yellow and for midground you get the same but using a cool blue with warm yellow, which will also granulate but will be less deep - it is a nice “cheats” way to get good background texture and depth with a “clean” foreground of vivid and light colours.
i've bought some white nights pans to try 'em out and i surely fell in w/ love them! as you said, they are professional-grade for quality and student-grade price. but i don't know if i want pans, because they contain less paint in them, and i feel like i could run out of paint fast, i don't live at near places where if i run out of paint they will arrive in a few days . since i live in Brazil, my orders from Jackson's usually take 1-2 months to get here (last one: 1 month and 8 days) wich sounds like a PAIN, but i'm used to wait, it's not that bad to me. so i prefer to buy bigger amounts of supplies at the same time, that could last me for a longer time.
and if you are asking for why am i ordering art supplies from so far away?
the answer is bucause the price is good compared to here, i live in a small town and i couldn't find a good art supllies store nearby, also shipping costs are a pain in the ass (or better, a pain in the credit card), compared to international shipping cost from UK (or whatever) to here, when i do, like, bigger orders (so the shipping price is "diluted").
i don't know if you get my idea, but it is like: bigger orders at Jackson's= save more money compared to "National online art supplies store"= pricey stuff and same shipping costs for less.
Quite the opposite - pans are far more concentrated as they are usually extruded (Schmincke are poured, v few brands are poured) which means far more pigment and virtually no water - so they last a LOT longer. Tubes are useful if you use a weird palette and need to pour your own or if you paint very big work where tubes help a lot. Have you tried Amazon.com to see if you can get faster delivery? I usually buy from Jackson’s or Amazon UK (more for craft items than fine art) and cuz Jackson’s know me and send me things to review, they get some loyalty in return I guess - I tend to buy from them the most. I use the SAA of which I am a Member as we get free UK nextday delivery even if it is just a single item - I do that if I have urgent need as I don’t want to pay loads of postage on a single item elsewhere. I use Amazon USA for craft items and products not sold in UK and like you, I do big orders that cost a lot in postage but take 4-6 weeks arrive. I use Art From The Heart (a UK craft store with mail order) also, but I have no shops near me that I can visit - only generic hobby warehouse that has a few shelves of paints!
PS: White Nights now sell tubes as well if you don’t like pans. I have not used them myself - they were only release very recently!
I love Jackson's and I think their house brand watercolour paint is one of the best deals out there! I think it is Sennelier rebranded because their sizes and colors match up really well. My favorite Jackson's colours are Indian Yellow and French Vermillion.
+Marissa Swinghammer It seems better quality than Sennelier tbh. It is made in the same _factory_ as them, but not necessary by the same production company.
Thank you for showing these paints. I had seen them on the Jackson’s site and was curious about them. I totally agree about the black. Many sets include white as well, which is useless. It appears that one can fit 7 colors in one side of the tin. If I buy a set of these, I will go through your website. I know that they offer a really good deal where they allow you to choose the colors and you can buy the tin and pans at a reduced price.
+Lisa Thaviu Yes you can “pick your own” but the cheapest way to get these 12 colours is to buy their pre-selected set.
I imagine that it is quite a bit cheaper to get the pre-picked set, but I think it's still a pretty good deal that Jackson's offers for the "pick your own." I base this upon the premise that I would not be using a few of these colors (like black) and would want a few different colors than the ones they offer. Since I do portraits, I tend to use a slightly different selection than many of the sets offered. Jackson's English Red looks like a great color to try out, though.
What I would really like to see is a size comparison to find out whether the Jackson's, Schmincke, W&N and some other brand's pans are larger or smaller and how they fit into different tins (because really, sometimes size matters!)
+Lisa Thaviu Pans are uniformly sized in terms of internal volume but some use thicker plastic (W&N especially!) that makes a tight fit in palette but you can just put the paint it to a different pan tbh. If you were using the Jackson’s set for portraits I would keep the 3 RYB pairs (btw they are now changing the Cobalt Blue to Phthalo Blue GS because of this video...!!!), and put the black out (it IS useful so keep a black around!), put in Burnt Sienna. Take out the brighter green and put in Cad Orange, and make sure you have a Raw Sienna, Burnt Umber And Raw Umber - I would personally use half pans and tubes for those as you don’t need tonnes. Cad Orange and Burnt Umber makes nice flesh tones and a Titanium Buff might be handy too - they have something similar.
Thanks!
Good and thorough review! I really like the Jackson's watercolour paint. As another comment stated, the paint sems to have a lot in common with the Sennelier paints, with a smaller limited range making it more cost effective (?). Unlike the Schmincke, which have ox-gall added, these seem to have honey, like the Sennelier, but which the Schminckes do not have. I absolutely agree with your thoughts on the starter palette. Black is difficult to use correctly. A Payne's Grey or Neutral Tint would be better. Can't do without a Pthalo Blue. As for the range, I would like to see a PY150, or something behaving like a Gamboge. The Jackson's Ultramarine and Raw Sienna are some of the best, but I can't make heads or tails of the Yellow Ochre. It's too dark, like the White Nights Raw Sienna. ...or maybe I just had a faulty tube?
They have agreed to change them to swap Cobalt Blue to Phthalo Blue from now on so we will see them change over the next few months. The Yellow Ochre is a bit warmer than most but it's perfectly fine in use.
GA, for me, acts as additional surface sizing letting my pigment sit more on the surface retaining vibrancy and glow (Sennelier especially and with Arches which I find ridiculously absorbant.) I love it but every one I've used has a strong acetic odor. Do you know of one that doesn't have much odor? Thanks for introducing me to Jackson's ... very thorough.
+Pat Kin W&N has no smell.
I like having a cobalt (I’d prefer a cerulean, tbh) and an ultramarine blue in the set, I almost never use phthalo blue myself: PG7 can do everything I need from it. I honestly don’t understand what to do with cool yellows, so a neutral one like PY154 would be a better choice. A black is probably useless, a mixed venetian red is eh... useless again. It’s not as bad as some other sets, but again, I never like how sets are composed.
Thank you for this review. I love Jacksons. Post is very reasonable to the states
+Southern Art Gallery That’s useful to know as I get a lot of folk presuming it would be very costly which I know it isn’t ;) Free shipping on brush-only orders valued at >£25 worldwide is pretty awesome.
Are the tubes better than the pans? And how much paint is in the half-pans? I’m trying to decide which option to buy.
In general, extruded pans like these have more pigment that in the same amount of tube paint dried so they are excellent value: don’t bother with tubes unless you like to paint really big (bigger than 1/2 Imperial sheets of paper) or you want super-vivid (unrealistic) levels of colour in your work: for both, tubes are better. Otherwise, pans are more value and perfect for all other work.
Great review. Just waiting for Jacksons to get back to me about making those changes. Can you tell me which purple full pan you recommend, I can't see the dioxesine purple on their set of full pans. Thanks
OK so I went to your website and got the information about the purple.
Glad you found it - when it doubt, always check the Video Description, as I usually link over to my website there you can find how to buy and what to buy and my own recommendations for tweaks and improvements and so on.
Thanks again. The Jacksons website is a bit confusing as they have the same set but where you can pick your own colours. It doesn't say how to do this though and it is a few pounds cheaper as well. Hmmm. I've emailed them and will let you know what they say but maybe you should put a link to that item on your website also.
Joe Griffin It isn’t cheaper - that’s the starting price assuming you pick the 12 cheapest colours - if you pick this set’s 12 colours you pay the same price.
Your videos are very informative, thank you very much. At 7:08 you said "cadmium red light" instead of" Cadmium yellow light". Which drives me to my question, could you let us know about the possible dangers of cadmium and cobalt colours, especially the winsor and newton series 4 paints including the yellow ones, please? Thank you.
I have a video on exactly that from about a year back: ruclips.net/video/FjkSGzxAthk/видео.html
Thank you.
I really appreciate your product reviews. No sugar coating and right to the issues. But I have a problem...i can't turn the volume up high enough to hear you even with a booster. Those that I can hear I watch over and over. Even with 55 years of watercolor I have learned a few things but mostly ......all of the new paint company's that are now easily accessible and available.. thank you for a job well done.
I’m only aware of one video with any audio issues so that is strange - recorded in stereo - maybe you’re playing back in mono without realising so you only get one side? I’ll never sugar-coat a review or lie about a product to please a manufacturer - I’m always honest! You can now find me mostly over on Instagram as “spindoctorart” where I have been posting more recently!
I only have a tablet .it only has one speaker....but I enjoy the ones that I hear. Will have to figure out how to get to instagraham...my great granddaughter is better at this new technology than I but she can't visit me for a while..till we get herd immunity, she contracts covid 19 and produces antigens or we get a vaccine...hope you are doing well. Take care and keep up the good work.
Have you ever done a test to find out if the pans last as much as tube watercolors?
+Monica B Extruded pans always last longer than a 15mL tube as far more pigment but with a 21mL tube and tubes sold at a higher price I’m guessing the tubes last a bit longer.
4:00 *me:* waits to see how to organize the pallete
*the doctor:* does it exactly the same way i do
*me:* /looks at the camera like in the office/
I’ve always done it YRBGOVBrBlW basically - I seldom deviate from that.
So I got my set and love them. I'll be taking them on holidays at Christmas too! Now this may seem a very basic question but I am a total beginner. The palette has four big mixing areas but on the opposite lid there are 10 little indentions. What would you use these for?
+Joe Griffin Big ones for mixing large washes. Small ones for mixing smaller volumes of paint. The ones under the paints themselves (the carriage lifts out) are the same - just wells for mixing colours together.
Thanks. I hadn't even lifted out the carriage. Big surprise. Now I am all set up for the holidays. Just need inspiration!
+Joe Griffin If you go to my website, look in the Downloads section for the “Three Jar Paint” method for getting easy inspiration as a beginner - it may help you!
Can I just put some water in the pans to hold the paints down?
They tend to come loose if you just use water and it takes a while to dry fully - a few drops of gum arabic and they'll never move again and importantly, you don't waste any paint in the process. Some folk use superglue, but that wastes paint.
Do you think these paints are manufactured by Sennelier? I have not used Jackson's own brand of watercolours but I have used Sennelier and they're quite nice paints. It seems many people have drawn comparisons in the handling properties of these paints and Sennelier so it would be interesting to hear your thoughts. In the States, American Journey watercolours are apparently made by the American paint manufacturer Da Vinci so I suppose it is possible Jackson's have followed suit and have asked a European manufacturer to make paints for them.
Conor Casey Paint manufacture is only done by a v small number of large scale outfits worldwide - many factories produce for multiple brands. I don’t enjoy using Sennelier as I find them very weak (which is what some folk love for glazing, I don’t) but the Jackson’s paints I love.
I use these paints all the time and I also have a good selection of Sennelier. o be honest they are an awful lot similar.
You forgot links.
As in iCards in the top-right? They don't appear immediately after upload - try again in an hour or two - if there is a specific one you want, I'll paste it as a reply now.
The Spin Doctor I thought you forgot them. :) Ill wait.
I'm capped at 5 and I can't remember how many I said during the filming of it so they may not all be in there when it shows through so you may be better off asking ;)
I have purchased Jacksons watercolor paint in tube, I can say that the the quality of the paint is not even worth to try, because it has a lot of binder - out of 12 colors 8 of them are not usable. Especially Cerulean and Quinacridon Gold
This is certainly not my experience. Do you mean that the binder has separated from the pigment? That happens with all watercolour paints from time to time (often if subjected to temperature changes). Just mix it in with a toothpick - they will be 100% as normal. It is not a fault with the paint, just a thing that happens sometimes to all brands.
@@TheSpinDoctor Thanks a lot. Yes you are right, it happens with other brand....for example in Schmincke it happens in their Alizarin Crimson, but not as serious as Jacksons. To answer your question, yes it is seperating. Yes, I did shake them with toothpick. However, it will seperate again after a 4-5 days not using it. Bottomline, the amount of tubes that has this kind of problem seems alarming and not worth for those hard earned pennies. I hope you can understand that I am not here to argue, instead, I am sharing my experience with your wide audience.
All you need to do is pour them into pans, stir with a toothpick and let them dry for 2-3 days in a warm room. Then you can use them as normal by re-wetting each time you wish to use them. If you want to use wet paint just stir it on the palette before you use it. It is not a fault with the product, just a property of watercolour that you will find very common.