GLASS watercolor?! REMBRANDT SPECIAL EFFECTS Water Colour Box CHAMELEON SPARK + Mica Glitter Review
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- Опубликовано: 15 окт 2024
- New 2019 Rembrandt Glass and Mica Watercolors SPECIAL EFFECTS box set review, swatch, hummingbird demo painting. These Specialty paints work best on black paper and over dark colors. ↓ SHOW MORE for supplies and other info! ↓
From Royal Talens, the company that makes the Van Gogh metallic and interference pocket box. See the video review for VAN GOGH set here: • New VAN GOGH Mica Wate...
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ART SUPPLIES USED IN THIS VIDEO ARE BELOW.
USA - Dick Blick currently has the Rembrandt Special Effects set shrsl.com/254k8
UK - Jackson's ships worldwide and has the individual pans on sale for about $6 (retail $10) here:
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Black watercolor paper - Legion 100% cotton: amzn.to/33HHkuD
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I filled the pen with black waterproof ink (SketchINK comes in a lot of colors you can mix, are lightfast and can be used with your choice of technical, fountain, or dip pen. I'll link all the primary waterproof ink colors you can use as an alternative to black line work below.)
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Hi, I was hoping you could speak to the quality of the Van Gogh metallics and interference colours VERSUS these Rembrandts. I noticed that the manufacturer's number for them are very similar -- e.g. VG Interference Blue is 20018461, and Rembt Interference Blue is 846. This is the same for all matching Interference colours, as well as Metallic Copper/Copper. Is it worth spending twice as much on the Rembrandts, or are the Van Goghs basically the same?
Thank you! And thank you for the lovely, informative videos!
(Sorry if you've answered this somewhere; I didn't see further notes re: Rembrandt on your website)
@@lamadwp1083 In general if they have the exact same color, it's not worth the money to upgrade. Van Gogh's metallic and interference pocket box is amazing, and there isn't enough reason to spend double on the generic colors like gold, bronze, copper, interference blue etc. However, only Rembrandt offers the colors in this chameleon and spark video - so those glass based colors such as Spark Pink are only found in Rembrandt so VG has no comparable color. That being said you'd have to really want these specialty colors for a specific purpose to want to spend this much for them, even if they are unique. There are a couple that are really neat to look at, but the mica based ones in this set I would not buy over again - just the glass in rembrandt.
@@KimberlyCrick Thank you so much for your response! The Chameleon colours really are very exciting, so it's nice to know I can splurge on those and save (a LOT) on the interference and metallics.
Jackson’s Art has them at reasonable cost but the shipping to the US had gone through the roof. Where I paid less than $5 shipping for each order last year, the minimum shipping charge now is $38 ! I’m bummed but they probably are too since they probably lost the US market.
@@farmwife7944 Very strange, I placed an order a few weeks ago and again today to the USA for under $10 in shipping. Last year it was free for most orders even under $75 worth, but now I only see discounts once the cart is around $100 and totally free again if my cart total hits a high amount like over $200. I selected the reasonably fast DHL option (3-9 days upgraded option) instead of the cheaper crappy international tracked post that takes about a month now due to USPS being so backed up. I wonder if it has to do with cart total or certain heavy items in the order? I don't buy much in bulky or heavy items, mostly just paint pans, tubes and sometimes pigment powders. I notice that the price for delivery goes down for the DHL option as your order total goes up though, so maybe it's most affordable when buying more items. I'd play around with what's in your cart to see if something is making it do an oddly high estimate. I'm really surprised to hear that!
Hi, I'm a reader of your blog for several years but I'd never subscribed to you youtube channel as I prefer to read than watch reviews. Your reviews interest me though because you review that sort of colours that I rarely consider to use and when I need to do so it is very difficult to find information about their handling, their properties etc. So I want to thank you from my heart for all these reviews and the professional way that you test and share of course the results and to wish you to have a very nice and creative 2023!
Regarding Rembrandt and Van Gogh watercolours. ( and I'm writing my comment here because the video is related but I'm referring to your blog posts).
If I had to describe Talens watercolour lines with one word I would use the word Reliable.
I use these two lines of watercolours for more than 30 years professionally and on paintings that I have exhibited and sold and I 've never had the slightest problem or complain about the permanence and the lightfastness of these colours. They are not the most trendy watercolours out there, ( though Talens is trying to "modernize" these two lines), and they are not the most textural, granulating of flocculating colours out there, but that is exactly their strong point. That there are no experiments, no trends and no surprises. These are reliable high quality paints that you don't have to test each and every time you buy a new tube or a new colour. You can buy them in blind and in bulk and know in advance how they are going to handle and behave on paper.
I'd like to mention though that this is not exactly the case with other brands of watercolours and particularly with W&N watercolours that they used to be very reliable in the past, but unfortunately their quality varies nowadays from batch to batch depending I assume on the manufacturing facility. I wouldn't say that the current W&N colours are of the same quality with those that I used to use in the past. They've changed over time and unfortunately for the worst.
So it is not accurate to compare Talens with W&N watercolours ( I'm talking about your blog posts) and neither with other brands because different brands have different objectives to say it so.
Anyway.. Thank you for your informative reviews and I'll be looking forward from now on for your video reviews too.
Greetings from Athens Greece. :)
The glass colors look like having more texture so it looks perfect to apply them for the feather. Especially the pink color looks gorgeous on your hummingbird. Thank you for the review and info! Your reviews are always so informative.
You find the coolest sfuff!
I think the telling part of your review was that people struggle to find subject matter for which these paints are appropriate. I generally paint portraits and studies from models, so while these would be a cool toy, I think I would not find enough to use them on, especially at this price.
I'm glad I watched this. I'm blind and did not see enough color to make it worth my money or time. Thank you!
Love love love these paints. But my husband will kill me if I even buy more. 🙈
Not gonna lie, I am very much in love with the super sparkly colours. Not enough to buy them, not at the moment at least, but I definitely go "oooh sparkly!!" when confronted with glitter paint 😂🤦
I just purchased 2 of the chameleon colors and I’m very disappointed in them. I’m going to keep them in case I change my mind about them. Hopefully they’ll grown on me. Thanks for the review very good.
My these are lovely!
Oh wow! I love the glass ones. I wish more watercolor brands would do this. It's just like granulation, sometimes you want a more textured sparkle and most of the metallic paints come out finely. I remember the bronzite gen from daniel smith which particles are a bit bigger. Such a nice paint...
Bronzite genuine is lovely, I did a painting with it once and it had so much glittering particles in the water that my whole painting turned out with a gentle shimmer. It was pretty :D
Awesome Watercolour Box.. that's painting is so beautiful
These beautiful colors remind me of the color shift watercolors I have from Hydracolour on Instagram. You have to look at them from the side to pick up all the prettiness. However they are ridiculously expensive...half pans run from $6-$10 and even all the way up to $30 for the specialty shifting/glitter brand. I use them for Watercolor Calligraphy and the best way to get the best color is by letting a few drops of water on them! I just LOVE your videos and click on them as soon as I see it! Cold, Winter Hugs from Massachusetts!
Wow I checked out Hydracolour and see what you mean, some of those have amazing effects! Thank you so much for your sweet comment :)
Aww looks wonderful. I use perl-ex powder pigment with gum-arabic or varnish.
I’ve watched this video several times and a little over a year ago I bought the individual tubes of the chameleon colors. I do lots of stylized character art with lots of glitter and metallic effects so my tubes are almost gone already.
You've blended this wonderfully :)
Gorgeous work :D
They are beautiful, but something that concerns me is the additional damage/wear & tear that the glass particles will cause to your brushes. When they catch the light you can see that the glass particles are still sharp edged. Would you have to be careful when handling the areas that are painted with them, or when cleaning your brushes?
They are very fine particles, I rubbed the painting with my finger to test how secure it was to the page. I got a small amount on my skin and noticed that you can't feel it, it's not very gritty. It's smaller particles than most ultra-fine craft glitter. The paint rinsed easily from the brush with just a twirl in the water, but it's possible that if you were using it a lot over time it could dull the fine tip of a brush. I think the most concerning time would be when rubbing the brush onto the dry pan to re-wet it, might be like sandpaper to the soft hairs. Though I don't think it would hurt skin at all, I wouldn't want to get this in my eye.
Hi dear! Is it possible just to glaze it on, for example, dragonfly wings?
These are all very delicate, transparent, barely visible in most lighting situations even at masstone. So while yes you could apply them more delicately as a glaze, it may not provide an effect that is visible unless a lamp is right above the artwork.
Very instructive as usual, however my first thought was how environmentally friendly can glitter based watercolour be? Glitter finding its way into the environment has been very bad. You can get biodegradable glitter, so can you tell me anything about the glitter used? Beautiful painting Kimberly. 👩🎨👏🏻
The glitter problem has been plastic based glitter in disposable products like party materials and body sparkle gels that are worn and wash off into the ocean. The craft use of glitter is a very small portion of this problem, and the painting part of art and crafts even less. That being said, it's good to be concerned about the environment and be cautious about how much of anything you rinse down the drain. However, this product is not made of "glitter" as we know it - it's just "glitter-like". The interference colors are made from mica, a naturally occurring pearlescent mineral. The spark colors are made with very finely ground glass, essentially beach sand. I have not heard of any environmental problems relating to the use of glass or mica based glitter, only plastics - and even then only in terms of highly disposable products. Hope that helps :)
They look so beautiful. Especially the chameleon and spark ones. They look very different than the coliro mica paints. Is there any lightfast info on them?
Yes, they are all completely lightfast and I verified it by sticking them out in Florida sun for a whole year without any fading. They are definitely more subtle than Coliro colors, but stunning when light catches them at an angle.
@@KimberlyCrick Oh wow you did your research thank you that's good to know😆 I'm definitely gonna try them
I don’t think there’s usually a concern for lightfastness with mica and glitter colors, so spending the cost of professional watercolors for something that can be bought or even made yourself very inexpensively is not necessary. I really appreciate your reviewOf these paints though. And I know you will find a use for them with the pretty butterflies that you paint!
Sadly some companies use subpar pigments bound to the mica to color it, which fade in sunlight. My Paul Rubens glitter set reviews show all the fading that happens when companies do this. There is not typically a concern for lightfastness with gold and silver mica, because they use red iron oxide, a very stable earth pigment, mixed with mica to make gold... and lamp black often to make silver to gunmetal. When it's colorful it could even be opera pink or other fugitive colors mixed in, so definitely worth checking :)
Kimberly Crick Art Oh, that makes a lot of sense! I was under the impression that most mica Colors are cosmetic grade, and that would mean the quality was at least moderate. But you’re right unless they are using Earth pigment oxide then they would not be light fast. Thank you for your reply
I liked those glass glitters and I thought the painting came out lovely. How much did you say that Rembrandt set cost? $120?
About that when it's not on sale, but the set was much more expensive than it needed to be with the tin. If you buy the individual colors it can be much less, I put all the links in the description under the video for both the set option or for buying pans or tubes for cheaper. I think it's less than half the price, maybe $55 buying just the pans individually :)
Perfect subject! Love it.
They're gorgeous, but that price... I'd probably just buy a bottle of watercolor medium and mix in some mica tbh, I still have some from my nail polish making days.
Those with the glass glitter in look pretty cool, but I guess I'll stick with my Van Gogh ones for now ^^'
That colourful little hummingbird looks pretty cool though 😘
These are so cool!!
yes indeed beautiful and the sparkling is def. more intense than mica paint. I checked out your supplies below. Did you list items that you did not use in this piece? I was trying to determine where you used the neutral tint paint and all the different colored inks?
Neutral Tint is the color that looks like payne's gray/black on the top of the hummingbird's head. I used Black inside my pen for this drawing. You can use any color of waterproof ink so I made a note that SketchInk also comes in primary mixing colors in case you want to do your line work in another color :)
oh wow nice thanks for the tips
I picked up the Special Effects Set and their Granulating Color Set. Luckily, there easy to find here in Germany for about 65 Euros for the glitter one and about 55 Euros for the other sets.
Did you happen to notice if the half pans and tubes were available individually yet?
One of my favourite online shops here in Germany Kreativ.de ( a company by Gerstaecker, thats one of the bigger online shops here) carries the complete range including the new colors, the special effects colors cost around 5 Euro per half pan.
@@anjakritzelkram5544 Thank you for the info, they have a lovely website!
Would love to play with these but won't, unless the tubes are about one half the current price
Thanks for this great review. I wonder if you can mix the glass coated paints with regular watercolor paint without loosing any of the special effects?
The special effects are already subtle and will be lost in other colors. The best way to do it is layering on top of other colors :)
Kimberly Crick Art Thanks a lot Kimberly.
@@KimberlyCrick it's been months, but I want to say that interference colours can be mixed with other paints, like gouache and acrylics. I've seen interference blue one mixed with black acrylic paint, and it looked gorgeous with that subtle pearl-like blue shimmer.
@@soon_to_emerge It's not that you can't mix them, it's just not economical to do so at all. Other paints overpower this effect unless you use up a huge amount of the sparkly paint to balance it out. It's much much more cost effective to do a layer of iridescent over the top of previous colors.
Now after watching the video about the brand with the color separating paints I'm wondering if the tubes of these have anything I should know about before investing in them
The Rembrandt watercolors are really lightfast, my only major complaint is that you can't really see the sparkle except for at certain angles of light. There are times where I pick up a piece of paper with them and don't see it until I'm under the lamp, then bam beautiful sparkle! For opaque metallics that look good on everything I reach for Van Gogh's metallic and interference pocket box or my coliro pearlcolors more often.
@@KimberlyCrick yea it seems like the set in the pan is great, I'm wondering about the tubes though, just because of your other video with the ones that had the color separation and seeing how after a short time in storage the red from the color separation was gone, I didn't know that could happen😳. It also helped me learn more about that separation thing. I made a color chart to mix and swatch my colors and learn how to use my paints better and I had a purple and a green that did that amazing separation, and then when I watched your video it opened a whole new world of paint possibilities and taught me something new😸 thanks so much! Also if you're into some funky sparkly colors there is a girl on ig and Etsy who has some really neat holographic and glittery paints. Her name is iulie
@@MaryJane-ug3eu I have lost my mind and collected just about every watercolor in existence including Iuile and Hydracolour's etsy mica metallics lol. I'm sure I'll review them some day, but I'm slowly making my way through dozens of brand reviews. You can find a list of all the brands I've reviewed or am in the process of reviewing at - www.kimcrick.com/pages/lightfast-tests-and-art-supply-reviews
Oh and the stability problem in Super Vision's watercolors is due to the carmine dye, there are very few pigments that have that issue. There shouldn't be any nasty surprises with most paints regarding storage stability. I have seen some brands of Cobalt Green PG19, Cobalt Violet PV14 and rare minerals like malachite, vivianite and azurite have discoloration, binder or hardening issues in the tubes or pans over time but that's about it.
@@KimberlyCrick that just sounds friggin awesome! It's gotta be great to be livin playin with colors all the time. Makin color charts and testing paints has been something I've recently started doing but it's definitely taught me a lot and I love decorating my space with the charts too ha ha! Sent you some short vids on ig, cause I remember I said I was goin to a few weeks ago but then spaced cause I'm never on there lol
If these paints are meant to be used with a black colour underneath, why didn't you use a black watercolour paper? :) The paints look to be lovely (not something i'd use) but ooh, sparkles and iridescence!
WOW, these are beautiful! They really do look like bits of glass but.. I wonder how safe they are ? Are they still sharp enough to cut or is it a different type of glass? Im not sure I would pay $10 for a half pan of paint I can't see though and barely use... but its so beautiful that it's conflicting!!
You summed it up quite well, I'm still on the fence if they are worth the price. I think I'll make some personal art to hang on the wall near a lamp just to enjoy the sparkle when I walk by. They are very fine particles, I rubbed the painting with my finger to test how secure it was to the page. I got a small amount on my skin and noticed that you can't feel it, it's not very gritty. It's smaller particles than most ultra-fine craft glitter. Though it's possible that if you were using it a lot over time it could dull the fine tip of a brush. I think the most concerning time would be when rubbing the brush onto the dry pan to re-wet it, might be like sandpaper to the soft hairs. I don't think it would hurt skin at all, but I wouldn't want to get this in my eye on accident.
The dust is probably not safe to breathe in. People can get a condition from breathing in silica dust. This would probably be best for use where you're hanging it behind glass, instead of on greeting cards that people manipulate and then unsuspectingly touch their faces because they don't know to be a bit cautious.
Still ABSOLUTELY gorgeous
When you said that they were very expensive I was like "Oh, she's from the US so yeah a bit more than here" and then I almost fell off my seat :D I recently purchased the landscape 12 pan set by Rembrandt for 48 EUR. Might be less expensive to order from Europe and pay the import fees yourself? Idk how much that is in the US though.
Yeah, they are crazy expensive here! It's much cheaper for me to get them from Europe and luckily Jackson's has great shipping prices, just takes a little time to get over here :)
Jackson’s has new shipping rates and it starts at $38! Bummer. I used to order from them regularly.
Kimberly Crick Art not anymore. They were very low last year when I had several orders but the shipping rate now starts at $38! Major bummer.
The link you provided just shoes the ordinary glitter paints
I'm not sure what you mean by the "ordinary" glitter paints? The "Special Effects Set of 12 Pans" on the Blick link is this review's set, and the other link for jacksons has all of these colors individually at the bottom of the color list. They are called things like "chameleon" and "spark".
Not in stock anywhere
I wonder if any of these aren't lightfast.
I wonder that too. I don't take manufacturer's word for it, so I'll be doing a lightfast test for these. They claim them all to be lightfast, but it bothers me that they don't include the pigment info for what they coated the glass with.
@@KimberlyCrick for this amount of money, they better be lightfast. Thank you so much for testing that. I very much look forward to your results.
Btw, the glitter not showing up on the scanner would be a plus for me. You could even bedazzle prints, and have the sparkle show up better because the print features all the under-painting pigment of the original!