Rembrandt is overshadowed in fame by other brands in Europe but their products have an unbelievable quality for the price. Their 20 ml Cobalt Blue and Oxyde Black tubes saved my pockets in recent years... I hope they stay in business as long as I live, lol!
i’ve been using Rembrandts for a long time and they’re basically my go-to watercolours. i don’t know why it’s not as popular as other brands because they are a solid range of artist watercolours. thank you for doing this review and spreading the love for Rembrandt 🥰
I love your videos. Please, do test more colors. I love Rembrandt/Talens because they are sort of "no frills", which really helps us beginners. Also, comparing it with Van Gogh would be nice. As for the palette itself, I would say ditch the lemon yellow to open space for with a Pthalo Blue GS and replace Viridian with a Purple if you have to. That depends on style and preference (someone doing botanical art might not need a ton of blues and would rather just keep viridian around for some green variety. Also, I think Rembrandt's Pthalo Blue doesn't try to evict your family and burn your house down like the DS one does - while staining everything - making a sky blue doable without cerulean... Not easy, but doable.)
Rembrandt Viridian just makes me sad. The only bad tube in my otherwise magnificent monopigment set. I only bought this set because it was on 50% off sale and with the sky high import duties enforced by my country, most professional paints come with a backbreaking price tag. I got really lucky that this brand turned out to be so unexpectedly great...
Great and honest review - thank you for talking about this frequently overlooked brand! Rembrandt watercolours are my personal number one. I fell in love with them after my first try, their performance and transparency stand out to me even after trying +10 other brands. Can't beat the price too!
It’s funny that you uploaded this today! Ive been in Rembrandt watercolour paint mood since yesterday. I don’t own any, I just bing watch videos about them 😄
Thanks Oto. What I like about the Rembrandt paints is that the colors are natural looking. So for landscape and still life's they come out very natural looking and they enhance beautifully when glazed over each other giving a marvelous rich depth and glow. That said I have more vibrant brands for other things because I like bright and UNNATURAL very much as well.😉😃
I wholeheartedly agree with you no the paints helping to make natural looking paintings. They are not too highly tuned up bright intense colors, way more natural and more suitable for landscape paintings.
I love, love, LOVE RB so much! I have used most if not all major brands, and this one is a very strong contender despite being one of the least spoken about wc. I love their pinks and purples range, to me it's one of the best if not the absolute best if you are looking for artist grade watercolours that are really affordable!
that is exactly why i added PB15 green shade and quinacridone rose PV19 to the twelve tin palette set, so i can go more towards magenta when i want to, and i can have dark cold blue when needed. my favorite brand, and my favorite line of paint so far, glad to see others appreciate it.
I've been wondering why you havent reviewed rembrandt so I'm glad that you make this video. For me as amateur their paint really suits me whether from the easy to control side and the budget side. I hope you can test their other colors and if you like pink I think you should get to know this brand deeper bcs in my opinion they have very nice range of red, pink and magenta. And I really love their indanthrone blue. Thanks for the video oto
It is so cute.... I love the selection compared to my very old and almost empty van Gogh set (the one where the pans fall out but the brush is amazing). Those greens are really growing on me.
I think that is a really cool setup for a small palette - and with the sturdy cardboard box it presents really well! Perfect for a gift! I have quite a few Rembrandt paints, both pans and tubes, because R and Maimeriblu are the only brands my local art supply vendor carries, and I am quite happy with most of them. I especially enjoy their Lemon Yellow, Ultramarine Blue Deep and their Cerulean Blue, funny enough. Their Burnt Sienna is not really my jam, but it will do the trick. I also have their Hookers Green Deep, and it mixes a great black with dioxazine purple so I used that mix a LOT in the early days. I like this color selection for portraits and landscapes especially, but I do appreciate that it's easy to switch a couple of pans when needed. Rembrandt watercolours are not flashy or schmexxy, but they will do really solid work for you. I actually feel like they have the same "solid" feel as White Nights when painted out. I'm really happy Royal Talens sent you this and I love the way you showed it.
I still love my pocket boxes from their student line, I can only imagine these are even better 🥰 Plus that layout feels like a real safety net for me - as someone that learned colour theory and mixing with one of those obnoxious opaque water colour boxes, this one seems real familiar. I'd personally would definitely get a more magenta like cool blue, would love a warm blue that has more impact (though that cerulean really is quite lovely) and would probably try some other colour for that light ochre. My favourite ochre colour is raw sienna 🥰 But other than that? This one looks lovely and would probably make a nice, kinda affordable christmas gift for loved ones (or oneself, after these fricking teo last years we all deserve that, I guess :3)
Thanks for the wonderful overview! The paints look so nice and I appreciate it a lot that they've included the split primaries in their palette. Although I wouldn't have chosen Ceruleum myself, it looks pretty and seems fitting. :) Thanks!
Love Talens products, been using them for many years, this little box is rather nice for a plastic box. Coming in such nice packaging you could add a few choice half pans in to the outer box to reflect changing seasons/personal preferences, and just swap them out before going out.
Thank you for this clear review! I like the selection of paints and I agree with you on the cerulean choice. I really like that you can just swap that color out and put it in a different half pan to make it fit your needs. I'm already fan of Rembrandt paints so maybe I need to check out some more of their colors!!
@@OtoKano I really love the Rembrandt Blue ( I got a vintage pan of this colors, it looks like a dark turquoise) and their dusk series as a convenience mix! Their paint is really vibrant and I find them really easy to use (I'm also based in NL so the price is quite affordable) I also like the more greenish davey's grey
Oh ...wow. I liked the color selection (I'd like to get others into wc this Christmas!) and that PB35 is lovely... but it can't be a the ONLY cool blue. I appreciate the Viridian! The Payne's Grey is awkward for me (black? just put a granulating black in, OR a real Payne's G). I'd chuck the warm red (the warm yellow is fine), replace the cool red with something like a good alizarin or PV19, chuck the yellow ochre (for raw sienna) and that burnt sienna looks a bit temperamental. *A+ for Oto video! C for Rembrandt's "beginner's plein air" palette.* ❤️
I've always been curious to see more of that particular plastic palette! It's such a different shape and I was wondering if the shape would make it usable or a nightmare lol
I don’t know; I think they look weird. Rembrandt and Sennelier both make plastic palettes that are just weird and off putting. I think I’m more partial to metal and wood palettes; they make more sense to me.
yeah I think the shape of the palette is going to be one where people will either like it or not like it at all. There's a lot of excess space you can't do anything with.
@@OtoKano Unless you rip out the white plastic “lining” and use the black outer case only 🤪. To anyone who read the above: I am just joking. Please do not try to take any palette apart since you might actually ruin it and render it unusable.
Dear Oto, please can you do another full review on Rembrandts colours. I would be interested in the mixing palette you would recommend. I personally would have preferred a Turquoise Blue and a Phthalo Blue. What do you think ?
Thanks, Oto! Great review. I have a few individual Rembrandt’s - their Carmine is divine. The overall dry shift here looks disappointing. Some intensity remains but they seem to have gone dull, maybe? Thanks again 🌺
woooo I must try the carmine. There is a little colorshift, they're certainly not the TOP top brand in terms of intensity, I'd say they are tiny bit lower from the top.
nice looking set, would be a good selection for a starter set; interestingly amazon is selling these for $89, but Blick offers then at $69. it pays to shop around!
These seem like very nice paints, but that palette box would bother me. The way the plastic is molded around where the pans fit in makes it almost impossible not to paint the palette when getting paint on the brush. I would be cleaning that box all the time. I think a metal box would work better for me. For more relaxed artists, this would make a lovely gift. Thanks for sharing 😘
Thank you Oto! ☺️ May I ask if these are shiny in masstone? The few I have tried have been unbelievably shiny, especially the Transparent Red Oxide, and it has honestly put me off the entire brand - however, I recognise that that is likely premature and unfair since it might just have been bad luck with the very few I have tried 🙈 So perhaps I should remain open and try another couple further down the line.. Also, since shinyness _is_ my pet peeve in watercolours I am usually only at peace with M. Graham level mattness, meaning any brand is duly scrutinised and favourites picked not least for how they perform in that respect. I know I truly love a color, or use it in very small quantities, when I still keep a shiny one on my palette 😂
@@OtoKano Thank you for letting me know!! I really appreciate it! ☺️ The worst ones for me have been the Rembrandt paints I've tried (hence the suspicion 🙈), several from Schminke also seem shiny in masstone, though not as intensely, and some from Daniel Smith (I just got the Perylene Green from W&N instead and it's so much more matt! 🤩🎉) Oh, and Mission Gold! I'm sure there are others, but I'm so tired at the moment that I can barely think straight.
I know I’m stupid but naming paints after Rembrandt/ Van Gogh/ da Vinci etc really puts me off brands. I wish they’d use some other more modern and unique name to themselves. But then I love packaging design and book covers 😖
Well, they've been called that for over 120 years so it makes no sense to change the name they are known for all over the world just to suit your modern sensibilities 😂 Maybe Pepsi or McDonald's should change their name too or does that name not offend you? It's a dutch brand that has been making paints for centuries and it makes sense to name it after well known dutch painters. It's weird that a new Japanese brand calls their paints Paul Rubens, or an a new American brand call theirs Da Vinci... would make more sense if those brands were Belgium or Italian.
@@ilananl1004 ooooo shirty. I don’t like things named after famous artists and you’re likening that to MacDonalds. MacDonalds which, so it happens, isn’t named after a famous artist. Love your modern attitude.
Nah. You lost me at the sable brush part. I like my sables cute and alive in the forests where they belong, thank you very much. It's 2021, we can be better than that.
Rembrandt is overshadowed in fame by other brands in Europe but their products have an unbelievable quality for the price. Their 20 ml Cobalt Blue and Oxyde Black tubes saved my pockets in recent years... I hope they stay in business as long as I live, lol!
agree with all you said here :) they’re affordable where i live as well and i do hope they stay that way~ 😁
I agree with you. I never understood how great their paints are until I got to try them for this video. They're so affordable and reliable.
i’ve been using Rembrandts for a long time and they’re basically my go-to watercolours. i don’t know why it’s not as popular as other brands because they are a solid range of artist watercolours. thank you for doing this review and spreading the love for Rembrandt 🥰
I agree with you! Now that I've tried this brand, I'm like 'more people should know about this range!'
I love your videos. Please, do test more colors. I love Rembrandt/Talens because they are sort of "no frills", which really helps us beginners. Also, comparing it with Van Gogh would be nice.
As for the palette itself, I would say ditch the lemon yellow to open space for with a Pthalo Blue GS and replace Viridian with a Purple if you have to. That depends on style and preference (someone doing botanical art might not need a ton of blues and would rather just keep viridian around for some green variety. Also, I think Rembrandt's Pthalo Blue doesn't try to evict your family and burn your house down like the DS one does - while staining everything - making a sky blue doable without cerulean... Not easy, but doable.)
your description of the ds phthalo blue gave me a good laugh XD
bwahahaha doesn't try to evict your family 😂 that is the best description ever for a color!!
Rembrandt Viridian just makes me sad. The only bad tube in my otherwise magnificent monopigment set. I only bought this set because it was on 50% off sale and with the sky high import duties enforced by my country, most professional paints come with a backbreaking price tag. I got really lucky that this brand turned out to be so unexpectedly great...
I have this one! Love it. My first ever set i bought myself
What a great choice you made for your first set!
Great and honest review - thank you for talking about this frequently overlooked brand! Rembrandt watercolours are my personal number one. I fell in love with them after my first try, their performance and transparency stand out to me even after trying +10 other brands. Can't beat the price too!
It’s funny that you uploaded this today! Ive been in Rembrandt watercolour paint mood since yesterday. I don’t own any, I just bing watch videos about them 😄
I bought a big box of Rembrandt watercolors secondhand together with other watercolor supplies and I'm really excited :D
Extraordinarily thoughtful and useful review - thank you!
lol thank you for appreciating the throughness!
Thanks Oto. What I like about the Rembrandt paints is that the colors are natural looking. So for landscape and still life's they come out very natural looking and they enhance beautifully when glazed over each other giving a marvelous rich depth and glow. That said I have more vibrant brands for other things because I like bright and UNNATURAL very much as well.😉😃
I wholeheartedly agree with you no the paints helping to make natural looking paintings. They are not too highly tuned up bright intense colors, way more natural and more suitable for landscape paintings.
I agree that those Payne's Gray mixtures are beautiful! I have the 12 half-pan set in the metal tin. I love them.
How do you feel about the metal tin?
@@OtoKano I like that it's compact and perfectly rectangular, and I'm used to using them, so I'd say it's a win overall.
I love, love, LOVE RB so much! I have used most if not all major brands, and this one is a very strong contender despite being one of the least spoken about wc. I love their pinks and purples range, to me it's one of the best if not the absolute best if you are looking for artist grade watercolours that are really affordable!
I can totally understand why this is so high up in the list for you! They're so affordable and reliable.
that is exactly why i added PB15 green shade and quinacridone rose PV19 to the twelve tin palette set, so i can go more towards magenta when i want to, and i can have dark cold blue when needed. my favorite brand, and my favorite line of paint so far, glad to see others appreciate it.
Wonderful review, Oto! Your swatching and colour mixing charts are just phenomenal!
I've been wondering why you havent reviewed rembrandt so I'm glad that you make this video. For me as amateur their paint really suits me whether from the easy to control side and the budget side. I hope you can test their other colors and if you like pink I think you should get to know this brand deeper bcs in my opinion they have very nice range of red, pink and magenta. And I really love their indanthrone blue. Thanks for the video oto
I know what you mean! There are so many brands I want to cover and I haven't even got close to reviewing them T_T I'll get there!!
It is so cute....
I love the selection compared to my very old and almost empty van Gogh set (the one where the pans fall out but the brush is amazing). Those greens are really growing on me.
Yeah those greens made great addition to the palette.
I think that is a really cool setup for a small palette - and with the sturdy cardboard box it presents really well! Perfect for a gift!
I have quite a few Rembrandt paints, both pans and tubes, because R and Maimeriblu are the only brands my local art supply vendor carries, and I am quite happy with most of them. I especially enjoy their Lemon Yellow, Ultramarine Blue Deep and their Cerulean Blue, funny enough. Their Burnt Sienna is not really my jam, but it will do the trick.
I also have their Hookers Green Deep, and it mixes a great black with dioxazine purple so I used that mix a LOT in the early days.
I like this color selection for portraits and landscapes especially, but I do appreciate that it's easy to switch a couple of pans when needed.
Rembrandt watercolours are not flashy or schmexxy, but they will do really solid work for you. I actually feel like they have the same "solid" feel as White Nights when painted out.
I'm really happy Royal Talens sent you this and I love the way you showed it.
I still love my pocket boxes from their student line, I can only imagine these are even better 🥰 Plus that layout feels like a real safety net for me - as someone that learned colour theory and mixing with one of those obnoxious opaque water colour boxes, this one seems real familiar. I'd personally would definitely get a more magenta like cool blue, would love a warm blue that has more impact (though that cerulean really is quite lovely) and would probably try some other colour for that light ochre. My favourite ochre colour is raw sienna 🥰 But other than that? This one looks lovely and would probably make a nice, kinda affordable christmas gift for loved ones (or oneself, after these fricking teo last years we all deserve that, I guess :3)
Love your mixing charts, especially with the cool and warm, that is helpful!
Thank you for your careful study of these paints. Your tips were very helpful.
Thanks for the wonderful overview! The paints look so nice and I appreciate it a lot that they've included the split primaries in their palette. Although I wouldn't have chosen Ceruleum myself, it looks pretty and seems fitting. :) Thanks!
Love Talens products, been using them for many years, this little box is rather nice for a plastic box. Coming in such nice packaging you could add a few choice half pans in to the outer box to reflect changing seasons/personal preferences, and just swap them out before going out.
Always so informative 👍
thank you, glad you like the details :D
Thank you for this clear review! I like the selection of paints and I agree with you on the cerulean choice. I really like that you can just swap that color out and put it in a different half pan to make it fit your needs. I'm already fan of Rembrandt paints so maybe I need to check out some more of their colors!!
What are your favourite colors from Rembrandt?
@@OtoKano I really love the Rembrandt Blue ( I got a vintage pan of this colors, it looks like a dark turquoise) and their dusk series as a convenience mix! Their paint is really vibrant and I find them really easy to use (I'm also based in NL so the price is quite affordable) I also like the more greenish davey's grey
Great video. Now I know what I want for Christmas. Thank you
This is a very attractive set that I've been eyeing for a while. Thanks for this excellent and thorough review.
My pleasure!
Oh ...wow. I liked the color selection (I'd like to get others into wc this Christmas!) and that PB35 is lovely... but it can't be a the ONLY cool blue. I appreciate the Viridian! The Payne's Grey is awkward for me (black? just put a granulating black in, OR a real Payne's G). I'd chuck the warm red (the warm yellow is fine), replace the cool red with something like a good alizarin or PV19, chuck the yellow ochre (for raw sienna) and that burnt sienna looks a bit temperamental. *A+ for Oto video! C for Rembrandt's "beginner's plein air" palette.* ❤️
I'm glad you liked the video :D yeah they need another blue in there!
I've always been curious to see more of that particular plastic palette! It's such a different shape and I was wondering if the shape would make it usable or a nightmare lol
I don’t know; I think they look weird. Rembrandt and Sennelier both make plastic palettes that are just weird and off putting. I think I’m more partial to metal and wood palettes; they make more sense to me.
yeah I think the shape of the palette is going to be one where people will either like it or not like it at all. There's a lot of excess space you can't do anything with.
@@OtoKano Unless you rip out the white plastic “lining” and use the black outer case only 🤪.
To anyone who read the above: I am just joking. Please do not try to take any palette apart since you might actually ruin it and render it unusable.
It’s a clamshell … pearls are inside. 😊
this is a great set that I use a lot and the colours are good too
How long have you had this set?
@@OtoKano about 5 years
Your videos have helped me choice a lot better and or more as your compares bring great ideas and then I say oh I need that
Dear Oto, please can you do another full review on Rembrandts colours. I would be interested in the mixing palette you would recommend. I personally would have preferred a Turquoise Blue and a Phthalo Blue. What do you think ?
Thanks, Oto! Great review. I have a few individual Rembrandt’s - their Carmine is divine. The overall dry shift here looks disappointing. Some intensity remains but they seem to have gone dull, maybe? Thanks again 🌺
woooo I must try the carmine. There is a little colorshift, they're certainly not the TOP top brand in terms of intensity, I'd say they are tiny bit lower from the top.
@@OtoKano thank you ;-)
omg they should have sent u some specialty colors. I'm sure u would have fun with the sparkle ones!
nice looking set, would be a good selection for a starter set; interestingly amazon is selling these for $89, but Blick offers then at $69. it pays to shop around!
I think colbalt Teal is the only color missing. In my opinion colbalt teal and a bright pink pv19 are essential along
I wish we have this brand in my country.
These seem like very nice paints, but that palette box would bother me. The way the plastic is molded around where the pans fit in makes it almost impossible not to paint the palette when getting paint on the brush. I would be cleaning that box all the time. I think a metal box would work better for me. For more relaxed artists, this would make a lovely gift. Thanks for sharing 😘
Hi Dr. Kano, I hope you've been well!
Thank you Oto! ☺️ May I ask if these are shiny in masstone? The few I have tried have been unbelievably shiny, especially the Transparent Red Oxide, and it has honestly put me off the entire brand - however, I recognise that that is likely premature and unfair since it might just have been bad luck with the very few I have tried 🙈 So perhaps I should remain open and try another couple further down the line..
Also, since shinyness _is_ my pet peeve in watercolours I am usually only at peace with M. Graham level mattness, meaning any brand is duly scrutinised and favourites picked not least for how they perform in that respect. I know I truly love a color, or use it in very small quantities, when I still keep a shiny one on my palette 😂
No, they are not shiny in the masstone at all (the ones I've tested). I was very pleased with that. What brands are you finding that are shiny?
@@OtoKano Thank you for letting me know!! I really appreciate it! ☺️ The worst ones for me have been the Rembrandt paints I've tried (hence the suspicion 🙈), several from Schminke also seem shiny in masstone, though not as intensely, and some from Daniel Smith (I just got the Perylene Green from W&N instead and it's so much more matt! 🤩🎉) Oh, and Mission Gold! I'm sure there are others, but I'm so tired at the moment that I can barely think straight.
Gosh, this would be perfect if the light blue was replaced with pthalo (for my style of painting(
Also, it looks like it beads pretty bad on the plastic
Actually it doesn't bead that bad, I mean it's a plastic palette so some beading is expected but I've definitely seen worse as well.
@@OtoKano interesting, I'll keep that in mind
I know I’m stupid but naming paints after Rembrandt/ Van Gogh/ da Vinci etc really puts me off brands. I wish they’d use some other more modern and unique name to themselves. But then I love packaging design and book covers 😖
You’re not stupid. I feel the same way.
Well, they've been called that for over 120 years so it makes no sense to change the name they are known for all over the world just to suit your modern sensibilities 😂 Maybe Pepsi or McDonald's should change their name too or does that name not offend you?
It's a dutch brand that has been making paints for centuries and it makes sense to name it after well known dutch painters.
It's weird that a new Japanese brand calls their paints Paul Rubens, or an a new American brand call theirs Da Vinci... would make more sense if those brands were Belgium or Italian.
@@ilananl1004 ooooo shirty. I don’t like things named after famous artists and you’re likening that to MacDonalds. MacDonalds which, so it happens, isn’t named after a famous artist. Love your modern attitude.
Their famous artists, their paints ….
Nah. You lost me at the sable brush part. I like my sables cute and alive in the forests where they belong, thank you very much. It's 2021, we can be better than that.
That's totally fair. You have your line and I can see that this set crosses it.