One of the reviews on the website for the paints, posted after this video went up, mentions the need to let the palette paints air dry completely before closing the fan palette, because otherwise wet paint from one layer will smear on the bottom of the layer above it. That would also make it less usable as a real travel palette if you can't close it up quickly back into your bag. But the colors are wonderful!
Not a good mixing set then, LOL. I'll stick with my traveling 12 half pans of Roman Szmal single pigments in their little pocket-size metal palette. But the Meeden paper's said to be equivalent to Baohung, possibly the same paper under a different name, so I'm def interested in that. Thanks for the review, Lily.
Oh this was interesting to watch! Saw them a lot of times and asked myself how good they are. For sketchbook work they should be totally ok I think.. 😊 Have a nice start in the week! 🌸
Hi Lily, I hope you are well. The paints do look very vibrant, quite lovely especially for travel and sketching on the go in a sketch book. The watercolour block looks really lovely I think I will purchase a block. The palette looks amazing and cute. You take care Lily. Thankyou for sharing the supplies you got. Look forward to the next one. Lots of love xxx 🥰 I’ve just looked on the meeden website and it doesn’t say a lightfastness rating but it did say: resistant to fading and discoloration from direct sunlight. They make your work colorful and beautiful.
Sweetest Louise, thank you!🥰💐🤗 I hope you are well too! I love the paper so far; it is affordable for 100% cotton paper! Thank you for the additional lightfastness info xoxo
With that palette, opacity's not going to be nearly as much of a thing as making mud since you can't tell whether you have any single-pigment paints to mix with. I guess that's the point of 42 colors. You don't mix. You just accept what you're given as with a box of crayons. In fact, I'd guess the palette's meant for colorists rather than for watercolorists. Nothing wrong with that at all, of course, but it needs to be understood when buying.
I'm quite curious about the order of all the colors on the palette it seems kinda out of order to me especially on the second and fourth row. There also seem to be a few that look almost the same in the reds.
Hi natsumisayuri7819! 👋😊 I think the violets to occur "randomly" on the palette, and some of the earths do too. Also a couple of reds do look similar to eachother, however in person they do have slight differences, hope that info helps x
Yeah, for sanity's sake, you'd have to make a swatch chart that matches the leaves of the palette and then hunt for the right leaf and the right segment on the leaf to get the blue you need. Meh. And there you are, painting on the go, but you've got the leaves fanned out and your color chart to navigate by, not easy to layout and anchor outdoors or even on a cafe table. Better for the crafter's table at home, I'd think.
One of the reviews on the website for the paints, posted after this video went up, mentions the need to let the palette paints air dry completely before closing the fan palette, because otherwise wet paint from one layer will smear on the bottom of the layer above it. That would also make it less usable as a real travel palette if you can't close it up quickly back into your bag. But the colors are wonderful!
I'm very impressed with their transparency 👍🏻. Thank you very much for swatching, Lily 🙏💖.
Another awesome video. Thank you!
Not a good mixing set then, LOL. I'll stick with my traveling 12 half pans of Roman Szmal single pigments in their little pocket-size metal palette. But the Meeden paper's said to be equivalent to Baohung, possibly the same paper under a different name, so I'm def interested in that. Thanks for the review, Lily.
Oh this was interesting to watch! Saw them a lot of times and asked myself how good they are. For sketchbook work they should be totally ok I think.. 😊 Have a nice start in the week! 🌸
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This is so good, what a fantastic review ☺☺
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Hi Lily, I hope you are well. The paints do look very vibrant, quite lovely especially for travel and sketching on the go in a sketch book. The watercolour block looks really lovely I think I will purchase a block. The palette looks amazing and cute. You take care Lily. Thankyou for sharing the supplies you got. Look forward to the next one. Lots of love xxx 🥰 I’ve just looked on the meeden website and it doesn’t say a lightfastness rating but it did say: resistant to fading and discoloration from direct sunlight. They make your work colorful and beautiful.
Sweetest Louise, thank you!🥰💐🤗 I hope you are well too! I love the paper so far; it is affordable for 100% cotton paper! Thank you for the additional lightfastness info xoxo
Do you have a template for your swatch charts?
Have you considered putting a black line or dot to test opacity when you're swatching? Can be handy to tell whether they're transparent or not 😊
With that palette, opacity's not going to be nearly as much of a thing as making mud since you can't tell whether you have any single-pigment paints to mix with. I guess that's the point of 42 colors. You don't mix. You just accept what you're given as with a box of crayons. In fact, I'd guess the palette's meant for colorists rather than for watercolorists. Nothing wrong with that at all, of course, but it needs to be understood when buying.
I'm quite curious about the order of all the colors on the palette it seems kinda out of order to me especially on the second and fourth row. There also seem to be a few that look almost the same in the reds.
Hi natsumisayuri7819! 👋😊 I think the violets to occur "randomly" on the palette, and some of the earths do too. Also a couple of reds do look similar to eachother, however in person they do have slight differences, hope that info helps x
Yeah, for sanity's sake, you'd have to make a swatch chart that matches the leaves of the palette and then hunt for the right leaf and the right segment on the leaf to get the blue you need. Meh. And there you are, painting on the go, but you've got the leaves fanned out and your color chart to navigate by, not easy to layout and anchor outdoors or even on a cafe table. Better for the crafter's table at home, I'd think.