You Tube Made Me Do It.
Last year during lockdown -2020, in between watching Netflixs, drawing and watching cat videos on you tube, I found unboxing and reviews of a water colour brand called 'Roman Szmal'.
The Roman Szmal Aquarius range is a Polish watercolour range, made from high-quality gum arabic and glycerin, linden honey, distilled water and pure pigments.
Out of the 165 colours (to date) 119 of them are single pigment colours, allowing clean mixing of colours. (The 42 Earth Shades are made from natural earths, not synthetic iron oxides.)
I went through the Jackson Art web sight colour chart and found that, 22 are made of 2 pigments, 21 are made from 3 pigments and 3 are made from 4 pigments.
After watching a few videos I found myself on the Jackson art looking at them and adding them to my basket. But it wasn't until November that I final placed the order.
The colours I orders were: Aquarius Grey, Potters Pink, Mineral Violet, Lazurite (Lapis Lazuli), Glauconite, Shadow Violet Light, Shadow Violet, Misty Morning, Malachite (Genuine), Earth Green, Perlene Green Deep, Lavender, Hematite Violet, Cobalt Turquoise, Nickel Azo Yellow and Przybysz's Grey,
I went with these colours as I had been looking a getting some more Daniel Smith colours and after watching reviews I found that some of the Roman Szmal colours were their version of the Daniel Smith granulating colours.
Such as: Przybysz's Grey is Roman Szmal's version of Daniel smiths Moon Glow, and Shadow Violet is Shadow Violet.
Cobalt Turquoise I got as some were comparing it to Daniel Smiths Sleeping Beauty.
Nickel Azo yellow I got, as this is a colour I have wanted to get for at least two years. The other colours I got as looked like together they would make a good colour palette.
The only Daniel Smith colour have to compare to the Roman Szmal colours are Hematite Violet Genuine, Malachite Genuine, Phathal Blue - Green shane and Phathal Green - Blue shade. (until I get the dot cards.)
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| Above there is the Daniel Smith and Roman Szmal's Malachite test swatch. The Roman Szmal Malachite seams a little more yellow in tone |
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| Above are the Daniel Smith and Roman Szmal Hematite Violet Genuine. The Daniel Smith's Hematite Violet Genuine is a lot more granulating and more brown in tone compared to Roman Szmal's. |
Then in January I brought some of the colours that had been out of stock and some others,
Ocean Blue, Azo Red, Lemon Yellow, Permeant Orange, Sap Green, Ultramarine Blue, Lavender, Aquarius Green, Phthalo Green Blue Shade, Phthalo Blue Green Shade, Vivanite (Blue Ocha), Aquarius Red,
Phthalo blue green shade and Phthalo green blue shade are two colours that I like and have started adding in to my palettes as they are vibrant and punchy.
Azo Red, Lemon Yellow, Permeant Orange, Sap Green, and Ultramarine Blue I got as I want to put together a simple palette of the prime colours to try and get back in to colour mixing as this is something I rarely do these days, I have got in to the habit of just getting a colour that I need and and just a little of something else to get the colour required
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I've found these paints are beautiful and smooth to paint with which tends to be the case with watercolour paints that are made with honey.The colours are rich and pretty vibrant.
The granulating ones that I got, Przybysz’s Grey, Misty Mountain,Mineral Violet, Ocean Blue, Shadow Violet and Shadow Violet split in to two lovely colour tones.
The Earth colours that I picked up, - Lazurite (Lapis Lazuli), Malachite (Genuine), Vivanite (Blue Ocha).
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My Main Palette |
I will be doing some colour swatches/studies with the granulating colours and I'll post them here and Instagram, Facebook and here.
Links:
Roman Szmal water colour half pan paints.
Water Colour Paint & Pallet Collection
Small disclaimer, all these paints were perched
with my own money and this is not a sponsored post
