A list of art supplies that I use in my videos can be found in the description section. If you've been waiting for Roman Szmal watercolors to come back in stock since the January release sold out, they are available again at Jacksons (affiliate link): www.jacksonsart.com/en-us/roman-szmal-aquarius-watercolour-paint?___store=jacksonsart_us&acc=c0f168ce8900fa56e57789e2a2f2c9d0 I expect many brands to experience extended out-of-stock issues due to shipping back ups world wide. This was already bad due to supply chain issues and pandemic woes, but are now so much worse due to the conflict in Russia and Ukraine. The oil/gas shortages and increases in fuel costs will have an impact on many things, including the cost of art supplies. Since Roman Szmal ships from Poland, and the area has massive back ups from FedEx and UPS discontinuing service to neighboring countries, as well as many people from Ukraine fleeing their homes to go to Poland - there may be increased delays in/from this area over the coming months. I don't want to cause panic shopping, but definitely want fellow artists to be prepared - or very patient - about other upcoming challenges regarding watercolor. There will be long or permanent delays for goods coming from Ukraine and Russia. If you are primarily using White Nights or Rosa Gallery watercolors, this may be a good time to make sure you have what you need in case they are unavailable for some prolonged period of time. There is nothing directly shipping from either country at this point. Ukraine is under attack in many areas. All major shipping companies and even payment systems like visa/mastercard have shut down operation in Russia. The supplies currently in stock at art stores outside of those countries may be the last available worldwide for some time. Because the most affordable Cobalt and Cadmiums come from this part of the world, and the prices of both were already on the rise, I am definitely concerned about the affordability of paint moving forward. I hope that Roman Szmal will be able to keep his prices low, as this is one of the absolute best quality and affordable options available to us now.

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Beautiful cat ❤ interesting review as always:)

As someone who recently lost a fur-baby of their own, allow me to say that this is an absolutely beautiful tribute. Gorgeous painting, and wonderful video footage. I'm impressed with the Quin Scarlet, what an intriguing color! Definitely will have to think about that one, the tomato-tone of it is neat. Thank you for sharing all of this!

Absolutely heartwarming tribute to Cookie ❤️😻❤️ She wins the bean toe contest 🫘 ❤Hope your heart is healing

This new Ultramarine Intense is my favourite ultramarine, hands down! I'm glad RS decided to sell it separately. Small correction: "rudy" is a Polish word, not part of the English name of that colour. Rudy = Ginger Red :) Cheers!

I'm sorry for the loss of your fur baby. Your color reviews are so thorough. I really appreciate the effort you put into them, thank you!

Rest in peace beautiful Cookie ❤️

I have 6 cats that I live with - and I love painting and learned a lot from your sharing of this special brand of water color pigments that I here see for the first time. Brilliant info and so wonderfull and loving 🎶💜🎵😺cat painting

I always have to freeze Roman Szmal pans for 5-10 minutes before unwrapping because of how sticky they are. I'm sorry for your loss. I love the tribute portrait you did. So beautiful.

I did not know why I became so sad that I almost cried watching you paint that beautiful picture, but I understood later. So sorry for your loss. ❤

Roman Szmal sale underway at Jackson's so I'm back here picking colors. Thank you!

I have had the chanse to try already Quinophtalone Yellow thanks to Roman Szmal himself, and I have fallen in love with that color like anything else before. It is so glowy, it almost blinds you when you apply it on the paper, and this characteristic shows up strongly even after glazing other colors above. Never without this color again. Thank you for sharing all of them. I am also really excited to see that he's bringing us lots of new pigments to try out, the look definitely interesting.

Wow! Those color mixes are stunning. And the Blue Ridge Sienna's response to salt is gorgeous. It looks as tho you could paint a sun-filled background, and then use salt to create a "spontaneous forest" landscape, to fill in later with trees. White Nights quin rose is one of my absolute essentials for florals, because I can't deal with opera colors. The Quin Purple of Roman Szmal seems like a much lovelier purple than I'm used to seeing in some of the intense quin violets and purples out there. Thanks for the tour of the new colors!

Cookie! 😭 So beautiful!

Oh Cookie was beautiful- what a charming kitty! I love her intense look in the picture, and it's a wonderful tribute. The colours look interesting! I wanted to pick some up when Jackson's did a sale, but they sold out very quickly. I may have to grab a couple- I do love a strong yellow and bold orange!

My favorites in this video were the Cobalt Green Deep, the Quin. Purple and then I found myself oddly fascinated with the two more opaque ones - the Iron Chrome Brown and the Manganese Brown. The background in your painting is beautiful and I love the white touches you almost always put on at the end. I'm so sorry you lost Cookie; thank you for sharing her with us. It made me cry. 😥 Hugs, Kimberly.

Quin purple and mine arrives tomorrow along with 47 of its friends. Im so excited.

What a lovely tribute to your furbaby! Thank you for the research and lovely painting. ❤️

I'm very sorry for your loss. Beautiful tribute.

That Iron Chrome Brown looks beautiful

A beautiful tribute❤️. I’m so sorry for your loss💔

Ahh little Cookie ❤️

I was so taken by your painting I actually teared up before I reached your sad news.Something about it touched my heart. What a beautiful tribute to your Cookie. Losing beloved pets has left spaces in my life I cannot seem to fill. Your video helped me to remember the good times. Thank you for sharing it with us.

Ohmygoodness! You must be a true numbers person to rattle all those numbers off for WC. I've never heard anyone else do that! Thanks for this video I really enjoyed it!❤

Fun fact: The "rudy" part in ginger red is just Polish word for ginger color. Rudy kot = ginger cat.

Lovely tribute to Cookie. Thanks for the review.

I'm so sorry about Cookie. Such a beautiful baby.

So sorry for the passing of your fur-baby. :-( She was beautiful and that dove has no idea how close it came to being added to her toy collection!

So sorry about Cookie. She was beautiful, had a personality, and was with you for a long time. Making a connection with a cat is such a healing experience. Happy you had that. It’s amazing just how much room they can take over in a bed at night. There were many mornings i woke up at the foot of the bed with our Patches or Sable comfortable on the pillow, next to my Hubby, cuddling the other one, Wish i still had that. Their love stays with you forever. ❤️

That quin purple looks gorgeous, same with the ginger red! I really really hope they'll release tubes one day.

Beautiful swatches and finished picture. Sorry for the loss of your pet.

Thank you for such a detailed and beautifully demonstrated review, I love the mixes and effects with the salt. I need to practice more with salt and see what different effects it will create. Your tribute to Cookie is beautiful, what a sweet friend

I’m already made a Roman Szmall pallete with some of my favorite colors. But now you have added some more colors I clearly over looked that I need. Just when I thought I was done 🤣 And big ghost hugs from me. I lost my fur baby of 11 years almost a year ago and there still days I miss him so much. Beautiful fur creatures that win our souls forever. But your painting for her and the video was the best tribute 🖤 forever immortalized on the internet.

I'm sorry for your cat Cookie. RIP beautiful cat! Cute painting :)

I’m always drawn to purple and blue and I love the quin purple. Your commentary is informative and artwork is beautiful. Thank you!

Thanks for always sharing new watercolor paints and products with us. Sorry to hear that you lost cookie. Our fur babies are truly family. I think my fur and scale babies are a bit better than most humans, especially these days. Have a great night

I’ve been waiting for you to test these pigments, great video and analysis as always…and the montage of Cookie was beautiful

I fell in love with Quin Purple, it's so intense and brilliant it works lovely for my fantasy portraits. I got Ginger Red for my copper haired character and I was surprised on how when given light washes it makes great sink tones. I haven't gotten cobalt green deep but I am leaning towards getting it to add to my collections of green pigments

Beautiful cat painting and interesting new colors. Thank you!

Loved the video and was making a purchase from Jackson's for these very colors when your video dropped. You talked me into quin scarlet. Ex ited to try it out. Really loved your tribute to Cookie 🍪. Cats are the best and watching them chitter away at the wildlife on bird TV is always fun. Thanks again for a great review and your extensive knowledge about pigments. Sorry about the loss of your fur baby!

Absolutely fantastic round-up, as always. Thank you for your work. And thank you for sharing your sweet kitty with us. What a charmer she was!

Love the Ginger and the Ultramaine! Also-your rendering of the Cali o fur is lovely. Thanks again for such an informative video.

I really love the cobalt green deep. Was also interested in trying ginger red but after watching this video I am considering quin scarlet instead.

your reviews really are just the best. This is like my 4th time viewing. So much information! Thanks, keep up the good work :)

I love it when you refer to colours BH pigment number! Makes me laugh and cheers me up! OK, ok, yes I'm still a paint peasant but I do love your art images! Thanks 😁

Awww hi sweet kitties!! I'm sorry you lost your baby. I loved seeing all the video and pics! Also loving that red, I'll put it on my wish list. I am remodeling my studio, and promised myself no new paint until that's done! That said, i do have an order of Prodigal Sons showing up today that i ordered before the ban. :D

Gorgeous! I've always wanted to try these watercolors.

Thanks so much. Excellent review, as usual. I’m very interested in the new quin red colour. More treasures to be added to my ever growing wish list. I love all my Roman Szmal paint, really affordable for those of us who like collecting new pigments.

I am very sorry for your loss of Cookie :(

Great review as always, I can always count on you for honest and helpful opinions on watercolors.

since your blog posts don't seem to show dates... was wondering how long your LF test have been going. (like if you noted: started jan2021 for instance)... i'm wanting to follow several and wondering when to expect certain ones so i don't miss. i know you do for about a year. but without a starting date.... love your work! iaccess your blog quite a lot to reference things. and enjoy your videos. loved that red, hoping it gets a pigment number soon.... the orange is fantastic, had my eye on it but wondering how it does in LF testing. reminds me a little of *sennelier chinese orange* (which i'm in love with and it's v useful. haven't seen anything similar in ANY brand). and your MIXES... wow. especially loved the brown and grey. amazing. again, thanks for your great work. it seems to have really expanded in the last 2 yrs also!

I dont know this brand, but obviously I find Them very interesting and Will try to look for Them. The honeyball like texture seem a bit Strange but also interesting since I love aquarel in tubes - 🙏😊

Cobalt Green Deep and quin purple are definitely my favorites from this group but the ginger red is also very nice (they should have called it ginger orange though).

Great video! As someone living in Poland I just wanted to clear that 'Ginger Red' = 'Rudy' in polish. It's not a whole name, just two language versions :)

Lovely! I got a few of their new colours, I was specially interested by Ginger red for being so uncommon and I like the tone. Now you make me feel I should get Quin Scarlet too!

I’m sorry for the loss of your kitty or been watching your channel for a while now and I feel your videos are very fast paced and I find myself going back to catch what’s going on screen with what you are saying, I know longer videos require more editing but I feel they would be easier to follow, other than that, I really appreciate the work you do!

so sticky! would prob end up tuck to our carpet lol

Just lost one of my 2 cats… she was an isabelle… same colors… she disappeared 3 weeks ago 💔😓🌸🦄🌸🐈

They are all interesting. The colour that helps dupe the super granulating seems most worthwhile to invest in. I don’t think I can get this brand in Canada reasonably priced however; but it’s worth looking into. These are all interesting for ones overall collection.

Hand over mouth: woah, I've got some RoSzmal pans coming in... they're going in the FREEZER 😂 thanks for the warning. I don't have that yellow, though. And I really liked that yellow. When that blue and scarlet tried to say "let's mix" the yellow be like "nah"! And it's not a cad?! Color me impressed. (My pure yellows are pretty. They can't hold their own though without some planning.) And it's not opaque! It looks like painting with a rude, bleedy highlighter 😂 ❤️ Love it. Btw I think you sent too much business to Prodigal Son 😭 I went to make another Etsy order and he's selling only powders now because he can't keep up with the orders!. *You DID warn him!* 😂 I don't think he knew how much people respected you. (Note: it's not just the Smalt 200: it's ALL the watercolours he quit making until further notice! He needs to hire some people; I think you made the boy rich and maybe you should get a cut! Congratulations! To him, too! )

I'm most interested in the earth tone options in the update... the raw sienna, burnt sienna, and ochre. I'd love a comparison in the different options as these are staple colors for me and they offer so many different types.

Omg I was so excited to see you posted a video of the new Roman Szmal colors, which no one is talking about since Schmincke released their new granulating sets at the same time...which is a bummer bc I love Roman Szmal and they deserve the hype..I ordered 7 of the new colors but after your video I think might order the Quin purple as well. I decided against ordering the Py138 since I already have the DS and Mission Gold version. I also decided not to order the new earth colors (apart from the PBr29 and PY164 ) since I already have so many earth colors from Roman Szmal and multiple other brands. Im most excited about the Cobalt Green Deep and the new orange and red colors (Ive super been into oranges and warm leaning reds this last or so). Anyway great video as always and thanks for sharing. Much love💜

Hi Kimberly! You mentioned that Quinacridone Scarlet is a crystallisation of a quinacridone and a pyrrole. If I am not mistaken, this is the same description as W&N’s Permanent Carmine, which is a quinacridone pyrrolidone. But I believe that Permanent Carmine is more of cool red rather than the mid or warm red of the Quinacridone Scarlet.

That mission gold br29 looks like a winner. Wondering why Jackson’s don’t currently list it…

Hi Kimberly, thanks as always for your super informative videos. I wanted to ask what brand of white gouache you use for details, and whether you use fresh or dried gouache? Also, have you used dr. ph martins’s bleed proof white? I am trying to settle on a medium to use for white details but gouache is giving me some problems and i don’t know if the bleed proof white is good enough. Thanks again ❤️

No videos for a year 😢Where are you Kimberly? Are you doing ok?

It sounds like quinophthalone yellow has many of the same properties as Phthalo blue.

Quin Scarlet looks so interesting! Does it neutralize with Phthalo Blue the way PBr25 or PR175 do? I'm kinda in the market for a new warm red since PR242 seems a little iffy lightfastness-wise in the tints...

So sorry for your loss. I have had cats my whole life and choose older ones from the shelter to give them the best life of what they have left. (My backyard is an orchard). I like to practice mixing colors. Which three primary colors from Roman Szmal would you suggest I start with?

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Are they considered non toxic??

Help! I've run into a problem with my Roman Szmals. I decided to expand my palette and my new paints have a layer of what I think is wax from the wrapping on the surface.. I think they may have gotten hot in transit from the UK? I can't seem to get it off, water and brush scrubbing does nothing, just beads up. Has anyone run into this and found a solution?

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It hurt me physically when you were ripping the wax paper off the first paint😬

Please please don't stop using pigment names - I feel like a grown up when I'm listening - yeah, bit late in the day at my age but I really really enjoy your intensity bout paints! Whilst I happily splosh on the nearest rubbish paint colour and pretend I know what I'm doing.........welcome to my world 😂

Rip the paper off like you’re waxing your legs and it doesn’t stick.