Yes, I've playing around with color mixing and love how viridian works when mixed too

lol I would have responded back that the sap green on her palette most likely contains that pigment and is also a convenience colour and a green like sap/hookers doesn't exist as a single pigment and see how she reacts 🤣

I agree!

that's the set I'm working with currently. I was planning to take out the white and the viridian, but I will try some more mixing with the viridian first. I love how many different greys you can mix with the burnt umber and the blues

@@travwhitmer I totally agree with replacing the white, a waste of precious pan space. But the viridian is worth it 😁

Every professional artist I know uses this set. I belong to an national plein air competition group. We travel to plein air paint. Our works are them shown in a pop up gallery and sold. The cheapest paintings are 5" x 7" for $1200.00 usd. After the gallery and awards we set up our individual booths to sell from. No one involved, and there are hundreds, uses anything other than cotman or white nights. One person used to use davinci until they had a horrible mixing mishap. One girl uses daniel smith but she's a brand ambassador. It doesn't help because she's never won anything and I don't think she's ever sold a single painting. But she is popular on social media. So she sells stickers lol. I used w&n professionals when I got them for free, but as soon as I had to start buying my own paints I went straight to cotman. For commissioned work I do use daniel smith and paintings for myself I use ds. Mainly because I love the feel and a more natural realistic color palette which ds offers. But when I'm in the field or competing it's cotman. Point is, when one paints to play or social media or themselves one can afford to pay more for less. Because you aren't using it, but when one makes their living based solely on painting sales, one uses the best at the lowest cost. Last season a majority had switched to white nights. But they are too bright for me. I don't want to tone every mix down on the fly, but others love that versatility. I guess my other point is, use what you have. The supply isn't going to make you a better artist. Millions of paintings painted with cotman are sold every year for thousands of dollars.

@@phillipstroll7385 thank you so much for your input, I had no idea. A plain air competition sounds like fun. How about lightfastness, have any of you ever noticed the cotman colors fading over time or are they lightfast?

I will, thank you 😊

Agreed 😁

Olá! I'm sure they are exceptions of course, what I meant to say was when compared to other brands this is available on many more countries and the price doesn't vary as much

I'm so glad you've given it another try! Yes! Step away from the big sets, this is all you need. Plus it's much more fun this way 😉

It's one of my favourites at the moment

Yeah that does sound useless... So glad they changed it too

This set still has phthalo blue instead of cerulean for the NA market unfortunately, but you can at least buy the cotman pans open stock and replace it with cerulean

I own the kuretake art nouveau set and you can clearly see the white in the pastels yes. I'll have to give it a try 🙂

That happens to me.too. maybe place a small adehesive dot under the pans to hold them in place.

It is! I only use it for small details.