What a gorgeous looking set.

Oh my goodness, those metallic/shimmery colors are so beautiful! I love the white touches you put over your Koi fish, and I actually really love your pink piece. It's peaceful and pretty.

I really enjoy watching your reviews and videos! And many of your watercolour supplies are just beautiful!

I'm happy I found your channel. I've liked and subscribed. I learned about these only a week ago from an artist I follow on KZfaq (Diane Antone Studio) and was very impressed! They are just so brilliant and so forgiving, very easy to lift paint off of if I mess up :) I like that you really don't have to mix colors because they are just so perfect the way they are. I'm looking forward to watching more of your videos. Thank you so much!

I haven't swatched mine out in my swatch book, and there were so many... but this is inspiring me!

Planning to buy this set. Thank you for this review. Lovely koi painting.❤

Great technique at work awesome Really so great idea and tutorial for me and also all of you so again I repeated thank you so much

Beautiful! I don't blame you for wanting the entire set together - it makes sense. I'd want to frame that painting. 🤩

This is the first pallet I have seen that took my breath away..it wasn't cheap but I needed it..thanks for the review

You are so good and yet relatable to my skill level. Would appreciate a tutorial from you.love your style. Thanks for a wonderful review

Just bought the 48 set today on amazon ❤

thanks for sharing, it's very useful 👍🙏

I really like this Japanese paint. I have their Art Nouveau set which are lovely. I’ve been seeing this 48 color set being used on other demos so I just received it. Wonderful colors🎉I like the larger wells of paint for bigger paint brushes. I always enjoy your demos. Good energy ❤

i would love to have this thanks for the vid.

As I said in a previous comment, I primarily do Chinese brush painting; known also as Sumi-e in Japan. CBP is primarily differentiated not only for the use of permanent ink (I use both 101 ink sticks to grind thicker ink; which I then add a few drops of thinner YiDeGe ink); but also for the paper and brushes (which are all regarded in China as intangible cultural arts and are made humanely (no critters are harmed and it’s been a reciprocal practice between farmer, ranchers and other animal handlers for over 1000 years. My late Son actually spent a few days with a brush maker). The paper, Xuan, or “rice paper”; isn’t actually made from rice these days, but rather mostly bamboo and mulberry, both renewable resources. It comes in 3 types (and THIS is why certain paints, binders or Chinese chips are used) raw or unsized, which is extremely absorbent, you need incredible moisture control to do details on this paper. Semi-ripe or semi sized; only one side of the paper is sized, this is what most beginners start with. (Unless you have my tutors who insist on calligraphy and painting on raw paper..I’ve made more than my share of Rorschach ink blots!😂. Inked black cats on the other hand are fun to make on raw paper-which “paints” the hairs for you!) and finally there’s ripe, or fully sized paper most used for very detailed, Gongbi painting and is similar to a very thin hot press paper. All Xuan is much thinner than Western papers and the paint and ink not only soaks through sometimes; that’s actually a feature in some Xieyi or “freehand” painting where the artist will flip over the paper, and do some painting on the opposite side! Although I mostly still use either Marie’s or Chinese chips; Japanese paints are used by some Chinese artists, especially metallic inks like Kuratake gold and silver-which mixes with western paints VERY well (just use a tiny touch! There’s a LOT of gold & silver micro-mica pigments in that ink), the Gansai Tambi paints and Sakura White poster paint is used as an opaque white by most artists I know or follow. As I said before, you can see examples of some stunning work in this medium by one of my laoshi’s (tutor/teacher) Fiona from ink different studios. She just finished painting characters from the Monkey King and it blew me away watching her last week paint these VERY detailed characters on RAW Xuan. She streams live every other day on twitch and Becky, it’s MUCH closer to your time zone than mine. I’m currently in the hospital and had my iPad taken away at 3am trying to see if she was streaming. 😂. Going home today, so I’ll take a nap and hopefully catch her tonight IF she’s on. As I also said, I’m currently learning western style while teaching my friend Eastern. I WILL say though, after over 7 years of using these brushes; I’m afraid most of my expensive Western brushes are going to my daughter and my friend..I just CAN’t get used to them!

I use these paints once in awhile, typically on rice paper. I like them as a way to play with color and to build brush control, as I tend to draw with them instead of doing washes. The pans are a perfect size for larger brushes. Sadie Saves the Day has a great tutorial about Gansai Tambi if you're interested in learning more Https://kzfaq.info/get/bejne/is2XdZp6prmmeqc.html

I’ve been waiting for this one😀 The paints are so beautiful together in that set😍 okay, now I want that lilac and cherry blossom color. I get what you were saying earlier about cherry blossom and what a funny coincidence😂 the flowers are gorgeous, I liked the coy fish too especially once you added the sheen over the top!

wonderful 🥰

Becky, thank-you for this video! I've never used these before but they look SO BEAUTIFUL don't they? So satisfying to watch 😍😍😍

I love these and have for a while

The Kuretake watercolors look gorgeous. I was waiting for this review! It's so funny because I have seen a couple other reviews and state it feels more like gouache but you feel they are more transparent. I think I have to agree with you after seeing the swatches.

I love just looking at my Kiritaki G colors as they are both beautiful to look at as well as use! I have the 24 set and really do love them. Wish more paint was in the pans.😎🤟🏼

the fish look great swimming in the water 😀 havent tried these yet, one day hopefully *crossing fingers*

I got the 36 set; it arrived this week. So far, I've just swatched them out, but I'm looking forward to pulling out my Japanese paper and trying them out.

Fish are one of my favorite objects to paint. 🐠 I love my Kuretake Gansai Tambi watercolors! ❤️ I have a 36 colors set and another set of 6 Starry Colors, which were actually my first watercolors ever. I started out with the metallic ones, totally unconventional. ✨✨✨ The two reasons why I chose the 36 color set instead of the 42 was that I thought the 42 was too big and would take too much space on the table and I was also afraid of getting lost when looking for each color, since the 42 color set has the references just under each pan, while the 36 color set shows the numbers without the need to take the pans out to see. The only problem with the 36 color set in my opinion is that it doesn't come with a separate swatch sheet like the 42 does, and so far I haven't been able to properly photograph the inside of the box lid and print the chart on any watercolor paper to have a reasonably decent chart as a reference. 😢 It really has been bothering me 😩😩😩

I am on a "Becky Binge" right now and doing a marathon of all your watercolor videos 😂 So glad I found your channel! ❤❤❤

Patty- I have the 48, 24 Art Nouveau, Starry Colors, graphitint, Pearl Colors, Gem Colors and the Opal Colors. I've used some of them in one of my Hanna Karlzon books and they worked out quite well. I really like them.

Enjoyed watching this video saving money to purchase the biggestset they have thanks for review& swatching again..i definitely like the fish painting it is my favorite of tour three beautiful paintings ....👩‍🎨✍🎨🎃mikelle art mom

These look great and I would use them in traditional Chinese or Japanese paintings. Your sketches were both lovely. Have a nice weekend. V

I'm a big fan of these paints. I use them for filling in pen illustrations as I've found they don't layer the best. The colors are all so pretty but lilac is my favorite 🤗

Hi Becky! I have the shadow black set and I love them. I keep eyeing the regular colors in the 48 set but am still unsure if I need them, and how I'll use and store them. I'm pretty limited on desk space. At least with the two other sets you have refills when you run out of a color, and you can refill the empties with regular watercolors. I don't know that I've ever seen the gansi colors in a tube, but Ive also never looked. Thanks for the video, have a lovely weekend 🙂

Great video 🎉. The yellow koi does look a little skinny. I just went to my local Japanese Friendship Garden so they are fresh in my memory The water elements on top of the fish looks great.

I’ve got all the sets! Choosing Keeping has the entire line and hoarder me bought them all😘❤️‍🔥🥰

I keep umming and ahhhing over these... ofc, I don’t NEED them... but I don’t let that stop me usually.... just price (over $110+ ouch) lol. I do have the Starry set tho cos I wanted the light/gold metallics. (Hmmm... musta watched this before cos I’ve seen your koi painting, I’m sure... still love it tho! 🤘😍🤘 I need to stop researching the same things over and over when I want them.... but I can’t, it’s half the fun for me... pining over things ‘til I break down and just buy them, haha)

I am going to get this paint set and no Panpastels I do not like pastels at all and they are just too much and I am not an Artist . Had to watch this again. I am getting the 48 set after xmas really love your painting and happy swatching xxxx

i use water color and gouche always fun xx

Kuretake also have two 6- color set for pastel colors, and metallic colors. Please do a swatch for these. please also demonstrate the color mixing possibilities. Thanks

I have the set, but they feel soapy. In fact, when I mix colors, there are bubbles in there as if i was mixing soap. Also, it's difficult to get muted colors with that set, there is only 1 brown too (raw sienna) while it has more greens than it needs to have.

According to the channel Becky Tregrear Art, while kuretake’s are indeed gansai, they are vegan because of the binders they use (vs. other gansai that do use the bone glue).

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Thank you for the swatches. I just bought this set, but it's sat unopened for a few days, with me undecided as to whether to keep it or not. I peeked in your more recent video and see that you have seen that by now, the pigment info is available. I bought it before I checked, and as you know the reds, pinks and purples are not good lightfastness. The blues and greens are ok. Yellows are mixed, one of them is PY1! Terrible!

I never use the gambsei colours.... but I'd love to. I think I'll save some money to giftv it to myself at Christmas. In Germany it's nearly Fall and the leafs will turn soon slowly from green to yellow, red and brown. Thank you for this great video. Can you make a directly comparison to some usually watercolor paints and tell more about the differences? Best wishes from Germany by Judith

I like these paints. As a beginner I found the size of the box too big. I realised that each painting uses a particular palette of colours, so I bought one of the metal tins, took out the metal insert for pans and bought a very thin one sided magnetic tape. I cut a 2cm stip and add to the bottom of the pan. The pans still fit back in the box and they don't move around in the metal palette. Works well for me.

Your voice with your commentary is very nice to listen to you. I go to you first. And, I bought these kuretake paints as some of your comments fit what I need. 🇨🇦

Thx for this informative video, I just purchased 36 set & already had 12 new colors -BUT I really want the 48 also BUT I don’t have a husband- hmmm 🤔 I think I’ll be just fine though 😂🤣😆

I love how the koy fish turned out. I never tried the Gansai paints and to be honest I can't see any difference to western paint when looking at your swatches and painting. I don't like that there is no colour information and lightfastness. I have so many other brands, I don't need more, lol. One of my new favourites is the Roman Szmal. They are very affordable but can compete with bigger brands in my opinion.

Becky, the names are in Kanji, but... As 赤色 ( Red color ), but the Red 紅 is miscontexted.... It's Lipstick Red. Most of the English is just saying EQUALIVENT NAMES to western colors.

They now have 100 sets.

I dropped the entire box and they went everywhere and what a mess😱