The camera quality is absolutely mesmerizing, together with the paper's texture, it's a piece of art in of itself

It is such a nice limited set. I also love Winsor and Newton’s potter’s pink it is very easy to rewet and super granulating

W&N professional was the colours I was taught watercolour with, and they are still my absolute favorites, though I've never tried the tubes. That said, I live in europe, and I have never bought any of the colours at full price. The pans are extremely pigmented, and just last forever, and I find the paint to be really great to my rather tight, detailed style. I especially love their own 'winsor' serie of pigments, that gives you a full set of beautiful cold and warm primaries, as well as secondaries, at a great price.

I had a similar experience, I went straight from Corman to a 24 set box of professional W&N and just did not understand them at all! After a while of learning colour theory and about the pigments And trying out other brands I went back to them and liked them. They are very good for more subtle work and have a very English feel to the way they are formulated. I added around a dozen personal choice colours, dumped a few that made no sense to me and now the box is personalised to my preferences I really like it. There are some special colours I had to have because I am a pigment nerd, and because they are gorgeous. Not all have gone into the W&N box though. A few wound up in a historic colour palette by Bill Colori because they were more at home with those colours. I am lucky enough to live in the U.K. where I can take advantage of special offers or discounts on these paints, I know they are hideously expensive in some places. Glad you are giving them another chanceThe thing I like best about them is they do what I want them to do. I get impatient with paint that gives me too much at a time, or looks ok wet but dries to nothing. And they mostly seem pretty reliable. My one complaint is I had a horrible Aurelian that turned a very murky colour in the box. It was quickly disposed of and replaced! Your demo gives a good idea of how well they layer. Always like to watch you painting. Thankyou.

I really love the winsor and newton paints! I dislike the cotman, and I think they are overpriced, but the professionals are great!

I really love your voice, how calm and relaxing is, I always "watch" your videos twice, one I just put the Audio while working and then when I have my break I watch it the whole process, it helps me with Anxiety a lot. Thank you for always doing such amazing content.

I really really love W&N. Their Green Gold in light washes is magic! Like the sunlight is shining through green leaves. There is a magic golden light from within. It is also very useful for mixing skin tones. Rose Dore is a very unique color, and I love the Light Red. Oh, and I forgot their New Gamboge, like golden sunlight! The bright colors are all very good in my opinion, very transparent and luminous. The downside with W&N are the other earth tones, I prefer Schmincke's earth tones. I am living in Germany. Greetings!! Dana

Man I love you... It is the best thing to wake up, make some coffee and breakfast and get motivated for the day with your videos. Last few months I was feeling really down and I didnt feel like painting at all but this is really helping me to at least try it again, do some quick sketching etc.. I hope Im gonna get into it soon more. Thank you

Thank you for making a video about the W & N watercolour paints. Here where I live, they are very commonly used by artists. I started out with a tiny travel set and that is how I came to love watercolour paints. I also use W & N's gouache paints. Options are quite limited here, but we are slowly seeing newer brands coming in from other countries.

I love Winsor&Newton pro watercolors. They were and continue to be a favorite of mine. If there is one complaint I have about this line, it's that some of their earth tones are fairly weak and tend to streak a little, but then again that is not really an issue for me, as I simply do not have to buy those. And there are some lovely earth tones in that line as well, such as their naples yellow deep, gold ochre and their caput mortum violet. And they have such beautiful perylenes! I know that a lot of people do not like Winsor and Newton, for various reasons, but as for me, none of their products have disppointed me. I love their pro watercolors, I love their gouache, and for what they are, I even like their Cotman watercolors.

Congratulations on getting a big sponsorship! I hope it will be a lot of fun and will lead to even more opportunities. That being said, I want to warn any beginners watching this video: if you are using Cotman paints (the student-grade paints of W&N), then the problem IS with the paints and not with your skills. They are notoriously difficult to activate, and don't behave like the watercolours you see in tutorials.

I've been using the windsor and newton cotman travel set. I recently bought a few more tubes. Honestly, for my price and experiene I don't want to spend a ton of money on the profressional line. The tubes are much better experience than the half pans. I can get soooo much more paint all at once because I find that the pans take a while to activate and my house is always dry and drying them out as I work..... The big thing was getting actual watercolor brushes too. I'm happy with my set for now. I feel like I have a lot to learn and I don't always time to paint. I'll upgrade when I'm ready.

Thank you for the lovely video, like James here, I also get so inspired! I find Winsor&Newton to be a great middle- regarding subtlety - I place them between Mission Gold (huge pigment intensity pay out, excellent for single layer washes) and Sennelier/Lukas (super fine pigments with gentle intensity, great for layering glazes and botanic work).

I really enjoy W&N paints They make up about 30% of my (rather large for a non you tuber) collection.

winsor newton professional line are good paints and underappreciated p.s. the tubes aren't made to pore into pans. the pans have a different ingredients than the tubes. some tubes when dried crack, get gummy or hard to rewet. winsor and newton inform to use the tubes from the tube and if preferring working from pans to get their pans.

This community is just so wonderful

Read the title, guessed the brand right, and now I'm excitedly watching! ❤️❤️❤️

I love your videos! No matter what kind of. I've already learned so much from your videos and it's so relaxing to watch you painting.

Their Cotman student paints were my first set, and I felt like I was fighting with them while I painted. I got the White Nights at your suggestion and loved them, but I might give Cotman another go now that I’m more experienced with watercolor

Every time you upload I want to start painting again

W&N professional isn't bad, per se, I am just finding them severely overpriced and rather overhyped, especially here where they are the default watercolour option for every art supplies store. Also the way I work I now vastly prefer M.Graham and Rosa Gallery/White Nights. I also detest that they decided not to disclose pigments in their cadmium-free new range, meaning that we might be getting same pyrrols and naphtols we had all these years only in shiny new renames (and I hope it is just those and not something more dangerous).

I ❤️love❤️ WN cold pressed cotton paper. It’s probably my favorite with Arches coming in second . But...... I’ve finally tried Artezas 100% cotton cold pressed and it’s fantastic!

I love W&N. I often hear that they are overpriced and overhyped, but I don't think so. Why don't people say the same things about Schmincke or Daniel Smith (before the scandal)? I think, W&N has wonderful granulating colors. This brand deserves more attention.

It's funny that you avoided it for such a long time and you finally enjoy them :D This is the brand that I learned watercolors with when I was a child and got lucky enough to learn watercolors with a local artist :) I still love these paints for their quality :) I am less a fan of the Cotman line though, but the quality is meant to be different.

my first ever set was a cotman set, and whilst i prefer other brands now i do really enjoy some of their colours in the professional range (i love winsor yellow, permanent rose and phthalo turquoise as well as their dioxazine and perylene violets)!! there are brands that work better with how i like to paint, but i do have a soft spot for a few of the w&ns :>

I've never tried Windsor and Newton's professional watercolours and honestly haven't heard much about them either. Can't wait to see how you got on with them 🥰

I absolutely love winsor and newton! I've been using the original cotman set since I got it 3 years ago, I now have a mix or professional grade w&n mixed in with the original cotman :)

Oh! I love the colours. I love Winsor and Newton. I love learning about colour mixing and limited palettes. It's lovely seeing your colors. I don't have Instagram so I can't folks you there. But I do enjoy watching you.

I'm in UK and brought up using W&N professional watercolours...they are the most reasonable brand where I live. Some of their colours are my absolute favourite of the major brands too as they can be cleaner and brighter especially in the reds and blues. I find each of the major brands has its strengths. In the States though I think WnN is very expensive?

i bought some secondhand w&n half pans last year and while i don't use them regularly i enjoyed them a lot. i'm trying to move away from daniel smith these days though, so i'll probably be using winsor and newton more in the future

These are the watercolors I made my first artist grade palette with and they're the best. I made a full pan set of them after watching you make a set.

I pretty much use winsor & newton exclusively but in oil and acrylic. So it's nice to see how their watercolors behave. I tend to shy away from watercolor because it's kind of intimidating to me and I feel like I'm terrible at it. But I love watching other people use it and to learn more about it.

The close up is fantastic! Thankyou.

I also just tried this brand for the first time! You must try their magnesium brown!

I am a huge fan of W&N professional line for artists. Their Indigo is my fav over all other companies' versions of the color.

Hello!! I absolutely love your videos, they are very informative and helpful, especially for a beginner like me!! I hope it wouldn't be too much trouble, but I recently found this watercolor sketchbook from the Baohong brand on amazon, which I thought was really interesting. Would you mind reviewing it? I have not found any others reviews of it and I really want to know what you thing about it.

Can you talk about your current watercolor sketch book? Are you making and/or buying them? I found some videos from a year(s) ago, but I am wondering where you are today with this. Sorry if I missed it. I really enjoyed looking at your art. It makes me want to change up my "portraits". Thanks!

Glad to see your amazing work once again 💜💜💜💕

i enjoy the shorter videos sometimes because i can quickly watch it while i eat before i go to work.

Where I live there aren't other watercolour brands sold other than winsor and newton, so it's what i've always used. it's cool to see your perspective on them

Having a good set of colors is so important when testing out new paints. I got one set that was roughly 5 reds (that were all very similar), a warm yellow, a teal, a blue and a brown. Frustrated the heck out of me because I couldn't figure out WTF to even do with them to actually get a feel for those paints. Soured me on the brand completely.

Honestly, I think my issue with W&N watercolor is that theyre boring? if that makes sense. they dont give me that starry eyed feeling I get when using any other brand. I own DS, Lukas (from Jerry's), M Graham, Schminke, Holbein, Mijello, some Jacksons' brand, and Roman Szmal paints and they all understand the assignment! I feel like W&N, since they've been around for so long aren't as adventurous.

This turned out very cool (: I have a few W&N paints. In HS, I did start with a cotman set which kind of went unused after I got my graduation gift of a set of 24 Sennelier watercolors and so I never tried the professional level paints for W&N. It looks like I am missing out because the blues you picked here are fantastic! (:

I am glad I ain’t the only one who avoids windsor & newton.. 😅

loving the smooth brush strokes :)

I have always wanted winser and newton watercolors 💕💕

I have a winsor and newton pocket box, I got it as a gift from my nan and its the only really professional watercolours I've ever tried. I definitely have I bias towards the brand but the mini 12 pan set is the only watercolours I've had. I do love them and their quality, it's lasted me a good 3 years now, but maybe this means i should branch out and try new brands next time, if I can afford it

winsor artist paint has some realy nice colors in them. But I still reach for either sennelier ds or white nights. schmincke has lost my fancy for now but who knows.

I LOVE ❤️ how you filmed this. Please do it again! 🙏

Ooh pretty :00 I love the slight pastel look c:

when i watch you videos i get so inspired to paint and creat and i just want to thank you for that

I 100% agree about sets. In fact I don't buy them anymore. It costs a bit more to get what I want, but it's worth it, even if I wind up with fewer colors to begin with.

I love your work and the channel. Thank you for sharing 💕

Just watching this video, made me salivate, to try these colours.

I use winsor and newton cotman set.... and i really like it. he problem with them is that when you get the pre-made (or i guess pre-poured) pans of their watercolours, the binder settles on top and until you wipe it off or take off the top it behaves strangely. so to anyone considering the cotman even for a sec... just wipe the top if you notice the binder settling lol

I love my winsor and newton pallet its like 10 12 tans and its studio grade or something like that im pretty sure studio grade for 30 or 40 dollars k got them from sweden i have moved to another country now but when i lived there k got it for 300 or 400 kronor as in 30 40 dollars

Honestly, the same thing kinda happened with me and prismacolor colored pencils. When i first tried them, i didnt know how to mix the colors and absalutely hated how soft they were. (I was used to stiffer pencils like crayola) but i was really inexperienced in using colored pencils at the time and didnt have a good grasp of a lot of art principles and color theory. But i recently really needed to buy some for an art class and they are actually pretty nice and not as bad as i thought. Im still not the biggest fan of them, but mostly because im pretty heavy handed and i just dont prefer the medium. (water color is just more fun). But overall, the brand is pretty good and blending with them is nice.

I just recently set up a limited WN pro palette as well. IDK why but I never really was interested in them.. I have a few colors tossed in here or there but not a full palette. I think my early experiences with Cotman left a bad taste in my mouth. I'm still undecided on them, I've done one full work and it's a bit dull... it could be the paper but my tests on the paper with another brand came out vibrant. They don't seem to glaze/layer very nicely. Still playing with it. Definitely 1000x better than the Cotman though. Mine is a split primary transparent single pigment, plus burnt sienna (except for New Gamboge which is two pigments). I've been setting up little brand palettes in the small ceramic flower 7wells and really loving them. There is just something about the weight and feel of ceramic, plus they are really nice to stick a brush in.

First paint I bought to replace a color for my starter palette was a Cotman... Never had any problem with them

I personally don't see how one can dislike a brand of artist grade watercolor. At the end of the day they're all mostly made up of pigment and gum arabic, with the exception of QOR. It's possible that I feel this way because my way of painting is quite loose and I don't require a huge amount of control over the paint, I'm not sure. I think most of our preferences and brand loyalty comes down to what the people that taught us and that we admire use or used, even if artists might not be aware of that. Long story short, I love ALL the paint lmao

These look nice. I dislike W&N gouache, but might try these.

Beautiful❣️ love all the colors👏👍

w&n artist grade are super transparent and does best with layering. Cotman used be superior quality academy paints until they closed factory and moved to France then China...

I do like these short high quality videos

Winsor&Newton Professional Watercolors are one of my favorite brands! 😁 Did you ever have a chance to try Aquarius Watercolors by Roman Szmal?

I’m not a huge fan of W&N professional: they are nice paints, but I don’t like their “character”. However, their Turner’s yellow is well-loved in my custom palette.

So amazing. I like what do you do👍🏻👍🏻

Cotman isn't really the best, but the price varies a lot depending on where you live. The only reason I got the 12 half pan set was because it was only €10

I studied visual arts at uni, we had Cotman on our art supplies list. I really disliked this set, I found some colors chalky and others seems different when you looked at them dried. The color selection was also meh at best. This palette is the reason why I've never tried their professional range but nowadays I'd really like to check the cadmium free colors.

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Their professional Indigo is really good. I don't like the Cotman range, though.

I just cannot get behind this brand. I’ve tried them over and over. For me they just aren’t pigmented enough and for some reason they are so expensive where they are easily accessible. Also, when I compare they color range and the light fastness options, other companies outshine them. Won’t touch them.

Oooo that bgm tho

can we choose the colors if we buy? they have some pretty colors I don't have yet but I have the kinda standard set of colors you find in most basic sets already from different brands, so I would want to choose some fun new ones without the standard colors

I'm very late to this but where is the info about the brushes? I love W/N pro watercolors and don't get the haters

I hope you do give these paints a go over and I still offer up DaVinci as an alternative to ANY other professional brand! i am a recent convert and cannot say enough great things about this company! Nope NOT affiliated nor employed by them!

I want to do watercolor but am so scared to start. Dont know why. Think it's because there's a sense of permanence that I can't just erase if I dont like it.

personally im not a big fan of WN, the watercolors always feel so gummy to me! yuck! i like mijello, daniel smith, and sennelier much better (oh and white knights). the gouache by WN isnt bad, but i think i prefer the consistency of holbein's gouache better. oh! but i wish more paint brands would pick up the cad-free pigment alternatives like WN is, props to them for that. buuuuuuuuut as always... seeing you paint makes me want to also.

here’s the first comment that isn’t an essay 😩😩😩

I love the work you do Arleesha, thank you for this. However, I don't like it when reviews are sponsored by companies. It just seems like a dishonest way to advertise. I have always enjoyed hearing your and Denise Soden's opinion on Winsor and Newton. The things I discovered by myself having tried plenty of colours in plenty of brands, but that none of the watercolorists around me are saying (I assume because they grew up with W&N, and its harder to see the faults in your family). I did not grew up with them, so I found them extremely overpriced, hard to rewet (the "you're not supposed to pour your own pans!" is frankly insulting), and basically taking the place of better brands in stores where the space is limited. I don't think I could ever do better than you. You live off your art and that is lightyears ahead from where I'm at. If a super nice sales rep contacted me and gave me stuff, I would feel a great pressure to maximise the positive and brush off any potential negative aspects about their gift. I am not looking forward to the rest of the W&N series, but would like to be proven wrong. Thanks

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Why did I recognize the brand just by the thumbnail picture 😐 😳

Hot pressed expensive 🙂🔫 but aesthetic video tho i loved how you paint apparently i just keep watching ✋ (༎ຶ ෴ ༎ຶ)

You do know that W&N tube paint is formulated differently to their pan paint so that the pans are easier to rewet than dried tube paint, right?

Oh I hate w&n paints. Wait, they are giving me 10 free tubes of my choice, paper and brushes. Omg they are so fabulous. I love them. Hurry kids. Get a KZfaq channel so you too can get free supplies and make money off those free supplies. Then you can get a patreon. It's like they are paying the electric company to charge them more for they electric and they don't even care. It's Brilliant. You don't even have to teach anything. Just show what you have at home and say really great things about them. Even if you hate it. Be sure to add ad many ads as possible. That way you make more abd you can say that recording yourself is really hard work. Bloody brilliant.

Your videos would have been so relaxing if you didn’t speak on them. I mean no offense but I love your videos only if they were with relaxing music.