White Nights Professional Watercolor Set 36 Full Pans of Extra Fine Artist Grade Pigments, Vibrant Lightfast Colors in Durable Plastic Box by Nevskaya Palitra

I read few reviews about this brand and decided to give it a try. Indeed its very satisfying and brings a big smile to my face every time I paint and use it. The one I ordered is 36 pan which comes in sturdy white palette and large mixing areas. Each pan is 2.5ml/full pan and the palette can fit a big brush (brush is not included). I use many different watercolor brands, so this definitely can keep me for quite some time although I still find an excuse to use it every time :) The palette is perfect fit when I'm travelling. Watercolor has very strong pigmentation, easy to rewet, good transparancy and glide smoothly on the paper. In my painting, I don't do lots of mixing/max 2 colors and I found no issues, such as muddy paint. Now I'm thinking of my student grade Winsor & Newton 45 half pan which I bought as my first watercolor paint. Although I'm a beginner, after I got the St Petersburg watercolor, I realised that artist quality does make difference to my paintings. It's not really nice to say, but I should have purchased St Petersburg in the first hand if I knew earlier rather than buying student grade which has lower quality in vibrancy and difficulty to rewet the paints. Having said that, this is just my own opinion and experience. It may not necessarily fit to your circumstance/consideration, such as budget to spend, the amount of time you paint, and how passionate you are about watercolor. After all, buying artist watercolor doesnt come in cheap price tags and it's an investment decision. St Petersburg paint, however is pretty affordable, and really a good value for your money to get artist quality paint. Hope my reviews can share some info to everyone on purchasing watercolor. Happy painting all..^^ Lola JF

I got these as a warm-up set and put them away, thinking at this price they couldn't really be all that good. Yes. They. Are. After working with Daniel Smith and other high end paints, I got them out just to use them up and have a travel case. I had to make several swatch pages to see if I was really seeing the quality I thought I was seeing. I was! And there are colors here that aren't usually found in sets in this price range. Some reviewers have remarked about the lightfastness, but I'm seeing the same rankings on the wrappers as I find in other, much more expensive, sets. The best part is that there are only a few that are made with more than one pigment, making them very easy to mix without getting mud. I do like Daniel Smith because of the granulation, but most of the earth tones here also granulate. Confession time. I have TWO of these sets, and yet my fingers are itching to buy a third, even though I don't need one. I did topple one set on the floor and had the pans scatter everywhere. That turned out to be a good thing. It showed me just how densely pigmented these are because I couldn't tell the colors apart without swatching (the darker the paint in the pan, the denser the pigmentation). Unlike Holbein, which uses many different pigments in most of their colors, as well as white, these give a very crisp, fresh color and are fabulous for layering while maintaining transparency. he scattered pans also gave me a chance to write the color name on each pan before putting them back in the palette and securing each one with a small piece of rolled painters tape. I can remove one without them all pulling up. Don't be fooled by the price. These are excellent.

I'm so happy with my choice of White Nights 36 full pans! These paints are luscious. Pans are full and they re-wet easily. Lightfast ratings are accurate in my independent tests. It's fairly easy to tell if watercolors have been augmented with cheap dye to bring out color, and these have not. Colors are true and absolutely beautiful. I really like the removable second mixing tray, as that makes it easy to clean. As I would do for any other brand, I added some double-face tape beneath the pans to keep them in place during travel. When you get deeper into the world of watercolor, you'll inevitably start switching out colors from a pre-made set and replacing them with certain paints you like better. I replaced one fugitive color and one super opaque color with different individual pans of White Nights I purchased elsewhere. Other than that, I'm completely happy with 34 of the 36 included pans. I've tried so many brands of watercolor and consider White Nights my go-to. Prang isn't vibrant. Koi is too chalky. Winsor & Newton do not re-wet easily and are susceptible to caking in pans. Daniel Smith is amazing and has such an extensive range, but they're considerably more expensive. I like Mei LIang Pretty Excellent very much for planning and art journaling, but you can't buy individual pans to replenish your favorites. White Nights beats them all!

--- VORWORT --- Hallo ihr Interessierten, folgend ein kurzes Vorwort zur Rezension: Ich bin kein studierter Künstler und arbeite auch nicht mit solchen. Alle Informationen und meine Expertise habe ich auf autodidaktischem Wege erlernt. Daher bitte nicht jedes Wort auf die Goldwaage legen. --- ZU DEN FARBEN --- Die Farben sind, anders als der Preis vermuten lässt, Künstlerqualität. Bis auf wenige Ausnahmen sehr Lichtecht und äußerst Leuchtstark. Zum Vergleich habe ich die Swatchcards meiner Schminke (ein Mix aus Akademie und Horadam) und meiner Prima-Marketing (Tropicals und Pastels) Farben angehängt. Positiv Überrascht hat mich auch die Tatsache dass viele der Farben (trotz des Preises) Einzelpigmente beinhalten. Dadurch macht das Ermischen von Farben natürlich unheimlich viel Spaß da diese nicht so schnell an Leuchtkraft verlieren. Ebenfalls positiv Anzumerken ist, dass die Farben durch die Bank weg eine sehr schöne Transparenz aufweisen. Lediglich Kadmium Zitrone und Coelin Hellblau tanzen hier ein bisschen aus der Reihe. Erwähnenswert ist vielleicht auch noch das kein signifikant erkennbarer Farbunterschied nach dem trocknen zu sehen ist. Noch eine kleine Vorwarnung: bei dem ein oder anderen Näpfchen sind wie auf den Fotos kleine Luftbläschen zu erkennen. Das ist nicht direkt ein Qulitätsmangel, sondern liegt an der Art wie diese Farben hergestellt werden. Ähnlich wie bei Sennelier kommt hier neben dem Gummiarabikum auch noch Honig als Bindemittel zum Einsatz. Das hält die Farben so schön feucht. Die Luftbläschen sind leider ein Nebenerzeugnis davon. --- ZU DER PALETTE --- Hier kommt der einzige Negative Aspekt dieses Produkts zu tragen. Die Palette zählt zweifelsfrei zu den größten die man so am Markt bekommt. Da sie aber auch eine Menge Farben hält bewerte ich das neutral. Ein (für mich) großer Negativpunkt ist aber die Tatsache, dass die Näpfe nicht fest in der Palette sitzen. Ganz im Gegenteil. Die Näpfe wandern beim bewegen des Kastens fröhlich hin und her. Grund dafür ist ein Spalt von ungefähr 4-5 mm in jeder Reihe. Eine Sache die mich positiv überrascht hat, ist der Misch-Bereich der Palette. Selbst ohne Vorbehandlung der Oberfläche war hier keine Pfützen-Bildung, wie man es von den allermeisten Metall/Plastikpaletten kennt, zu sehen. Hier bin ich mir aber nicht sicher ob das am Kunststoff der Palette oder der Zusammensetzung der Farben hängt. Wie man nämlich an dem Foto mit dem gelben Misch-Bereich sieht verhält sich die Lukas-Farbe (rechts im Bild) anders als die White Nights Farben. --- Fazit --- -> Die Farben sind der Kracher (vor allem bei dem Preis von 2€ pro Open-Stock Farbe) -> Der Kasten ist OK

I bought the set last year to add to my collection of watercolours and have not used them up to now. They compare very well with the Winsor and Newton artists colours for less than the cost of the Winsor and Newton Cotman colours (their budget range). The colour saturation is very good, as is the smoothness of the gum arabic base makes them a joy to use. In short, these are the real thing, professional grade paints at a budget price. The plastic box they come in is also pretty good with a lift out palette as well as the lid. It looks to be well made (time will tell on that one. Overall I am very happy with the purchase.

J'ai reçu cette palette et elle est remarquable. Les couleurs sont intenses et très pigmentées. Très agréables à utiliser. Contrairement à ce qui est écrit dans certains commentaires, il s'agit bien d'aquarelle extra-fine (échelle russe de 3 étoiles, 3 étant le maximum (*** - High lightfastness corresponds to ASTM Class I), Il suffit d'aller sur le site de la marque pour le vérifier. D'ailleurs leur version d'aquarelle fine porte le nom de Ladoga. La version étude s'appelle Sonnet. La palette en elle même est également très pratique (la partie pour faire ses mélanges se détache pour pouvoir être nettoyée. Seul point négatif, le volet détachable se colore assez rapidement avec certaines couleurs et donc ne reste pas blanc très longtemps (mais bon, rien ne vaut la porcelaine pour faire ses mélanges et celle-ci depanne quand même bien) Franchement si vous hésitez à acheter une aquarelle de qualité, vous pouvez y aller les yeux fermés! Le rapport qualité prix est excellent (ce sont des godets entiers et non pas des demi-godets comme on en voit souvent), la qualité de cette peinture est exceptionnelle. De nombreux magasins en ligne de fournitures pour les beaux arts proposent ces godets à l'unité ce qui vous permettra de faire évoluer cette palette dans le temps si vous le souhaitez ou de remplacer les godets entièrement utilisés.

Great quality of pigmented, lightfast colors and probably the most affordable artist quality watercolors. I got mine in good condition, the paints are quite sticky, especially if you stay in a humid environment... But thats normal! Once you get used to it, it is helpful because you don't need to pre-wet the paint to activate them, they are easily activated!

Being a very loyal customer of St Pete paints for about 10y I knew what to expect from this, extended set of colors (used the set of 24 before). Around 90% of the paints came a bit soft (which is great) and only a few where completely dry. The plastic box feels steady and not thick. Highly recommended for purchasing.