Hi friends, I had a lot of requests to review the Daniel Smith Gouache Paint so I purchase the mixing set of 4 and burnt umber from Blick: shrsl.com/45l0f (affiliate link)
And then my friends Angela @ClarkFineArt offered to share half pans of the rest of the range which I took her up on.
First off, I have to say it is really nice to use a limited palette in gouache. I love my jelly gouache but the space it takes up and the amount of colors can be overwhelming. 5 tubes suited me just fine (s long as I didn't need a bright purple or bright green as the primaries were not perfect for mixing those colors.) You can mix more without getting mud in a professional paint which means you don't need as many colors and that's good as they are more expensive than the student grade gouache.
Let's look at the pros and cons:
Pros:
Highly pigmented
Mixes well
Rewets well
The color selection in the mixing set was well thought out
Lightfast
Pigment info on tube
There is a lot of pigment so you don't need to use as much paint as student grades.
Cons:
Price (although that is to be expected with Pro Paint, Blick is up to 40% off the list price which makes them more affordable.
There is no real saturated cool blue in the range. I really need a pthalo, Prussian, or Cyan for mixing (7/28/23 I heard they are expanding the range so hopefully a cool blue is on the way)
Bottom line:
I like these and look forward to using them more. I would recommend starting with the mixing set and a quin magenta and burnt umber to get you started. I don't care for the greens they offer and they do not have a suitable great leaning blue for mixing so you might look for that in another brand. I don't think the full range is advantageous. The best thing about pro paints is that you can mix. If you don't want to mix I would go with a student grade set (keep in mind that student grade paint may work great but is best suited for sketchbooks as it might not be lightfast.) I enjoy these but wouldn't buy every color.
Daniekl Smith Gouache: shrsl.com/45l0f
This is the student grad Annigoni set I recommend: amzn.to/43Kidp9
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