Choosing Keeping Retro Gansai Sets | Are They Like Traditional Watercolours? | Calm Swatching + Demo

I've been waiting for the whole month to swatch and start using these unusual watercolour paints. In this video I am sharing my very first impressions of them and doing a quick sketch at the end to see how similar they are to traditional watercolour paints.

[@priscillawarren9979]

What a beautiful rendering of the Colony Hotel!

[@marissariley7319]

Great review, I was so excited to how these worked. Your demo came out awesome! Loved the 80’s inspired outro music too lol

[@lawsbrettart]

oh gosh, these palettes! so beautiful in both packaging and paint colours.

[@ElizavetaSmirnovaArt]

I knooow! I now want to buy all of them hahaha

[@bellastname1244]

That first palette is so pretty, honestly both of them are.

[@ElizavetaSmirnovaArt]

I know right! There is something extremely beautiful about simple earth tones! thank you for supporting the video:)

[@thepoodledoodlepainter]

Loved this! The colours are so beautiful! Thank you for taking the time to swatch them. Definitely both sets are going on my wish list! 🥰

[@ElizavetaSmirnovaArt]

yay! I hope they'll find a place in your studio and heart! They are amazing and very versatile sets:)

[@meldoesthingss]

I was quite curious about these watercolor paints! Thank you for making a very detailed review of them!⭐

[@ElizavetaSmirnovaArt]

I'm glad to hear that it was useful! Hope you will have fun with them (if you decide to buy them)🙂

[@jlm517rocks]

Beautiful colors and informative commentary. Ty

[@ElizavetaSmirnovaArt]

thank you very much for supporting the video🤍

[@phillipstroll7385]

I too enjoy the GTA series. My favorite was GTA San Andreas. My favorite games are open world games like GTA, Assasins Creed, Skyrim, World of Warcraft, etc. The artists whom create them are underrated. They not only create far off fantasy worlds that seem realistic, but take us back into the past. So that we can experience ancient Greece, Egypt, Rome, etc. I enjoy them very much indeed. Edit: your work is lovely, as always. Great job!

[@ElizavetaSmirnovaArt]

thank you! you're very kind:) yes, I love the atmosphere created in the games too. And although I've only played GTA, I of course saw the pictures from other games and I totally agree with you about the artists!!

[@PinkWytchBytch]

Ironically, the two at the bottom are the two I’m heavily drawn towards, even if they’re very similar. I just can’t have enough skin tones and those two SCREAM “use me for skin tones for that beautiful powdery pale skin on your character”

[@ElizavetaSmirnovaArt]

then it's good that they've included it!! :) yeah, probably for skin tones these will be very useful. With my architecture obsession I haven't really thought about other genres😂

[@priscillawarren9979]

The second color may be Quin Magenta.

[@iosebaart]

Hi! If you're still curious about the brand you can check the back of the pans and you'll find the characters 吉祥， they are pronounced kisshō in Japanese, so they are kissho gansai :)

[@ElizavetaSmirnovaArt]

oh, thank you! I didn't know that!! I've watched a lot of videos about these paints and no one ever mentioned that🤍

[@iosebaart]

@@ElizavetaSmirnovaArt thank you for the video! After I saw the 1930s set I just had to buy it (and shipping to Costa Rica wasn't cheap, that's how much I liked it haha). When they arrived I noticed the characters and that was it :) You're a great artist, please keep the videos coming!

[@ElizavetaSmirnovaArt]

@@iosebaart oh my god hahaha now I feel a bit responsible for the fact that you had to spend a lot of money on delivery🙈 but I hope you weren’t disappointed with the paints - they are amazing!!

[@iosebaart]

@@ElizavetaSmirnovaArt totally worth it! I've been looking for a muted palette and this one is awesome!

[@elaineporter182]

On the choosing and keeping web site they list the colors and translations

[@ElizavetaSmirnovaArt]

Interesting! Very curious to see the translations of the colours! Thanks:)

[@zac5156]

Is the palette you’re mixing on just a decorative plate or something? I love it !

[@ElizavetaSmirnovaArt]

it's a ceramic watercolour palette by Like Palitra :)

[@thecraftguy21]

How is the lightfastness on this brand ?

[@ElizavetaSmirnovaArt]

Unfortunately, I don't know:( that's the only downside of these paints - they do not give any information about the lightfastness. Will run my tests in spring.

[@thecraftguy21]

@@ElizavetaSmirnovaArt thank you 😊

[@rebeccapage4411]

I love the 1930's set, but I'd pass on the 1980's.

[@EugeniaLoli]

Good buys! The 1930 is my favorite palette, and the 1980 one has this dark cherry color (the first one up top) that is super awesome. If I only wanted to travel with 1 palette, I'd use the 1930, but add that dark cherry color to it, instead of the dark yellow. The dark yellow in the 1930 palette can easily be mixed with the existing colors in that palette, and shouldn't have been included for that reason. Instead, it's missing that dark cherry (caput mortum) color. Then, when you mix these, you have a truly full palette to take with you.

[@ElizavetaSmirnovaArt]

100% agree with what you are saying! and you honestly just opened my eyes about that dark cherry colour - I have no idea why I haven't thought that it was caput mortum... it is indeed very similar! Do you own these sets too?:)