Roman Szmal Aquarius - Affordable Polish Handmade Watercolors | Swatch with Me

[@SadieSavestheDay]

Please check the description for all the shops that sell these paints!

[@segawalilac]

Jacksons started stocking these! They might be more expensive than the European stores, but many would be more familiar with Jackson's.

[@karsasuontintti5875]

I have been painting with this paints for one year, since they came on market in Finland. Really loving Roman's style in pigment design and how the paint behaves itself. In my opinion this brand competes well with paints from DS or Schminche. This paints are young but promising. They hove some downsides what comes to consistency of the paint in the wells, and how it variates between different pigments. In my opinion that is a minor issue to mention and in daily use it gets less noticeable after paints have been exposed to same moisture environment for few weeks, for example in a palette tin. The granulation of the paints and complex colors are amazing. Roman has three and four pigmented colors that ricochet and shine beautiful on a paper after granulation process have been started . So far this was an attribute that I loved Daniel Smith Paints for. But now we have much more option in selection of complex colors and fair price. Roman has also soft and creamy colors, like Naples yellow, that actually variates in few tones. Over all paints in my opinion are bright and vibrant, and they had no faded even I cooked them for two weeks in UV owen as primary lightfastness test. So far as I noticed Roman uses only best and most suitable ingridients in the mixes, that works well together on a chemistry level, with no additional "filling" components that are common in paint industry. This is a big line, and probably 140 colors in total is a bit too much for a starting artist or student, but there is definitely lot of good choices for everyone if you know your favourites. And as long as the man behind the brand is alive, this this product represent a small industry with "quality" "exclusive" "and custom made" labels.

[@mald379]

I would really love to see the results of this UV test! I took off RS Van Dyck Brown from my palette because I was concerned about its lightfastness, did you test that one too?

[@FelineFurKin]

Tintti Karsasuo oh, hello, I just found your review last night, an incredible resource.

[@painovoimaton]

I think I've seen your swatch comparison notebook at the store that sells these paints here in Finland, I visited recently and was introduced to these paints. They do seem amazing.

[@sherri-lynncase6467]

I just found these watercolors online, immediately fell in love with all the unique colors. I am thinking about getting a bunch and having a special pallet with all these beautiful colors. Thanks for sharing.

Oooo, I have to check it out. From what I'm seeing, these paints act just the way I like my paints. And they are Polish! Thank you for reviewing them

[@stevemurray6543]

I received my paints yesterday in the post. I purchased them from the Dutch company and they were great to work with. Would do it again in a heart beat. Thank you for turning me on to these paints. Hope they are brought into the US someday soon. Again, thank you so much for all you do and share. Your hard work is very much appreciated by us out here in your viewership. Stay well and remain positive.

[@SadieSavestheDay]

Thank you so much for your support. Your comments really make me smile! I hope you have so much fun with the paints!

[@OneTrueWord1988]

Steve Murray: You write such nice comments! Thanks for brightening my day. 👍😄🌸

[@jenthulhu]

Oh my GOODNESS. Want-want-want! These look so beautiful! The longer I paint, the more I find myself drawn to granulation. WANT!

[@jenthulhu]

Sade, since these just became available on Jackson's I hope you'll give us an update on how you feel about these colors!

[@FayeWulf]

I’ve seen them on Instagram and droooool. I was just telling my art buds that I’ve fallen down the rabbit hole of handmade paints that I’ve strung out the searches for it on KZbin, lol, so I’m soooooooo happy to see this show up in my feeds.

[@FayeWulf]

@Melissa Sullivan Bad for my wallet too XDD

[@SEzzz53]

I’ve learned so much about paint qualities from this! Thank you for being so thorough.

[@hungryforpaint]

Hey I was so excited to see you showcase Roman Szmal's paints! I was so curious about them. What a great first impressions video. And the greens!! Thank you

[@ThingOfSome]

Aquarius has a really impressive range of earth pigments. Even some of the single pigment ones, like caput mortuum and van Dyke brown, separate into different hues in washes. One of the very few brands that makes a vine black. Such a nice line of paints. Hopefully they will sell them in tubes at some point! And yeah, the wax from the wax paper in the wrapper, does sometimes stick the paints, which can make for some weird effects. But the wax layer quickly gets washed off from use.

[@SadieSavestheDay]

Yes the earth pigments are quite special, I’d like to try more!

[@OneTrueWord1988]

Thank you so much for this video Sadie! I am very excited to try these paints, and you helped me make my choices. Have a beautiful and blessed day! 💕🌸 Donna

[@jkatz58]

I am awaiting may order of these and, after watching your swatching, can't wait for them to come. Thanks for sharing!!!

[@stacysmith8329]

I love, love, love my Roman Szmal paints! So happy to see a review. 😁

[@sophiasherwood1790]

The colors are gorgeous! I can see adding these to my wish list. Thank you for taking the time to share this with us.

[@stevemurray6543]

Great review. Your work on this and all your videos is appreciated and looked forward to. Thank you.

[@SadieSavestheDay]

Thank you 😊

[@TinaGaspard]

Just stopping by to say...this is probably the 10th time I've watched this video. LOL. #obsessed and currently impatiently waiting for my own Roman Szmal colors to arrive from Jackson's!

[@marjoriejohnson6535]

You nailed it. This is what I look for in a review of a paint. I want to know what pigment number it is, I want to know how it acts, I want to know flow,I want to know after dry...and you nailed it. Will be watching all of your reviews again...looking for same information. Would love to see you do some more of this brand..they make so many. Good job...important information...actual information...THANK YOU.

[@marjoriejohnson6535]

How do I give you 2 thumbs up??????

[@jaimeanderson9238]

Agree!

[@twiggalina]

I really enjoyed watching this video and your enthusiasm for the colours 😀

[@SadieSavestheDay]

Thank you!

[@ColoringKaria]

1- now i have to watch the video on the white knights LOL i have to know! 2 I love this video of course and that wood box set is stunning.

[@SadieSavestheDay]

🤣 I just have a bit of a different opinion on those.

[@cisco2084]

The mummy red Brown is probably called like that because there is a similar color (mummy bauxite) that used to be made with the insides of mummies. Artist stopped using it after learning what it was made of 👀

[@SadieSavestheDay]

Oh yeah, you’re totally right 😆 I just didn’t think of it because there is already a caput mortuum (another name for mummy brown) in this line, and it is closer (to me anyway) to what seems to have been the genuine hue of the original pigment.

[@FelineFurKin]

I heard they also started running out of them. One way to recycle and save space, I guess, bit less on respect for the dead, though 😬

[@ohbli_oh]

I didn’t know that about pr101/2 etc. learn something new every day 😊

[@glg6069]

Hi Sadie, I have been offline of awhile and came across your channel. I love these watercolors...soothing colors. I usually like the sparkly colors, but I’d like to order a set of these. Hopefully, sets are still available.

[@kateriewing]

So great! Thank you! ❤️

[@JessicaCEP]

These are so pretty! I’m excited, cause I ordered some today!

[@KRCanetti]

Hi Sade, I love the review. I watch yours since last year october - all of them. Sorry for not leaving a comment before. I'm considering buying some Roman Szmal paints and this review is very helpfull. I was wondering - if I can read it well - is it Brilliant Orange, first row, number four? And could in that case the pigment be PO67? Thank you for all the work you put in all these beautiful elaborated reviews.

[@stacys447]

Thanks for the informative video! Super helpful!

[@koryseeyouforteatime9669]

I wanna try them aaaaaaalll!!!!

[@malvernminiatures]

the mummy in the paint name is because one of the pigments they used to use actual mummy remains to make a brown paint i believe superraedizzle has a video on it

[@SadieSavestheDay]

Yeah! I totally forgot about that connection because there is a caput mortuum (another name for mummy brown) in the line that looks closer to the real color 😂 I think it is also a reference to a color from Daniel Smith.

[@mariusvaiciulis5072]

damn! *puting yet another set of paints into to buy list*

[@kimlivengood5916]

You need to check with the Co. But I can tell you a very long long time ago when they first started making paint they used crushed up Mummy's to make some colors. And they would have the word Mummy in their names. Just a bit of Art History. These seem to be lovely paints. Very Interesting. TYFS

[@SadieSavestheDay]

Yep, thanks, it had totally skipped my mind at the moment since that color doesn’t look very much like mummy brown to me

[@susie1216]

Hello, and thanks for the video! Can you please tell me where you got your swatch templates? Did you print them on watercolor paper? Just curious. And these paints look COOL! Thx.

[@reneebrill8322]

Your videos are so beautiful and relaxing. Have you ever thought about of reading bedtime stories? (Like as an audiobook)

[@koskey06]

Roman szmal is becoming my favourite watercolor brand. I only have a few colors so far.... but everything I have seen online, it looks like the whole range is awesome. And i just hope they can keep the price low and the quality up in the long run. So many times that once a company gets a little interested, the peice gets jacked up.... making it so it's not worth it anymore than other brands. Think of white nights.... they use to be a awesome value to quality... and now they are basically the same price as the other artist paints. Are they good paints, yeah. Are they as good as the other top brands in the price range.... no.

[@CeridwenHafMorys]

Thank you for your review. Also - you have a voice made for ASMR but I think people must have told you this already!

[@April-sn1wf]

I don't know if you already figured this out, but mummy brown pigment has its origins using the ground up flesh of actual mummies. That doesn't happen anymore of course, but the name persists, and people have gotten pretty good at imitating the original colour. Crazy right???

[@ShadowoftheDude]

Have you tried Schmincke’s Quin gold? That’s my favourite version.

[@SadieSavestheDay]

I have! I think I wasn’t so impressed

[@IvesHH]

I love it!!!

[@SadieSavestheDay]

❤️

[@cigimon4]

have you tried Stuart Semple/culture hustle's watercolor set?

[@qtsm_coloring_art]

What is the name of the paper you used for the swatches? Not the paper with all the details. Maybe I need to know that name too so I won't purchase it. I'm a newbie. Thank you.

[@elpasomark3069]

Greetings Sade. How do these compare to St. Petersburg White Nights? Thanks. Cheers, Mark

[@SadieSavestheDay]

I would much prefer these to the white nights paints

[@jenniferweisinger6014]

gorgeous

[@awatercolourist]

Very useful video. Thanks :)

[@SuperPonygal]

Daniel Smith has Anthraquinoid Scarlet.

[@derickelsner6802]

I have a choice between schmincke and Roman what do I get?/

[@StorytellingHeadshots]

Both! :-) (But maybe thats just me who does that! 😜💯) They are very different effects. The schminke “moves” much faster on the page while Roman sz stays a bit more in place. Also, there is a big differential in price between the two. Schminke is undeniably excellent paint. But the Roman Szmal has some quite interesting and unique colors. I suggest getting a few individual pans in each line to see which fits your style (or your mood!) better! Good luck! And have fun exploring! :-)

[@SadieSavestheDay]

They are both great paints! If you like honey based paints, then Szmal is perfect for you. If you want a paint that is a bit more traditional in terms of being less sticky and a bit less character but very dependable, then Schmincke. But honestly you can’t go wrong

[@alvax2455]

Are they really handmade?

[@DustyMusician]

If no one’s said it yet, mummy refers to the fact that Europeans raided Egyptian tombs and used ground up mummies as pigment.

[@tmp0922]

I really want these paints! But they don’t ship to Mexico... then again almost nothing does.

[@SadieSavestheDay]

Arte Mirinda does look like it ships to Mexico, doesn’t it?

[@tmp0922]

I looked very closely...they don’t and it pains me, as I think this is the only new brand that’s come out in the last few years I was really interested in, it looks easy to control which is a plus for and illustrator and the granulation ohhh the granulation would add texture that I’ve been dying for both in my work as an illustrator and for traditional painting that I do off the clock. I’m married to a Latina and will not be returning to the US as I feel it’s to dangerous, maybe Canada but it would be a good long while if that ever happens.

[@SadieSavestheDay]

Antony Michael Pugh I see that they don’t list it anywhere, but if you put something in your basket and start to check out, you’ll be able to select Mexico as a country to ship to. (Or at least I was ) The paints sound like they would be great for you, I hope you can try them. Also you can try to email Roman. He is very nice and the email is on his Facebook page b

[@tmp0922]

@@SadieSavestheDay I will check this out! Thanks so much this is very uplifting!

[@heelerjustheeler879]

Thank you for this excellent video. I also just watched your QoR video, also super useful! I love your approach to materials. Re: the name Mummy Transparent Red: for quite a while, some red-brown paints were actually made from mummy flesh. Yeah, pretty grotesque. The original real-mummy color, Mummy Brown, was similar to this Mummy Red and that may be why this painter maker chose the name. See, for example: www.artinsociety.com/the-life-and-death-of-mummy-brown.html Caput Mortuum, translated as "dead head" or "worthless remains," btw, is also a reference to the use of real mummies, originally, to make that pigment. Apparently all these related colors, originally mummy-based, are now iron oxide based instead - thankfully.

[@LisaSandboge]

For EU people, those paints can be found here: www.szal-art.pl/ Great review, but should come with a warning label. Now I need those paints in my life! :D

[@LisaSandboge]

Duh, I just realized you already posted that link. Oh well!

[@yumizv]

Do you have a link to this set?

[@SadieSavestheDay]

This set was uniquely put together for me. If you are ingested in the case, you could try emailing Roman directly

[@yumizv]

And what email should I write to? And how much did such a kit cost?

[@mobydickii8407]

@@yumizv Jackson's now have a similar set of 36 in the wood box (this is new). They also have smaller sets or you can buy them by the pan. Artemiranda.es and other European stores also sells them.

[@juupiissocool]

You did a lot of dark swatches. Not watered down. You'd see more granulation and color changes with more water. Inwas hoping to see the mineral violet in a LIGHTER tone 💔

[@kookatsoonjan]

that is funny...Denise in Liquid Colour said the opposite of these paints...like they are very much like Qor...how could 2 great reviewers have such opposing opinions???

[@tussah8874]

These paints look terrific, but I can't find anyone who sells the set that you and other reviewers have been sent. Do you have a link for that?

[@SadieSavestheDay]

As I said in the video, this was custom made for me, and I don’t see any similar sets for sale either. You could try to email Roman if you are interested. His email is on his Facebook page!

[@beckc6687]

You can buy them on Jackson's now

[@hovawart16]

I hear an alarm going off the whole time. Just three notes, over and over and over.

[@D.3.N]

Kiedy ktoś z twojego kraju zrobi coś dobrze.

[@ColoringKaria]

1- now i have to watch the video on the white knights LOL i have to know! 2 I love this video of course and that wood box set is stunning.