Note - twelve of the colours are also available as tubes. And since they are all full pans, there is good brush access and plenty of colour to paint with.
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While they use genuine pigments, some are not as strong as higher cost watercolours and they seem to contain some binders or fillers.įor those starting out, working in a sketchbook or just playing with a new medium, buying for children or class sets, they are a very simple and affordable way to start - better than using student grade colours - without having the problem of what to do with the tubes, or how to make up palettes or pans.
However I do need to qualify that I would suggest caution if using these for works that will be framed and exhibited as there are many fugitive pigments in the lists that may fade on exposure to sunlight. These are the most affordable 'professional' watercolours available, priced in some markets all the same and in others in two series. Another 9 colours were added to the White Nights range the Northern Spring this year, which I don't have, but have created a swatch card for each of them, including the pigment information. All are identical, except for Cerulean which looked and behaved differently in each range, but that could simply be a different batch. Richeson & Co sent me the full range of St Petersburg colours and I painted out all those and will show them here. I received 24 of the White Nights colours in 2015 and wrote about them here. The full pans of both White Nights and St Petersburg are embossed with 'St Petersburg' so they would seem to be simply different names for the same range, with White Nights being the name in Russia and Europe and St Petersburg better known in the USA.
The naming gets confusing though, as White Nights are called 'St Petersburg by Yarka' in the US where they are rebranded by Jack Richeson & Co Inc, but as far as I am aware, the colours and pigments of the different labels are the same. White Nights watercolours in are made in Russia by Nevskaya Palitra, who also make a cheaper student range called 'Sonnet' and another range called 'Ladoga'.
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