GANSAI TAMBI "Opal Colors" 6 color set

Beautiful colors with lovely finishes. It’s a wonderful quality I like this with wet on wet with some drop ins to finish and give it a nice color variations. It’s great for beginners to play with to learn water flow and color movement. Perfect for backgrounds of all kinds. I’ll be buying again ✨🌱

This is my third set of watercolors from this company. They delivered an amazing set of watercolors. Very pigmented, and the shimmer when dried is amazing. I will be purchasing from this company again.

This review is for the 5 color Granulating Colors I palette. These are some of my new favorite granulating colors and I have quite a collection of Daniel Smith Primatek and Schmincke super granulated. These are extremely bold separators with a somewhat unpredictable final result depending on water saturation and paper. The photo here of swatch tests is on a cheap Mixed media journal from Walmart and they performed very well. The Aurora Violet behaves like an extreme imperial or ultramarine violet. And the Aurora Orange is somewhere between Daniel Smith Serpentine and Schmincke Desert Green, but these Kuretake are less predictable— it is truly fun and surprising to work with these. They are the epitome of what makes watercolor special! I always love Kuretake palettes but I hope they make a third set of granulators and keep the new granulating colors coming!

This set - despite marketed as watercolor pan - has a different consistency and texture as compared to Kuretake's other watercolor pans. The 1st group of color watch was wet on dry, pan to paper. When dried, there was a sheen to the colors. The lines were the same but as the brush moved across the paper, pigment spread out nicely. The 2nd group were wet on wet but the pigment just sat and did not spread without help. I imagine that you must dilute heavily with water for it to move. But overall really pretty and unique colors. The Red is really a red bean color or a deep mauve. The other are shades of black with different hues. I would try using these really diluted with calligraphy paper next and see how the paint responds differently. This is fun.

I love these paints! SOOOOO creamy and they lay down very smoothly. I haven't used them a lot, but I've swatched them out and played with them a bit, and I really like them. Many of the colors are nicely transparent and some are fairly opaque, but I like that variety. They ones intended to have a nice pearly sheen and sparkle. It takes a bit of water and some mixing with a brush to really activate them, but once you've got them mixed, they are very, very creamy. Just a note, I found these tins here on Amazon, and they work wonderfully for storing these paints. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B076TJ75KT/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o05_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 I have two of the sets in one, and the third set in the other along with a small tin of some hand-crafted watercolors. I added an adhesive magnet to the bottom of each tray to keep them from sliding around. (I buy adhesive magnet "rolls" here on Amazon so I can cut them to size - very handy for a ton of things!) In the tin that is holding the two sets, there is room to add 3 more of the large Kuretake trays laying horizontally between the two vertical rows or, of course, it would be a place to hold paintbrushes. I like how they are organized and also would allow me to take the paints with me to paint on the go.

These are so fun!! Did a little planet themed test swatch page but part of the awesomeness with these paints is that you can't ever really tell how it's going to turn out. Nice big pans of paint so it'll go a long way. The only one that didn't really have much color change was the cosmic green, but it's a lovely color anyways so I'm not mad. Would've also liked to have a more vibrant purple in the cosmic olive but will play around with it more. Could be a good plant color. I am obsessed with the cosmic violet, the picture does not do it justice! There are about 4 full different shades in that one, a red purple, a blue purple, a navy blue, and a bright blue/almost teal shade. Finally, I am curious how these will hold up with repeated use since water is what dissolves/separates the pigments. I am a little concerned that the layered color effect will become filled as the paints are used and water sits on top of the pans/mixes the pigments on top of the paint rather than the paper. But that may not actually be a thing so we shall see! Edit: editing to add swatches from the second set they have. I don't think I am quite as excited about these, they're still very fun but there is less variety in color and I feel application for these would be less broad. Still, great granulation on all of these!

El producto es de muy alta calidad es mucho más de lo que esperaba los colores son realmente brillantes con una sola capa, es duradero y creo que la calidad por el precio está muy adecuada definitivamente lo compraría de nuevo

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The colors are not as bright as in the picture but they are absolutely amazing, they are more desaturated and earthy which I prefer

These paints are beyond beautiful and very magical. They are a a must have if you like granulation and colour separation.

Beautiful colours