Kuretake Gansai Tambi 48 Japanese Watercolours Full Set Review! Swatching and Painting

What a gorgeous looking set.

I really enjoy watching your reviews and videos! And many of your watercolour supplies are just beautiful!

I haven't swatched mine out in my swatch book, and there were so many... but this is inspiring me!

Planning to buy this set. Thank you for this review. Lovely koi painting.❤

Oh my goodness, those metallic/shimmery colors are so beautiful! I love the white touches you put over your Koi fish, and I actually really love your pink piece. It's peaceful and pretty.

Great technique at work awesome Really so great idea and tutorial for me and also all of you so again I repeated thank you so much

I'm happy I found your channel. I've liked and subscribed. I learned about these only a week ago from an artist I follow on Youtube (Diane Antone Studio) and was very impressed! They are just so brilliant and so forgiving, very easy to lift paint off of if I mess up :) I like that you really don't have to mix colors because they are just so perfect the way they are. I'm looking forward to watching more of your videos. Thank you so much!

This is the first pallet I have seen that took my breath away..it wasn't cheap but I needed it..thanks for the review

Beautiful! I don't blame you for wanting the entire set together - it makes sense. I'd want to frame that painting. 🤩

I really like this Japanese paint. I have their Art Nouveau set which are lovely. I’ve been seeing this 48 color set being used on other demos so I just received it. Wonderful colors🎉I like the larger wells of paint for bigger paint brushes. I always enjoy your demos. Good energy ❤

I use these paints once in awhile, typically on rice paper. I like them as a way to play with color and to build brush control, as I tend to draw with them instead of doing washes. The pans are a perfect size for larger brushes. Sadie Saves the Day has a great tutorial about Gansai Tambi if you're interested in learning more Https://youtu.be/TggB7IASBJs

You are so good and yet relatable to my skill level. Would appreciate a tutorial from you.love your style. Thanks for a wonderful review

thanks for sharing, it's very useful 👍🙏

As I said in a previous comment, I primarily do Chinese brush painting; known also as Sumi-e in Japan. CBP is primarily differentiated not only for the use of permanent ink (I use both 101 ink sticks to grind thicker ink; which I then add a few drops of thinner YiDeGe ink); but also for the paper and brushes (which are all regarded in China as intangible cultural arts and are made humanely (no critters are harmed and it’s been a reciprocal practice between farmer, ranchers and other animal handlers for over 1000 years. My late Son actually spent a few days with a brush maker). The paper, Xuan, or “rice paper”; isn’t actually made from rice these days, but rather mostly bamboo and mulberry, both renewable resources. It comes in 3 types (and THIS is why certain paints, binders or Chinese chips are used) raw or unsized, which is extremely absorbent, you need incredible moisture control to do details on this paper. Semi-ripe or semi sized; only one side of the paper is sized, this is what most beginners start with. (Unless you have my tutors who insist on calligraphy and painting on raw paper..I’ve made more than my share of Rorschach ink blots!😂. Inked black cats on the other hand are fun to make on raw paper-which “paints” the hairs for you!) and finally there’s ripe, or fully sized paper most used for very detailed, Gongbi painting and is similar to a very thin hot press paper. All Xuan is much thinner than Western papers and the paint and ink not only soaks through sometimes; that’s actually a feature in some Xieyi or “freehand” painting where the artist will flip over the paper, and do some painting on the opposite side! Although I mostly still use either Marie’s or Chinese chips; Japanese paints are used by some Chinese artists, especially metallic inks like Kuratake gold and silver-which mixes with western paints VERY well (just use a tiny touch! There’s a LOT of gold & silver micro-mica pigments in that ink), the Gansai Tambi paints and Sakura White poster paint is used as an opaque white by most artists I know or follow. As I said before, you can see examples of some stunning work in this medium by one of my laoshi’s (tutor/teacher) Fiona from ink different studios. She just finished painting characters from the Monkey King and it blew me away watching her last week paint these VERY detailed characters on RAW Xuan. She streams live every other day on twitch and Becky, it’s MUCH closer to your time zone than mine. I’m currently in the hospital and had my iPad taken away at 3am trying to see if she was streaming. 😂. Going home today, so I’ll take a nap and hopefully catch her tonight IF she’s on. As I also said, I’m currently learning western style while teaching my friend Eastern. I WILL say though, after over 7 years of using these brushes; I’m afraid most of my expensive Western brushes are going to my daughter and my friend..I just CAN’t get used to them!

wonderful 🥰

Becky, thank-you for this video! I've never used these before but they look SO BEAUTIFUL don't they? So satisfying to watch 😍😍😍

Just bought the 48 set today on amazon ❤

I am on a "Becky Binge" right now and doing a marathon of all your watercolor videos 😂 So glad I found your channel! ❤❤❤

i would love to have this thanks for the vid.

I love just looking at my Kiritaki G colors as they are both beautiful to look at as well as use! I have the 24 set and really do love them. Wish more paint was in the pans.😎🤟🏼