I felt the quality of the sticks can be better in terms of vibrancy. Because the sticks can create textures, they are good for colouring things like tree bark, roads, tiled roof, and other textured subjects. I use them for colouring large areas on wet surface. In stick form, they aren't the best medium to use for creating details. The watercolour sticks are great at creating textures so it's probably best to play to their strength. Watercolour pans and tubes are great at creating flat washes, large washes. Since the sticks are rectangular blocks, you can use the edge to create sharp lines.Ĭompared to the Daniel Smith watercolour sticks, WN sticks are harder while the DS sticks are more gluey, softer, like oil pastels. If you want, you can break the pieces and use them for laying down larger areas of colours. It's more convenient to do that with the watercolour sticks. With pans and tubes, to do the same, I would use my fingers or a card to run across the bristles. One nice thing that I really like about the sticks is you can wet them with a waterbrush and create splatter marks by running the brush off them. But overall, it is significantly more vibrant compared to dissolving the pigment on paper. They can blend nicely on wet surface although Even so, after the surface has dried, like all watercolours, the colours become lighter. This is the only technique that's able to achieve a more satisfactory level of vibrancy. Lastly, I wet the paper and used the sticks on wet surface. I start to wonder if it's because of the binder used but there's no info on that. I managed to get more vibrant colours, but it's still nowhere close to those I can get from pans and tubes. I dissolved the pigment from the stick and applied the wash with a waterbrush. To get a more vibrant wash, I used the sticks like I would normal watercolour pans. The pigment does not dissolve totally so result may still look slightly grainy. It is best to use these sticks on durable paper because to dissolve the pigment totally, the brush has to go over it several times and lousy paper would have the paper fiber come off in no time. I pressed hard to put down as much pigment on the paper but the result is still not as vibrant as I want. My disappointment comes when I dissolve them with water. ![]() I applied the sticks on coldpress watercolour paper and they can lay down pigment on the paper quite well, and layering with other colours is also possible. Since the watercolour is in stick form, it's natural to use them like crayons. The negative reviews talked about the same experience that I faced. I wondered if they were using the same product as I am, or if they have used better quality water-soluble sticks before. I have read other reviews online and most were positive. Unfortunately for me, I did not find the watercolour sticks to be as vibrant compared to their tubes and pans. Using the same professional grade pigments as Professional Water Colour tubes and pans, they produce vibrant colour both wet and dry, creating powerful drawings and paintings alike. Here's a quote from Winsor & Newton regarding how the sticks were made: The difference in size between the WN sticks and Daniel Smith sticks is quite clear. It's about as thick as a wooden pencil's diameter except the sticks are rectangular blocks. When I first opened the box, I found the sticks to be quite small. A brighter cool blue would be more versatile when it comes to mixing. Secondly, I would have preferred Winsor Blue (Red Shade) over Prussian Blue. There's no Permanent Alizarin Crimson in the range of colours for the watercolour sticks. The first would be the inclusion of Alizarin Crimson which known to be a fugitive pigment. ![]() Burnt Umber (PBr7, PR101, PY42), LF1, Transparent.Yellow Ochre (PY42, PR101), LF1, Transparent.Winsor Green (Blue Shade) (PG7), LF1, Transparent. ![]()
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