More reviews are about to come on my blog, ( its impossible to repost everything here) so don’t forget to add it in your bookmarks. Felt underlay (shitajiki): used under a sheet of Japanese paper to provide a better surface for writing or painting by evening the pressure on the paper and helping avoid staining the work surface.

Colours] Gansai is traditional Japanese watercolor, utilizing colours that are based off those seen in nature, meaning they are vivid and opaque.This makes very difficult to control the values of the work, while the final results lack the brilliancy and saturation that someone would expect from such brilliant and heavily saturated colour swatches as those at the photo above.

Gansai is a lot more vibrant due to this, as well as being more opaque and drying with a glossy finish rather than a matte one. The Japanese are good competition for the Brits when it comes to their love of tea, apparent in their colour naming! When applied thickly the finish is a gentle sheen rather than the matte usually offered by watercolours. Akashiya plum flower shaped palettes allow you to separate colours or different saturations of a single colour from each other, or from ink. The extra chart is more helpful for deciding which color I want to use and how much water I’ll want to add to it.These Kuretake-Gansai Tambi Watercolour Sets are filled with traditional Japanese watercolours for professional artists and crafters alike. The Kansai region includes the second-most populated metropolitan area in Japan with its largest city Osaka.

Before receiving the Kissho Gansi Watercolours as a gift, the only gansi I had ever tried was brand-leader Kuretake Gansai Tambi. These high performance paints offer artists luminous, vibrant colour that can be used for all kinds of art applications - whether you’re sketching, creating manga illustrations, hand lettering, watercolour painting and more.

It is a pity that they didn’t work that good when mixed because the flat box that doesn’t occupy space in a sketching bag, the large pans that are extremely convenient to use with even the larger brushes and the plethora of colours available would make these sets even more popular than they are now. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Except for the metallics, which mix exceptionally well according to a demonstration on YouTube by “Andi Design”, see https://www.