Those reds from the second set absolutely stole my heart I- I’m such a sucker for red 🖤❤️🖤❤️

The palette is red! Why would they even stop making these? It's amazing! :D If you want to use the dried up paint in the tubes, you could cut open the tubes. It happened to me once or twice and I was able to put the rest of the dried up paint in a palette and still use it. But I have to admit, that these paints are so much better than the Cotman palette I started out with.

the first green is sooo pretty

@EveBolt

3 жыл бұрын

It is!! :D

That first tin is gorgeous! I don't know if I've told you, but I've been obsessed with been collecting a bunch of vintage sets from ebay for months now and am waiting to do a video on them - but I hadn't found any Cotmans in my search! That second box is also nice, I like the mixing area and those colors are so vibrant! Whhhhy did they change their browns? Hahah. Thanks for sharing this one.

@MeowMeowKapow

6 жыл бұрын

In Liquid Color WHAT. I AM SO READY FOR YOUR VINTAGE TIN VIDEO. I keep meaning to cruise the shops near me but never do. =>.

@InLiquidColor

6 жыл бұрын

Hahah I'll get to it at some point I'm sure! Hopefully soon :D

@ABIXWEEZY

5 жыл бұрын

How do you look up vintage watercolors. Ive been trying to look them up but nothing shows up

Loving that first vintage tin and label design! Great to know that the quality in the vintage sets are much better. Thank you :D

Love the red tin, its beautiful

I have the current Cotman tubes, and they are made in China. Most likely, the formula changes were a cost-cutting measure. I have been pleased with my Cotman tubes (I am mostly at the student-grade price stage right now :) ).The first set appears to be from the early 70's (perhaps the late 60's), based on the graphics of the box and tubes. The second set is from the 90's or maybe late 80's - based on some old tubes I have.

The older cotman paints from the 90s also used genuine cobalt and cadmium too.

@InLiquidColor

6 жыл бұрын

Wow! What a interesting history!

it's interesting to see the consistency of these paints has changed over time. Sometimes it's good that they don't make them like they use to and sometimes it's not. It was cool to watch :)

Love the red tin! Great sets to have in your collection.

Awesome 👏

The red tin is gorgeous! If the Cotman line would be this great today, I wouldn't have no qualms on using the paints.

The tin was really cool! Too bad most of the paint in that set had dried.

Fun ! I love the red tin. 💞💫

I love the red tin of your first set. I have the second set you showed but in half pans. It was the first set of watercolours I bought. In the early 90's

Love that red tin! I got a set of vintage cotman tubes in a plastic bag a couple years ago. Loved the older stuff, except for the black. Funny enough it was from a Goodwill store. Never know what one can find in one of those shops!

Interesting

Oh, you reminded me of when I was a student. I used to paint with crappy paints and then one year, for a strange reason, i was gifted a set of Cotman gouache tubes. I was shocked, it was night and day. Unfortunately, in our corporal world, where quality =/= profit, Cotman had to go down ... On a side note, Holly smokes pr83, why are you so gorgeous?!

i really love this video.i just can not imagine it being preserved so well. I really like that red metal box .it's gorgeous! I search eBay no one has this one. you are so lucky. i have been collecting some vintage w&n heavyweight enameled box，so cheap and high quality, even including the full pans. you can try it.

Great video Eve! 😁 It's really cool that you found the vintage red tin set. TFS! 😃

The red tin is so gorgeous!

They look much nicer than my newer Cotman pan set. Much prefer a lot of my paints to them. I did love them when I first got them though.

This is super neat! Vintage tins are somehow very cool to look at. I have an old winsor and newton (not sure if they are cotmans Its been a while since Ive had time to work on them) set I got on ebay and am working on repainting and trying the paint when thats done

I've just had a rant on Instagram about the changes to the Aquafine range. Similar sorts of changes to the ones you describe. I only noticed when I saw some Aquafine in colours not previously available. I searched on the interweb and found the old and the new colour charts and pigment info. I wonder if Aquafine is still manufactured in England?

Great Review. Thanks for sharing!

Ohh, something new/old to try!

Most of my Cotman tubes have dried solid in around 5 years... and I'm very careful trying to prevent that... squeezing to the top and keeping threads clean. I was very sad discovering this after quiting painting due to life events as there were pigments I loved and haven't found them in other brands but I won't buy Cotman again. I use honey based MGraham and Sennelier now.

@annikania2682

6 жыл бұрын

Pat Kin I’ve experienced the same with my cotman tubes c: I recently salvaged my tube of mauve, because I was too cheap to get the professional version, and cutting the tube away makes then basically useable as a chunck of dried paint c: And... is there really pigments in the cotmans that can’t be found at other places (except PO49 and some other rarities)? Not even at places that sell pigments made for restoration like Kremer?

@2lmdi

6 жыл бұрын

Hi Annikania. I didn't elaborate because I can get pretty wordy and am working on that... ugh... hard. Anyway, one that comes immediately to mind is Cotman's Peacock blue which even Cotman is no longer making like their old formula I have... most likely because their source for the raw pigment is no longer available. So, its dry and I cut the tube and use as a cake and use it sparingly as its "gold" to me. I should have clarified that I will only buy honey-based pigments now so am looking for dups only in specific brands. As you know, its not just about the pigment but where that mfger gets it and their usually "secret" formula... grinding, etc. The same single pigments in MG and Sennelier are sooo different for instance. and its in the grinding I believe. So, as I said, sadly I have not found replacements. And, btw, I love their mauve and use it as a hard cake too.

Hi Eve, I used to watch a KZread artist whose last name is Cronin. Steve or Steven is his first name. The times I watched him, he used nothing but Cotman paints from tubes. He only used 3 different brushes in his painting. Personally, I have never used Cotmans; but, I understand that they are good quality student paints. I can't buy them locally. I really like the red tin. Red is such a nice color when compared with black. Yesterday, I was at the Habitat Store and saw this big plastic covered palette The lid has the name Robert E. Wood embossed on it. There are 4 large, what I think are mixing wells on the lid. I took the lid off and there are still some paints squeezed into the wells. Since the previous owner did not label the wells, I will only be able to guess what colors they are. Are you familiar with Robert E. Wood? I did a web search and have not been able to confirm anything. Some paintings that I found by this artist are watercolors and another page identified as Robert E. Wood's web site show nothing but oil paintings.

@Eirenmist

6 жыл бұрын

I have used the Robert E. Wood palette for years as a studio palette because the wells are so big. It is still widely available from Blick's, Jerry's, Cheap Joe's and Amazon, ranging from $16 at the art stores to $24 on Amazon. Robert Wood was a very well known and accomplished watercolorist from S. California, 1926-1999. And yes, he painted in oils as well.

@Donna_G

6 жыл бұрын

Eirenmist, thank you so much for your reply. I lived in S. California back in the early to mid-60s and had not heard of this artist. But, I was in junior high school and at the time, my interest was mostly in drawing. My web search gave me mixed results that I thought that I was looking at two different artists named Robert E. Wood, one from Calgary.

I gotta agree, a lot of Cotman's pigment choices these days are questionable. I have the Sketchers Pocket Box, and half of the split primaries are two pigment mixes, unfortunately. Thanks for showing these neat sets

Woah, shiny red tin :0 Also do you know how old these sets are?

Meow :)