It's really interesting to see how pristine all the cakes look - but also kind of sad when you think about it. This box was given to someone as a special reward and then likely never used. A great find for historians though.

Beautiful watercolor box. Thank you

Lots of cool stuff at the library.

@TheRobertsonDaviesLibrary

2 жыл бұрын

Hi Brian! Yes, every day I come across something new and then spiral down the research rabbit hole.

This was an extremely interesting video, thank you for posting. I have subscribed. Best wishes from Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🎨👩‍🎨🖌

@TheRobertsonDaviesLibrary

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed! Thank you very much! Greetings from Canada

Love this!

You didn’t mention the imprint on the black ink stick which appears to be in Chinese character. What dies it say?

Has anyone tried to activate the blocks with water? If so, are the paints still usable?

@TheRobertsonDaviesLibrary

11 ай бұрын

That's a good question. I wondered if they would work well. We have not activated the blocks as we are trying to preserve it as is for as long as possible. At this moment it's considered a historical artifact in our collection

@JadeScarlett

11 ай бұрын

@@TheRobertsonDaviesLibrary I had a feeling that was the case. But here's an idea - how about creating a fundraising event, perhaps, where a renowned watercolor artist would create a painting using the set, minimally of course, perhaps loading the brush on the back side of the cakes to avoid damaging the stamped logo. It could be a small painting so only the slightest bit of color would be needed. With good marketing, this could raise interest, hopefully from the people with deep pockets, to write fat checks to the library 😀. Of course, bonus if the event is live-streamed on KZread. Just a thought ☺

@sjain8111

6 ай бұрын

there are nicely printed stamps of colour names & logo on the pigments, wouldn’t want to damage those

Hi there my name is abdulmuiz from Malaysia. I am doing a research on the watwrcolor palette. Would you mind sharing the link to the old catalog please

@TheRobertsonDaviesLibrary

2 жыл бұрын

Hi Yes I can! the link is in the video description as well. Here you go: archive.org/details/gri_artistscolou00char

@budakart

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheRobertsonDaviesLibrary oh I didnt catch your name, may I know your good name

I wonder why there was no white cake of paint? I'm always running out of white. Probably means I'm doing something wrong : (

@TheRobertsonDaviesLibrary

2 жыл бұрын

That's actually a good question. I looked it up and what I'm getting is that "You don't need White because watercolor is a transparent medium and your paper is white. All you need to do is plan ahead, mask if needed, and dilute your colors as necessary" Several places indicate that in the "classical" way of working with watercolours white would not be used. In 1834 Winsor & Newton introduced something known as "Chinese White" which was zinc white to their watercolours but traditionalists stuck to no white in their watercolours. Thanks for that question! I learned something new!

@not2tees

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheRobertsonDaviesLibrary Me too - thanks, Andreea.