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hi everyone Diane here welcome to my studio today we're going to have a look at this new set of paints from melang or however you pronounce that which is um all to do with Paul Rubin and light wish and all the rest of it don't ask me to explain it's very complicated but they have recently sent me this to review and so that's what we're going to do so here we are this is the latest version of their 52 color set um which is only currently available in um the United States and the UK unfortunately not in Canada however I am going to offer this as this week's giveaway for the end of August celebrate the end of our August Thursday giveaway um program which we've been running this summer just to keep things rolling and keep everyone on the ball um so if you in Canada and you would like this you better join in and enter the competition haven't you you and anyone who's in Europe as well same deal it's not available in Europe it's available in the UK um but not in um Europe yet end of September they told me end of September so don't panic it will come eventually anyway I don't know what the price is I don't know but you can find out if you go to Amazon have a look and inside when you open this up you will find if you've got a set of these you will already have this and you're not going to be interested in this but whatever there's Bits of Paper this is a um a Swatch card so you can I've got another thing to do with Swatch cards and Swatch books and things like that coming soon so um watch out for that there something very interesting on its way to me right as we speak but I'm not going to tell you any more about it than that um so that you can use to see what colors you've got and we could do that in a minute then it comes with this which is a bunch of paper and I presume um shall I open it maybe I will maybe I won't if I'm going to give this away I probably won't I'll just leave it packed like that um and it looks like cold press yes I'm sure it is it's probably the same as the other Paul Ruben's paper that we've got and then we've got 52 colors they've ditched the um pastel colors and we have a very large range now of stand colors plus there's a marker pen or a fine liner a pencil a little brush which if it's the same as the one in the other set which I gave to a friend um it's got a nice one of these um obliquely cut uh handles like that so you can use that for scratching out if you want to and it's transparent perspects it's quite nice it looks like a very pointed um hair there so that ought to be good ought to be I think it probably is and then You' got a little bit of foam there for drying off your brush in in between strokes this of course comes out if you can get your fingernails into it I know it does it will I'll just find something to lift it out with here we go just slide a knife in there and Bobs your uncle you could use this for mixing in if you wanted to and like wise you can use this as well for mixing so it's divided into sections so it's obviously intended for that so if you were traveling with this set um you would be able to do that you don't need to take a palette with you you're set actually completely set all you need is a pad of paper really and you're all ready to roll so what have we got here we have got very small writing on these we've got white lemon yellow Yambo cadmium yellow medium permanent dark yellow nickel yellow orange permanent orange permanent orange red light cadmium red vilon Scarlet Chinese red and it goes on um is there anything missing I'm looking for a few of my favorites like burnt sienna let's see Indian red burnt Umber light brown natural yellow no we don't seem to have burn Sienna have we got ultramarine yes have we got cadmium red yes have we got lizar and Crimson no but we have got permanent Rose and Carmen and purple red purple red Krone Rose that's good very good and five greens deep Emerald permanent green light green yellow green light Cobalt turquoise and down here we've got phthalo green blue so plenty of greens to mix your Leaf colors and so on and so forth with and um in order to get into these you're going to have to um unwrap them let's see how hard they are to unwrap because to me this is one of the disadvantages of these kinds of paints but that looks like it's going to be pretty easy that's silver so that will be gold okay so that was not even stuck actually that wasn't stuck so that's that um so if they're all yeah there's tiny tiny little bit of glue on there but hardly anything it's more stuck to the paint so what I think I'll probably do um what what am I going to do shall I use these paints to do a painting with or shall I just leave them the way they are I mean basically they're going to be the same as any other mailing paints aren't they so I think that's probably what I'll do so I think now um I'm going to put this all away and um if you want to enter the competition to win this and clear a small SP place in one of my drawers here uh please enter it by just posting do a like do and make sure you're subscribed and leave a message in the comments below um telling me how much you would love to win this I'm not sure what what it's worth probably about $40 or $50 I suppose I'm not sure exactly I could look it up couldn't I perhaps I'll know when I come back in a minute to start a painting so I'm going to put that away now back in its box and um I've never had any problems with these paints from Paul ruin I think they're pretty good um especially if you're a beginner or you want something that you can take with you when you go traveling it's a handy nice purple set so we'll leave it at that for now and I'll see you in a minute okay so because I'm going to be offering this as a prize for our giveaway for the end of um August um I'm not going to open it and I'm not going to use it for this um video today uh take my word for it the paints are good and uh approximately the same as these ones here and this is what I am going to use two reasons um this is a CH May watercolor set 24 colors probably all that you need really to be quite honest but of course if you've got 52 you're even better off but one of the reasons I want to use this is because I am planning to take this with me when I go on holiday to to Egypt for 6 weeks later um in October don't worry you won't notice any difference I will still be virtually in France and nothing will change um but anyway I think I I need to take some paints with me because I'm probably going to be doing some plan air painting in Cairo um so this is I at the moment I'm wondering whether this will be good enough and this is the Swatch that I've done for it and it's got some Browns and it's got some bright colors and I think it's pretty good and it seems to work quite well so and it's very small and it's plastic and it's like this one's metal so it's more of a thing that you might want to take in the car perhaps but not necessarily in your backpack so anyway um that's the Swatch that came with it I'm going to use this today and I managed to find I had already had that 52 set open um a different one that I had and it had some of this paper this is the paper that's in that set for the person that wins it um and I thought I would try that out so I've done this little test uh painting which um I did film and I'm going to run that at the end of this video so that you can see me um painting that but I didn't narrate it I did it um silently so we'll just buang a bit of music on top of that and you can watch that if you want at the end uh meanwhile I have also done some loose leaves just to sort of play around with these paints so I'm going to do that again and I'm going to call this a bookmark okay so I'm going to put some washi tape around the outside edge I can find it and I'm into Autumn at the moment it's uh this morning it felt like winter I kid you not it's actually brightened up now um that's no good that's not long enough is it leave that there for a minute um yeah it was raining it was cold it was horrible um do you think that's too narrow no I think that's about right uh yeah it felt like really really really felt like winter but considering it's still only August it's August the 20s something today um I don't know what's going on with the weather there we are so that gives us a nice Edge and um I can just press that down so it sticks to the paper on top of my table and I'm going to just um Loosely just Loosely very Loosely without any uh hesitation repetition or deviation I'm just going to put some Autumn colored leaves on here so we'll paint starting from the top and if you want you can sort of put two colors in one and you can put some stalks stems or whatever you want to call them and the idea is to just do a complete mixture of colors and allow them to blend over the top of each other I'm using a draw well brush here this is draww size8 Maestro round and that's black so we just mix that with a bit of brown and let's go for something really orangey and bright and if we don't rinse our brush out in between then we can pull color through and keep it kind of unified don't worry too much about cleaning the palette okay you want the occasional uh dab of red you could even put your Reds in first so you make sure that you don't forget them and uh so then we might want Brown here maybe here and then I might wash my brush out now because I'm going to go to Yellow this one this is a nice bright clean yellow little bit like quinacridone gold I think we need another dark brown down here I'm going to bring another stem up here I think the other day I was painting um some uh flowers in what color was it I was doing them can't remember now but I said it's pity that flowers don't actually grow in this particular color and it's true but that's the thing you can change nature can't you if you want I don't know whether Autumn Leaves ever really look much like this but but why not um going to put this is um very bright yellow that one put another Leaf there to fill that Gap put that there and we can put a few sort of going over the edge sometimes that looks quite good I need to put a bit more yellow on that one it's gone too light okay and then this is just fun really um I'm going to go over the paint with my Japanese bamboo shaping tool uh and scratch out some veins in the middle of the leaves like that depending on how dry the paint is you'll either get a darker line or a light line so as you go over these depending on how much water you've used you get different effects like that one's darker that one's darker this one and that one were lighter so it just depends and that gives you quite a lot of and this one this will dry darker it'll settle cuz the paint sort of runs into the groove that you scratched so that gives you quite a realistic looking uh Center vein you don't have to do it with a pen you can just do it by scratching so that you know that they're leav leaves cuz that's a sort of like defining characteristic isn't it of a leaf and you can just drag down a little bit of paint down the bottom there or at the top to make it a little bit sharper you could put some berries on if you wanted to could pick up some really nice dark strong red for example or actually I think probably better Indigo that's Indigo there and that would be a contrast little bit contrasty just leave a little tiny bit of light for kind of shine just use them to fill in the gaps if you want to and then having done that we need to put the hair dryer on it to dry them off and then we can take off our tape when you pull the tape off your washi tape try to pull it off at 90° like that pull it out to the side and then it's less likely to uh damage the paper [Music] [Music] it's not quite dry yet now the thing is having done that you've got choices as to what you could do next and one thing that you could do um which I might do is to take a dip pen like this one and do some Line work on there uh I might do it on this one which uh is dry so I'm going to get some paint and this is [Music] sanguin let's go for Walnut I think that's the darkest Brown I've got and then o assuming you can open it pH you you can have a play with that as well so these dip brushes are very easy to get hold of you can get them uh on Amazon and you can just have a play doing lines a thick and thin you don't have to match the actual shape of the leaf that you did you can just go wherever you want oops that went off at a bit of a strange angle didn't it the thing to do is not to not to think too hard you know like viiva says meditate with art I'd like them to introduce me to Art I I've not met him yet you're sort of building up when you do this aren't you I'm really laying the ink in very heavily especially on these berries to give them almost a three-dimensional feel it's actually almost quite thick and you can even scratch into it and you can do whatever you want scratchy scratchy it's just a kind of design and then once you've done all of this you're going to let it dry and I think probably letting it dry is is reasonably good idea rather than drying it with a hair dryer because I put the Inc on fairly thickly and it probably could easily move around don't necessarily want that to happen okay okay well that gives a fairly dramatic sort of result doesn't it and um this one the other one that over there this one you could do something entirely different or you could leave it the way it is I mean you might want to take your white pen one of these and you could as long as it's working which they often aren't um you can go into the dark ones and do some light lines like that on the dark ones they won't show up so much on the light ones and then if you feel that way inclined you can break into the dots and doodle type of way of depicting things can do all sorts this is one of those little paintings that you know it looks absolutely fine unadorned but then if you decide that you're going to do other things to it that can just make it a little bit more interesting and you can go on and on and on you can um obviously you could get your Fida calligraphy pen as well and you can put some black in here you can sharpen things up with black thick and thin thick and thin thick thin thick thin so I think I'm going to leave it there now that's probably enough to be going on with gives you a few ideas perhaps of things that you could do to make a kind of autumn mood for late August or September whenever it happens to be December march sometimes you feel like doing Autumn things other times of the year don't you can have too much sun so there we are we have now got three options this one I'm going to run now for you to watch if you wish so hope you enjoyed that and uh I'll let you go now and I'll see you again soon with something else so bye for now everybody bye-bye [Music] okay [Music] h oh [Music] d la [Music] la l for [Music] l [Music] k o [Music] [Music] l [Music] so I'm just going to now paint this and uh using the same paints I'm just going to do it on a small piece of paper like this and um this is the kind of motif that you can use for so many different things you know Place cards greetings cards you name it so I'm just going to do a rough outline starting with the stalk and then we'll put the shape of the pumpkin in around that like that and then coming down from the front like this showing the segments and then I'm going to just quickly draw a little bird up here just basically a little oval with a beak and don't forget the legs come from right at the back of the body like that and uh put another one on this side same kind of thing just an oval don't really need to put a separate head they don't really have a separate head well they do but it doesn't look like it and the tail standing up cuz that's kind of cute so there we are and then the uh pumpkin is going to be sitting on the ground probably paint that a bit on the greenish side so then we'll pick up some of our yellow we could use this one here which is really quite like con acridone gold color let me just whack that in all over and then I'm going to come come back in with the orange that's this one here and you can use any yellow and any Orange in fact you can use any color you like but traditionally these great big pumpkins are something on that kind of color [Music] range and we'll let that dry a little bit and while that's happening we'll just pick up a bit of red and we'll just pop a bit of red in there for the breast of the bird and then some brown this is like raw Sienna this one so kind of light brown or this [Music] one and just pop that on the top and let the two run in together the details we can do afterwards once that's dried a little bit so just keeping it nice and loose might as well use that color too for the stalk and then bit more orange to draw in the segments like that it's going to sort of bleed into itself and smooth out and then we'll pop some some yellow mixed with [Music] green down here and just kind of pretend that those are [Music] leaves and then having got to that point we will just need to let it dry a bit and then we can come back for the next level [Applause] so there's multiple ways that you could finish this off but I think I'm going to use a um cpia pen a brown wisor Newton cpf fine liner and um a green [Music] um yeah a green um brush pen from petique and I'm just going to indicate roughly here I can make it hit the paper the veins of the leaves just indicate very very slightly that these are pumpkin leaves I'm not going to go into any details here just a little bit of leafiness [Music] here and then [Music] um then uh we'll go for the pen and uh this is 0. five Windsor Newton I think the Windsor Newton ones quite nice because they have this long barrel here and I'm just going to put in the the features of the birds their little beaks their little legs very simply just little straight lines like that [Music] and you can do them however you want but it's just easy like that and the little Tails sticking up at the back and their little wings you can go around them if you want to sort of emphasize them depends how your paint has kind of worked out really and then we'll just emphasize the lines of the pumpkin a little bit with the pen and this stalk can be darkened up a bit in some places [Music] have a feeling that my pen might be getting a little bit old bit reluctant part with any ink I'm going just put in some lines to give the shape of pumpkin yeah it's a little bit erratic this one this pen I mean [Music] it's very difficult to see at the moment it's quite dark um the problem is if I put the light on everything goes kind of flickery so that's no good so anyway there is version two completed more or less and um we could um still at this point if I can find a brush um here we are uh looking at the comparison here we need to perhaps think about making the the birds just a little bit darker on their backs and Tails there we are and maybe we'll also put a little bit more little bit more green in one or two dashing places and then um with the orange for the pumpkin maybe a little bit of stroking [Music] there and I oh maybe a little bit of red little bit more red on their breasts Robins so we are going to call that a day two pumpkins with two Robbins [Music] [Music]