Can BUDGET acrylic gouache keep up with EXPENSIVE? ✦ Arteza vs Holbein Comparison & Review

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[ChantelleArts]

I love that you showed a side by side comparison like this 😍 honestly these were a lot more similar than I thought they'd be! I feel like often when you buy expensive art supplies, you're paying more for the ease of the process than the end result ❤❤

[samnewcomb]

Tuna, I'm a retired graphic artist. I love Holbein Acrylic Gouache! I've been painting with this paint for years. I paint on Ampersand Aquabord. I use the Masterson's sta-wet handy palette. My paints stay wet for days. I'm old and slow so this helps me save colors I've mixed. If I need to save some larger amounts of mixed colors I put them in SMALL glass jars.They keep for several days that way also. Sometimes you may have to add a drop of water to these containers if they've set awhile. You can also use Berol Prismacolor pencils on top of the acrylic gouache for fine details. I was going to add a photo of a flower painting using this technique but can't add a photo here.

[marybeth]

Beautiful art, so glad I found you today!

[himbeerfalter]

15:13 I’m still so happy to be in the same column as Kasey… 😁💜

[FracturedLace]

Super-dooper interesting! Loved seeing the full painting process as a side-by-side comparison, as it gave a proper feel for how you had to work differently to account for the limitations (at least with regard to your usual technique).

[GouacheLearning]

Thank you for the beautiful cat and the comparison of paints. It was interesting and delightful to watch the Arteza vs. Holbein acrylic gouache comparison and review. 🎨🐾

[leenzthelemur]

I used arteza gouache for my Peachtober paintings this year. Once I figured out how it worked, it wasn’t too bad and the paintings came out pretty good. But i definitely noticed that some colors were more translucent and had to be mixed with white (or another neighboring color) to up the opacity

[kaleipulamainawai]

For those that want more blending time or want the Holbein to dry slower you can use what’s called acrylic retarder. Acrylic gouache is basically opaque matte acrylic so there’s a whole world of acrylic mediums to play with.

[jascherry]

Have you done a video comparing Holbein and Turner 🤔 I have heard good things about Turner too of how it isn't as cheap as arteza but cheaper than Holbein

[ginathomas]

Thanks for this video! I didn't even know Arteza made acrylic gouache. Seems like they might need to go back to the drawing board a bit, especially with regard to opacity.

I had a general thought, though. It's been my general experience with acrylic gouache (I've used Turner, Holbein, and Golden) is that the texture can vary quite a bit. Turner liquefies very fast and flows freely off the brush, whereas Holbein feels almost sticky in comparison, even with a good bit of water. Golden trends to land in between. I prefer the flow, so Turner is what I go for, but it's still just as opaque as the other two.

But either way, I feel like opacity is/should be a defining characteristic of acrylic gouache, so it's sad that Arteza fell a little short there.

[valleriejoy]

I get so excited when I see a new video from you.😊

[himbeerfalter]

13:18 Awwww the flag in the bg… like ☺️

[jessicazentz]

Not sure if I can get this across correctly. But the Holbein cat looks more smooth and ‘level’? (Not sure that’s the correct word) where the arteza cat looks like paint on top of paint. The area I notice this most is the purple between the eyes. The arteza looks like its color on top of color where the Holbein looks more all even. I hope that makes a little sense… I LOVE these paintings too, btw!! I have a 3 legged black kitty and the Holbein one kinda looks like him!!!

[breet]

the way i couldnt tell the diff between the two paintings by the end 😆 10/10 skills

[willowandroxas]

This was very interesting! I tried Arteza years ago when everyone was getting sponsored or gifted stuff from them. I got the 24 pack of watercolor tubes, and while it’s very affordable, the watercolor was really chalky and dried with a gross paper texture. The worst part is that you couldn’t reactivate the paint on the palette after it dried. I know they have other watercolor paints I could’ve tried as well, but it was really disappointing so it kinda turned me off to the whole brand.

[annak]

Thank you for this comparison. It was extremely helpful. I wonder how winsor & newton would compare to the holbein?

[KattakindArt]

This vid was great! I have used both watercolours and acrylics, so gouache always felt like the perfect mix. I have used water-based gouache and I did not like it very much, it was very streaky and difficult to layer values, kind of like your experience with Arteza

[jascherry]

I was excited due to the price difference but knowing what you said I think I would save money to buy the holbein

[rachelfountain]

This was really interesting to watch! I am now Team Holbein lol

[adamdavis]

Something that isn’t immediately apparent is if you use a wet pallet (like I do) Holbein hold up the opacity super well. Arteza has a tendency to almost… split? Becomes more lie, a watercolour feel but with very chunky pigment blobs