I believe this was one of the first picture I took of the box - as pans are still wrapped
(but I think) at this stage I was already playing with the layout and organizing the pans in the box, as somehow the selection of colours was large and to me it felt somehow unorganized and no very practical.
This is another picture on how I was thinking to set the pans inside the box
And this is a picture of today - I eventually wrote down the name and code number at the side of each individual pan with permanent marker, as well as writing a small name reference over the box margins above each pan.
I finally placed the neutral/earth colors to the right, and to the left (2/3 of the box) the strong colors following the color wheel (violet/lilac, reds,oranges, yellows,greens and blues below)
This month I wanted to do a light-fastness tests on my watercolors set (I read a few reviews, watched videos and saw some of the test results online - which seem very contradictory - and extremely confusing ... just to come to realized that my set (not sure if it is because is more modern or a special edition - has colors that are not in the normal or "old/standard" 36 pan set.. for example many users refer to the orange lake (number 320) which my set does not have, and other reviews seem to use an old selection of colors (no longer available at the Nevskaya Palitra website
So this is me, I took the white nights color chart from the website and went to Photoshop, hightailing the available selection of my set
Finally, here are all the colours selection on the 36 pans set of artist watercolours White Nights St Petersburg Watercolours or Nevskaya Palitra — White Nights that I have
On my box, 26 are single pigments (but in two cases is the same pigment) Cad Lemon y Cad Yellow Medium - both are PY35 and Burnt Umber, Burnt Sienna and Raw Sienna are P.BR7
The manufacture (Nevskaya Palitra) warns of advice in two cases for low lightfastness (in Hanza Yellow and Violet) and medium lightfastness in the case of Golden, Yellow Ochre, Indigo, Rose, Green, Olive Green and Payne's Grey) but my *Light-fastness tests (currently on its way) would have to agree (or disagree) with those warnings
Colors included: Zinc White*** Cadmium Lemon*** Cadmium Yellow Medium*** Yellow Ochre** Golden** Golden Deep*** Hanza Yellow* Titian Red*** Ruby*** Cadmium Red Light*** English Red*** Quinacridone Rose** Carmine*** Madder Lake Red Light*** Quinacridone Lilac*** Violet* Ultramarine*** Blue*** Cobalt Blue*** Cobalt Blue Spectral*** Turquoise Blue*** Indigo** Ceruleum Blue*** Yellow Green*** Emerald Green*** Green** Olive Green*** Oxide of Chromium*** Raw Sienna*** Burnt Sienna*** Umber*** Burnt Umber*** Mars Brown*** Sepia*** Neutral Black*** Payne's Gray**
As I was still writing this post, I came to realized that the table of content printed in the box already warns of other possible combinations/options
here are the ones that vary, therefore the box might content;
Quinacridone rose 324**or (otherwise) Rose 322*.
Quinacridone lilac 609***or (otherwise) violet-Rose 608*.
Blue 513*** or (otherwise) bright blue 509***
Indanthrene blue 524*** or (otherwise) azure blue 519***
Emerald green 713*** or (otherwise) green original 719**
I think I was pretty lucky (not just price wise, but my content (the fist option of each line) is stronger on the color selection and in the light fastness and here is also the reason why the contents of my box might vary from early reviews I have been reading online... ok,.. so how was that again ... if you cannot find it, Make It yourself (or something like that)
