Roman Szmal Watercolours Review

Disclaimer. This is a personal review of a paint set I bought recently. I thought it might be of interest to any urban sketchers on the forum. I am not in anyway affiliated to this company. I had been watching swatchings of Roman Szmal Watercolours on YouTube and they looked interesting, especially as they had a  curated urban sketching set of 12 half pans. This company seem to make sets of full pans. I knew very little about them as my paints of choice are Daniel Smith and Schminke.  Roman Szmal is a Polish maker of watercolours. Many of his colours are single pigment to allow the user to mix their own. He says this leads to cleaner mixes with vibrant colours. Each colour is made with high quality gum arabic and glycerin, linden honey, distilled water and pure pigments. Every pan is hand filled and labelled with watercolour paper. This set contains the following colours: 362 Quinophthalone Yellow, 319 Pyrrole Scarlet, 332 Magenta, 254 Ultramarine Intense, 226 Blue Sky, 259 Shadow Grey, 252 Sap Green Light, 346 Aquarius Green, 201 Buff Titanium, 109 Gold Ochre, 120 Italian Burnt Sienna, and 130 Cyprus Burnt Umber Deep The tin is tiny. Has six half pans on top and 6 on bottom, and I fitted in 5 more half pans down the gap in the middle. It has mixing area in lid and the fold out metal dish. I hate those, sook the pin out and removed it. Removing the paint plate reveals more mixing areas underneath.  The paints when I unwrapped them felt tacky, like Sennelier paints that also are made with honey. I was impressed with these paints. They wetted well without spraying and were very creamy. Some of the colours were like a watercolour goache hybrid I felt. The re wetted well on the page as well. I used ink and coloured pencil on top and that was a joy. I bought these in a sale and no, they won't replace my beloved DS, but they are different and I will be taking them outside painting. They have a finger ring underneath. I felt the colour selection was good apart from the scarlet which if you do buy this, go easy on it. It's very red. Favourite colours were Blue sky and shadow grey. Tried desperately to download a picture of the tin. This is the best I could do.  It does not come with a brush, but it does have a swatching insert. Hope this is of interest and maybe helpful. I bought the set from Jacksons . I used Windsor and Newton brushes and uni pen fineliner and Pith sketchbook.

Thank you. My first review other than books. Just felt it would be a useful little tin already curated for purpose