You’re in for a treat today. The paints branded Eventually Everything Mixes made by Amé in Berlin I’m reviewing today are some of my very favourites. They’re probably the most unique handmade paints I’ve seen in terms of colours and texture effects. Not many pastels here, barely any shimmers but all depth, mood and atmosphere. If you enjoy some of Daniel Smith’s colours like the Lunars, Serpentine, Green Apatite or Cascade, these are definitely something for you to try out.
At the moment I have 19 colours from EEM, so I think I’ve experienced a fair deal of what’s available (and I’ve got another order in the making, so you can expect part two to this review in the future!). All of these paints are extremely high quality, very pigmented and the colours are composed carefully. Also, they’re all vegan, cruelty-free and environment-friendly! Amé aims to only use ingredients that are ecologically safe and do not poison our environment.
Only four of the colours I have are actual half- and full-pans, the rest are all dot samples and boy, are they generous. The dots you get from Eventually Everything Mixes are simply HUMONGOUS. The whole order comes lovingly packed with a bit of thoughtful extras and I love how unique and professional the design is, and the kind of atmospheric impression it makes. The packaging is a piece of art in itself. For this reason, I am a bit sorry for what I needed to do with the dot samples – they were so beautiful on their little pieces of paper but for me it was very impractical to keep them this way, as they would take too much space and there was no way for me to fit them into my paints tin, so I broke them up and put them into empty half-pans. I just need to have all my paints in one place, otherwise I know I wouldn’t use some of them.
The kind of colours Amé offers in her line, you won’t find anywhere else. They are very unique mixtures of pigments (you can check the pigment info on Amé’s shop’s website), and when you put the paint to paper magic starts to happen, colours separate, textures emerge and if there are any shimmering particles, they live a life of their own. To mention just a few, the Black Moon, which is a highly granulating version of Payne’s Grey, Pluto and Ludwig gilded green are among the most interesting colours I own. Warlock and Flüschgrün, which unfortunately I don’t have, are also notable, as they separate into different colours and it seems that they can create very interesting effects.
Some colours are quite opaque, like the Cardinal and the Pit from the Ritual set or Pluto, while some are clear and transparent, like Polläms from the Berliner set or Ghuleh from the Ritual.
Recently Amé has extended her range of mineral earth colours. Previously, only the Earthly Set trio was available, which you can see in the photo below, but now a new earth tones set has been released, called The Earthly II – The Greenery, and it looks very promising.
The paints are sold either in sets or as singles. The Beliner set contains a nearly perfect primary triad of a cyan, a magenta and a yellow and these mix particularly well to create brilliant, vibrant secondary and tertiary colours (check out my mixing video on YouTube here). The Ritual set also has a red, a blue and a yellow but they’re warmer and more opaque, and the mixes you can create with them aren’t as clean. Permanent Yellow is an excellent companion colour for either of these sets to enhance mixing possibilities.
If you’d like to see how I swatch all of my EEM paints and how they mix together, make sure to check the review and colour mixing video on Hungry for Paint on YouTube.
All in all, if you’re looking for a new interesting experience, some unusual colours or just for some awesome paints, make sure to check out the Eventually Everything Mixes website and shop. I’m pretty sure you won’t be disappointed.
Did you know I’ve been making my own paint since 2020? I specialize in granulating, separating, toned down colours, as well as earth pigments from different parts of the world. Recently I’ve also expanded my line with shimmer and duochrome, chameleon watercolours. Check them out!
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