Lefranc Bourgeois 301241 Gouache Paint, Primary Colours Set of 5 Tubes, 80 ml Paint per Tube, Strong, Light-resistant, Opaque Colours with Even Creamy Consistency

I am not sure what this paint is, but it is definitely not gouache.Horrible quality.very transparent.The only colour I left is black, as it is very dark, well covering paint.White is a consistency and coverage of a school glue.

There are inconsistencies in what people think gouache is. Traditionally I think it meant adding white to watercolor to make it opaque, but opaque colors (such as most earth colors) were called bodypaint or something similar. People also get confused about differences between tempera and gouache, but most people in the modern world consider gouache to be opaque matte paints, including in Europe and France where these came from.These paints aren't at all opaque. They are transparent. They are surprisingly vibrant and mix well. Note that not even the white is opaque, so there is no way to make the colors in this set opaque unless you add black to them (the black is opaque).They have a nice consistency and glide onto the paper, leaving a nice film.They are probably more like giant watercolor tubes given their transparency. I am a bit at odds with how one might best use these paints. You can use them like watercolors, although once they dry they are not so remarkably vivid. Because they have what is probably a dextrin binder, they do lift up like most gouache paint when you paint layers. So you can't do transparency, like you can with watercolor.I have not tried mixing the paints with a quality, high-covering titanium gouache to see if I can make them opaque... When I do, I will update this, because these would be a great bargain if you could use them as opaque gouache. They seem a bit too nice to use as kids paints. The binder does not allow the paint to wet out/spread as easily as most watercolors (which are usually made with gum arabic. But probably using oxgall would make them wet out better. I might tray that. If so, it would be a very cheap watercolor set. I'm still hoping I can make them work like gouache, as I like the simplicity of having a ginormous, three-color mixing set...This particular range only comes in these colors. If you just want to learn or teach color mixing, I'd recommend going to a quality acrylic instead, one with a good titanium white.Update: I let them dry in a pan overnight to see how they re-wet and they don't re-wet very well. Compared to other gouache paints, they were hard to get off the pans even after soaking. Whatever they use in this paint, it is high platicizer content... The paints did stain the enamel palettes, so there is high-staining pigment in these.

Pour moi les couleurs primaires sont rose magenta, bleu cyan, jaune citron. Mais le bleu et le rouge ne sont pas les couleurs primaires. Mais elles conviennent à ma petite fille de 6 ans car d’assez bonne qualité.

j'ai pris ce kit dans lequel on avait des tubes des couleurs primaires et le blanc ainsi que le noir.Bonne quantité pour se faire plaisir. Très belles couleurs pour les mélanger ensemble.Je pense qu'on peut avoir confiance en cette grande marque pour les activités créatives.

Conformes à mes attentes. Les couleurs primaires sont lumineuses et permettent de réaliser toutes les couleurs.

Bon pigments