Prima Marketing Prima Confections Watercolor Pans 1-Tropicals, Other, Multicoloured, 12 Count (Pack of 1)

I really love this little pallet of paints. The tin is very workable. Plenty of space for mixing paint. Thumb ring underneath is useful.The paints rewet easily. Much more easily than a Cotman paint pan by Windsor & Newton. The colours are vibrant and cover very well. It's a delight to use.I have artist quality transparent watercolours. These are not the same grade of paint. But they are fun and a pleasure to use.

Absolutely amazing colours - bright, beautiful, joyful (if I can use that word for a box of paints?). These paints are great for painting spring flowers...well, not painting actual flowers of course (unless you are ordered to by the Queen of Hearts and you are some lowly Knave in a fairy story...) ...are great for painting a watercolour painting of spring flowers. Or I guess you could paint real flowers but don’t blame me if they wilt and die in the process.Cut to the chase - great value, great colours, great I’ve finished rambling now.Buy. Bye.

This is a set of 12 watercolour half-pans in a metal palette. They are advertised as "professional" or "artist quality" on the box but to be honest, they're not. They're student-grade at best and are clearly not designed for artists (no lightfastness ratings, no pigment information), but they are in nice colours and they do paint well on cellulose-pulp paper, but not on 100% cotton paper.This set has 12 colours, including 3 nice greens, 2 nice blues, a purple, 2 rose-y reds and an orange, a brown, a yellow and a yellow ochre. They're fairly opaque and chalky when painting on the swatch card enclosed in the palette but are much nicer on paper. Some of the colours are really nice. They mix beautifully into some really nice colours if you mix them on the palette but they do not mix well on the paper, wet-in-wet. They seem to contain too much detergent/wetting agent that makes them explode when put onto wet paper, making them hard to control. They do sediment quite a lot and the paints are fairly opaque. They have a lot of lithopone filler in them which will make the colours fade and discolour over time.Keeping all of the above in mind, they are beautiful colours and a lot of fun - nice for sketching with en plein air for example.The palette, however, is the real draw. I paid £14.80 for this set (though the price has gone up since), which makes them a VERY economical way to get a high-quality metal palette that holds 12 half-pans nominally or can take 21 half-pans if you add those from another brand that are a little smaller. If you remove the paint from the half-pans, you have 12 half-pans and a palette you can reuse, which to buy would normally cost you a good £25-30 empty - empty metal palettes can be very expensive - so even if you don't like the paints, if this set are retailing for under £30, they make a good draw for the palette and empty half-pans alone.

These are beautiful paints individually wrapped in a quality palate. I'm not a fine artist, or a scrapbooker, crafting is a hobby so I'm not bothered about lightfastness or anything too technical. These are just lovely colours in a very portable tin should I feel the need to take them out and about.

Great product. Smooth, dense pigment. Lovely colours. Beautifully wrapped. Enough room for a little brush. Very portable. Extremely good value for money.

Nice paints. Did a lightest test over nine months. One of the greens faded and a blue very slight. Compared well against paints costing very much more.I have used them on a commission and look as good as one painted with Daniel smith!!!

I have been enjoying using the Decadent pies set so I thought I would treat myself to this set as the colours looked quite vibrant and interesting. They are truly vibrant but I have only given the set 3 stars because I have found that there is very little difference between the two blues and the two greens. One of the blues is slightly lighter than the other....an effect you could have acheived when painting yourself by dilution...and one of the greens has the faintest tinge of more blue than the other and again you could acheive that yourself with the addition of blue. Therefore I feel that Prima have cheated me out of two pans of watercolour and that in reality I have only 10 not 12. It is a dinky set in a small tin which would not take up too much room in a bag but the pans do shift about a bit in mine when I use them so colours can easily get contaminated if you get carried away!

Arrived quickly from the US. Impressed with purchase, the tin is great, strong and small but with extra space for other colours if wanted. Have only painted the colour swatch so far (card included in tin) and I am a watercolour novice but going by others reviews I have seen this is an excellent set - in fact I have ordered some other sets too!!