Winsor & NewtonProfessional Watercolor Paint Set, Lightweight Metal Box, 24 Half Pan

This is a set of 24 half pans of W/N professional (NOT Cotman) watercolors in a black tin, sometimes marketed as a travel set. The pigments are just about as good as they get-transparent, rich and easily activated. Few tins include ideal color selections beyond the basic warm and cool hues. This one is close to ideal and includes 7 neutrals, including both yellow ochre and raw Sienna, a sepia, and ivory. Highlights are Permanent Rose, Permanent Magenta, Winsor violet, Indanthrene blue and Hookers green. This set includes both traditional and contemporary colors such as phtalo blue and phtalo green.I added a few other pans of convenience colors in between the packaged rows.During the 18 months since I first bought this kit, I have tried many other brands of professional watercolors in both tubes and pans. I keep coming back to this palette because it is a great combination of mixing colors and convenience favorites, and the quality is really outstanding. The price is less than professional pan sets by other companies that I found to be less satisfactory than these, in terms of both performance and color range.Also-there is nothing wrong with the tin. When you buy any brand of these sets, one has to arrange and secure the half-pans by pinching together the sides of the metal brackets to hold them securely in place.I ordered a second set on Feb 8, 2023 and the order was cancelled by the seller after more than a month. Seller did not respond to inquiries sent through Amazon messages, but Amazon re-ordered for me. It was worth the wait-I'm very pleased with these paints and recommend them highly.

wonderful watercolors. rich color saturation. nice pallete space in the box

Good set of professional grade watercolors

I bought this professional set and a Paul Rubens set. I absolutely love them both but for different reasons. The PR pigments are outstanding and rich. But as you can see, the w&n either did not bleed, or bled very little in comparison to PR. The small paper was arches, and the other two were cheap cotton paper. Easy to use, mix beautifully, and blend like a dream.

Artist grade, excellent quality, nice set of colors.

I'm a converted "Oil" guy, and successfully used many Windsor paints. I've discovered that the (professional) Windsor's water colors are equal. Just disappointed that Van Dyke brown was not included.

Love the pigment in those color. The only negative is that they come out of the tray to easily

These came fast and in great new condition! Of course these are amazing paints!!!