Amsterdam Acrylic 120 ml Set / 5 Primary

Very good paint for the price. Obviously its not professional paint, but they also have an expert series if you want that. I bought this because out of all the (studio, beginner, studio, standard) series paint this is one of the cheapest sets. It comes with the 3 primary colors, yellow, cyan, and magenta. Think about a printer, these are the colors you want. Yellow, blue, and red work for darker colors but good luck trying to get purple shades out of that. I emailed the company and +++ is a lightfastness of 100+ years. So all of these colors except the yellow is good. The yellow ++, can be anywhere from 25-100 years. Compare this to castle art supplies and US. art supply paint which is probably good for 3 years. The arteza paint was very sketchy because the (+) symbols didnt seem to match the paint, like the Pink being a lightfast of +, which is supposed to be good? This is a well established company. So if your looking for a good primary beginner set this is the obvious winner and by far the cheapest. You might be able to find liquitex for the same price if there is a sale going but this was on sale so I decided to try it. I like it.

Excellent paint. Cells with silicone

Not a primary red.

Amsterdam standard series acrylics are good quality paint at a good price. I prefer them over Basic Liquitex, Soho, Atelier, JoSonja, etc. The colors are fairly opaque, have enough pigment and are reliable across time. Great for beginners and professionals alike.

The red was magenta

I bought these paints to paint my grad cap & I really like them! The cap started as burgundy & ended up pink & black. The black, blue & magenta are very opaque but the yellow & white are pretty sheer.

Amsterdam is the best!

More magenta than red

colors were good, I mixed and painted, needed the primary this worked very well!!

I will update this review next week since haven’t received these paints yet, but I am giving them 5 stars out of principle after reading unfair reviews docking stars because they don’t know magenta is a primary color and red is not. I’m trying to teach my kid basic color theory for kindergarten and for some reason they don’t make CYM primary paints for kids. I guess Big Paint doesn’t want them to know the truth about color theory, so they’re perpetuating the lie of red yellow and blue? Maybe Crayola is in too deep and can’t turn back now; what would happen if people found out the truth? Red and blue sales would plummet, the edgy emo kids and studio art majors who regret going to college would become even more suicidal - it would be CHAOS! Yes, you read that correctly. Your whole childhood was a lie. Red, yellow and blue are not actually the primary colors. The primary colors are magenta, cyan, and yellow. Red blue and yellow are a bastardized version of these colors, with cheaper pigments. BUT WAIT! You cry out, desperate to hold onto your fond childhood memories, the other colors can’t make red, yellow and blue! Ha! I am going to expose the conspiracy - magenta and cyan make blue! Yellow and magenta make red! As you mix the colors to see for yourself, the “primary” colors of red and blue appearing as you mix together the “wrong” primary colors, you have flashbacks of finding out Santa Clause doesn’t exist. Your sense of reality challenged, you wonder other fallacies you’ve been led to believe. Are there really two political parties, or a single group of obscenely wealthy families putting on a show? You start reading George Orwell books. If the government admitted to MK Ultra, what are they doing that they don’t tell us? You begin to make your family uncomfortable at dinner. “It’s not a conspiracy,” you tell them, “the documents are public record.” Your spouse files for divorce and takes the kids. All because you bought some paint on Amazon. You’re right though, it’s not red. It’s magenta.