ARTEZA Gouache Paint, 60 Colors, 12ml, 0.4 US fl oz Tubes, Water-Based Paint for Canvas and Paper, Art Supplies for Professionals, Students, and Kids

I liked that I can use it as watercolors too

This box contains every color of the rainbow and more! Great quality and brushes on smoothly.

Fantastic coverage! Much better than other options that come in jelly cups. These are a GREAT value!

These are good for beginners, but depending on how you want to use your paint youre going to be in for a time. The Good 1. If you work directly from a tube and dont want to bother with color mixing, these will suit you fine. 2. Theyre pretty cheap at less than $1/tube, so you can experiment with them without breaking the bank. The Bad 1. These little tubes are prone to getting stuck or even exploding. This usually isnt a problem, because you can always just pot an exploded tube, but... 2. These are not really made to work from dry. At all. Most of the metallic colors actually turn to plastic bricks and wont rehydrate no matter what wizardry you throw at them because theyre acrylic gouaches. TL;DR: Overall these feel like student-grade gouache. They offer a great amount of surface coverage (very desirable in a student-grade paint!) and many premixed colors that make life easier if you dont want to have to mix all your colors. But even though Arteza swears these are artist grade Id say youre better off not expecting artist-grade paint for less than a $1/tube! You Have to Work Straight From The Tube Personally I work from dry pans. Its not everyones bag and if youre cool with digging through a giant box of tubes and dont want a color organized pallet, this isnt going to bother you as much! I dried these for a week in pans along with some Winsor and Newton colors to see how they stacked up. The Arteza paints lost 2/3 their volume due to evaporation (which isnt always bad, you can usually rehydrate them) while the Winsors lost only 1/4. Some Colors are Acrylic Gouache Most of the metallic colors in this set seem to have some kind of acrylic or plasticized base and will not rehydrate at all (youll see what I mean if you check out the rehydrated pallet image). Once the paint sets you wont be able to rework it and thats just a big problem for me when working with something fungible like gouache. I can generally get 3 fills of a halfpan out of a 15ml tube of artist grade paint, but I could maybe get 2x tops out of these because of all the evaporation. Poor Color Mixing Ive had issues with creating custom color mixes, probably because some colors have plastic bases and others have different levels of fillers and the like. This is a paint meant to be used straight from the tube! I spoke with a representative from Arteza that told me they couldnt tell me the percentage of binders/fillers/pigment in their product, only that they use peach gum. They told me that theyd have their scientists look into the issues I experienced but... yeah. An aside: do not buy the Arteza spiral bound watercolor notebooks. These are pulp paper (wood paper; your paint will sink to the bottom of the paper and buckle, very messy!) that will give you terrible results! If youre on a budget get some Canson XL Watercolor Coldpress paper, or Arches Coldpress foldover notebooks. Both of these are going to make even eh paint shine and help you save time and money if youre just starting out!

Ive only just started my first painting with these, but they seem to have good dense pigments and beautiful colors. I like having the metallics for some extra oompf. I think these are a great deal for the price.

My daughter needed this paint for one of her college classes. Easy to use, blends well and looks professional.

Love the consistency of the paints! My only complaint is that the actual colours don’t match the outside of the tube

I am finding the paints fun! Although to be honest? TOO many colors...perhaps ship in a tray style and less? I know whining. NO they are great I just live so tiny. Yes, I think they are great.

This box really has a wow factor. The packaging is incredible. But big problem: there’s not enough paint in one of the small tubes to paint anything bigger than a miniature. Not enough for a serious artist. I find I’m suddenly out of a color with no replacement. Plus there are metallic and pearized colors that I never use. So—too many colors for a beginner (they’re going to mix muddy colors) and not enough paint for an experienced one. If you’re going to have a try-it box, you need to have a reorder list with larger tubes of paint.

Good paints for a good value. Not the best for learning color theory of youre a beginner since it was super easy for me to get overwhelmed. But once you get the hang of them theyre nice to paint. The paints do dry a little lighter and the tubes arent always an accurate representation of the colors but for the price I cant complain.