MeiLiang Watercolor Paint Set, 36 Vivid Colors in Pocket Box with Metal Ring and Watercolor Brush, Perfect for Students, Beginners and More

Gorgeous, creamy & vibrant colors! The blooms these cause are lovely and they blend nicely. High quality at a reasonable cost. Will continue to purchase these colors! Swatch them first. I do wish the little plastic insert that holds the color trays was off a higher quality and not cheap, fragile plastic. Love the storage tin, however! Nice texture and no weird scent. The greens and reds in this set work incredible on cold and rough texture poster.

I've finally started getting the hang of watercolors and wanted to get something better than what I was using from the craft store, which was a small koi set and a Niji aquarelle set. This set falls into a similar price point to what I've got, but omfg, there is a huge difference.It's not chalky and the colors are much more pigmented. It's still pretty clearly a student grade set, but a much better quality one.I adore the sturdy metal tin, which survived delivery (pretty sure the delivery person chucked it at my house from the street). Definitely reusing that when I'm done with the paint. The included waterbrush is pretty comparable to the Niji ones I have and doesn't leak.The color selection is very nice, and it's effortless to use.The approximately half pan paints are in a plastic insert, which isn't great-it holds the paints, but will definitely come loose from the tin over time, so maybe not the best for travel, but that is good for repurposing.Overall, I'm extremely pleased with them!Edit: after several months of heavy use and learning on my part, this is still an excellent set! While the paints are still quite good for student grade, they are definitely still that, with less pigment and more fillers, so you're going to have to work harder for saturated colors. Also, it might be ridiculous, but the brush has become my favorite and has stood up well to several hours of daily use for months now.You won't regret your purchase!

Great travel water color set. Paints are easy to activate. Easy to water down or use concentrated. Colors are vibrant and soft. Comes with blank card palette so you can paint in each color for identification. Water brush is handy for travel too. Recommend for those new to water coloring and experts who want a travel set.

I honestly really enjoyed these paints. While they are not artist grade (aka lightfast), they are still very good quality for the low price. The only complaint I had was the packaging. I disliked the cheap plastic insert that was used to hold the pans and that it was poured and not in half pens. The palette itself was a pretty blue color but the surface underneath the plastic insert was not smooth but had separations that are usually on the mixing tray not on the base. This made it difficult to use it as an empty palette for other watercolor pans. Luckily I had some empty half pans that I used to store these paints but the process of tearing out the cubes of paint was ridiculously difficult. I really struggled getting them out as the company used hot glue for some reason to keep the paints in the insert. this was unnecessary as if you place a drop of water and stick the paint back in, it will not fall out. Also, the insert was glued to the pan itself and once I managed to tear that out, I had to rip the dried glue pieces out of the palette. Overall it took me an hour to prepare this palette lol. So if your buying only for the palette, I would say don’t bother. But if your only concern about buying is the palette and you want the paints, it is hard but not impossible to get the paints out and put them in standard half pans. The ones I had were from meeden and came with the 48 empty pan. They are a little bigger than the regular old half on as far as I can tell. Other than my concerns over the palette, the paints were gorgeous, transparent and mixed very well. It is obvious that they are a student grade version of Paul Rubens as I have the artist grade 48 set as well and it is very comparable. They had a nice color selection but there were no expensive pigments included (like cobalt teal, potters pink, viridian, etc). I noticed that there was a very small selection of browns and that the 2 pinky reds included looked a bit similar. I also dislike that they included a lamp black and a white because with watercolor, unless the white is very opaque, it is typically not much use at all! And the lamp black is usually non granulating so I would have liked an ivory black for mixes. For the price, I would definitely recommend but I would take them out of the plastic insert as otherwise it seems pretty fragile (insert does not stay in palette and moves). Also it looks a bit cheap with the paints in the insert if you care about that sort of thing. Again, the paints mix very well and it is hard to make mud. Actually as I was mixing I noticed that the colors were clean, bright and transparent, which is unusual for student grade sets like this as they are usually more opaque. That is a good thing though as it tells you the quality of the set. I would recommend that anybody looking to make a purchase go to youtube and watch a tutorial from frugalcrafter or kimberlycrickart as both have researched extensively on these and did a very thorough review. But if you have a lot of watercolors, I would pass on these. Also these are probably not for children as I am not sure if they are nontoxic. Should be fine for teens though.

As a watercolor beginner, I love these watercolors. They are much better than some other ones I’ve tried in the past that made me despise watercolor. These are not chalky! The colors are pigmented and beautiful, easy to activate and use. I would definitely recommend this product to any beginners!The case itself is a very nice and durable Tun. It closes very easily and securely. It does have a ring on the bottom to hold in, which I am not very fond of, but I can remove it if I want so that’s not a big deal! I’m sure it comes in handy for some artists.I love how small and compact this watercolor tin is as it is easy to carry around, and it’s such a pretty color too! It does have space on the lid to mix if you’d like as well, which is very handy and helps save desk space when working.The watercolors are poured into plastic wells, so that’s something to keep in mind, if you prefer half pans that you can move around, but personally, I don’t mind.Also the water brush is just fine, but I prefer to use traditional painting brushes. But I tested it out and it does just fine. Very convenient and easy to store. A nice touch for on the go painting!Overall, great watercolors! I purchased them a while back and I throughly enjoyed using them!(The pumpkin painting I did was done on Canson watercolor paper and it works beautifully)

Love the colors and how pigmented they are. I'm a dabbler in watercolor and mixed media. I wanted watercolors that were better than the kid's sets but not quite expensive as artist grade. These work wonderfully!