Prima Marketing 584276 Watercolor Confections: Decadent Pies

First and foremost, I am not a watercolor expert nor is this medium the one I am most knowledgeable about but I do love it and have been watercoloring for over two years. I bought these because I don't have a travel set and was tired of buying the same colors over and over again. What I like about Prima is that each of their sets has a different theme and so the colors are not duplicated in other sets. The Decadent Pies was the set with the most colors I don't already own in my collection and have a very muted and almost 'dull' selection, which is exactly what I wanted since my color choice tends to be very soft and pleasing than bright and obnoxiously out there. The set came in a white box as shown abInside of the black tin the colors are all wrapped up and there is a card inside for you to swatch out your colors. I don't recommend using it since it's not watercolor paper and so it will change how the colors look but I swatched the colors out on the card provided as well as in my canson xl watercolor sketchbook, 140-pound paper. I used a Grumbacher number six round brush to swatch out the colors, just for reference. The pans feels loose inside of the tin, and they do slip out if the tin is shaken while closed. You can honestly fit seven in each row and use the empty space for another seven or for a pocket sized brush. The texture of the paint inside of the pans is actually pretty rough, none of them have the smooth or dewy look that other watercolor pans might have. The first four colors(25, 26, 27, and 28) are very dry and suck up water as if they were California while the other retain the moisture and stay wet for a much longer period of time. On my swatches, I drew a black line with a waterproof marker(Faber Castell Pitt Artist pen Black 199), this was to test out the transparency of the colors. On paper meant for watercolor, the paints were a lot more transparent but the four metal like shades showed a lot more glitter and luster. All of the shades actually swatched out very beautifully, the last three were my favorite and in the video shown where I swatched them, number 34 and 35 blend together naturally and it was very smooth. Since there aren't any bright colors besides number 36, it was hard to come out with any stark colors and the mixing wasn't quite the same but I didn't expect much since these colors are a different tone and it would be impossible to make a bright purple with the red provided. That didn't bother me if I wanted to mix bright colors I would have bought Tropicals of the original set. I truly do love these colors, and for the cheap price, they're worth every single penny and then some more. As for lightfastness, I honestly have no idea but I will leave both the swatches out in the fun for a few days and will edit my review with the outcome. All in all, I highly recommend this set. The tin is solid, the colors are lovely and pigmented, and for the price, you can't beat them.

MY DAUGHTER AND ME PAINT WATERCOLORS AND THIS PALETE AND OTHERS OF THIS BRAND ARE PURE QUALITY. THESE COLORS ARE CONSISTENTS, THE COLOR CHIPS LAST BECAUSE ARE CONCENTRATE. THE COLORS THEY CREATE ARE BEAUTIFUL. PROFESSIONAL OUTCOME. I RECOMMEND THIS BRAND. ARE PRICEY, BUT IT WORTH THE PRICE BECAUSE YOU WILL HAVE WATERCOLOR THAT LAST. This brand if my favorite. High quality, artist-grade, highly pigmented watercolor pans. This is perfect sized for the artist on the go or in the table. Provide 12 bright, intense, smooth and long-lasting colors that will work beautifully for an art or mixed media project. I love that the pans are numbered so you can organize them ordered like the swatch card included. The tin box has two-fold out mixing palettes. Each pan set that you buy from Art Philosophy (Prima Marketing) are different. You can see them in the swatch card and in the pan. The numbers are different so rarely you'll repeat a color. A great value. I recommend them. Fast delivery. Arrived in perfect condition since the pans are well packaged individually for protection.

These paints are incredible! I'm a professional watercolor artist and I use them in several of my pieces. I have almost every palette that they produce. The colors are strong, they go beautifully together. These palettes last a long time. I highly recommend!

I got this set a few months ago and use them fairly consistently. The colors remind me of the fall, my favorite season, and I fell in love at first sight. After getting under the first couple of layers of the paint, almost everything was smooth sailing. As seen in the first picture, Earl Grey looks very dry compared to Pistachio Cream and this was the only paint in my set to look like this. While looking at other reviews, this problem is inconsistent. In the second picture, Earl Frey gives color pay off but after 10+ layers. Another color with payoff problem was Guava Meringue which also took 10+ layers. I've tried everything from letting the paint soak for a while to scraping the color off and that's the only time the color is darker than the water. Other colors I had initial problems with were Pumpkin, Keylime, Blueberry, and Blackberry which were gritty in its first few years but stopped fairly quickly once I used the colors more. I was kind of upset that Blackberry wasn't black at first but I've come to love the dull blue and it's now my favorite color in the set. The best experience I've had was with Pistachio Cream (which is not green for some reason). When I first started using it, I thought it was just a dull gold but using more pigment than water makes it an incredible opaque gold. After using Pistachio Cream so often, the dull gold has now become stronger so now it comes out as more opaque but not unworkibly so. The pigments left fairly easily if you can catch it fast enough but the pigments are very pigmented and opaque once layered enough. I can't recommend these enough and I would buy Earl Grey and Guava Meringue separately so I could use them properly.

Por el momento lo que he ido probando, resultados totalmente aceptables. Los colores son muy vivos, con un puntito fino de brillo, aunque me hubiese gustado más otra paleta, pero sin ningún descontento. Son fáciles su manejo, te da una amplia gama de tonalidades, son más bien colores tierra, bueno puedes jugar distendidamente en busca de nuevos tonos, la relación calidad precio parecen óptima. La transparencia se consigue fácil, dinámicamente. El empaque, tamaño son idóneos para llevarla contigo y en cualquier momento, disfrutar del mismo. Muy recomendable. El pedido tanto en formas como en tiempo, sin problemas, todo correcto. Mensajero muy amable.

I'm not an expert painter, I paint for fun. I could have cried when I started using these paints. They are absolutely beautiful. The pigment is so strong and they glide across the paper. It is such a treat to use such lovely watercolour paints.

Un prix abordable. Des couleurs étonnantes. Malgré un panel de coloris limité (sans couleurs primaires), on obtient un rendu quasi classique si on le désire. Les quatre tons irisés (blanc, gris, crème, meringue) arborent une pigmentation plutôt discrète. Le vert piment se révèle franchement intéressant pour des paysages (il correspond au 'green gold 'des palettes usuelles). C’est la première aquarelle que je rencontre pouvant être retravaillée ultérieurement sans dégâts. À essayer !

Love the colours💕💕💕Beautiful to paint with. Service was awesome and my delivery arrived on time.

Prima's palette with some skin tones and a really interesting couple of greens. Same size etc as the Jane Davenport one (possibly the tins are by the same supplier?) but the artist quality paint formulation feels a little different. Just as good, but different. I have both Jane's and this one and love them both! Highly recommended, great value, just buy it - you know you want to!