Komking Paint by Number for Adults Kids, Paint by Numbers Kits on Canvas Painting Kit for Art Crafts Gift, Magic Cat 16x20inch Without Frame

Some tips: - Steam the canvas with a clothes steamer before starting in order to remove the creases from shipping. - The brushes are better quality than some other kits I have used, but they will still shed. It should last you through the whole painting but if you have other fine tip brushes probably use those. This was fun to paint with nice bright colors. Like other reviewers have noted, some of the paint was dried and not usable. Some were drying and needed be rehydrated—I added some water to these pots and they were ok. Also, luckily I had some other acrylic paint on hand to mix the same colors to make up for the dried ones. Something other may want to consider before buying. Overall turned out great though!

So pretty. This paint by number takes a long time because of all the really tiny space but it turns out amazing.

I really enjoyed painting this, an activity during the Covid isolation. It looks great when finished, I like all the colors involved. Like many paint by numbers kit this came folded in a box. So I used an iron to flatten it. The iron setting is medium and we pressed on the backside of the canvas. I could not get it completely flat, but the process of painting also flattens it a bit. By the end the creases are very hard to find. Like many paint by number people I have a set of brushes and used them mostly instead of the ones provided. This kit does include a very wide brush, and this was useful for the large blue area that is the sky. There is no blending (or blurring) required for this kit, which I liked as I am not very good at those techniques. I did have to make a custom lighter purple, as colors 11 and 12 were too similar shade of dark purple, so I used left over white from another kit, and an empty cup from another kit, and custom mixed a color to replace 11. This was my first foray into custom mixing but it came out well.

This was our first paint by numbers kit. My husband and I worked on this together for a couple of hours every evening, so between the both of us, it took about 12.5 hours altogether. A few notes on the "Colorful Balloon" kit: - The brushes included were not as bad as I thought they might be! We still ended up using brushes I already had on hand to get a finer tip, but it probably still would've been fine with the included brushes. The wide brush was excellent for the large blue area. - The acrylic paints included were mostly fine. We had no issues with the texture or volume (there was more than enough to complete the painting), but I knocked a star off here because some of the colors were just really off from the reference picture. The worst offender was probably the bright neon green color (pictured in some of the existing customer photos), but I was able to correct this by mixing it with one of the muted blue paints to get closer to olive green. Same with the dark green that was a bit too bright; I mixed it with some of the muted purple paint to get a nicer dark olive. - The canvas was good quality. The creases from the folds eventually eased up after painting and keeping it flat for a few days. The size of the painting is probably good for 2 people to work on collaboratively if you're looking to do this as a date night activity; 3 people might be kind of tight.

Been having a difficult time getting back into painting. Let me tell you, these paint by numbers are fantastic so far. Gives me an easy target to paint and baseline, then go back in and work on shading etc. Colors are a bit off, but if you understand how they make these kits it's kinda understandable. Getting the right combo of limited colors to get the right amount of definition is tough. I feel like these did the original picture justice. Pro Tips: Get reading glasses, I don't care how young your eyes are, it helps (unless your nearsighted, if that's the case, this is defin the hobby for you!!); buy some better brushes (they don't have to be pricey, I did this full painting with a tiny spotter brush); keep the reference picture and the black and white print out handy while painting, it's easy to get lost after you've done a section and the blue and purple start to get tough to follow late in the painting; if your paint dries out, just add a drop of water, it will loosen up the flow nicely; if you have an old canvas frame, even if it's painted, you can take this canvas and staple gun it over to have a good surface to paint on... I think that's about it. I'd give this a 4 out of 5, since it is a bit difficult at first. This was my first paint by number, and it took me about 2 months in between work and other hobbies. So really not a bad gift for first timers either. Happy painting!!!

I really enjoyed doing this paint by number! I was worried at first because I thought it looked sloppy but it really came together in the end. I recommend buying your own paintbrushes because the ones the set comes with are not the best quality. Also, I did not like the way it came folded up, it left creases on the picture that I couldn’t get rid of. But it’s ok. And some of the paints were goopy and hard to use but it was not the majority. Other than those few things the portrait really came out stunning. I am definitely going to order more paint by number projects and I’m excited to have a collection. I gave it 5 stars despite the issues because it was fun and turned out really beautiful. I love it.

Easy to paint for beginners. Not very colorful

Wife of account holder here. I purchased the kit with the frame and I'm super happy I did. This design is not going to be as detailed as the actual picture (most pbns from artwork or photos won't be as accurate) but the detail I got is beautiful. I do my pbns differently, I only use metal toothpicks to paint with (old habit from my childhood days of doing these) and the detail really comes out well. If you take your time and use very small brushes you can get some fantastic results. The quality of the paints was fine, there was plenty of paint. Any that were too thick were easily managed by adding a couple drops of water and mixing as I went. I do this several times depending on on how tacky the paint in the pot gets as I keep it open. This really extends the life and use of the paint. The zoomed out photo is in more natural light and the pinkie version was under some purple lighting reflecting off blue walls.