Watercolor for Artist
Scrub resistant, modifiable, natural white, suitable for watercolor, pen and ink, gouache, various design renderings, ink painting, etc.
Recently, I bought a box set of Pebeo pan watercolours to try out.
Pebeo watercolours are available in tubes and pans. They seem to only have one range currently called the Fine series. In this range, there are only 28 colours. The paints are made in China.
Pebeo watercolours are actually student grade watercolour. I bought this set because the pricing is very attractive.
The palette box is painted all white including the exterior. What I like about it is the second mixing area when flipped open is totally parallel to the ground surface.
For cleaning, you can remove the pan holder plate inside. This is just like box sets from other brands.
The colours included are
- Primary Lemon Yellow - *** - 1
- Cadmium Yellow Pale - *** - 1
- Primary Red Cadmium - *** - 1
- Alizarine Crimson - * - 3
- Primary Phthalo Blue - *** - 1
- Cobalt Blue - *** - 1
- Permanent Green - *** - 1
- Earth Green - *** - 1
- Yellow Ochre - *** -1
- Burnt Sienna - *** - 1
- Burnt Umber - *** - 1
- Ivory Black - *** - 1
The lightfast rating of *** represents excellent lightfast and * means it will fade. Alizarin Crimson for example is the one that's going to fade faster when exposed to light.
Below's the colour chart that I've created. Click for a bigger view.
You get what you pay for with the Pebeo. The colours are not strong, pastel-like and a bit chalky at times.
It's very difficult to get the pigment from the pans. Hence, mixing colours is very frustrating. As such, I don't even feel like I want to use them for painting any examples. It's that bad.
After spending so much effort to dissolve the paint, it's quite disappointing to see the low intensity of the paints.
You can see that the WN Cotman series has colours that are more intense than Pebeo. The difference is quite clear. Schminke and Sennelier are the most intense, but they are artist grade quality paints.
A pocket-sized plastic box with integral mixing palette containing 12 assorted Cotman Water Colour half pans, plus a pocket brush.
Cotman Watercolours are a range of moderately priced colours which are made to exacting standards and have been carefully selected to offer a wide colour spectrum with a uniform price. The range is suitable for both amateur artists and the accomplished artists who require large volumes of colours at an economical price. They possess good transparency, with excellent tinting strength and good working properties. Costs are kept to an economical level by replacing some of the more costly pigments with less expensive alternatives.
Set contains the following colours
Colours may vary 119Cadmium Yellow Pale Hue109Cadmium Yellow Hue 103Cadmium Red Pale Hue003Alizarin Crimson Hue 660Ultramarine179Cobalt Blue Hue 599Sap Green696Viridian Hue 744Yellow Ochre074Burnt Sienna 076Burnt Umber150Chinese White
Please note: due to trading agreements we are unable to ship this product to Russia.
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