Paul Rubens Artist Watercolor Paints-Metallic Glitter Solid Colors-Pink Portable Metal Case with Palette-24 Color Set Sparkle Watercolor

These paints react INSTANTLY to a wet brush and give a huge color payoff (though there is a significant wet-to-dry shift. Also, its with the exception of a few colors, most notably red ochre, which is so weak as to be nearly useless.) Theyre also all single-pigment colors, if you care about that, except for the three greens and Paynes gray. Also very impressive for this price point! They also MOVE like crazy in even the slightest bit of dampness. Without 100% cotton paper to soak up the water and contain the paints a little bit, the results are utter chaos. Im talking backruns/cauliflowers all over the place. I can use other WC brands to color sketches in my sketchbook, but not these. Ive tried various kinds and weights of paper, and it doesnt matter how heavy it is, if its not 100% cotton, youre going to get weird and unpredictable results. On 100% cotton, it looks great.

Can’t say enough good things about this item. The packaging made ME feel special ~ pink box and the palette wrapped in a pink cloth inside. The paints are sparklie and I was a bit concerned that they might not cover the paper or show up very well. I was pleasantly surprised. The paints are luscious and flow off the brush beautifully. Use them anywhere, anytime! I love them!

Packaging : cute, well protected. Paints themselves : less opaque than gansai tambi paints. Wet easily, colorful and fun. I expect a lot of enjoyment.

Paints are beautiful! Creamy, pigmented, re-wets like a dream. Tin is well made, but the insert tray came rusted. A little disappointing for an otherwise beautiful set.

i love them they are good beginners should start with good quality watercolor because low quality doesnt help them good paper too i recommend arches grain fin

No repeat pans of color. Nice case with loop for holding to paint anywhere. Colorfast and brilliant. Works well with other watercolor sets and mixed media. Compact tin. Nice chamois cloth included. Color names in Japanese, might be a fun learning tool for language as well. Case is very Kawaii aesthetic and fun, but users might like an alternative to the pink color option.

I am making watercolor paintings and adding them to blank Cards. These paints are so beautiful and shimmery. In Oder to get bold colors you have to do multiple layers. I love the sheen of the paints. It enhances my paintings.

Very pretty presentation of the tin, only wish the left side would lay flat so you would have more of a palette to work with.

I put off buying these for months and months because I have all the Finetecs, a bunch of Twinkling H2Os and I have the full set of Rivenvale metallics (what I consider, and still consider, the BEST metallic watercolor on the market- hands down) so the Rubens just seemed like more of a another metallic watercolor, must have for my collection but dont really need purchase. But the Finetecs/Rivenvale dont have pastel/bright colors, and the Twinkling H2Os are really too difficult to use often (ridiculous jars they come in, plus they are very difficult to rewet and paint large areas with- tired of sacrificing storage space and brushes and time to those paints) so I decided to get these to just have those kind of tropical/bright colors and have a set that is more suited for white paper. The Finetecs have great earthy colors, but their main downfall is that they dont show well on white paper. I wasnt expecting much from the Rubens but I was *very* surprised at the quality. Very, very surprised. They do need a drop of water to activate, but once they are wet and you move your brush in the pan, the paint immediately comes to life. The paints are creamy, full bodies, and rich in both pigment *and* shimmer. They are true metallics- not just watercolor paint based with a tiny bit of shimmer that barely shows up. The colors are saturated on white paper and can be made either opaque or transparent based on water usage. While they are not as opaque out of the pan as the Finetecs and the Rivenvales, if you work the paint a little with a brush (not enough to damage the brush, though- they are a nice consistency, unlike the Twinkling H2Os) you can get a gouache-like consistency. And the shimmer/sparkle is beautiful and bright. The Rubens dont do as well on dark papers, which is kind of a bummer, but considering I got these so I could do more metallic work on white watercolor paper they work perfectly. The Rubens are a little more straightforward of a metallic, like most of the Finetecs, in that the micas in each paint match the pigment- the Twinkling H2Os do this thing where they mix different pigments/dyes with different micas and shimmers so that the paints come in a totally unique range of colors/effects but the Rubens are much easier to use and they can be mixed, unlike the Twinkling (because of the color combos in the dye/pigment of each Twinkling jar, a lot of times youll mix two colors and get mud even if the colors, in theory, should be fine together). I think Im going to finally clear out the Twinklings and have the Rubens be my go to metallic-on-white palette. I like them so much that if Rubens introduced a different set of shimmer colors or another set of speciality colors (the Rubens do have a range of candy color pastel watercolors and color shifting watercolors available overseas, so I DO hope they put those in pan form and introduce them to the US market very soon) I wouldnt hesitate to order them without reading a single review or seeing a video about them- the quality is there. HIGHLY RECOMMEND.

The metallic watercolors in this set are just what I was looking for when I ordered. I will be using these sparingly to add interest to subjects in my watercolor paintings and the packaging allows me to keep them separate and easy to find in my supply cart. I opened one color and tried it with great results. I can’t say all the colors will be useful but I really liked the effects of my trial experiment.