HolbeinAcryla Gouache Colors School Set Of 12

If you are a SCAD student and need to buy this for color theory DO IT!!!! it was 100% worth my money. I spent so much less than at a actual store and the pigments are perfect! The packaging may look a little different but it was not a problem as far as paint quality, color, and consistency! It mixes well!

Goes on smoothly and the colors are really nice. Because gouache is water solvable so don't use wet paints on top. It may reactivate the gouache and change the color you laid first. I use a micron pen or posca paint pen to do drawings or mark making on top.

Im an art major and my professor has us using these for the semester. The paint is a really nice consistency which makes it perfect for examination. And colors are nice and vibrant

Managed to get these on sale for $32 - very great deal! These are smaller tubes as others pointed out only 12 ml compared to 20 ml usually sold in art stores, but for me this is my first time working with these particular paints so it is a very good cost effective option for me!I love them so farThey do dry pretty quick but I'm used to working with acrylics so they last about as long on the paletteMaking a large chart of the color mixes is something I will be doing so I can make colors quickly with an idea of how they'll turn out first to try and combat the quick drying issueThey are very highly pigmented and the final color looks very matte and velvetyI love these a lot and I will get a lot of use out of them!A note- I was recommended by someone at an art store to use mixed media brushes for these paints instead of watercolor brushes or acrylic brushesI have some Princeton mixed media brushes that work like a charm! Havent tried it with the other two to compare

Very smooth, highly pigmented, opaque paint, almost perfect except one issue: they dry super fast; like I squeeze one big droplet of paint on my palette and it become unusable 20 minutes later, even though I keep spraying water on it every 5 mins. The quick drying time makes it quite stressfull for me to work with. Now I understand why people usually buy a set with more colors, because there's no time for you to experiment with color mixing.Depending on what you are working on, this characteristic can be an advantage or a fatal flaw.They are still beautiful paint, nice to pair with watercolor, and you are going to need a lot of white, better stock up when the single tube is on sale.

These paints are great if you just want to try the paint out. I have since got more larger size tubes but I’m still using the test ones too, a lot goes a long way

Price and large choice of colors

I really like the paint