Does art alternatives make good quality watercolor pans?
Wednesday, April 21st, 2010 at
3:52 am
I’m thinking about buying the art alternatives art tin set that comes with 18 half pans and a paintbrush. I would go for better quality but I’m short on money.
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Not really, AA products are inconsistent made in China or Viet Nam I don’t find them reliable. For half pans try Yarka (Russian) Prang (German?) or Sakura or Niji (Japan) Sakura makes a great travel set with a water brush for about $20.00. Tubes are probably a better choice since half pan refills can be hard to find, You can squeeze paint into a watercolor pallet (small compartmented tray) and let them dry, re-wet as necessary. Grumbacher (USA) is also a good brand for tubes. My favorite for this is Holbein (Japan) a bit expensive but if you start out with just primary and secondary colors you can learn to blend and understand what colors really are!
Have fun.
I agree with above. Prang is inexpensive and all the colors are good except the red. With an 18 color set, you won’t use half of those, with Prang, you will deplete a couple of colors and hardly use others. You can re-fill the pans with tubes. Van Gogh tubes are inexpensive and fairly good quality. Cotman is another line of fairly good tube paints.