Opaque paint box kits from Pelikan just arrived. Sets of twelve or twenty-four. paint trough with paint bowls which can be lifted out of the bowls. There is also a removable lid with five large mixing pots. All the colours are tagged and you get a small tube of chinese white as well. Everything has its little compartment and is accounted for down to the Nth degree, a bit like snap-on tools.
—Pelikan Opaque Pan Watercolor Sets: 24-Pan Set
The ultimate in intensity and brilliance. Colors dry with velvet-like finish and give superb coverage. May be used as transparent colors when suitably diluted. In round whole pans. Each set comes with a tube of Chinese white.—click image for source.
Without getting overly stereotypical one sees the same packaging/marketing aesthetic with Staedtler and Stabilio as well. The Pelikan kits are a good intro, but it may be worth adding a few transparent colors from another brand such as Cotman to complete the purchase. Next post we’ll look at some lower priced watercolour paper that would complement the Pelikan paint kits, something that together with a few brushes, the paper and the 24 color kit will run about $35-40 tax inc.
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