Professional Watercolor Set – 24 Full Pans (2.5ml) Extra-Fine Artist-Grade Pigments, Vibrant & Lightfast Colors in a Durable Plastic Box by Nevskaya Palitra

This review is for the St. Petersburg White Nights Watercolor 24 Full Pans Set. In only a few words, I love this set. For professional-grade watercolors the price can't be beat. The paints come in full pans, so you're getting plenty of value for your money as well. I would recommend this brand, either this set or the smaller set of 9 colors they also sell on Amazon, to beginner artists as well as more experienced watercolor artists on a budget. I often see the Winsor & Newton Cotman watercolor sets recommended to beginners looking to get into watercolors. I own both and absolutely disagree with those recommendations. For a similar price, perhaps a few dollars more, you can buy the White Nights paints, which are far above and beyond the quality of the Cotman paints. Let's look at a list of pros and cons: Pros: . The price. These are professional quality paints, at a very affordable price point. The value for money is unmatched. . Most of these paints are very easy to activate, without having to overwork the pans, and a little bit of paint goes a long way. If you're upgrading to this set after previously using a set of student grade watercolors you'll immediately see and feel the difference. . The palette is huge! I included a photo with an 8 1/2" x 12" sketchbook on top of it for reference. When the palette is fully open you have tons of mixing space. . Speaking of mixing space, this palette has 4 huge divided wells in the lid, as well as a removable mixing tray that provides 12 mixing wells. . There are a wide variety of colors in the 24 set that provides huge potential for mixing. 17 of the colors in this set are single-pigment colors. There are a mixture of transparent, semi transparent, and opaque colors as well as some granulating colors. Cons: . The palette is huge. If you don't have a large desk this could be a problem, so I would recommend the smaller set of White Nights, or simply transferring these pans into a smaller palette or tin. In my opinion there are not many downsides to this set. Especially for beginners trying to decide on their first set of watercors, you should definitely go with these!

I found it excellent quality for me. Most of the paints from this set contain only one color (no mixing) which is great to mux it and create new colors. Bright and enough colors to paint what ever you want. Excellent professional quality from Russian art manufacture. The box is plastic it is okay, large and has both for small amount mixing and the large spot too. Both can be dispatched and easy to wash.

These are the best watercolors I have ever used. They are at a remarkably low price for the quality and I have used them many times and still have plenty of paint left- enough to last several years. I have owned one other set of artist grade watercolors, and I am by no means a professional, but I have been very satisfied with the performance of these paints and they are more vibrant than any watercolors I have used yet. The color shows up very well on the paper, even with large amounts of water (yet they are still spreadable and the color can easily be faded to the artists' preference.) When they arrived, they were each individually wrapped and in a sensible and convenient order. Shortly after using the product the first time, I dropped the box and the paints, some of which that were still wet, all fell out onto the floor. The colors are each distinguishable enough that by painting a small sample of each, I was able to see which was which. My only complaint about this product is that the pallet is not completely full (which, in the future, will also be a big benefit when it comes to investing in more colors), thus the colors slide around when it is picked up, and occasionally may pop out of the slots. However, the pallet is incredibly well designed for blending and thinning color. The seller was incredibly helpful- If you are in the US like me, expect the wait to be pretty long, but it was all worth it and this seller was reliable. Before ordering, I could tell from this page that they are actively answering questions and making their best efforts to help customers. I could also see that they were a reliable amazon seller- that many other customers had received their orders in a timely manner. I would not hesitate to order from them again.

I have used them for about 3 months and enjoy painting with them. I have to say I don’t love them as much as I had hoped. I don’t have anything bad to say about them just that I have other paints I like better. They activate quickly, are very pigmented and are a great price when jumping into professional grade paints. The pallet is the only thing I don’t like. It’s cheep plastic, very large for my desk and the individual pans slide around & wont stay in place. It is nice to be able to add a few of my 1/2 pan favorites from other sets.

Super bright and pretty colors! Not a huge fan of the box it comes with - the paints tend to slide around a lot and it's pretty bulky, so I bought myself one of those metal boxes to put them in instead - but the paints themselves are amazing. I get sad when I go back to my old, cheaper watercolor sets now because they're so chalky and pale in comparison. The colors in this set are definitely earthier, so you'll have to do a bit of your own playing around with mixing colors if you want different shades, but honestly the vibrancy and quality is pretty amazing.

I’m a total beginner, these paints are beautiful and mix well. I love using them so far!

Great pigmented paints. You barely need any at all and they will probably last forever. Some have low lightfast ratings so I got the 24 because I believe more paints have 2-3 star ratings than in the 36 set. They look beautiful on paper and I can tell the difference in vibrancy from my student paints. The only thing I don't like is they pop out of the box a little too easy but love that there is room for customization .

Great color, great color selection, vibrant and easy to work with full pans. Mix very well. And they come in an amazingly useful palette. Wide, several generous mixing areas, extended palette and storage for brushes, pencil and a few other things. They are very inexpensive and get excellent reviews on Youtube. I have two sets, this and the Sequel and they complement each other quite well. I take them everywhere.

Colores muy intensos y muy bonitos , desafortunadamente no viene en estuche con paleta tal y como aparece en la imagen , deberían especificar que solo son las pinturas en una caja de cartón .ahora tengo que comprar el estuche por separado.

Excellent quality and colour density. Nice range of colours good value and speedy delivery

Produto maravilhoso, igual à descrição. Ainda na usei, mas sei da qualidade. É uma paleta grande e isso é ótimo! Essa é a de 14 cores.

Very impressed the colours are gorgeous and go on like a dream

So far these paint are really great. I love the colours included in the set. They’re easy to activate and very vibrant. I’ve included a picture of a quick doodle I did to test them out. I only took a star off because the palette didn’t hold the pans snuggly and they moved around a lot. You could probably just use some double sided tape to keep them in place but I just moved them to a cheap metal tin which works well for me. I did like that the bottom mixing tray was removable and there is room for additional colours as I’m considering buying a few individual pans.