MeiLiang Watercolor Paint Set, 36 Vivid Colors

Paints are good. The color is strong and vibrant. It mixes with water nicely and is not patchy.

My regular practice watercolors are Cotman pans, I use them for practice, studies and on the go painting, and the palettes are really hard to beat for portability, mixing areas , the transparency of colors which is important when you begin learning watercolors and affordability when you need new pans. I wanted something larger but no too large to be able to take a couple of larger brushes , and also needed to buy extra color half pans. I found this set, read about them and for the price of just a new metal palette similar in size (like other reviewers have posted) + $6 I decided to take a chance. And I am very happy I did. This set is truly transparent except for a couple of colors, zero chalkiness, they re wet easily and won't rub off the paper after dry. The tin itself is well made, it has a ring at the bottom. The brush is not of use for me because it is very soft and has no much body to it. This set is perfect for practice, I wouldn't use them for final works because there is no light fastness rating compared to my Cotmans for example, but if you use them in your covered sketchbook they should be fine. At first it might seem like there are many similar colors but you'll get surprised once you start mixing. Also having 34 colors the set will last you for a while, considering you can't buy half pans separately. Many of the colors actually granulate very nice which is a nice surprise. This set is way better than other cutesy brands, I was gifted a set of Koi and gave them away because they were so chalky and good only for coloring but not mixing and learn about watercolors. You can actually practice well with this set. I have attached some photos for your comparison with Cotman colors. You have every color you need if you are just beginning with this set and instead of buying more colors or more expensive paint to begin with try buying good paper to really enjoy watercolor and a good brush.

This is such a beautiful watercolor palette! The 48 color set has every color you could need and each one is extremely rich and pigmented. The colors dry down so smoothly and are super vibrant. The shimmer colors are an extra special touch. This is my first watercolor set and I’m super happy I chose this brand. Excited to see what I can create with this! :)

I think these are great watercolor paints with a lot of colors for an affordable price. If you like convenance colors so you do onot have to do much mixing these are great. I like a limited palette but sometimes having this many colors at your disposal is kind of a luxury. Despite this being an excellent product I have a couple of gripes that I had to fix to make this palette work for me. 1. instead of a metal inner plate like most tins have to lock in your half pans, this tin had a real cheap thin plastic insert. I can see this insert breaking or tearing in time and then all of your pans are loosely moving around in there. I ripped it out (held in with hot glue) and replaced the pans in the tin with double sided tape. If you want to do this I recommend the 3m tape with the foam in between the adhesive layers. the Bottom of the tin is not perfectly flat so standard flat tape would not work well. 2. The swatch card is listed in reverse order from the layout in the palette. You can pop out the pans and reorganize them so that it matches the card but like I said ...cheap plastic insert holding those pans so manipulating it too much can lead to it breaking. Or you can just use double stick tape and place the pans back in using the same order as the card like I did. 3. It came with one of those water pen brushes...Some people love them some people hate them...i hate them. I rather there be no brush included because I don't an extra piece of plastic to throw away. I wish I knew some of those people that love those things I have a shoebox full of those things I keep getting for free with other supplies I buy. 4. while there are 36 color and that is a real bargain to have that kind of variety at this price point. you can see from my swatch card that a lot of the blue hues and red hues are extremely similar to each other so it is not exactly as good of a variety as you may think. MeiLiang makes a similar palette with only 24 colors in it that comes in a similar tin except it has the metal insert inside that allows you to lock the pans in place. It also has room to add additional pans (although those will not lock in but you can add magnets or tape to stick them in). I think that set is a better value because you can still get a good variety of colors, a better tin, and you can add more colors without having similar repetitive colors. However, if you want the extra colors and don't want to mess with all that. I think you would be happy with this set.

Very vibrant! Didn’t love that the cubes had all fallen out and needed to be organized but I barely had to add water and they were super bright colors. They could be used for so many different projects on regular or water color paper. The size is great and should last me a few years. Definitely worth the price.

Great and high quality paints. They last a very long time. I bought 3 years ago and they are still going strong. The colors are vibrant and my paintings still look the same 3 years later. I absolutely love the color selection!

I wish I'd found these sooner. Far richer than Windsor Newton Cotman. The set i received had not a word of English except paint names. But i swatched them all and learned on my own about transparency, staining, granulation. I immediately put half the colors aside. By mixing, 18 is more than enough. This leaves me more space to mix too. Utterly charmed by Turkey Blue, a mistranslation, which had me for a moment imagining China as a place with turquoise and teal wild turkeys running around. Alas, it is not so. I found a decent and low priced 100% cotton paper. If i did it all over again, i could get into watercolor painting for just $70 and have a year's worth of painting and practice. Terrific value. A+

Going from dollar store to this is an insane level up. These colors are so vibrant and pigmented, I looked at my swatch and thought it was acrylic 🤣 the size is perfectly portable, throwing it in a bag and taking it along with me. The drying time is great, I’ve just done swatches and they’re taking a bit but they had a lot of water on them so it’s reasonable. There is zero oder from my dry swatches which is very nice. And the range and quantity of color is outstanding. You could make any color you want!

De las mejores acuarelas que he probado, bastante pigmentadas, buen tamaño de producto, la recomiendo mucho, soy un nivel principiante-intermedio, pero me han gustado.

nice metalic box, a wide range of pretty vibrant watercolor

Muy buenas acuarelas, muy pigmentadas, son una excelente poción, yo no conocía la marca y ahora son mis favoritas.

The colours came out nice and bright, and are quite easy to use. The metallics are more sheer than I thought, and it is harder to see the metallics on the white paper but they do show up when using them over another colour. Each pan does come wrapped separately in a paper cover with its name and code on it - so you will have to remove them individually which takes a bit of time before you use them. Definitely great for the price 🤩

Great set of watercolors and the tin is beautiful as well. Very happy with this purchase.