Kuretake ZIG GANSAI TAMBI watercolor set (48 colors set)

On the evening of the day these paints were due to be delivered I received an email from Amazon to say they had been delivered successfully and that the package was accepted by a male resident of the household. None of this was true. No package was delivered to our home. No male resident accepted receipt of the package. We searched for the package in case it had been left in a safe place. It had not. There are many to choose from in our front garden, used successfully by other delivery personal. The following morning, our postman, Tom, discovered the package in my neighbour's porch. Knowing they were away in France, he checked for correct name and address. Realising it was addressed to me and not the residents of our neighbour's house, he passed the package to me. I would like to know who the mysterious male resident is that the Amazon delivery person passed my parcel to. This delivery person must have an amazingly long arm to reach all the way to France. So much for truthful and accurate tracking!I have searched a long time to find these Kuretaki paints in a set of 48, at a price I could just afford. Seeing them on Amazon at £50 and a few pence, with free delivery on prime, I jumped at a chance to buy them and deleted the equivalent set priced at £65 and then some for postage on my eBay site. Amazon represented great value. The box is a cool shade of olive green with a chop or cartouche of gold Japanese writing down the centre. Inside the paints are fixed in place by a neat see through plastic cover, below which is a glorious site of the most amazing range of watercolour/ gouache paints in kingsized pans. The box has the names of the colours charted out on the inside of the lid, on the base of the box and on a smaller free sheet of paper, both in Japanese characters and in English. Each pan has the Japanese colour symbols on it's base. This could be a great way to learn a little Japanese. This is a beautifully presented set of paints. I have already bought a few examples as single pans and have been impressed by the ease of wetting and release of paint from the pan. The large size allows the use of larger brushes when doing larger washes. Colour intensity is high, as is luminosity and coverage. They can be used as watercolour or gouache depending on the amount of water used with them. They are a joy to use. Really looking forward to preparing the colour swatches that have been included in the box for your convenience. I can't wait to get started.

The media could not be loaded. Beautifully presented Japanese traditional paints. They're very easy to use and give rich vibrant colours that are highly pigmented. The metallic colours give a beautiful shimmer, perfect for splatter effects. The colours can be used like a gouache and watered down a bit more like watercolour.I absolutely love these paints for colouring my stamped images for cards and sketches.Perfect for professional artists or crafters like me. I use water filled derwent brushes and normal watercolour brushes for painting and both work brilliantly.I'd say they were a bit pricey, but worth it for the quality! They also come in sets with fewer colours and a neon set and a metallics set.Happy painting!

This set had a really good variety of colours, but they are not transparent.Japanese paints are really a king . of tempera, and you can only mixed tem successfully up to two shades together at a time if you don't want to end up with mud.Designed to paint manga, and comics with a flat finish, these paints have great coverage.

I like it a lot

This is my first set of watercolours and I wanted to buy a good quality ones for my return to painting - and oh dear I'm so impressed! The paint is well pigmented, the colours are vibrant and they blend nicely to create a variety of colours. I got the big pallette and there are all the colours you need really. Perfect for landscape pictures as well as illustrations. I cannot recommend it enough.

Wonderful quality paints rich & vibrant colours easy to mix & paint with.

Really vibrant colours, absolutely gorgeous

Lobe these and the range of colours is gorgeous. Definitely a little unwieldy to carry around, or use in conjunction with other art supplies, but great quality all the same.The range of pinks could be just a little better, but what they do have create beautiful harmonious art.