Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I love these paints. I use them over the other paints I have time and time again. These come with 48 half pans, but some colors are repeated. I also like that the second palette space is detachable for saving some space on my small art desk. This set did not come with a brush. I put a small medicine dropper in the little space so I can drop water into the pans or to transfer colors or washes on my palette. I also swatched all of them out on the watercolor paper I typically use and laminated it and keep it in my palette box. They are in the order I keep them in my palette. Hopefully you can see the dark to light variations. I bought these as an upgrade to my Reeves student grade tube paints, and it was well worth it, they are still not artist quality, but they were a nice step up from the Reeves. I have owned this palette for nearly a year now, and haven't used all of the paint yet. I have seen the replacement pans online for around $3. They also sell the cotman tube paints at major craft stores for $4-$8, depending on the color. I plan to buy the artist quality pans as I run out of the pans, so eventually I will have a 48 half pan artist quality set, but I won't have to pay for it all at one time.