Derwent Watercolour Paint Pan 24 Set, Set of 24, Half Pan
Derwent Watercolour Paint Pan 24 Set, Set of 24, Half Pan Size, Water-Soluble, Ideal for Painting, Professional Quality, Travel Size, 2306324
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| Dimensions: | 27.5 x 11 x 2.3 cm; 249 g |
| Model: | 2306324 |
| Batteries Required: | No |
| Dimensions: | 27.5 x 11 x 2.3 cm; 249 g |
I decided to try these watercolours as I already really like using the Derwent Inktense range. I was not disappointed. The colour range is excellent and they mix very well, with a smoothness usually found in much more expensive brands.
This is a nice set. Good range of colours and intensity. Colour are not exactly as shown on the box. I think I have an extra blue in place of a red! Pity
I picked up this set of watercolours because my 15-year-old son has been experimenting at school and wanted to practice more at home, and this set seemed to offer everything we’d need (alongside some decent thick paper) for him to practice independently.
I’d predisposed to love Derwent products, having grown up using their art supplies whenever we could afford them, and I’m happy to see that they continue to exist as a UK-based manufacturer. As I remembered of them, this is a great quality set. The colours can be vivid when you use them, mix well, and come in a great range.
I can’t compare this for professional use, because nobody in our house paints often enough, but I can say that we’re really happy with them and for learning there’s nothing here that I would criticise.
To start with why this palette hast lost a star, it came messy. Parts of the paint had chipped all over the watercolour palette, especially the orange (all the white was orange, even on the outside). This didn’t make it look new or clean and especially isn’t what I’d expect from a 30 water colour set.
However, the watercolours are bright and work well as well as having a brush that holds water which makes this set great for travelling whether its needed because you want to paint something out and about, or need it for work and school. It also has a great range of colours which are quite pigmented for the price of 27.99 (time of writing).
Overall, It is an amazing watercolour palette it just arrived a bit broken and messy inside.
Great set of watercolours, they come in a small size pan, perfect for a compact set set take out with you. There’s a very decent range of colours for the size and the quality is as good as I expected from this brand. This could also work well for somebody who is trying watercolour for the first time and wants a good quality set without overspending and without getting anything too large. Good set, would recommend
My wife took her first classes recently, so this set was ideal for her to use in the following days. The paints are of good quality and compare well to those she used in her class. She used an external palette to mix her colours and found the Pait pen easy to use. Some of the colours are a little less than full, and not all stay fixed in the box, but there is still plenty here for use when travelling or out and about. As the summer comes on, this will be her first watercolour set to work with, and the first results are pleasing as she develops a technique. Recommended for beginners and good value.
A great little on-the-go paint set with a refillable water brush pen. The set is small enough to pop into a satchel or backpack as it takes about the same amount of room as a Nintendo Switch or an iPad Mini.
The quality of the set is average, in that there is certain things which could be better. The blocks of paint, for one, ar a bit loose in their compartments and can dislodge if you you’re not holding the set steady as you open the case.
There isn’t an internal cover for the paints, which means they can leach into the nearby colours if they’re too wet.
The shades themselves are well pigmented. They blend well and adapt well to lightening.
An addition of a little water well would have been useful to wash the brush before applying a different hue. Particularly whilst using this on-the-go.
4 stars
These are lovely colours and work well. However the plastic mouldthey’re supplied in are too big for the paints meaning they fall out easily. Get that resolved and it would be 5 stars.
Good quality paint set. The bright colours are very vibrant.
It’s very pigmented and easy to work with.
The case is pretty durable but the paints are a little small, it would be good for a travel set.
I like that it comes with a water brush. The quality is okay but I wouldn’t recommend relying on it for constant use or just by itself for everything.
It is not cheap but quality generally isn’t. Recommended.
You can’t really go wrong with Derwent, great name and products and this Paint Pan is no exception. Wets nice, and applies to your canvas/paper well too. Comes in a good quality shell, which includes a water brush which always a bonus. I would highly recommend this.
I recently went to Spain and had a great time painting the beautiful beaches there. I used the Derwent Watercolour Paint Pan 24 Set, which was perfect for the job. It’s a small set that’s easy to take with you, and it even has a paint pen for adding small details to my paintings. The set has 24 colours that blend together nicely, giving my paintings a professional look. The colours are vibrant and really capture the feeling of the Spanish coastline, from the blue sea to the golden sand. This set is top-quality and has a great range of colours, making it a must-have for painting outdoors.
These arrived looking lovely in their travel palette. However, as another reviewer has noted, once I’d removed the plastic cellophane keeping them locked into position, the contents of some of the pans came tumbling out after being tilted. This is disappointing – some of the pans simply haven’t been filled with enough paint to fit snuggly and not clatter about. In which case, they’re not ideal for painting on-the-go unless they’re kept totally flat (or you don’t mind piecing them all back together every time). The colours are good, I really like the vibrancy of them, the translucency is fine, I like the travel brush. All would be great if the correct-size mould had been used for every single paint. I’ve used Derwent many times but never had this problem before. It’s still a nice set that will get lots of use, but is not much good for travel.
Derwent Watercolours are super easy-to-use no matter what level of artist you, beginners to expert! The pans come in a great little travel case with removable sections if you want to swap out colours. My paints stayed in the pans nice and secure when travelling in my bag.
The paint itself is lovely and smooth and has lots of pigment so you can get some really intense colours or beautiful pale washes.
It comes with a mini water brush which is ok, but if you are just getting started I would definitely buy a brush set to work with.
The paint pans are “half pan” size and you get a total of 24 colours and they are Lemon Cadmium, Deep Cadmium, Mango, Orange, Poppy Red, Madder Carmine, Magenta, Dark Violet, Amethyst, Ultramarine, Spectrum Blue, Kingfisher Blue, Jade Green, Bottle Green, Emerald Green, Grass Green, Olive Green, Raw Sienna, Copper Beech, Terracotta, Chocolate, Paynes Grey, Ivory Black and Chinese White.
Little tip, you can cut out the colour palette from the box and leave it in your paint set for reference.
Overall I loved this paint set.
I wanted to really like these as I want to support a British made product and company. I’ve had them a few days now – they arrived before the pre order said they would. The point is they are watercolours and not Inktense, but the colours very much reflect the Inktense ones, so that’s all good. The box is neat and workman-like. But the ‘half pans’ are barely filled, and all the segments of paint in them rattle around – I have sprayed water on these and swatched them/used them three times, and they are still rapidly drying and reshrinking back – they are pretty tiny, and so they all fall out and get muddled when you have them in a bag. I thought maybe I have a duff lot, but glancing at the advertising picture, I can see exactly which pans I am noticing are the tiniest are clearly tiny in the photo as well – the Madder Carmine on the end is the worst. I have other Derwent pan sets and have not had them rattle about like this at any point. At this price point here 27.99 I will use them – but I sincerely hope they sort out this out – they are marketing them as professional-use paints but there isn’t enough in them to allow them to get bashed together and mix up like this… Also, the advertising, pushing the ‘professional’, says they are lightfast, but with entirely company names on the colours and no accessible pigment information on the unwrapped half pans, it isn’t possible to know if this is so. I will buy British where I can as it is a rare thing to find an art supply made here but I’m not 100% sure of this set. I will be interested to see how others find it.