DANIEL SMITH001900501 Extra Fine Watercolor 66-Dot Try-It Card, Multi Color

Double benefit1) This set comes with a map of all the colors so you can hang them on your wall and see your palette options🤓2) You should try this, before you buy a big tube of paint!Brilliant idea, thanks to the manufacturer👌🏻I recommend it to my students💖

Lots of paint on each dot to give you a good chance to experience the paints!

This is a great way to test out a bunch of different Daniel Smith paints and see which ones you might wish to add to your toolbox. You can even use them for small paintings or projects. I love swatching, so I had a lot of fun with this dot card.

The only criticism I have is that some of the paint dots are so small/thin, and sometimes the paper is old/handled too much? they're difficult to get a nice swatch to see the full mass tone, or true color. Also if you want to attempt some mixing to see which pigments would suit your pallete, thats not always doable. Its fine for wetting them on the paper they're sent on, most of the time; but I've had more then a few instances where I'm scrubbing the paint off of the paper for every last bit of pigment, in an attempt to test them on my own paper, because there was an issue with the paper they came on, ( like spotting, maybe oil or some kind of residue? Sizing issues?where the pigment wouldnt stick and the color turned out splotchy, to the point it was difficult to see what it actually looked like.) and/or the paint dot was so thin it took one or two swipes of my brush to hit paper; like they just touched the residue paint off the rim of the tube and thats it. I completely understand the need to be conservative with the amount of paint for how many sheets that are likely made, but it would be nice if they were a bit more consistant. Because of the issues I've mentioned, I now test the paints on my own paper regardless of how much paint. There have been times where the swatch on my own paper looks entirely different then whats reconstituted on the paper it's sent on. It's typically not much of an issue, but it's happened enough that I'm questioning if the charts that I've gotten are just a bad batch? Or maybe old? Or is it just inconsistancies in the making of them? I don't know, but its worth noting I think to make sure your getting what you pay for and aren't surprised at any possible differences in the chart as opposed to the actual paint.

I bought this as I was curious about the brand. Everyone raves about the quality of the Daniel Smith watercolors! I really liked this! A wide variety of colors and effects to try and you could absolutely get a few painting out of this swatch pallet! I did go on to purchase some of my favorites in their full size!

Buying watercolor paint online can be a challenge! This is an economical way to discern if the color you're looking at is truly the color you're after. Let's be honest watercolor paints can be expensive so best to make sure it's the color you're after first!!!

These sample portions are very generous portions in unique color assortment for trying before investing in the larger tubes. That they are made in Northwest USA with that quality of water the USA has, is important to me to attest to the quality of manufacture. And all of that supports my professional prices. Each dot has a series number, archival rating, and opacity listed. Daniel Smith are world known for their professional quality.

Daniel Smith has so many different and unusual color choices that this seemed like a great way to try some new colors before investing a fortune in colors I might end up not really using.The samples are large enough to see how they mix with other colors, but not generous enough to actually use in completing a subject in a painting. They do give you a chance to discover the underlying tones, and to determine which colors might fit with your palette.Over all, the sample pages were worth the money.