Winsor & Newton Professional Water Colour Lightweight Metal Box, 24 Half Pans

A wonderful selection of 24 Winsor & Newton half pan professional quality artists watercolours secured in a tin box, these paints offer high quality pigments and lightfastness and a great selection of colours. This tin box is a little over 8 inches long by 3 inches and seems durable enough. This item is not cheap and I would therefore recommend the affordable Winsor & Newton Cotman paint set for beginners and those wanting to fill sketchbooks where lightfastness and quality is not so critical - unless of course you can afford the best regardless.

There’s room for a brush as well as addition full or half pans. I like to add a few more colours. The size is fantastic and the tim is sturdy. I have two set of the non professional sets which are great too but this set is another level. The colour are more vibrant and take to the paper much better even on cheap paper. Great for my campervan. I wish I’d bought them decades ago!!!

Arrived swiftly from Amazon Warehouse. Although I bought it cheaply because the box wrapping was damaged, the product itself was perfect. Very pleased with the quality of the product in its neat black box - looks very professional and the paints are good quality as you would expect from Windsor and Newton.

Initially I wasn’t sure if I made the right choice purchasing the professional set, as I had already bought the Cotman set. I was also alarmed that I may have been scammed after reading a negative review saying that these were actually Cotman paints in fake packaging. However, today I did a swatch of every colour from this professional set next to the equivalent Cotman colour on Arches cold pressured 100% cotton paper, and the difference is obvious. I am very happy and relieved to see these professional colours are genuine. I’ve attached my swatch for reference. I highly recommend!

The paints themselves are genuine W&N professional quality watercolours and are beautifully pigmented and a joy to work with. There is a noticeable step up in quality between them and the W&N Cotman set.The only thing letting this set down is the very flimsy, cheap, poor quality tin (I swear it’s the same tin the Cass art watercolours come in and they are a fraction of the price.) In an age where there are so many great watercolour products, I would like to see W&N put as much thought in to the paint case as they do their paints to keep their professional quality products feeling more, well, professional.

Good value for money especially when compared to the price of individual half pans.I don’t think beginners would start with artist quality so the question overleaf is irrelevant.

I bought this to give as a present. I've heard that it's good quality.

The first thing I noticed with these W&N professional paint it that I didn't need a lot, they are packed with pigment.If you use student grade, these are mind-blowing better