12 Colors Marie's Chinese Painting Colour

Although the paintings are very small, just a drop makes a large amount when you add water. Excellent quality!

the colors are good but the tubes of paint are smaller than I thought with small amountof paint in each.

Fast shipping, good quality paints. Small in size, but true sumi-e uses little to no color anyway, so you actually use very little. I would definitely purchase again

For a full version why I consider these paints a complete waste of money, see my comment to the first reviewer on this page. I'm an art teacher and will not allow even my beginning students to use Marie's watercolors or Chinese watercolors. Suffice to say, the colors are muddy and the tubes are often half filled with air.No one needs all the colors in these sets. One would be far better served to purchase 5 tubes of individual colors by a better manufacturer (Van Gogh is not expensive and has excellent colors) and learn the joy of mixing colors. All you need are Ultramarine Blue, Cadmium or Azo Yellow, Alizarin or Rose, Cadmium Red or Vermilion, and Raw Sienna. Your painting will be more natural and beautiful if you never use a prepared green! And contrary to what some people say, you can use regular tube watercolors in Sumi-e work.

Beautiful watercolors for the Chinese style of painting -- vibrant colors. Quan Zhen has books and DVDs that explain the pour method that works very well with these watercolors.

Marie's paints are designed for rice paper, not Western watercolor paper. Marie's paints become permanent and will not bleed when the rice paper is later rewet in the mounting process. Western watercolors will bleed when rewet. Bottom line: Eastern Paints for Eastern paper, brushes, ink & mounting techniques; Western Paints for Western paper, brushes and mounting techniques. What I don't like about Marie's paints is that they must be purchased by the set and one cannot replace individual tubes.

I started using these in my Oriental Ink Art class. Some of the colors are clumpy, and some are super oily. I have been using them for mountains on rice paper.

I bought them because they were recommended in a book. The colors are different from any paint I've used before.