Natural Earth Paint Earth & Mineral Pigments Sample Pack | 20 Colors | Pigments | Paint Making | Epoxy | Jewelry | Soap Making |

I have been daydreaming about handmaking watercolor paint for a long time. I saw this set and loved the idea of the non-toxic paints and the sample sizes large enough to make up a decent amount, and with a fantastic price point to start dipping my toes into the paint making world. I love the range of colors and although I have added colors to my collection since then from other sources, this was such a fantastic base selection of colors. The paints I made are rich and lovely and a joy to work with. There were only a few minor qualms I had, which were pretty minor, all things considered. The first is that a few of the colors have an odd texture that after some experience required a little more finessing. The Mayan Red, the Brilliant Yellow, the Terra Verte and the Turquoise all required a little bit more honey/glycerine added to the normal amounts of binder to give it a better texture for rewetting. This was all part of my trial and error, but in adjusting it the next batch turned out really well. The other minor qualm, which actually came more from one of the reviews than from the company itself, was that I went into it expecting that I would get 6 or so half pans of each pigment. In mixing equal parts pigment to binder I found that many if not most of the pigments actually gave 4 to 4 and a half half-pans of paint. That meant that as I was getting started I set up and poured into 5 half pans for each paint I mulled up, only to find I was only able to get them filled about halfway. So I actually ended up buying a second set of the pigments to be able to finish topping off those half pans. With two sets of pigments purchased I was able to solidly fill about 8 full half pans plus a little more for a few of the colors. As I say, this qualm was more about proper expectations and not expecting to get a large number of pans from each little packet of pigment. That being said, even with "only" 4 and a half full sets, it is still an amazing value, and being able to have handmade paints made with professional pigments for such a reasonable price is astounding to me. In summary, this is an excellent value, makes quality paints and I highly recommend it if you wanted to start making paints.

I learned to make watercolor paint recently and I really loved the opportunity to use pigments that I cannot find locally. I didn’t want to spend a lot of money on pigment that I was not sure I would like. The colors in these pigments is natural and vibrant. They mulled together very well and were a joy to work with. I would highly recommend these for anyone starting on the beginner side. It’s a low cost investment to get you started.

Beautiful pigments and it's working well with my water staining process. I put each pigment into 10g bottles and I was a little disappointed to see the uneven amounts of pigment for each color. Not sure if the pigments are packaged by weight, but on some colors, I'm only getting half. Only 5 colors actually filled the bottle.

This seemed to be a very good quality. They are a small amount however, if you are using them to mix milk paint as I am, very little is needed. The only one I’ve used so far is the French turquoise and it was really beautiful..

These pigments worked great. I teach a Mixed Media class and the colors rendered a beautiful palette. I used the pigments mixed with egg yolk to create egg tempera paints, they mixed wonderfully. There is also a lot of pigment in each bag despite their size.