White NightsWhite Nights Professional Watercolor Set 36 Full Pans of Extra Fine Artist Grade Pigments, Vibrant Lightfast Colors in Durable Plastic Box by Nevskaya Palitra

OHMIGOD!!!Okay - I know this is spendy BUT these watercolor paints are AMAZING, WONDERFUL and FANTASTIC

Great! Highly pigmented and smooth

Best quality, for beginners and professionals

I read few reviews about this brand and decided to give it a try. Indeed its very satisfying and brings a big smile to my face every time I paint and use it.The one I ordered is 36 pan which comes in sturdy white palette and large mixing areas. Each pan is 2.5ml/full pan and the palette can fit a big brush (brush is not included). I use many different watercolor brands, so this definitely can keep me for quite some time although I still find an excuse to use it every time :)The palette is perfect fit when I'm travelling. Watercolor has very strong pigmentation, easy to rewet, good transparancy and glide smoothly on the paper.In my painting, I don't do lots of mixing/max 2 colors and I found no issues, such as muddy paint.Now I'm thinking of my student grade Winsor & Newton 45 half pan which I bought as my first watercolor paint. Although I'm a beginner, after I got the St Petersburg watercolor, I realised that artist quality does make difference to my paintings.It's not really nice to say, but I should have purchased St Petersburg in the first hand if I knew earlier rather than buying student grade which has lower quality in vibrancy and difficulty to rewet the paints.Having said that, this is just my own opinion and experience. It may not necessarily fit to your circumstance/consideration, such as budget to spend, the amount of time you paint, and how passionate you are about watercolor.After all, buying artist watercolor doesnt come in cheap price tags and it's an investment decision.St Petersburg paint, however is pretty affordable, and really a good value for your money to get artist quality paint.Hope my reviews can share some info to everyone on purchasing watercolor.Happy painting all..^^Lola JF

Absolutely love these paints. I have always struggled with watercolor painting and I was really struggling using student grade paints like WN Cotman. I was about to give up and just stick to my usual oil and acrylics until I purchased these White Knights paints. I purchesed the 36 pan palette. The colors are so vibrant! And they wet so easily, like butter. The only color I take issue with (besides the universally useless white) is the yellow ochre, which is quite hard to moisten and lacks the same vibrancy as the others in the palette. The case is wonderful too. Nice sturdy plastic and not brittle like other palettes. It has two large mixing areas, one of which is removable for convenience. Be aware that the pans are not fastened with magnets, so you could feasibly have a mess figuring out what`s what if you drop them out of the palette. To prevent this problem, i simply wrote the paint name on the bottoms of each pan after creating my swatch card so that i would know which paint goes where. Also, regarding the swatch card, WK included a nice cotton watercolor paper for the swatches, making it so easy and enjoyable. I was in awe as i put my colors to the paper for the first time. I have to say that 58 bucks for FULL pans, a great case, and such luscious color that stays vibrant when dry is such a steal. I will buy more and encourage both beginners and pros to check out these watercolor paints. Also, fast shipping. I got mine in a few days. I can`t say enough and look forward to trying ANY of their other products in the future.

I got these as a warm-up set and put them away, thinking at this price they couldn't really be all that good. Yes. They. Are. After working with Daniel Smith and other high end paints, I got them out just to use them up and have a travel case. I had to make several swatch pages to see if I was really seeing the quality I thought I was seeing. I was! And there are colors here that aren't usually found in sets in this price range. Some reviewers have remarked about the lightfastness, but I'm seeing the same rankings on the wrappers as I find in other, much more expensive, sets. The best part is that there are only a few that are made with more than one pigment, making them very easy to mix without getting mud. I do like Daniel Smith because of the granulation, but most of the earth tones here also granulate. Confession time. I have TWO of these sets, and yet my fingers are itching to buy a third, even though I don't need one. I did topple one set on the floor and had the pans scatter everywhere. That turned out to be a good thing. It showed me just how densely pigmented these are because I couldn't tell the colors apart without swatching (the darker the paint in the pan, the denser the pigmentation). Unlike Holbein, which uses many different pigments in most of their colors, as well as white, these give a very crisp, fresh color and are fabulous for layering while maintaining transparency. he scattered pans also gave me a chance to write the color name on each pan before putting them back in the palette and securing each one with a small piece of rolled painters tape. I can remove one without them all pulling up. Don't be fooled by the price. These are excellent.