Paul Rubens Watercolor Tubes

Bought this set for grandchildren (3-12 yrs) to paint alongside with me to give them experience with nice watercolor paints, but not at professional grade prices. Great value. Most of the paints apply beautifully, especially properly diluted with water. There are a few that are uneven; but for the price point, a win all around. I used the Patikil 36 palette which was easy to put all the paints in, and still be travel-sized. Color wheel in the picture shows most, not all, of the pigments which represent well the color spectrum. The paint is better than other student grade paints and deserves to advertise for amateurs. A bonus was each tube clearly identified the pigment numbers, which I used on my chart to help the kids learn. Some of the pigments are staining- as to be expected- so the littles get much supervision when I let them use these paints.

I am a new painter so I may not be the most expert of voices, but I use Daniel Smith, almost exclusively. A few of my Windsor & Newton cotman can occasionally sneak in when called upon, from my very first beginner days, but otherwise DS is what I’ve used daily for the past 5 months. These were such a great deal, on sale from there $37.99 at the time of this review, I took a chance on them. I was worried if they might be really chalky or lightly pigmented where I’d have to do layers to build up the color, but to my surprise, there isn’t a whole lot of difference in these and my professional paints!! Watched right next to each other you could possibly pick them out with a trained eye, but in a painting, I feel you’d be hard pressed to discern which paints were used in which paintings. There’s a wide range of colors and whatever color isn’t provided already I can easily mix up. There’s an especially great selection of yellows going in to the ochres and raw sienna. These have a nice creamy texture and mix well with each other as well as my DS professionals. If you love color and would like some nice convenience colors, give these a try! They’re a great value (at barely over $1/tube) and the quality is really up there! I hope this helps anyone who’s on the fence or wondering if these are worth it since they may be considered “cheap” quality due to the price point, but I can happily say that isn’t the case here. These aren’t dollar store type watercolors. Thank goodness. Happy painting!🎨🖌️

These were my first experience making my own watercolor paint pans and I found they work well. They have a large variety of colors and we're good value for the cost. The tubes were smaller than I imagined but that was due to my own lack of understanding not the product.

First time using tubes. Used to pans. Colors are intense. Takes very little. Barely squeet metal tube close to pallette so you don't swuirt out toothpaste. Tiny drops will harden over. Think it will last long time.

Absolutely love these paints. They’re bold and beautiful and a nice variety. I wish I could buy more of different colors. Can’t find online.

Half of the tubes came pretty beat up but only one had actually leaked. I almost returned it, but my swatches all looked good including the one that leaked. Overall, the quality of the paint itself is mid range. There are a lot of convenience colors and only a small selection of single pigment colors. But they are beautiful 😍 I have the newer 4th generation set so I wanted to add more of Paul Rubens paints to my selection and they mix well together. Again, my poor tubes look like they survived something but my paint is still gorgeous. It rewets beautifully. Unfortunately, you cannot get single tubes or I would purchase more from his 4th generation line.

i’ve known about these paints for quite some time, but with sooo many options on the market, i had a hard time picking which set i wanted. i ended up going with these tubes bc there’s a good selection of single pigment colors and they are very vibrant! i put them in a palette and let them dry so i can reactivate them later. they do great in the palette and dried down completely unlike some other brands.

A beautiful range of colors and Paul Rubens excepual quality.

Great product - one of my first watercolours aside a 12-pan set (also Paul Rubens). Good quality, reasonable price considering the range of colours. Would recommend.

I love these paints. The colors are beautiful and the paint is good quality. I wish l could get this set in professional artist quality paints. But just lovely

These colours are lovely with a good variety.

Some of the paints had binder that were completely separated from the pigment