Kuretake ZIG GANSAI TAMBI watercolor set (36 Colour Set)

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Kuretake Gansai Tambi watercolors are wildly popular and with good reason. They are particularly exciting to card makers and crafters these days. That being said, it is not a new product fad. Artists have loved this product a long time. The company has been producing quality art supplies for over 100 years and their reputation is important to them. In finding this post, I also found your wonderful review of these watercolors. I also did lots of research before buying these, and now can’t wait to dip my brush and find out for myself! Also glad to hear I can buy individual pan replacements! Now off to search that. Thanks again! Happy painting!

Another thank-you for the color names! I will be adding them to the color chip chart I painted up, as so many of the pans look the same. Kuretake’s Transparent Watercolor is a high quality watercolor paint that delivers brilliant color. The finely ground pigment particles allow for blending, layering, and adding a color gradation. On the left is the full pan. It's gigantic. The middle's the Gansai half pan and the right is the more common half pan. Note that the Gansai pans are not filled to the brim. So a half Gansai pan actually contains, probably, the same amount of paint as those common half pans. When you used up the Gansai pan, you can obviously fill it up to the brim with your tube paints. That's exactly what I'm going to do to save me the trouble of finding Gansai replacement pans.

Overall, I would say Kuretake Gansai Tambi Watercolour is quite enjoyable to use. They are more opaque so you have to be more careful. Understanding your colours and mixtures well is more important with Kuretake, especially if you come from using American and European watercolours. Adventure Painting Kit - Grande Tin by Hyperexist | HANDCRAFTED Watercolor Set | Handmade Travel Paint Palette | Art | Gift | 11 - 5g Colors The Kuretake Gansai Tambi comes in different box sets. These are actually cardboard boxes and they are usually sold with full pans inside. The boxes come with 12, 24, 36 and 72 colours. Individual pans are sold separately but can be difficult to find. If watercolor is a favorite for you, be sure you have a set! Some colors just aren’t found in other collections and those metallics!?! 🙂 I just wanted you to know how much I have been enjoying your posts/tutorials. I know these are a labor of love and a response to God’s call. Your encouragement in this community of creativity in God is invaluable to me.

Kuretake Gansai Japanese Watercolours are traditional, highly pigmented watercolour paints. They are suitable for professional and amateur artists, and are ideal for drawing, illustration, Sumi-e etc. Sadly you cannot other than to buy a new set to replace with as you go. I am not worried about it personally since the paint is so pigmented, it’ll be a long time before I can run out of even my favorite colors.Cake or pan watercolors are dry in a little pot area. You can re-hydrate them when you apply a wet brush to the surface. Generally speaking, this type of watercolor will offer less vibrant color than tubed watercolor, if you just dab a wet brush to the dry color and apply to your creative surface. Hi Rebekah! Thanks so much for this post. Just wondering how much a set like this costs in the art stores you frequent, because the stores in my country (Malaysia) doesn’t have anything like this. 🙁