I love paintboxes. They say so much about a person. Each has its own personality. The above is the paintbox I have been using throughout the Covid-19 isolation. It is very cheap but I like it. This box came as weekly additions to a watercolour magazine and was really good value. You can fill the pans up from tubes and the stickier the paints are the better.
I have two others and all are old. Watercolours last forever. Corvid isolation seemed a perfect time to give this another go. Watercolours if you have not tried them have a mind of their own and you never know what is going to happen.
I had no idea just how expensive these little pans of colour have become. To buy separately about NZ$10 each! That's NZ$280 today. Paint boxes like this sell for around $300 +.The joy is one only uses a few of these colours and a little goes a long way.
One Xmas, a long, long time ago I received a Rowney black tin paintbox as my major Xmas present and in 2018 I bought an example of the first The Winsor & Newton 1840 wooden paintbox and the paints till are useable although I don't use them.
I am not a competent watercolourist but l enjoy dabbling in the hope that one day I shall get the hang of it.
When I do something I feel comfortable with I'll share. It may be a long wait.
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