What's Inside: Winsor and Newton Professional Acrylic Colour Tin

Heeding the suggestions of my first couple of watercolor teachers, I decided to get me a set of acrylic paints and see if I find the experience a bit closer to my good old fabric paints.

Available from the Winsor and Newton online store, this is the Winsor and Newton Professional Acrylic Colour Tin.

The simple, silver-colored tin measures 6.5" x 4 1/4" x 7/8" (or 16.5 cm x 11 cm x 2 cm). The tin case feels light but sturdy, and is embossed with the Winsor and Newton griffin logo.

 The set contains 6 tubes of 20 mL each of the following colors:

1. Azo Yellow Medium
   Series 2
   Permanence A
   Lightfastness I
   Pigment: PY 74
   
   
2. Permanent Alizarin Crimson
   Series 1
   Permanence A
   Lightfastness I
   Pigments: PR177, PV23 (My tube is mislabeled with Payne's Gray pigments PB 29, PBk 9!)
   
   
3. Phthalo Blue (Red Shade)
   Series 2
   Permanence A
   Lightfastness I
   Pigment: PB 15:1
   
   
4. Yellow Ochre
   Series 1
   Permanence AA
   Lightfastness I
   Pigment: PY 43
   
   
5. Mars Black
   Series 1
   Permanence AA
   Lightfastness I
   Pigment: PBk11
   
   
6. Titanium White
   Series 1
   Permanence AA
   Pigment: PW6
   
   

As the set seems packaged as a gift or trial set, I don't imagine it will yield many paintings, perhaps a few small pieces, or one big painting if used with mediums. I used very little with my first painting, thinning the paints by a lot, using the Flow Improver from this set: PROFESSIONAL ACRYLIC MEDIUMS SET.

Overall, I'm happy with this set, and with my first experience using acrylics. I enjoyed painting with it, and found that the primaries in this set are very much sufficient to create the colors that I needed for the piece below. The opacity brings back the feel of painting with Tulco, very much to my delight! I will definitely be using these acrylics more - I can't wait to share :)