Caran d'AcheGouache Tablets 15 Colours

I love these paints, they’re solid not soft.Colours are very pigmented, seated in a nice tin.

Beautiful colours as expected of the brand

Bought a set for teenage artist wanting to explore gouache. I have a set that I have loved using so am confident in the purchase. Love the addition of a Swatch chart on the back of the cardboard sleeve - a little bit of marketing that adds real value! Parcel arrived quickly and was very, very well packaged with two layers of heavy duty bubble wrap.

Excellent product, but took a very long time to arrive; I don't think it was in stock?

These are just lovely , easy to mix so many different tones and shades , they layer beautifully without lifting what’s underneath. Very opaque with little effort but also work well with more water . I’m looking forward to practicing and trying different techniques. Perfect for multi media ( I used watercolour for the background and coloured pencils when everything was dry ) . Great price , they’re nearly £40 in uk art shops on line . ( cult pens sell the individual pans so easy to replace but I think they’ll last ages ) .

I bought these paints having previously been working with the W&N tubes, as I thought gouache pans would be incredibly convenient for sketchbooks and painting when out and about. I was pleasantly surprised to find how effective these gouache paints really are! A few colours are extremely matte and opaque right out of the pan (especially the medium grey, which is perfect), but most come out semi-opaque (but often dry more opaque than they look - I was very impressed by the yellows once they dried). Overall the opacity is quite impressive, and certainly more gouache like than watercolour like. A trouble with this set is that many of the pans look darker than the paint colour you get once you wet it and start using it, but you get used to this very quickly. The white is excellent, and creates flat, opaque paint when mixed with the pan colours really easily. One of the great benefits here is that it is very easy to mix the paint to the consistency you need for even coverage with no brush strokes, which can be harder with tube paints. The lid doubles as a pallet, and the brush provided is quite nice. Having produced a few paintings with this set, I've found I've been able to work in a typical gouache style that I would with my tubes (minus any impasto technique that you might need very thick paint for), they're high quality and hugely convenient. The only major downside is they don't appear to sell gouache pans individually, so if you run out of a particular colour you can only replace it by buying a complete set.

I'm really pleased with this set. I'm very sensitive to odour and the tubes of gouache I've previously tried have a smell which is unpleasant and distracting for me, so this is a perfect no-hassle, odour-free alternative for me. I like the fact that it's all included in the tin (which is also a palette) for convenience.To achieve opaque paint for the traditional gouache look, I add a few drops of water to half of each pan before starting to paint, which makes a small well of thick creamy textured paint. I can then mix colours together and/or with the tube white (which is virtually odourless) to create the colour I want. (If you just use a wet paintbrush on a dry pan, the effect is much less opaque - more like watercolours).For me personally, this is a great set. It's really easy to use, odourless, and has a decent number of colours for a starter set.

These are compact, clean, and quality. The pans are bigger than you think. They activate very quickly but a wee spray of water at the start of your painting session and it’s even quicker. Juicy, opaque, Matte, highly pigmented gouache. I will buy again when it’s used up( though I believe that will be a little way off due to size and colour pay off!)