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Sylvia Evans

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Just been having a look at watercolours....and taken a very big gulp. Are Daniel Smith watercolour tubes so much better than say shmminke or sennelier or even W / N ? . They are HUGE money. Any thoughts or experience ?
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I don't think I could cope with the experience of parting with that sort of money. He does source some unusual minerals to produce his product, but does it really show on the paper?

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Michael Robinson

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W&N are fine for me Sylvia, it gets a bit ridiculous to pay so much for paint when it's only a hobby. Perhaps if I were selling my work I would have a re-think but for now I'll stick to what I have. Saying that I haven't done a watercolour for ages as I seem to be in love with my Faber Castell pencils at the moment.
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Robert Jones, Napa

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You would have to be fanatically into watercolour, and be using it as your main medium, AND have a yen for exotic pigments, to fork out the kind of money Daniel Smith are asking for their paints. Ask yourself this: did Turner, Constable, John Crome, Fletcher-Watson, Wesson, use Daniel Smith watercolours? No, obviously not. Use good paint - if you can get it, use great paint: but unless you know what you're doing with it, and perhaps even then, it's not the paint that makes the painter.