A small palette forces better decisions than a large one. This set holds six pans of Gansai Tambi watercolor in a slim red box papered with a black and cream floral print, along with a refillable water brush and a Zig Mangaka flexible tip pen. The six shades are brown, gold, black, red, deep green, and yellow, a spare and slightly unexpected selection that mixes further than it looks, and the pans are wide and shallow so a loaded brush picks up color without fuss. Gansai Tambi is a Japanese watercolor made for a soft brush and plenty of water, working from pale washes up to dense saturated color depending on how much you dilute it. The water brush holds its own reservoir, which makes the whole thing genuinely portable, and the pen handles line work before or after the paint goes down.

• Water based pigments and ink
• Made in Japan
• 622" x 3.54" x 0.7"
• Ages 10+