I spent $7.50 on these paints, are they good? Maries Master's Watercolor review

New! These paints are available in amazon in an affordable 24 pack: The Maries Masters watercolor can be found at Jerry's Artarama open stock but Amazon now has the 24 set at an awesome price: https://amzn.to/3T9llcH It's a much better value that shopping on Jerrys or buying open stock on amazon.

These are a delightful surprise (or I happened to pick amazing colors!) Today we are taking a look at Maries Masters Watercolors: https://amzn.to/3yf6baj I did find them on Amazon is sets of 6 for the same tube price I paid at Jerrys (they are sold by Jerry's Artarama via Amazon so that's probably why) however their individual tubes are much more expensive on amazon. Sadly the price has gone up on Jerry's as well. I paid $2.49 per tube on sale in august and the new super sale price is $3.19 and the regurlar Jerry's price is $4.99 (with a list price of $9.95 per tube but as you know the list price is pretty arbitrarty) They had the sets on Super Sale but they were out of stock with the 24 set costing $45 with a regular Jerry's price of $80. Here is the Jerry's listing: https://www.jerrysartarama.com/maries...

Warning: Every other modern Maries product I have tried has been awful. Avoid the cheap sets as they stink and the watercolor shrinks and cracks in palettes. They are not the same. I think the "Marie's" name is slapped on all kinds of budget art supplies. The watercolors I am reviewing today are the only ones I can recommend. Please don't be fooled by the cheap sets for under $12, they are not the same. Trust me.

The colors I bought: Lemon Yellow (PY3), Crimson (PR149), and Ultramarine Blue (PB29. Al 3 performed and mixed very well. This line of paints has a lot of mixed pigments and I can't speak to those but these single pigment colors were excellent. The mixing was great and not muddy at all. The yellow showed some opacity on my black marker line but it did not seem full of fillers.

Pros:
Price (for now anyway)
Quality
Awesome granulation in the ultramarine blue
Mixes well (the single pigment colors I used did anyway)
55 colors (22 single pigment and 11 perarl/metallic)
Pigment and lightfast info available

Cons
Hard to find (Jerry's Artarama seems to have a monopoly on this product, they might own or license Marie's name as it appears on many of their products that sell under other names on Amazon)

Bottom Line: If you can snag these at the price I paint I totally recommend giving them a try. they are much better than other student grade paints at the same price and the 3 colors I picked seemed pretty dang professional. I can't speak for the whole range but I'll probably pick up a few more colors when I have Jerry's order going. These are not the same as the Phoenix artist's quality paints that I reviewed here:    • 58 Cents a Tube?!? Can These Watercolors B...   (I suspected they might be due to packaging and number similarities on some of the colors.) So the price increase of Maries over Phoenix makes total sense. I wouldn't pay top dollar for the Maries Masters over other artist-grade paints but if you can get them on sale they are worth a try, at least the colors I bought are.




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