Testing the $5 Watercolor from Dollar Tree - With Bonus Snapdragon Painting Tutorial! 

Hey, local cheap artist here, recently dollar tree has been selling a mini prang watercolor set, very small but still pretty nice, not too chalky and a great starting point for beginners I think!!

I started my watercolour journey with pans like these, probably a 12 colour set for about $25nzd, and for the longest time i thought i couldnt paint! They would dry so chalky and wouldnt move nicely. After my mother died i had a bit of money and was sad so decided to try a WN palette. At about $120nzd it was a JUMP but i was seriously joy seeking! Suddenly my pictures weren't demoralizingly awful! It was a starter palette so i could mix almost anything i needed (eventually invested in a CMY flavoured palette with some umber and sienna and then REALLY could make whatever i wanted. I guess thats what a printing background does to you.) It felt nice to paint, used less paint, and the results actually allowed me to see that i was improving. I think perhaps its easier to work with the cheaper paints once you have worked with more expensive ones so you know how the colours should work. I wish access to quality art supplies was easier for everyone. The benefits to mental health are immeasurable.

Thanks for taking your time to demonstrate to us how to judge quality of paints. Very helpful!

Love all your videos! You're an amazing artist. This is not an art request, but do you think you could post a tutorial short on how you do your hair? I love it! ❤

Thanks for the demo. I think they would be great paints to travel with and if you left them behind you wouldn’t be out much money……love this snap dragons❤

I think it would be a set I would give to my kids, that I would enjoy painting with too.

Thanks, I'm going to give them a try... will help knowing to keep these points in mind!

I just bought these today! Thank you for the review! I'm a beginner so I think these will work great for now!

i was trying to start with cheap watercolors and was starting to get really frustrated. A friend gifted me a small Winsor and Newton palette. And it made all the difference because the colours did what they were supposed to, it wasnt that i was useless. So I would say that new people should start with a small good palette. Thank you very much for this video. Is makes so much sense

Hello Beautiful😊 enjoyed this video... I L💖VE snapdragons and I will at some stage try doing these🙂😁 I have to try a few things to learn a few things about what i have on hand first... well thats where I'm starting🙃 Have an awesome day 💗

Thank you for such a thorough review!=3

My dollar tree doesn't carry these. I thought I wasn't going to find the $1.25 one but I did on the crafts aisle. Excited to try them out. I'm a total newbie at watercolor so that's why I got the dollar tree ones.

Thanks for doing this, so thorough.

I definitely would not use these paints myself (the Meesdn paints are as low as I go) but I’d definitely use them with a younger child who wants to paint with me..

I've used cheap crappy watercolors of many types. With them, it is frustrating to try techniques from demonstrations (with better sets) and find the cheap sets don't behave the way they "should". That said, you can still be creative and work with them, just with (severe) limitations. Because of this, I'd only recommend this set for young children, or older children who are just messing around, not interested in learning techniques.

So I randomly RU-vid’d watercolor paints cuz I’ve been seeing that exact pallet and wanted to know if it was worth it! I wanna experiment with watercolors so I really appreciate your video and the time you took to do the swatches with comparison and even the painting at the end! I know nothing about watercolor painting and was able to keep up with what you were saying so I love that! I think ima give it a go to see if it’s for me hahah thanks so much! I def subscribed ! 🤗

New to your channel and watercolor so catching up on your videos. Have you tested Fine Touch watercolors from Hobby Lobby? and also, what are you thoughts on mixing student grade with artist grade paints? Thanks

Thanks so much for sharing your knowledge. Have you tested the watercolours from Temu?

Just for fun,

How well do they mix?

I save those cheap brushes for glue or mixing crap with ya know....

LOL I bought this set and got moldy on me. 😂

You realize that all these cheapo paints are all made in the same place,then branded with different names.

RU-vid shorts is diarrhea