Ten colours in 38 ml tubes, and the box is printed STUDENT — Daler-Rowney's own word for who it is built for. The ten are named on the pack with their colour codes: Titanium White 011, Primary Yellow 603, Cadmium Yellow 605, Vermilion 588, Primary Red 540, Primary Blue 159, Phthalo Green 386, Yellow Ochre 690, Burnt Umber 225 and Black 026. That is a proper mixing palette — a warm and a cool at each primary, two earths, plus white and black — rather than ten pre-mixed shades.

For learning to paint, that selection is worth more than a large box of ready-made colours. With Primary Yellow beside Cadmium Yellow, and Vermilion beside Primary Red, you can see for yourself why a warm red and a cool red mix differently against the same blue. Nobody learns colour from a tray of forty-eight tubes; they learn it from ten and a palette knife.

The pack prints its own arithmetic: 10 x 38ml, 1.28 US fl oz, Total 380ml, 12.8 US fl oz. At Rs. 10,500 that is Rs. 1,050 a tube and Rs. 27.63 a millilitre — and this is where you should stop and compare. Our Daler-Rowney Graduate set of 48 in 22 ml tubes prints Total 1056ml on its own box and costs Rs. 16,500, which is Rs. 15.63 a millilitre. The bigger tube here is 77% dearer per millilitre than the smaller one in the same range.

So the honest way to choose is by what you actually want. Buy this box for the ten-colour teaching palette and the larger tube of white, which is the colour any painter empties first. Buy the 48 if you want Daler-Rowney paint by volume and the colour selection matters less. If you want the cheapest route to a mixing palette in this brand, our Daler-Rowney Simply 6-pack in 75 ml tubes is Rs. 12.89 a millilitre — under half this set.

The tubes are metal crimp tubes with white screw caps, laid in a black moulded tray, each printed in four languages with the colour name and its Daler-Rowney number, so a single colour can be reordered by code.

We list this set from 10 years up. The Safencia price is Rs. 10,500 with Cash on Delivery across Pakistan. Stock, your city and delivery charges are confirmed on WhatsApp before dispatch.

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