A deep blue metal tin whose lid is embossed WATERCOLOR CAKES and Artist's Quality Series above the Giorgione name. Inside sit twenty-four hexagonal cakes, and along the top of the tray a water brush, a slim artist's brush and a pencil printed Giorgione 2B lie in their own channels. A sponge and a small pack of watercolour paper marked 8 come with it, and the carton names the set Compulsory Course 24 with the line Absorbent Sponge & Water Brush across the foot.

Rs. 2,070 for twenty-four cakes is Rs. 86.25 a cake, which puts it within a few rupees of our Keep Smiling Solid 36 at Rs. 81.94 and our Nablon 24 at Rs. 85.42. Where it differs from the Nablon is what arrives alongside: that tin holds pigment and a brush, this one adds the water brush, the pencil, the sponge and the paper.

The pencil is the detail worth noticing. It is a 2B, which is soft enough to draw a light guide that a wash will not fight and that lifts with an eraser afterwards. Most sets at this price leave you to find your own, and most people then reach for whatever hard office pencil is nearest and score a line into the paper that no amount of paint will hide.

Cakes rather than pans changes how the paint comes off. A cake is a broad flat disc, so a large brush can be charged in one sweep instead of scrubbing at a narrow pan — useful when a wash has to be laid before the first edge dries. The hexagonal shape packs twenty-four of them into a tin that still shuts flat.

The paper pack is small — marked 8 — and it is there to try the paint on, not to work through. If you want a proper block to paint on, the A4 300 gsm cold-press pad in our Keep Smiling Deal No. 37 is the one to look at.

We list this set from 8 years up. The Safencia price is Rs. 2,070 with Cash on Delivery across Pakistan, and stock, your city and delivery charges are confirmed on WhatsApp before dispatch.

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