A white folding palette that opens into three parts: a hinged lid moulded into large mixing wells, a tray of solid colour pans, and a channel below them holding a refillable water brush and a strip of sponge. The carton is white with a blue border and a photograph of a rainbow-coloured rose, printed Water Colour above the Chinese 固体透明水彩, with the count in the corner and the line Keep Smiling is the art of living! across the middle. The largest carton adds the words Solid Transparent.

Transparent is the important word and it is on the box. These pans let the paper lighten the wash rather than covering what is beneath, which is what separates them from the opaque school trays lower down our shelf. It also means the drawing under the paint has to be right, because nothing here will hide a wrong line.

Five sizes, and the rate falls as they widen: Rs. 91.25 a colour at twelve, Rs. 88.61 at eighteen, Rs. 81.25 at twenty-four, Rs. 73.61 at thirty-six and Rs. 71.88 at forty-eight. The forty-eight is the cheapest colour in the range and four times the palette of the twelve, so if the budget stretches there is no argument for the small one beyond pocket size.

The folding format is what you are paying for over a flat tin. A tin gives you pans and asks you to find a palette; this opens into its own mixing surface, holds a brush that carries its own water, and then shuts on all three. Nothing is left behind on the table when you pack up, which is the failure mode of a set bought for painting outdoors.

The pans are square and packed tight, laid in rows across the tray with a yellow sponge strip at the end for blotting the brush between colours. On the wider sizes the tray runs to two banks of colour, and the mixing lid grows with it.

We list this range from 8 years up. Prices are Rs. 1,095 for twelve, Rs. 1,595 for eighteen, Rs. 1,950 for twenty-four, Rs. 2,650 for thirty-six and Rs. 3,450 for forty-eight, with Cash on Delivery across Pakistan. Tell us which size you want on WhatsApp and we will confirm stock, your city and delivery charges before dispatch.

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