A different Marie's box from the familiar orange one: a pale blue hanging carton lettered Marie's Oil Color and coded NO.O-2024B, opening on two hinged trays of twelve tubes each. The tubes are slimmer than the studio tubes in the orange-lidded sets, white-bodied with a colour-graded label, and every one prints its own number and shade name in black on white.

Twenty-four named shades is the widest oil selection we stock under Rs. 2,500, and the naming is the reason to choose it. The top tray runs Viridian, Sap Green, Phthalo Blue, Prussian Blue, Cerulean Blue, Ultramarine, Burnt Sienna, Yellow Ochre, Scarlet, Crimson, Burnt Umber and Rose. The second tray covers orange and raw sienna through the yellows and gold ochres to greens, browns, a deep blue and a white.

At Rs. 2,400 this is Rs. 100 a tube. That is more than the Rs. 87.22 a tube in our Marie's Oil Painting Colour set of 18 - and the comparison is not a fair one, because these tubes are visibly smaller. Marie's prints no millilitre figure on this carton, so we will not turn two different tube sizes into a per-millilitre ranking. What we can say is what you are buying: breadth of colour, not bulk of paint.

That makes it a particular kind of set. If you are painting large and using white and earth by the handful, the orange-box 18 in bigger tubes is the sensible buy. If you are painting small studies, still lifes or detailed work and keep running out of the specific green or the specific ochre, twenty-four named shades saves more mixing time than a bigger tube of six colours ever will.

It behaves as a traditional oil throughout: thinned with turpentine or a painting medium rather than water, brushes cleaned the same way, and a drying time counted in days. We stock turpentine from Rs. 200 and linseed oil from Rs. 299. Use it on canvas, canvas board or another primed surface rather than raw paper.

The carton hangs on a punched hole, so it is packaged for a retail rail rather than a studio drawer, and it travels well because both trays close over the tubes. We list it from 12 years up as a studio material. The Safencia price is Rs. 2,400 with Cash on Delivery across Pakistan, and stock, your city and delivery charges are confirmed on WhatsApp before dispatch.

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