Mont Marte's Signature watercolour pencils do the two-stage job that makes this medium worth owning: you draw with them dry, exactly as you would with any coloured pencil, and then a damp brush turns the marks into a watercolour wash. The goldfish on the front of the box is drawn and washed with the set itself, which is a fair preview of what the colours actually do on paper.

The twenty-four colours are the useful spread rather than twenty-four near-duplicates: yellows and oranges, a run of reds and pinks through to magenta, purples, several blues from navy to a bright cyan, a group of greens light to dark, plus brown, grey and black for shadow and outline. That range covers most subjects without having to mix every intermediate shade by hand.

The barrels are slim navy hexagonal wood printed "Mont Marte Watercolour" in white, with the colour showing only at the dipped end and the sharpened tip. Because the barrel is not painted in the colour, the set reads as a working artist's kit rather than a children's pack, though it is entirely usable by a student starting out.

Safencia stocks the 24-piece box at Rs. 3,250 with Cash on Delivery across Pakistan. WhatsApp confirms stock, your city and delivery charges before dispatch, whether you order from Lahore, Karachi, Islamabad or elsewhere.

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