If you want to learn gouache without spending five figures, this is the box. Twelve 20 ml tubes for Rs. 3,300 works out to Rs. 275 a tube, or Rs. 13.75 per millilitre. Our Daler-Rowney Aquafine set of twelve is Rs. 58.89 per millilitre — more than four times as much. For a student finding out whether the medium suits them at all, that gap decides the purchase.

The tubes are also bigger. TiTi supplies 20 ml against the 15 ml tubes in both Daler-Rowney sets we stock, so a box of twelve here holds 240 ml of paint against 180 ml. You are getting a third more paint for less than a third of the price.

The box explains the medium better than most product pages do, and we would rather quote it than paraphrase. It prints Artists' Gouache, then Bright & Vivid Colors, High Grade Arabic Gum & Pigments, and — the useful line — Opaque Watercolors. That is exactly what gouache is: watercolour made opaque, bound with gum arabic, so a pale shade covers a dark one instead of vanishing into it. The brand mark on the box is TiTi with its leaf logo, and the corner reads 12 colors and 12 x 20ML.

One thing we cannot show you. The owner's photographs are of the sealed box from three angles, and none of them shows the tubes or the twelve shades inside. We are not going to invent a colour list to fill the gap, so if you need to know exactly which twelve are in the box, ask on WhatsApp and we will open one and tell you before your order is dispatched.

What the cheaper price does not buy you is the labelling that a Daler-Rowney tube carries — the named shade, the catalogue number and the permanence rating that let you reorder exactly what you used. That is the honest trade. Buy TiTi to learn gouache and to work at volume; move to Aquafine when knowing precisely which colour is in your hand starts to matter.

It suits art students from about 12 years up. The Safencia price is Rs. 3,300 with Cash on Delivery across Pakistan. Stock, your city, and delivery charges are confirmed on WhatsApp before dispatch.

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