Winsor & Newton Cotman Field Plus Watercolor Travel Set, 12 Reviews

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Since I like to collect art supplies, I picked up this set shortly after it was released. If waterbrushes were not becoming so readily available, this set would be a convenient portable sketching kit. In reality, it is rather bulky for sketching on-the-go. It does have a generous amount of mixing palettes space and its 4-half-pan holding brackets are practical for quickly customizing the color choices in the set. The water bottle and holding caps are not so useful, but add some small convenience for those that like to carry this kit in an art bag around as a source of water for refilling waterbrushes and holding small watercolor washes. I have removed the original Cotman pans and replaced them with artist grade watercolors for increased performance. I would avoid this set at MSRP, but it's worth a look once it gets discounted if you like to have several options of watercolor boxes available.

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There are some great things about this set. The numerous wells and compact size for one. BUT, when I took it out for a test drive on location, I picked it up out of my pack to open it and the bottle fell off. It does so every time I pick it up. I thought maybe I had the bottle in wrong, but after close examination didn't. So I'm giving it one star since it's fairly useless in it's functionality. I guess I'll put some kind of strap around it. Also the brush doesn't have a cap of any kind, so is loose in the kit allowing the hairs to get bent. Now it's permanently bent from being stored that way previous to my getting it. I'm quite disappointed.

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