Watercolour paints

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12yo DD has asked for water colour paints. Any suggestions please? Was thinking around the £20 mark

I'd recommend Windsor and Newton cotman 12 set for around £15 or the 24 set if you're happy spending the extra £5 is £25. They're an excellent beginners watercolour and a great set to start her off without being poor quality.

Amazing! Thank you very much. I was clueless

We have the above mentioned set. The paints are a lovely quality and colour but it’s very small…a stocking filler size set. We use it as a very portable set to chuck in a rucksack because sometimes my DD likes to just go out somewhere and paint!

My DS is almost 13 and asked for his own set of water colours for either birthday or Christmas. I’ve bought him this set which has good reviews and a decent price at the mo…
Watercolours

It’s actually gone up in price a bit. It was £25 last week so may go down again at some point.

We have a 24 colour Daler-Rowley set for DD11 which was an upgrade from their smaller travel set but it's still portable enough to take on holiday etc. She really loves this book Four-Step Watercolour if your DC is a beginner?

@CoffeeChocolateWine that set is supposed to be amazing!

Both of the sets suggested above are very good quality for beginners, the Japanese one probably a lot more stylish (but not portable). Id also suggest some brushes, the Windsor Newton set usually comes with a little brush, but the Kuretake doesn't.
The Da Vinci watercolour brushes are very good quality for the price (around a fiver each), and you can't go wrong.
Also, maybe some watercolour paper would be nice too

Thank you! Just seen all the replies. Water colour paper is a great idea too - thank you.

I've never painted so no idea what to get. Definitely need some brushes because we have none.

Her auntie has gifted her some paints for now & I'll stock up on more for Xmas 😁

Will 100% buy the water colour book also - lots of inspiration for her to get started. Much appreciated

Yes, ditto actually. I’ve found this helpful. I’ve bought paints and brushes but didn’t think to get nice paper and a helpful book so thank you!

That Windsor and Newton set was my first decent watercolour set, probably about 30 years ago and it still gets chucked in a bag now occasionally.

It depends on what your DD wants to do of course, but as a beginner a little a6 pad of watercolour paper might be less intimidating than a bigger one, if that makes sense.