I have also included papers, brushes and so on.
You can either buy online from Amazon (where I've already curated for you the very best deals), or, you can print this out and take it to your local art shop and they can help you find the right products.
These are all Winsor and Newton paints. You can use other brands and try to match the colours as best as you can - go by pigments, not name. The Student Palette
COTMAN PAINTS (Tubes)
346 Lemon Yellow (Hue)
109 Cadmium Yellow (Hue)
744 Yellow Ochre
502 Permanent Rose
095 Cadmium Red
317 Indian Red
327 Intense Blue (Phthalo Blue)
660 Ultramarine
654 Turquoise
554 Raw Umber
074 Burnt Sienna
076 Burnt Umber
PROFESSIONAL PAINTS (Tubes)
347 Lemon Yellow Nickel Titanate
086 Cadmium Yellow
744 Yellow Ochre
502 Permanent Rose
094 Cadmium Red
317 Indian Red
707 Winsor Blue [Phthalo Blue] Green Shade
263 French Ultramarine
190 Cobalt Turquoise
422 Naples Yellow
074 Burnt Sienna
076 Burnt Umber
Basic Cotman Palette
This little sketcher's set is really nice - a limited palette, the half-pans are of nice quality and the brush is good too - start with this and then, over time, replace with professional half-pans. I would recommend you replace the Cadmium Red and Cadmium Yellow first, as they are just hues (cheap fakes) - you will find they don't behave quite as a Cadmium paint really should and it will give you unusual results. One at a time, replace the rest. Swap the white and black immediately - I would get Naples Yellow and Indian Red personally.
Paper
Watercolour paper comes in three flavours - hot press (HP or HOT), cold press (CP or NOT) and rough (sometimes called Extra Rough). I recommend beginners start out with a chemical pulp or wood pulp paper and migrate to a 100% cotton paper once they've got a few months experience. I still use cheap paper for practice and sketches - never waste your good paper!
Bockingford paper is a chemical pulp paper - I recommend you start with the Cold Press (blue pack), then try out the others once you really get going. These are blocks which have glued edges and can help you avoid needing to stretch your paper.
This is a really tough one to make recommendations on re: shapes and sizes as that depends on the end user. I have collected some of Pro-Arte's Prolene Plus range as they're economical and nice to use - do explore their full range through and see my review of them.
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