Coliro Artist Mica Watercolour M770 Set"Candy" by Finetec

Absolutely beautiful, bought these as a gift to myself. The paints are just lovely to watch. First you should wet the paints for a minute before use, as per instructions on Coliro's website. The paints then can be layered very thickly onto the paper, which produces an opaque metallic shine with great colour. You can also paint them as thin watercolour layers, where the colour is very muted but the shine looks great. One of the paints in this set is purely a "sparkle" paint, so there is little to no colour with it, it is just a silver sparkle paint "Stardust". See my pictures (the grey blob to the side is not part of this set). At the bottom I had some orangey cotman watercolour swatch testing, and I layered some of the "Stardust" paint over it to see how it would look. Cotman watercolours reactivate very very easily so you can see some lifting there, but the effect is still really nice if you wanted to paint as normal and then have some sparkle layers on top. This was tested on Bockingford cold press. A note that the blue especially can look somewhat grey in a thin layer, but in the light it comes up very blue again. I think these paints work best either applied as a thick layer, or probably as the final layer on top of a work painted with non-metallic paints.

The gold in particular is absolutely stunning on black and Kraft paper. They're all beautiful colours although what I thought was silver is in fact just glitter and needs more water and doesn't come out as I'd expected. Very pleased with these!

These were not cheap but on first test i am so pleased. I tested them on cheap paper which while it water bended it did not bleed through. I used a droplet of water on the palets to test, waited a min then mixed a little. These will add magnificent highlighting features, and will also blend delightfully. Update: i have since used these to accent on an acrylic painting with beautiful effects

These are perfect for modern calligraphy with a dip pen. I haven’t used the brighter colours as much as i have used the gold or silver. I thought i would but they just don’t pop as much as the gold!

wow, ordered one day arrived next. Wonderful pearlised colours great for illuminating calligraphy letters

These are absolutely stunning. Such a beautiful finish to them, highly recommend! So far I’ve used them as watercolours and as dip pen inks for calligraphy and both have been beautiful.

I have the gold set of these paints and I absolutely love them. Rich golds that last down beautiful intense colour on any coloured background so I didn't hesitate when I saw these. What a shame. A total waste of money. The colours are dark and muddy especially the blue. They are fairly sheer, so they can't be used alone and if you layer them over another watercolour, for the purpose of adding a metallic sheen, they muddy those colours. There are far better options out there

Beautiful set of shimmering watercolour ( ◠‿◠ )

Si pones mucha agua se pueden hacer más transparentes, si no, cubren muchísimo con unos colores muy brillantes.

The paint was very rich in color and application was great.

Ich habe nach brillianten Effektfarben gesucht, um meine Aquarellgemälde zu verschönern und eine Freundin hat mir diese Marke hier empfohlen. Ich habe natürlich zuerst gezögert, weil die Farben recht teuer sind, aber im Nachhinein bin ich wirklich froh, dass ich sie mir doch bestellt habe! Die Farben sind sehr hoch pigmentiert (wenn man sie entsprechend anmischt) und glitzern/schillern wunderschön im Licht (siehe Beispielfotos). Ich kann sie daher jedem empfehlen, der einen schönen Akzent setzen möchte :)

C’est la première palette Coliro que j’ai acquise en 2018, depuis j’en ai acheté 2 de plus ! En effets ces aquarelles ont un éclat que je trouve remarquable, elles sont miscibles entre elles, ne d’affadissement pas au soleil … bref, elles sont superbes pour la peinture comme la calligraphie. Je vous les recommande !

I love this so much! It is amazing! I use it to make some Christmas cards! All colours are so beautiful! I personally recommend it very much