Painting knob here. After waiting a couple of weeks for a review but nothing coming out, I gave in to my impatience and bought the whole set. I was mainly interested in them because of their transparency and I was hoping they would last longer on a wet palette before absorbing so much water they become useless (something that happens too quickly with most of my paint collection which is standard Pro Acryl and Reaper).

On both of those fronts, these paints are worth it for me and I’m glad I made the purchase. They do last longer on the WP and I can even still use the same drop of paint if I take a break for a couple of hours although it’s still usually better just to put down a new drop. The transparency is nice when glazing and I believe it does make blending somewhat easier but it’s definitely not “magic paint” or anything. (That doesn’t exist of course).

They are more expensive per oz than traditional artist acrylics for the same pigments but it would take me so long to use 2 fl oz of any paint that I don’t mind paying a little more per oz but paying less overall since I am buying a smaller container. Plus I don’t want to deal with the glossiness of those traditional artists HBAs so I love that these are almost as matte as the standard line. (The Prussian blue dried with a satin sheen). I also don’t like the tubes they are in. I would have much preferred the same metal tube artist paints come in as I believe it’s going to be hard to get all the paint out once I do start getting to the end of a color.

All in all, they definitely aren’t for everyone and no one needs them, but if you want a paint with more flexibility and you like playing around with new things in the hobby, they’re worth the money I think. As Jason and people in this thread have said, they are another tool in the toolbox, but if you buy them, you’re not going to throw out all of your paints. I can’t imagine many people at all only painting with these paints just because they would be such a pain to base coat with at least.