To me, M Graham looks like the best watercolors in the world. The colors are so intense and bright! And don't have the problem of drying out in the tubes or pans due to honey as humectant. It's also one of the best according to Handprint.com. Only one thing -- I didn't purchase this basic set, but rather bought individual tubes (selected some of the saturated, evenly distributed and lightfast single pigment colors from MacEvoy's color wheel). May be this basic set is not actually a "primary" set. Only Azo Yellow looks like a primary color. Sap green -- is a mixture of two, so definitely not primary. Ultramarine blue is somewhat OK as a primary color, but still has a reddish hue -- so, Phthalocyanine blue could be a better primary blue. Also, the Permanent Alizarin Crimson (Hue) is neither lightfast enough, nor a primary magenta color (Quinacridone Magenta or Q. Rose would be a better primary). Moreover, M Graham doesn't even mention it as a "Primary" set, only as a "Basic" set, which I think, includes the most commonly used colors. In short, I liked everything else except the color selection in this set.
To me, M Graham looks like the best watercolors in the world. The colors are so intense and bright! And don't have the problem of drying out in the tubes or pans due to honey as humectant. It's also one of the best according to Handprint.com. Only one thing -- I didn't purchase this basic set, but rather bought individual tubes (selected some of the saturated, evenly distributed and lightfast single pigment colors from MacEvoy's color wheel). May be this basic set is not actually a "primary" set. Only Azo Yellow looks like a primary color. Sap green -- is a mixture of two, so definitely not primary. Ultramarine blue is somewhat OK as a primary color, but still has a reddish hue -- so, Phthalocyanine blue could be a better primary blue. Also, the Permanent Alizarin Crimson (Hue) is neither lightfast enough, nor a primary magenta color (Quinacridone Magenta or Q. Rose would be a better primary). Moreover, M Graham doesn't even mention it as a "Primary" set, only as a "Basic" set, which I think, includes the most commonly used colors. In short, I liked everything else except the color selection in this set.