The roots of Sennelier water colours are to be found in the Impressionist school. At that time, painters drew their inspiration from nature and set out to reproduce natural light. Aquarelle technique offered spontaneity, lightness of touch, fluidity and transparency allowing a quick translation of a particular light, vibration or shape. L’Aquarelle Sennelier are luminous, brilliant and intense. Artists love them because of their radiance and their spontaneity.L’Aquarelle Sennelier has been produced in the same way for more than a century using the best pigments, top quality Kordofan Gum Arabic as a bonding agent and honey. This mix of natural ingredients produces colours which have a smooth, bright texture and offer lively, colourful shades. Always striving for excellence, Sennelier has reworked its aquarell formula with increasing the amount of Honey in the paint to reinforce the longevity of the colours, their radiance and luminosity. The Gum Arabic and honey combination offers incomparable quality of application. Honey is not used only as a preservative but as an additive giving incomparable brilliance and smoothness to the paint. Colours merge together perfectly, in turn bringing out the full beauty of the colours.The package contains: 12 half pans in metal pocket box: 501 - Lemon Yellow; 675 - French Vermilion; 689 - Alizarin Crison; 635 - Carmine; 917 - Dioxazine Purple; 315 - Ultramarine Deep; 326 - Phthalocyanine blue; 899 - Forest Green; 805 - Phthalo green Light; 211 - Burnt Sienna; 703 - Payne’s Grey; 440 - Warm Sepia.Colour: MixMade in: FrancePackage Quantity (pcs): 12Paint Type: Set of Watercolour PaintsVariant: 12 pcs