The Best Beginner Watercolor Paint Tubes for Explorations in Color

Watercolor in a tube is a convenient and ready-to-use medium that is easy to mix and better for large-scale painting than watercolors in dry pans. Loved by many professional artists, they can be a great choice for beginners, too. Use them directly from the tube for bright, opaque color, or mix them with water for the medium’s characteristic flow and transparency. Student-grade colors are accessibly priced, often because they use more common pigments and avoid the rare and pr