If you buy a ready-made set of paints, very often it includes a palette, sometimes a brush. The aquarelle set in a wooden box looks beautiful and luxurious. If you have someone in your area who likes to paint, it will surely please them as a gift.

For a start, you don't have to buy a wide range of colours; you can do with a set of 10 or 12 colours of a similar composition, as we know from classic watercolours. I.e.: two yellow, two red, two blue, two green, ochre, some shades of brown and optionally purple and black. You don't really need white. In aquarelle, the areas that are supposed to remain white are not painted at all (they are represented by the white colour of the paper).

Artistic aquarelle paints tend to be very rich and concentrated. In the dry state, they look completely different than they will look on paper. It is therefore useful to make a colour sampler. It is handy to paint it on the same type of sturdy paper that you will then use for the actual watercolour painting. You have an immediate idea of what the individual shades will look like in real life. In order to work with aquarelle paints easily, it is good to use a watercolour sturdy paper and suitable brushes.