Designers Gouache offers great versatility to the fine artist and designer and is an unparalleled tool for teaching color theory. Made from the finest pigments selected for high density saturation and lightfastness, this opaque matte paint can be mixed with other colors without the loss of brilliance, opacity or hue value. It can be thinned with water to create semi-transparency or applied in dense opaque layers to build the surface body. This 18-color set includes burnt sienna, carmine, Chinese orange, emerald green, flame red, ivory black, jaune brillant #2, lemon yellow, peacock blue, permanent green deep, permanent white, permanent yellow orange, permanent yellow, Prussian blue, raw umber, terre verte, ultramarine deep and yellow ochre in 5ml tubes.