Opalberry Paint by Numbers Kit for Adults - Framed DIY Canvas Painting Kit with Sailing Scene - Perfect for Home Decor, Stress Relief & Creative Gift

I’ve been doing paint by numbers for awhile and this one is really nice. The paint is thicker than some other paint by numbers so I don’t have to let it dry and cover it a second time. Only thing I wish it had is the copy with all the numbers that other paint by numbers have.It is beautiful and a great gift item but I do believe it is for someone with advanced skills due to very small multi section change lot changes and intricate designThis is my 2nd PBN framed kit and the first was an off brand about $9 cheaper. I wanted to try a name brand to see the difference.Being new to this hobby, take this review with a grain of salt from a newbie.The PRO's for this kit are that the Paints and little holders were definitely better in this kit. The paints were clearly marked. The Canvas was a little more plasticized which helped the paint to flow and cover better. The Red printing on the canvas does seem to cover easier when painting on it. Many different pictures to choose from when buying this brand.The SAME was the brushes that came with the kit, the framing and the Blk and Wht check sheet. The packagings were the same.The CON's for this kit are the numbers 6 and 9 on the canvas can be confusing sometimes with the way they lay on the canvas because they are NOT underlined / dotted. Which come to my biggest issue. The color comparison page is only 3 inches x 2.5 inches which is really hard to check colors if needed. The first cheaper kit had at least a 8.5 x 11 full color drawing. For an older person like me with not perfect vision this little color picture in this kit is useless. Its about the size of a business card.I still Highly recommend this kit for the newbies mainly because of the freshness/viscosity of the paints and the type of Canvas it is printed on. They are much better for a beginner like me. The 1 docked Star is because of the Really small comparison print. No the picture on the outside of the box is Not any better.Overall I give this 4.5 stars if it would let me and I will buy from them again.Please make the insert picture bigger it would make some of us older people happy.Thank you.Love this! Great quality! Hoping to have it done by Christmas!Had to reapply paint 3X to minimally cover the number assigned to area. Would not recommend.My family loves peonies, so I decided to paint one picture for us. Need more paint on some colors.The paints cover the numbers very well. Colorful and fun to paint.I received my order for this Christmas scene paint-by-number by OpalBerry very quickly from the time I ordered it. The box came within a shipping box. The kits box is gorgeous in itself, and a lot of care was taken in designing the packaging. It included the paints, 3 paint brushes (nice quality than most PBN kits) a full size reference guide/map, and they also include a helpful magnifying book-mark! That was a sweet little surprise! The pictures I have included are of the paints, which came in shrink wrapped plastic which helps to ensure the paints won't get dried out, which is especially good if you aren't going to be working on the project right away! However, I wanted to test out the paint quality by swatching each color, which is my next picture. First of all, they give you a lot of colors which makes for a much more detailed and in depth painting! This kit has 30 colors! All of the paints were creamy and gorgeous! The swatch card shows what one coat is like so you can see the transparency or opaqueness of the colors. As usual in all PBNs I have experienced, the yellows and oranges are translucent. Some of the reds are as well. This is not surprising for PBN acrylic paints. You can easily see the opaque colors, which there are many of! I will likely still need to do more than one coat, just like you do when you are painting walls. It will give it a better finish. For the translucent colors, I go over the number marks (and some of the lines) with a little white paint before painting with the color, which will probably take 3 coats to cover the numbers and lines.The canvas is a beautiful cream linen, and this particular one came pre-mounted on a frame. The lines and numbers are a pale red color instead of the too often dark black in many kits! This makes it easier to cover with the paints. I will do a coat or two of gesso and a light sanding prior to painting, as I have done with my previous PBNs.This PBN kit is very detailed and I expect it to take me about 2 months to complete working on it a couple of hours at a time, 4-5 times a week. It will be something to enjoy on my wall for Christmas 2021!I also have another one of their paintings that came rolled up and not mounted on a frame. OpalBerry takes great care in making sure the rolled canvases come to you without creases from delivery by mailing it in a nice squared tube box which worked out perfectly! I am looking forward to painting that one as well as the paints swatched beautifully!Enjoy your painting!!! :)Just to advise others considering doing this painting. I found that a lot of the colors were way off from what was depicted on the sample picture. By that I mean, when I should have been painting with aqua-marine the pot color was olive green; what should have been a taupe shade was tan brown; and what was meant to be dark green actually painted as solid black. I realized at the beginning that some of the colors were off and compensated as best I could, but the more I got into it the more I realized how wrong the colors were. Not all were off, but when you combine it with the rest and what it takes to compensate, I would recommend that you look elsewhere for something else. I guess this is the gamble we take with these things, but thought someone might appreciate knowing of my experience with it.