TOCARE Acrylic Adult Paint by Number Kit for Adults Fall Landscape, Adults'Paint-by-Number Kits Nature Scenes16x20inch

I am an artist (non-professional), so this paint by numbers set was a great challenge for me. Painting with acrylics is exciting. You can create your landscape and your portrait painting projects using thin to thick coatings to accomplish an exacting texture. OBVIOUSLY, I used the outline and then made my own original art because that is how I paint.Don't stress out and just have fun with it. Suggestions:1. Flatten out the folds by lightly spritzing with a spray bottle the back and laying it flat with a towel and heavy books until it dried2. Use better quality brushes3. Acrylics dry quickly – sometimes too quickly. Use an Acrylic retarder, or keep paints moist by misting them with a spray bottle.4. Staple canvas tight to a 16x20 stretched canvas or wooden frame (easy for framing)5. Skip the numbers you can't read and then fill in with the color that looks most promising6. Use an acrylic sealer canvas spray to finish it off and slide the stretched canvas frame into a wall frame.This turned out to be beautiful for framing.Finally, a common strategy for approaching a painting, is to begin with the darkest, and gradually progress through the mid-tones to the lights, adding your highlights right at the end. This is because it’s usually a good idea to keep your darks thin, as it helps with the illusion of depth, and it’s not easy to put thin darks on top of thicker lights, hence why it’s best to get the darks down first. This is certainly a solid approach and one I follow regularly.

Maybe not the best for beginners. The numbers are super tiny and thus hard to read. And there’s many tiny paint spaces, but it’s only to add dimension to the final product so that it looks like a picture in the end. If you want a cheap hobby, this is awesome. Everything you need s included (enough paint, the right brushes) If you are looking for a zen winter hobby, turn on the radio or audio book of your choice and enjoy! My photo shows the halfway done work. It looks exactly as promised in the writeup

For anyone who’s going to purchase this, I recommend you also purchase: (1) an acrylic retarder; (2) a good quality size 2 paintbrush; (3) a good quality size 0 paintbrush; (4) a good quality size 0/2 (also called size 00) paintbrush; (5) some painter’s tape or masking tape if you don’t already have it.Before you begin to paint, use a warm iron to flatten the creases. Then, using the masking tape, tape off the edges, leaving the edge line exposed so it doesn’t show in your final product. As other reviewers have mentioned, the paint does ball up and dry out a bit, which makes it difficult to finish the painting with the paint provided. To prevent that (or limit it), after you’ve used enough of each paint pot, deposit a pea sized amount of retarder in each pot, and use a paper clip or the back of your paintbrush to mix it in. This will help stop the paint from drying and enable it to stretch a bit further. You may need to do 2nd coats of paint on some of the lighter colors, but trust me, it’s way better to have to do that then to run out of paint before you can finish (or get that icky grittiness on your painting). I have had to do this with all the paint by numbers projects I’ve done of this size, so it’s what I expect to have to do at this point.As for the quality of the product: the final product looks fantastic. No question. But it’s not true to the colors on the image on the listing. Also, the lines and numbers printed on my canvas (and the paper guide that accompanies) appeared to be printed with a printer that was running out of ink. In some spots it was difficult if not impossible to tell what the number was supposed to be, and the paper guide was no help. Likewise, some of the numbers are distorted to fit each space; e.g. in a long skinny section, it was impossible to discern a 1 from a 7, or in a really tiny section the number was barely visible to the naked eye. In sections that sort of snake around other sections, it was difficult to find the number. In some of these spots I made educated guesses based on the surroundings For others, I left them blank till the end and then just put whatever I thought should go there. Ultimately, I just kept in mind that little mistakes or going outside the lines was not going to affect the final product’s appearance.Overall, if you’re okay with the things I’ve mentioned, I would recommend this product. Mainly because it really does look beautiful in the end, albeit slightly different from the image on the listing.

The item arrived as expected. It was very therapeutic and good time killing during pandemic 2020. This was my first paint by numbers and I thoroughly enjoyed it. The paint brushes weren't great but used it anyway from start to finish. It took me almost 2 months to complete it. The end result to so worth it. I would suggest buying better quality brushes. I also brought iron which some what helped removed folds. But putting on the wall for weeks evened out the folds. Some numbers were missing and some were hard to read. So I had to make best guess from the reference picture. I suggest buying maginifying glass which helped a lot for me.

This painting turned out beautifully.I loved the bright colors.

I was so excited to receive this as part of a Christmas gift, but to my surprise it was a folded up canvas with completely dried out paints. I had selected this piece for it's vibrant colors, but all I had was rock hard paint chips in the paint cups. I tried multiple ways to rehydrate the paint, using paint extender, water, etc. I ended up having to mix my own colors with paint I found at home. I was really disappointed in the quality I got from such a highly rated item.

This was so much fun to paint

The lines are too fine and at times unreadable

I like the ease of painting. A good hobby.

I was looking forward to working on this project for the winter. I was very dissapointed to find out that some of the colors have dried solid and others are getting there, meaning not smooth but clumpy.I was also looking forward on getting a few more but what is the point when I can't use the paint it comes with.Update: The company that sent the Paint by Numbers Kit was kind enough to send me a new set of paints allowing me to work on my project. Thank you and yes I am very satisfied.

Unfortunately the paints have some that are dry and some that are too thick. Paint brushes are fine. Not great but they will would work good for this project. I’m going to have to find my own paints or something because these ones are just unusable.