Winsor & Newton Cotman Pocket Plus

Portable kit with a good range of colours and plenty of palette mixing space for outdoors field studies or just simply en plein-air painting. My favourite about this kit is how it includes 6 primary colours, a cool and a warm for each, which is essentially all you need to mix any colour. There are also Sap Green, Raw Sienna and Burnt Umber for laziness and shortcuts. Size 5 brush is perfect for stippling pine, fine foliage or branching out trees. In addition to the Cotman Pocket Plus kit, I carry a water flask, size 8 and 10 round brushes as well as a sponge with me (sometimes with a flat wash and fan brush too). With it, I'm always ready to go to capture a moment or create a masterpiece.

My only complaint is Viridian is a horrible pigment...unless you're painting plastic plants. If only they replaced that with Hooker's Green Dark...
(Pigments included are Cadmium Lemon, Cadmium Yellow, Cadmium Red, Alizarin Crimson, Ultramarine, Cobalt Blue -- such a beautiful colour to paint skies, Viridian, Raw Sienna, Burnt Umber, Yellow Ochre and Chinese White)

Very good though the thumb holder is a bit naff.

The selection of colours could be improved. I would prefer Cerulean Blue to Winsor. Chinese white is a waste of time - if you want white it needs to come from a tube. Replace it with Neutral Tint. Lemon Yellow would be preferable to Cad Yell Pale - too similar the Cad yellow.