Difference between watercolor grades (Patreon)

There is two grades: artists and students. Also there is some cheap stuff that is mostly for kids and school and not really good for artworks you want to use, store, exhibit or anything.

So, basically, watercolor is made of pigment and binder. For artists grade paints paint factories use better and more expensive pigments (so it's brighter and clearer) and better binder, that's why it's so expensive. It has more lightfastness (that means that you can keep your work on the wall and it will remains it's colors longer than students grade paint). 

Also because of better binder it works better on your paper (students grade paints sometimes can fall off your paper, I noticed that with Winsor&Newtons Cotman).

But the perk of students grade paint is obviously that they are cheaper, ways cheaper than artists grade. Though you can find pretty cheap artists grade like Shinhan PWC, which I absolutely love. 

If you have more questions please feel free to ask, maybe I forgot to cover some parts of a topic!