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Who is Mungyo?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Mungyo is a Korean company, established in 1946 as an office and stationery supplies company. The company expanded into fine art materials such as a range of pastels and since 2015 the watercolour pan sets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mungyo Professional Watercolor 12 Pan Set<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Inside the cardboard box is the Mungyo set of 12 colours (as listed below) which come individually wrapped inside a metal tin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The metal tin is the standard tin you find provided with most watercolour sets, for example, the tin that came with my St Petersburg White Nights paints I have is absolutely identical, including the rickety hinges!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I think the watercolour sets are beautifully presented, I like the clean design of the pan wrappers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The colours included in thie Mungyo set of 12 are listed below. I have included the numerical code given to each pigment by Mungyo themselves as well as the pigment code or codes that the colur is made from.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While manufacturers can name their paint anything they want, the pigment codes are what can tell us more about the paint we are using and are standard across the industry. The code starts with a P (which stands for pigment) followed by a letter to indicate the colour (B = blue, Y = yellow, V = violet etc) and then a number.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some paint may be made from one pigment, 2 pigments or even 4 or more pigments. The pigment code is one of the most reliable ways to understand the quality of the paint.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mungyo Paint Code<\/td>Name of Colour<\/td>Pigment Code(s)<\/td><\/tr>
801<\/td>White<\/td>PW6<\/td><\/tr>
844<\/td>Yellow Ochre<\/td>PY42 + PY14<\/td><\/tr>
804<\/td>Yellow<\/td>PY14<\/td><\/tr>
806<\/td>Orange<\/td>PO13 + PY14<\/td><\/tr>
810<\/td>Permanent Red<\/td>PR112 + PR170<\/td><\/tr>
848<\/td>Light Red<\/td>PR101 + PY14<\/td><\/tr>
836<\/td>Yellow Green<\/td>PY14 + PG7<\/td><\/tr>
832<\/td>Viridian<\/td>PG7<\/td><\/tr>
818<\/td>Cerulean Blue<\/td>PB15:3<\/td><\/tr>
819<\/td>Cobalt Blue<\/td>PB29<\/td><\/tr>
816<\/td>Permanent Violet<\/td>PV23<\/td><\/tr>
860<\/td>Black<\/td>PBK9<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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You may find the actual paint block falls out of the plastic tray when you first get them but don\u2019t worry, a lot of paints do this. As you start to use them and the water expands the paint a bit the block will start to sit more securely in the plastic tray.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the box, the company claim the paints are made from the purest of pigments and Kordofan gum arabic with no fillers. This could be why they have labelled them as \u201cprofessional\u201d. Student grade paints have more fillers and less pigment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are various watercolour sets available from Mungyo. Not only do they have a standard range of 12 colours<\/a> (which is the set I have) but they also offer a set of 12 that features metallic colours<\/a>, a set of 12 pastel colours<\/a>, a set of 24 colours<\/a> and a staggeringly large set of 48 colours<\/a> which also includes 4 of the metallic paints. You can find all of these options on Amazon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The set of metallics and pastels feel a bit gimmicky and unless you are a crafter as well as an urban sketcher, you probably won\u2019t find much value in them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n