Reddit reviews Mijello Airtight Watercolor 18-Well Blue Palette
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Small size Airtight2 Large mixing areas18 Color slantsComplete removable clear style tray that mixes true colorsLeak proof
Those are pretty cool, and you can do some decent illustrations with them, but I wouldn't say you could 'paint' with them. What you want is a water brush and a small portable watercolor set, or small folding palette.
It's more functional, and you will be happier if you want to paint.
Ah cool! Well I make Paint Sets for my etsy shop with Daniel smith and M Graham tube paints squeezed and then dried into little travel palettes. As I have all of the supplies, I've made sets for my kids that are around the same age. They are learning from an early age how to handle professional quality materials right off the bat, and the art of color mixing, which I think is important. So if you go for those tubes, I'd recommend getting her a little palette that she can squeeze a little bit of the tubes into and then allow to dry. I've been really happy with this palette . She would have room to slowly expand her colors -(future present ideas ;) That way the tubes won't get used up in a months time. I don't however give them my arches paper. They get the strathmore 400 :) so you could buy the palette and a pack of strathmore (50% off coupon at Michaels!) for about the same price as an arches pad. Boom, done! ;)
If you didn't want the tubes, and you wanted her to have more color choices, I'd go for the Windsor Newton cotman set at Michaels with a 50% off coupon. It'll cost about $15-20 that way.
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I see the Koi set recommended here a lot, which leads me to believe it's good.
My personal recommendation for beginners would be to put aside the concept of many pan pigments and get a simple travel palette like [this] (https://smile.amazon.com/Martin-Mijello-Airtight-Watercolor-18-Well/dp/B0049UZEWQ/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&qid=1511907584&sr=8-6&keywords=travel+palette) and four pigments as tube paints to mix with: a red, a blue, a yellow, and an orange that makes a gray when mixed with the blue. If your blue is ultramarine, the orange is burnt sienna. If the blue is phthalo blue, use transparent orange. That way you learn to mix colors instead of depend on whatever hues come in the starter set.
The article doesn't mention this, but finding storebrand watercolor brushes is a great way to go for beginners, you don't need expensive sable. And paper is the first thing you should upgrade as it makes the biggest difference in quality.