Grumbacher Academy Watercolor, 7.5ml Tube, Alizarin Crimson

Was able to buy several tube colors that were less readily available when you get made up variety packs of pans or tubes at a good price each.

This is the best purple on the market. I've compared it to every other manufacturer's purple that I could find, and it's simply the best. I keep coming back to it. As a watercolorist and a teacher of watercolors I insist that my students use this color and no other. If they want to paint the way I do, (and why else would they take my classes) they have to use the paints that I use. In my paintings I underpaint all my dark values with purple, then glaze over it with other colors. Wet and dry, this particular paint is the most brilliant purple I've tried. When I try to use purples by other manufacturers I simply don't get the same results. I hope Grumbacher never changes its recipe for Thalo Purple.