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What should I pick as my first watercolor set? I've been using one of my mom's sets and it's decent but I wanna get my own.

I think I'd prefer pans to tubes, because I want to try painting outdoors.

Should I just get a small set of like 6 colors with warm and cool versions of red yellow and blue, or should I go for a bigger set? I see many people recommending starting with a smaller palette, but it looks more convenient to be able to mix most colors with only two paint colors instead of a more complex process.

I've also heard you can put the tube paints in the pans and they're the same. Do you just have to let them dry and then they turn into the same consistency?