I bought this for my mother, who enjoys paint-by-number and pencil-by-number kits, but when it came I was so disappointed in it that I did not even give it to her. Although Thomas Kinkade's lovely painting is provided as an example, the actual colors in the kit do not in any way resemble them. This kit should have at least 20 different pencil colors in order to approximate the original in any way. Obviously, a pencil-by-number kit is not going to look just like an original Kinkade, but when you are trying to replicate a painting with hundreds of colors in it by using only 8 colors, what you end up with is something entirely different. You will not even recognize the Kinkade painting in this one when it is done. If you have your own set of pencils and want to improvise on the colors, you could do much better with the set, but be warned that the paper it comes on is not very sturdy either.