I really love the kit, the design, and everything it comes with. However, the first time I used it, I realized that the watercolors were not a pigmented as I thought they would be. I also filled up the wells in the palette, painted, and then closed up the palette for later. When I came back to it, all of the paint has dried up leaving the wells empty except for a lining of pigment. I also noticed that the wood of palette had cracked and started to bow. I wonder if this was because it absorbed a...