Watercolor Pencils are Neat!

US Art Supply has great products at great prices. I love experimenting with new mediums and I have never used watercolor pencils before. I could not wait to try these out.



This set came with 36 watercolor pencils and a roll up canvas wrap. I love keeping my supplies organized, so this was a great idea. 

I was able to keep all the pencils organized by color and could easily roll them up for storage when I was done using them. The range of colors was great. Black, white, neutrals, skin tones, and a few values for each color.

The pencils came sharpened, and the leads were soft. The colors went down onto paper smoothly. The amount of pressure I used correlated perfectly with the amount of pigment that went down. 

Adding water to a watercolor pencil drawing.

I love that you can use these dry for drawing, or paint over them with some water for more vibrant colors. And after adding water, you can even go over again with the dry pencils to add more details or bolder lines. I love versatile things. These were so fun to use. I already have a bunch of ideas for what I will do with them next. 

I give these colored pencils 5 out of 5 stars. I love the colors. I love how they feel. I love how they go down on paper, and I love how they react with water. The storage roll is a great added bonus for those who want to be organized. I would recommend these to artists, crafters, students or children who wanted to draw, paint, color, anything really! These have so many uses and are really neat!


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I received this product at a discount. This review is 100% honest, unbiased, and my own. 

~Crystal Vicious

Adult Coloring with Colored Pencils.

I am very late to jump on the adult coloring boat. This is probably because I do enough art to appease my creative side. I did however come across an awesome colored pencil set, and I have yet to try drawing with only colored pencils. The amazingly talented Karen Hallion put out a coloring sheet in January after David Bowie's passing. I figured there was no better page to color than this one. 

This set is from Ohuhu and comes with 48 colors. There is a decent variation, lots of skin tones and neutrals. It has plenty of blues and greens, but I'd like some more reds and oranges. They blend very well, so at least I can mess around with tones a bit.

The come in a nice tin case with two plastic "shelves". You can easily pick up one and stick it into the lid. Each pencil has it's own slot. The ends are marked with the color of each pencil, so they are easy to differentiate. I might get around to organizing them by color, as they are also numbered. They do slide around if you are not gentle. When the package arrived, none of the pencils in the top row were even in a slot, and there were a few broken tips with powdered lead everywhere.

These were comfortable to hold and had a nice grip because their hexagonal shape. They sharpened nicely. The leads were soft, but did not break easily. I was able to apply light and hard pressure to get different values. I really enjoyed working with these pencils and would rate them 4 out of 5 stars. I would recommend them to anyone who would like to color, draw, or use them for any other types of arts and crafts. 

Coloring in the Goblin King. Coloring page by Karen Hallion.

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I received this product at a discount. This review is 100% honest, unbiased, and my own. 

~Crystal Vicious