Derwent Inktense Pencils Art Set, 100 Permanent Watercolour Pencils Set in Tin, Premium Coloured Pencils for Adults, Water-Soluble Indelible Pencil Collection, 4mm Core, Professional Quality (2306130)

Brought the 48 Derwent Fine Art Pencils a few years ago & really liked them, but now as I've moved towards watercoloring, wanted a good set. Beautiful colours, add water & they intensivy, as it says on the tin.On the 3rd layer the darker colours are very similar & feel they could of had more variety in the purple's, pinks, & reds.ordered them & was told they would take 3days to reach me, but to my absolute delight they arrived the next day! Spent a delightful couple of hours making a swatch of all the colours.The laydown is soft & creamy & with water added even more vibrant, also the light laydown colours appear quickly.Know I will have many happy hours using these.

WOW! Such a great addition to my art stash. Easy to use on fabric with beautiful results.

Well packaged and a good range of strong colours

I've had various other brands of watercolour pencils and these are by far superior. The pigments are, as it says on the tin, more intense and, whilst they dissolve with water, they're acrylic so dry waterproof. Really handy and portable for sketching, I recommend using them with a water brush for ease.

Derwent Inktense Water-Soluble Pencils are undoubtedly a high-quality product, although they come with a slightly higher price tag. One disappointment was the misleading presentation—advertising a set of 24 pencils, yet only receiving 12. Initially, I felt cheated by the discrepancy and considered returning them. However, upon trying them, I was truly impressed.These pencils are exceptionally pigmented and make layering a breeze. Once dry, the colours become permanent, which is a unique and remarkable feature. Their vibrant quality and ease of use are unparalleled, and I'm not aware of any comparable alternatives. Despite the initial frustration, this product won me over and earned my appreciation.

Fabulous colours inktense are very intense pigments, easy to work with. Fade resistant but still able to use as a light wash and build colour intensity. Best watercolour product I’ve worked with.

I love these oh so much. Do not confuse these with watercolour pencils. They are different. They are more like paint or ink than pencils. Once they're dry, they are permanent and no amount of water will activate and move the colour around (speaking for paper artwork, not other things like fabrics that might go in the washing machine). This is great because it means you can go over and add finer details with a different shade or colour without those details blending in to the layers below, like it would with watercolour pencils. Furthermore, because they are so intense in colour, you don't need to add nearly so much colour before activating with water like you would with watercolour pencils to get a lovely intense and vibrant look. But they are versatile enough to allow you to get soft looks too - just use less colour to the page before adding water or just use your brush to pick up colour directly from the pencil and then applying the colour to the page that way. Another option is to apply colour to only part of where you want to the colour to go and use the water to move the colour around, thus creating some lovely gradients of dark/intense to light/pale. So many techniques can be used that I won't even go into them all.The only criticism I have is that the colours on the end of the pencil barrel don't really reflect the colour of the actual ink. That's easily remedied just by creating a colour swatch for yourself and using that to determine your colour scheme rather than relying on the pencil to tell you the colour. That's such a minor issue, though.I so wish I had just jumped in and purchased the full 72 set instead of just the 36 set. I did not anticipate loving these as much as I do. I would dearly love it if Derwent did a secondary 36 set with the rest of the colours so that I didn't have to double up on half of my colours or resort to buying them open stock. But open stock is an option and thus, the smaller sets are worth buying if you want to spend less just to try out a selection of the colours.The packaging for this was well thought out. Not only was the tin sealed with plastic and some easy to peel stickers on either end of the tin, but inside had a seperate plastic covering over the pencil tray and strips of cardboard over the pencils to hold the pencils in place on the tray, thus not allowing the pencils to move around during transit. Well thought out and such a nice touch.One other thing to note: If you're a serious artist and intend to hang or sell your paintings or other artistic creations, be aware that although they're permanent, not all the colours are lightfast. You may wish to look into which colours are and consider if you're going to need to use some sort of UV fixitive to help protect your work.