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I have also used Holbein’s watercolour tubes and again, their quality is excellent, with consistent lightfast ratings and strong pigmentation throughout. For the longest time I always wonder why Holbein had never produced a set of watercolour pencils to the same standard as their watercolour tubes or pans and their Holbein Colored Pencils.
In this post I list my top archival papers for colored pencil art and the reasons why I think this to be the case. It’s important to note that the paper I have selected for this article and video review, is based purely on my own personal experience.
Derwent have finally done the unimaginable, one of the most sought after wishes that colored pencil artists have had, was for Derwent to expand the 24 set of Derwent Drawing Pencils. I can remember quite a while ago when the Derwent Pencil Museum was destroyed due to heavy rains and flooding in Keswick in the Lake District, I was invited to grand reopening of the Museum and got to meet the CEO OF Derwent.
In this review we are going to be testing, demonstrating and reviewing the Staedtler Pastel Pencils from the Design Journey Range. Pastels are one of those mediums that split and divide so many artists, whilst there is no doubting the beauty and skill involved in producing artwork with pastels the polarising division is not about the artistic value.
I am always on the lookout for new and different pencils to review, I look at the pencils and wonder if the pencils in question are designed to hoodwink customers. If I think this is the case, then I have to buy them and test them so that I can hopefully provide helpful information regarding them, information such as whether or not they are a good buy, if they are accurately represented on the package, if I think the manufacture has deliberately set out to dupe customers.
Art supplies for kids or young artists is such an important topic for me, I feel that when we are young children, we get distracted and bored very easily, so if you had a toy or art product to a child that is next to useless, the child will very quickly put it down and move on to the next thing.
Marco have been releasing some incredibly interesting sets of colored pencils over the past six or seven years now. The Marco Renior 72 set of colored pencils was the first large set of pencils I had ever purchased when I first got started reviewing, until that point, I had only been able to purchase smaller 24 sets and mostly Derwent sets.
Fortunately, the other week AFMAT reached out to me, telling me that they had watched my YouTube videos and scanned The Art Gear Guide website, which if any content creator tells you its not a wonderful feeling getting such praise from subscribers and companies alike, then there is something wrong with them.
In this comparison we are taking a look at all six watercolor pencils from Caran d’Ache and I have included one other product from their range, which I am not sure I should have done. Initially I wanted this comparison to be about the watercolor pencils Caran d’Ache manufacture; the Fancolor, Swisscolor, Prismalo, Supracolor II Soft and the Museum Aquarelle. However I have also included the Neocolor II.
I was incredibly honoured and privileged to have Staedtler reach out to me again, asking me to review their highly sought after Pigment Art Pens. If you have been following the channel for a while now, you will know that I have been going through Staedtler’s Design Journey range of art supplies, reviewing them and creating artwork in the name of demonstration.
The set we are going to look at today is not just simply a huge 52 pan set of quality watercolors, there is so much more to this set. for artists looking to try the medium of watercolor for the first time, or perhaps a young student artist looking to purchase a watercolor set that is going to allow them to create rich, vibrant pieces of art, the crafters and hobbyists and even the more serious watercolor artists among you, this is a set you really need to know about.
There are many colored pencils artists out there who collect colored pencils sets, the more obscure the better, given the privileged position I am in reviewing art supplies, I would actually say I am one such artist. Sets such as the Tom Bow Irojiten, the Marco Tribute Colored Pencils or the Phoneixcolor Colored Pencils; would be an example of the type of colored pencil sets artists love to collect.
I love trying to put together these comparison articles and videos, I find it therapeutic trying to analyse each product and then compare against the other products. For this analytical comparison, we are looking at the Caran d’Ache Pablo Colored Pencils, Faber Castell Polychromos Colored Pencils and the Holbein Colored Pencils.
In this review we will be looking at another product from the Staedtler Design Journey range, on this occasion we will be testing, demonstrating and reviewing the Staedtler Super Soft Coloured Pencils. To date, on The Art Gear Guide YouTube channel and website, we have tested and demonstrated a few products from the Design Journey range already,
Due to the incredibly high quality of the ingredient s used in the A Gallo watercolors, the highest lightfast ratings are attributed to them. A Gallo use the Blue Wool lightfast scale, which means the colors are graded 1 to 8. For those of you new to art and in particular lightfast scales, 7 & 8 equal the highest lightfast rating meaning the colors will last 100 plus years
In this review, we are going to be looking at the Arrtx Watercolor Pencils and unfortunately, this may be the first Arrtx product that I have one or two minor discrepancies about. In this review we will delve into said discrepancies and not forgetting that you will find additional review information in the YouTube review to accompany this post,
I am absolutely thrilled to bring this review to you guys, today we are going to be taking an in-depth look at Earthberry Pastels, but as I alluded to in the social media post I submitted a week or so back, we will also be taking a look at the company’s refreshing ethical stance into pastel making.
I have wanted to create this test, slash, review of colourless blender pencils for quite some time now and I am so happy I have finally got round to it. If you have been a subscriber of The Art Gear Guide for a while now, I am sure you will have heard me say on my colored pencil reviews, that I prefer to use a colourless blender over OMS (Odourless Mineral Spirits).
In this review we take a look at the Staedtler Watercolour Crayons, this particular product is part of Staedtler’s Design Journey Range, of which I have already reviewed some products with more to follow. So far I have reviewed their 72 set of colored pencils and their absolutely gorgeous Staedtler Tinted Graphite Water Soluble Pencils.
In this review we take a look at something really special, it is not every day that a new innovation presents itself, in what is otherwise a familiar medium and in this case it is the brand new OLO markers. This review will be one you really want to read and watch the video review of as there is a lot of information and fantastic demonstrations, displaying the full potential of the OLO Markers.
