Derwent Inktense Paint 12 Pan Palette #2 (New)

OK so maybe my headline is a "little" overstated. But I love the inktense medium. It has the permanence of acrylic or oil, the ease of use and more of watercolor. The medium deserves this travel set. I haven't yet traveled anywhere with it though outside the house. I traveled from my studio area to a tv tray set beside my laptop. I work with with a 5.5 x 8.5 watercolor pad from Arteza(occasionally a smaller pad) The larger pad is 140 pound watercolor weight paper. This works perfectly with this set.The colors included in this set are very well chosen for their versatility within the useably and limitation of 12 colors. I did take a piece of the imperial white and put it in the area with the waterbrush. Perfect. I have the second set #2 on order (it is on its way)which should have a white pan included in it.If you do not like the arraignment of the colors they come out easily. This also makes it a dream to exchange colors themselves with other ink blocks to really change up your palette if you wish too. One of the best things I also like with the inktense line is you can walk away from it for minutes or months even and come back with no wasted paint, unlike working with acrylics or even oils. When you come back to work just start back where you were, but I would refresh my water supply if I left it for months before coming back! On my standard TV tray I have plenty of room to keep the watercolor pad, two containers of water and both of the travel sets. Again if I want different colors to work with it just takes seconds to to supply the kit from the 72 color set of blocks. The set looks like with the "waterbrush in place" you can put another six colors in the compartment. If you remove the waterbrush you can store another 6 pieces of the ink block colors making this a 24 set by itself. If you also order the 2nd set you can double the amount which means you could easily transport 48 colors for mobile work. I use approximately 1 inch size pieces to expand my color range from my inktense blocks inventory for the kit. The kit itself is about the size of my hand. That is one of the things I love about this set is how little space is needed to set up a work area, and how quickly I can be ready to work, pretty much anywhere anytime. One thing that needs to be kept in mind is inktense dries very quickly that fact occasionally will influence the way you progress with your project. The colors in each of the kits are Kit #1 Bright blue,burnt yellow ochre, dark plum, black, kiwi, mango, mid ultra marine, _____brown, sun yellow, poppy red, racing green, and teal green. I have found these to be a really great general set. With the addition of white. The secord set which I haven't tried or received yet contains the colors Sherbert lemon, Navy blue, French ultramarine, turquoise,sepia ink, tangerine, Ionian green, Imperial white, red oxide, scarlet, Lt olive, and fuchsia. I can hardly wait for the second set to arrive.

The color is intense and beautiful. Great product.

I have Inktense pencils and when my art class teacher told me about these I knew I had to try them. So glad I did. The colors are intense, and they don't act like traditional watercolors in the sense that they don't run the same way, but they are wonderful to work with especially if you want to give something and extra pop. They are like their name implies - intense!! I hope they will create new palettes with different colors!

Riding on the train to work is the perfect time for me to pull out this paint pallet and my water brushes. The colors mix easily, giving me all the shades I could ask for.

First impression: Meh, but may have potential for some things.Nothing really that special about these, except that they are permanent when dried and they look like watercolors, which is why I was interested in trying these out.The colors that were selected for this palette are not what I consider to be intense, as the name "Inktense" seems to imply, and they are much less intense than my artist grade Winson & Newton and Daniel Smith watercolor paints when applied as a graded wash. So I was disappointed about this. To get a comparable intensity I needed to lay down a pretty heavy coat of the inktense, with the exception of the red, which is very bright and intense. Alternatively I would have had to apply multiple layers for the same effect as my watercolor paints.Because they are permanent once dried, and look like watercolors, for me I think they will be good for underpaintings or backgrounds to work over with watercolors, acrylics, pencils, pastels, collage..,... Also, you can get a nice permanent wash, whereas acrylics diluted that much water will tend to flake off a canvas, and you would need a special dilution medium to make acrylic washes. This is a definite plus.The Inktense do wet up instantly from the pans, but once you put it on paper, you must work with them quite quickly and spread them around before they dry and become permanent. If you don't work quickly they will leave a darker, very defined mark, where you first apply them onto watercolor paper.They also work over acrylics, and you can get some nice transparent washes as well as opaque layers depending on how heavily you apply them.Watercolor artists who like to work with transparent paints and layering will probably like these paints. Those who like to work with straight or fairly undiluted paints might also like these, because if applied heavily that's when they are most intense. The range in between may require a learning curve to figure out the nuances of their uses.The colors provided in the palette might seem limited at first glance, but they are actually pretty versatile when you factor in color blending and the transparent color layering you can get with these. Just playing with these for a short time, so far I have been able to get quite a wide range of beautiful greens. One of first the things I look for in a palette is the variety of convincing greens that can be made from it.I really would have preferred to have a white pigment on this palette in place of the black, since black is very easy to mix from a combination of the colors, so putting black in this, or any palette for that matter, was a waste of space IMO. You simply can't create white. So from this standpoint the palette was not well thought out. Yes, I can buy the white separately, but only as an Intense block, and is pretty pricey with the shipping. It would need to be combined with a future larger art supply order in order to make it economical for me. It will be awhile before I need to make a large order. So, I'm stuck without a white inktense for awhile.Summary:Compared to my regular watercolors and the way I use them, these are not as intense as I was lead to believe. Overall I think I will enjoy playing with this travel palette though. It's also a good way to get introduced to Inktense before deciding whether to purchase the bigger very expensive sets of the Inktense blocks, or individual blocks. I like that they are permanent and I can work over them without disturbing them. It's unacceptable that there is not a white pan of paint in the palette. Yes, traditional watercolor artists typically don't use white paints, but these Inktense paints are not traditional watercolors, they are INKS, and I am a mixed media artist as well as a watercolor artist. Adding the white would have make this set much more versatile and practical.I can neither recommend or discourage you from purchasing. If you like the idea of permanence with the ease of watercolor, the ability to make permanent washes without using acrylics with special mediums, you might consider buying, which is why I did. I thought the travel palette was pricey.Finally, I though it was extremely strange, and very hairbrained thinking, to not include the cap for the waterbrush for child safety reasons. I don't have kids in my house, let me decide if I want a cap or not! I would have appreciated having it to protect the bristles, and from leaks inside the palette box. The really hairbrained part is that the small removable plug that goes into the brush was included, as well as all the other small parts, like the half pans, and the paints themselves that are easily removed from the pans, and the small sponge, all of which could easily find their way into a child's mouth, if that's what the concern is. If you're concerned about child safety, maybe you shouldn't be selling this travel palette at all! Sheesh!------------------------------------------------------------------------------UPDATE: Nov 6, 2019, raising it from 3 to 4 stars:I've had this set since June 2019, and have since bought some white Inktense blocks, and put a piece of it into the palette where the sponge used to go since I never used the sponge and prefer a rag or paper towel.    I also stuck a small piece of kneaded eraser in the brush compartment and I stick the capless waterbrush to it to keep it from moving around inside the palette. It protects the bristles very well (I would still prefer to have a cap for it!), plus I also have a piece of kneaded eraser in my palette when I need it. The waterbrush is watertight and hasn't leaked inside the palette and it actually works quite well.  There's even room for another small regular travel brush inside the palette next to it.What's interesting is that over time I have found myself using this Inktense travel palette quite a lot more than my watercolors for my urban sketchbook outings now.  The palette has sort of grown on me!  So, I decided to buy a set of 36 Inktense blocks, that I can use to replace the ones in the palette as needed. I have grown to love the 36 inktense blocks, but that tin they're in is just way too big for travel, so the travel palette is a great way for using those, even around the house.  Unless they're woodless, I'm just not a big fan of pencils, period.  I hate wasting lead in a sharpener, so my preferred way of sharpening pencils is, the labor-intensive way with a knife.  I can deal with sharpening just a few pencils like that, so I decided to limit my Inktense pencils to the open stock white, black, sepia, paynes grey and outliner. I can easily manage that small number, they're colors I seem to use a lot for small details, and I can have a few sharpened and ready to go.  I carry one of each in my bag with my travel palette.

Intense inks are amazing. Somehow I tend to choose the pan set rather than the blocks or pencils and get by with the reduced set of colors. The paint from the pans wets very fast and is easy to manipulate. I wish Derwent would also offer the paints in tubes; not only to be used to refill the pans, but also to have more choices. If that were the case I would not see the need for blocks or pencils. The set #1 is my favorite. I don't use the set #2 as often. The lightfastness may be a problem, however. Particularly the reds and yellows may fade in time when exposed to daylight. Another good thing is that the colors once dry are permanent. This makes layering more convenient. I would highly recommend this paints to all. Quality and price are just right.

Couleurs intéressantes. Aurais aimé qu’il y ait 1 ou 2 jaune de plus.

These paints are everything they advertise. I use normal watercolour most of the time, but they can loose their brilliance when they dry, I use these to brighten areas of the painting. Just remember that these are solid inks, when they dry they are basically permanent and are very difficult to remove from the paper.

I'd been using ink from bottles for years, until I discovered this palette. It's more convenient as the inkis in solid form, easier to control than using ink from bottles. Less messy too. There is enoughspace on the small palette to mix the paint. I had bought the first palette, and now with the second one,I'll be able to use ALL the colors. Derwent, being an old British brand, has always been reliable. For methis item is a must have.

Davvero contento di loro! Colori vivaci: questo set è diventato il mio preferito! È bene iniziare con pochissima vernice e poi sovrapporla...

Produto novo e entrega perfeita. Cores intensas.