Jenny's Crayon Collection: Colored Pencils

36 Posca Oil Based Colored Pencils

These are 36 uni Posca Pencils. They are oil based pencils, 4.0mm thick lead. On the Posca website it says these have a creamy glide with vivid colors. They are certainly vivid. They can be layered, blended and the website says they are fade resistant. I am not sure how lightfast they are. I do not think they have been verified lightfast because there are no numbers. And when something is lightfast it has been tested and there is documentation for the customer.

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Find the Posca Pencils at Blick.

Posca says they can also be used on various surfaces. I would like to try it. I used them on black paper above and black paper below. The colors are very opaque and keep their color on the black paper something not all art supplies do. I think it would be interesting to compare these to their paint marker counter parts and see if the colors match.

Here is the box for pencils. They come in a plastic case and then three plastic trays that stack on one another. I photographed it without the outer plastic, but to keep the trays from falling apart I keep them in the outer plastic.

The pencils unfortunately do not have the name of the pencil on them which is disappointing. The pencils are about $1 each, midrange for art supplies. I would think the company could put the name of the color on the pencil.

Here is the outer plastic. Another reason to keep it is the color names are on the back of the plastic case as well as the description of the pencil. Overall these pencils were really fun to use. I wish the names were on the pencils and there were more colors.

Derwent Chromaflow 150 Coloured Pencils Colors, Swatches and Review

Derwent has offcially challenged Prismacolor 150 colors. Derwent came out with the Chromaflow coloured pencils a few years ago. This year in 2024 they announced 150 Chromaflow Coloured pencils! I first saw the set at Creativation and put it in my video. So many people were excited for the big new set.

Why do people love them so much? They are a soft core wax based based color pencil with a smooth texture and laydown, rich and vibrant colors and blendable. They have a little smaller core size than other Derwent colored pencils 3.5mm. From Derwent they are Blendable 5/5, Color Intensity 4/5, Point Strength 4/5 and Layering 4/5.

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Find the Chromaflow coloured pencils here.

Get this swatch chart here. I have included the lightfast ratings in the chart.

In comparision to their other pencils they are softer than Procolour, Coloursoft has a more rapid laydown. The Lightfast have a larger and stronger pencil core, are 100% lightfast and are rich and creamy because they are oil based. The laydown and vibrancy of Chromaflow is better than Acadamy.

Colors

In the list below each color has a name and a number. I put the lightfasteness rating next to to the color number. The colors are on a gray wool scale with 1 being the worst and 8 being the best. Derwent said these pencils have an 88% lightfasteness rating. I think that means that 88% of the pencils have an acceptable lightfast rating. The colors also did really well on dark paper except the super dark colors.

The full list of colors in the 150 Chromaflow coloured pencil set are:

Citrus Yellow (0010-5), Parmesan (0020-5), Lemon (0030-8), Sun Yellow (0100-8), Sunflower (0110-5), Dandelion (0120-7), Soft Yellow (0130-7), Pineapple (0140-8), Sandcastle (0150-8), Amber Gold (0200-8), Golden Sun (0300-8), Sienna Gold (0305-5), Mango (0310-7), Butterscotch (0320-7), Flame (0400-8), Clementine (0405-7), Melon (0410-7), Orange Crush (0415-7), Autumn Blaze (0420-5/6), Red Orange (00430-5), Carrot (0440-7), Cardinal Red (0450-7), Scarlet (0500-8), Pure Red (0510-5), Strawberry (0600-8), Pompeian Red (0610-5), Sangria (0620-6), Shiraz (0630-6), Turkish Delight (0640-8), Salmon (0700-8), Ash Rose (0710-7), Deep Vermilion (0720-6), Blush Pink (0800-5), Hot Pink (0810-2), Cerise Pink (0820-5), Magenta (0900-5), Jazzberry (0905-3), Ultra Pink (0910-2), Orchid (00920-1), Rose Pink (0925-2), Pink Heather (0930-2), Dusky Purple (0935-5), Midnight Mauve (0940-6), Deep Rose (0945-5), Hollywood Pink (0950-2), Wild Berry (0955-2) Mardi Gras (0960-2), Oyster (0965-5), Light Mauve (0970-2), French Mauve (0975-3), Light Heather (0980-2), Amethyst (0985-4), Mauve (0990-7), Dewberry (0995-2), Lilac (1000-3), Dark Purple (1105-7), Aztec Purple (1010-7), Picotee Blue (1111-8), Egyptian Blue (1112-8), Violet (1100-5), Midnight Purple (1110-7), Violet Blue (1120-4), Lagoon (1121-8), Peacock Blue (1122-7), Mariner (1123-5), Iris Purple (1130-3), Glaucous Blue (1140-5), Denim (1200-7), Lapis Blue (1210-5), Blue Orchid (1220-5), Periwinkle (1230-7), Carolina Blue (1240-6), Santorini (1250-6), Brilliant Blue (1260-7), Blue (1300-7), Blue Yonder (1305-6), Glacier Blue (1310-3), Deep Sea (1320-7), Light Blue (1400-5), Sea Blue (1405-7), Bondi Blue (1410-7), Orient (1411-8), Mineral Blue (1412-8), Teal (1520-7), Turquoise Green (1500-8), Caribbean Green (1501-6), Laurel Green (1502-6), Eucalyptus (1510-8), Pastel Mint (1520-7), Cactus (1530-8), Field Grey (1535-6), Obsidian Green (1540-8), Pine Green (1550-7), Basil (1600-8), Mint Leaf (01605-7), Green Meadow (1610-8), Tropical Rain (1620-8), Foliage (1700-8), Olive Yellow (1710-6), Key Lime (1720-7), Spring Bud (1730-7), Jungle Green (1740-7), Grass Green (1800-8), Olivine (1801-6), Light Olive (1802-8), Pear (1810-5), Lemon Lime (1820-8), Chai (1825-7), Pickle (1830-8, Leaf Green (1831-8), Lincoln Green (1832-6), Mocha (1840-7), Oak (1845-8), Dijon (1850-7), Saffron Mango (1855-7), Brown Sugar (1860-7), Peach Sand (1870-5), Burnt Sienna (1900-8), Spice (1910-8), Redwood (1920-7), Raisin (2000-8), Bourbon (2001-7), Nutshell (2002-8), Willow (2003-7), Liquorice (2004-8), Coffee Bean (2010-8), Natural Brown (2100-8), Biscotti (2105-7), Morning Mist (2110-8), Pebble (2120-8), Basalt Grey (2130-7), Carbon Grey (02140-5), Almond Frost (2145-8), Red Storm (2150-4), Lavender Ash (2160-4), Rose Quartz (2161-6), Fell Mist (2162-7), Moon Rock (2163-7), Slate Grey (2170-5), Winter Lake (2180-4), Oxford Grey (2190-7), Platinum (2200-8), Charcoal Grey (2210-8), Neutral Grey (2220-8), Black (2300-8), White (2400-8), Silver (2500-8), Gold (2600-8), Silver Mint (2700-5), and Ice Blue (2800-8).

I did notice some of the dark colors are super dark. Using a blender and not as much pigment I was able to draw some color out of the darker colors 935, 2004, and 2170 being examples. The blender changed some of the colors too such as 200, 300 and 305.

I was able to mix the colored pencils and blend colors and make new colors. I was also able to use an eraser, a Derwent eraser to erase the colors.

Derwent gives a bunch of tips on how to use the Chromaflow colored pencils on their website:

Chromaflow coloured pencils are wax based, do not use smooth paper.
Chromaflow coloured pencils pencils are best used when sharp otherwise the pigment will sink into the valleys.
Use light pressure when blending using elliptical strokes
Using sharp pencils reduces risk of wax bloom of Chromaflow coloured pencils. Humid conditions also cause wax bloom.
There needs to be enough pigment on the paper to blend Chromaflow coloured pencils.
White pencil can be used as a blender with Chromaflow coloured pencils, but will lose vibrancy.
Use blender tools and burnisher pencils to maximize the blending properties of Chromaflow coloured pencils.
Can use polymer erasers with Chromaflow coloured pencils.

Find the Chromaflow coloured pencils here.

Here is the back and front of the box and the pencils in the box.

28 NEW Derwent Inktense Colored Pencils

I received very good news at Creativation 2023 this year. Derwent expanded their line of Inktense pencils from 72 pencils to 100 colored pencils! I am very excited for the addition to the Inktense colored pencil series.

What are Derwent Inktense Colored Pencils used for? They are watercolor pencils that are permanent once they are dry. They can go on ceramics, wood, fabric and paper. Many of them are lightfast once dry and have a rating on each pencil. They are perfect for backgrounds and to use on their own for a project. The colored pencils are activated with water and turn into "ink". The pencil colors can be mixed together and activated at the same time or they can be layered after each layer has dried.

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Click here to find these on Blick Art Materials once they are available.

The Derwent Inktense pencils can be used in a variety of different ways.

The pencil can be applied to a medium and then wetted and spread.
The pencil can be wet when applied to a medium.
A paint brush can be used to grab the pigment ink from the pencil either from another paper with a swatch or directly from the pencil lead itself.

Color Information

Here are all new colors of Derwent Inktense Colored Pencils for 2023. I have included just the new colors in the chart below. Find the chart here.

Amethyst 0735, Sugar Plum 0715, Pink Flamingo 0405, Persian Red 0330, Paprika 0317, Wild Flame 0313, Orange Sorbet 0255, Mango 0245, Golden Sun 0225, Gold 0215, Lemon 0110, Lime Green 1535, Olivine 1340, Jungle Green 1410, Mint Leaf 1240, Malibu 1213, Sea Breeze 1225, Mineral Blue 1215, Dark Cerulean 1010, Denim 0835, Lapis Blue 0825, Violet Blue 0805, Nightshade 0770, Storm Dust 2107, Asphalt 2103, Burnt Umber 1903, Dark Mink 2130, Natural Brown 1907

How To Get the New Pencils

The new 28 Derwent Inktense colored pencils can be a little tricky to find in US right now. They are available in England right now, that is how I got them. Derwent tends to release products in England first and have more availability over there than they do here. For example they have a 28 tin for these and the lightfast pencils, but they have no such thing in the US.

The new 100 box of Derwent Inktense was 348 at the time of this post. I already have the 72 and do not want to pay 348 more dollars to get 28 pencils. I had to get the 28 by themselves. That is what I would highly recommend doing because otherwise it will be a lot of money. It is also cheaper to get the 100 pencils by themselves than pay 348, the pencils at the time of writing this are 2.10 per pencil.

This is the case that my 28 colored pencils came in. It is a good idea to find somewhere to store them if the tin is not purchased. That is the downside to not being able to get a tin.

The pencil pouch can be found on Amazon.

Swatch Charts

I have made a swatch chart for the 100 Derwent Inktense Colored Pencils. Click here to get the chart. There are several ways to fill in the chart. This first chart I lightly colored in the rectangle and then activated the color with water.

This next chart I did not color on the chart with the colored pencil, but I used the a supersaturated chart after this to pick up the color and fill in like a watercolor. I think this method is my favorite because there are no pencil marks.

Just for kicks and giggles I wanted to see what the colors looked like when they were super saturated. This is the chart filled in with the colored pencil pressed as hard as I could before I activated the colors. This is also what the colors would look like before they are activated. They can be used like this and not activated. Some of the lighter colors are super pretty this way. Some of the darker colors do not have much color differentiation at this point.

This is the chart with the colors activated. As with the chart before the colors were activated some of the colors are super dark, but the lighter colors are super vibrant and pretty. I did notice that the colored pencils color mark on the paper changed when the mark was activated.

What Did I Think?

When a company offers new colored pencils colors it is very important that the colors are different. Here is the first chart with the colors circled that are new. Most of the colors are different. Amethyst, Malibu, Mint Leaf, Storm Dust, amd Jungle Green are vastly different. Some of the yellow and red colors are similar to colors already available. Would I get the rest of them? Yes, because I did, but for people trying to decide look at the chart and see what colors are vastly different.

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150 Colored Pencils with Colors of the World

It is always a fun surprise when Crayola comes out with a new big box of colored pencils or crayons. This year in 2022 Crayola decided to combine the 32 Colors of the World with the the regular colored pencils. They added 6 new colors, 4 of them appeared in the Colors of Kindness Colored Pencil box and 2 of them are brand spanking new! What is interesting about these pencils is it now makes the Crayola colored pencils the same size as the Prismacolor colored pencils, but a smaller box.

Click here to find these pencils at Walmart

Color Information

The new colors in the box include: Cool Mint, Crayellow, Powder Blue, Oatmeal, Eggplant and Lavender. The new box included these new colors so they could make up from the 120 box. 6 of the colors were used for the eye and hair colors making the total number of colors 146. It is interesting to note that the 120 box removed metallic copper, metallic bronze, gold, silver, hazel and metallic blue. I do not know why.

The equivalent hair and eye colors are:

green eyes-jade green, brown eyes-antique brass, black hair-black, blonder hair-unmellow yellow, red hair-burnt sienna, hazel eyes-light brown, blue eyes-turquoise, brown hair-brown

Boxes: 150 Colored Pencils with Colors of the World
What's inside the box:

Deepest Almond, Extra Deep Golden, Extra Deep Rose, Extra Deep Almond, Very Deep Almond, Deep Golden, Medium Deep Golden, Deep Almond, Very Deep Rose, Deep Rose, Medium Deep Almond, Medium Golden, Medium almond, Medium Deep Rose, Light Medium Almond, Light Medium Rose, Light Almond, Light Rose, Light Medium Golden, Very Light Almond, Light Golden, Very Light Rose, Very Light Golden, Extra Light Almond, Black Hair, Brown Hair, Blonde Hair, Red hair, Brown Hair, Hazel Eyes, Green Eyes, Blue Eyes, Cool Mint, Crayellow, Powder Blue, Oatmeal, Eggplant, Lavender, Brick Red, Maroon, Raspberry, Ruby Red, Parrot Pink, Red, Red Orange, Lobster Red, Coral Reef, Outrageous Orange, Sizzling Sunset, Orange, Yellow Orange, Orange Circuit, Sun Yellow, Heat Wave, Atomic Tangerine, Light Orange, Cantaloupe, Peach, Apricot, Almond, Mango, Golden Yellow, Daffodil, Lemon Glacier, Yellow, Lemon Yellow, Palm Leaf, Lime Green, Granny Smith Apple, Yellow Green, Arctic Lime, Spring Frost, Screamin' Green, Asparagus, Olive, Forest Green, Green, Fern, Sea Green, Shamrock, Aqua Green, Tropical Rain Forest, Teal, Pine Green, Green Blue, Absolute Zero, Cornflower, Sky Blue, Blue Bolt, True Blue, Pacific Blue, Cerulean, Navy Blue, Blue, Bluetiful, Wild Blue Yonder, Manatee, Blue Bell, Periwinkle, Light Blue, Indigo, Dark Blue, Violet, Plum, Blue Violet, Purple Heart, Ultra Violet, Purple Mountains' Majesty, Lilac, Royal Purple, Pale Rose, Orchid, Red Violet, Magenta, Jazzberry Jam, Pink, Blush, Bubble Gum, Salmon, Melon, Pink Flamingo, Winter Sky, Razzle Dazzle Rose, Fiery Rose, Tickle Me Pink, Mauvelous, Mauve, Dark Mauve, Taupe, Fuzzy Wuzzy, Mahogany, Cocoa, Copper, Tan, Khaki, Sand, Harvest Gold, Bronze Yellow, Dark Chocolate, Beaver, Dark Brown, Cool Gray, Ash, Midnight Blue, Outer Space, Slate, Warm Gray, Gray, Timberwolf, White

Purchase Information: Walmart

Where to buy: Walmart

Here are all the pencils.

Collecting Information

I will have to add a picture, but this is the first time the colored pencils have their own sleeves. This makes them so much easier to organize in the box.

Boxes: 150 Colored Pencils with Colors of the World
Other Boxes: There is a match box of crayons

Year: 2022

Style Numbers: 68-2028

Code Numbers: 68-2028-0-200

UPC Numbers: 071662420284

Manufacturing Location: Brazil
Where to buy: Walmart

72 Derwent Inktense Colored Pencils

Derwent has a ton of colored pencils in their line up. I have tried them all and will get a YouTube video out about those soon, but if I really had to choose only two pencil sets to get from their line up I would get the Derwent Lightfast, which I did a review on already and the Derwent Inktense colored pencils. These pencils are amazing. They are watercolor pencils that are permanent once they dry. They can go on wood, fabric, ceramics, canvas and paper and will last. They are also lightfast, not quite as good as the light fast ones are, but are better than other watercolor pencils.

Here is a coloring page I colored from Johanna Basford's Worlds of Color. The pencils are quite easy to use and this can be done in a matter of minutes instead of a long time. You can see some of my pencil marks in the sky and I would redo the sky, but it was a great learning experience. A little lead from the pencil goes a long way.

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Click here to find at Blick Art Materials.

The Derwent Inktense pencils can be used in a variety of different ways.

The pencil can be applied to a medium and then wetted and spread.
The pencil can be wet when applied to a medium.
A paint brush can be used to grab the pigment ink from the pencil either from another paper with a swatch or directly from the pencil lead itself.

I have used these in all of these ways and the effect is really cool. Derwent also sells these as blocks. I would love try those out.

Below I have a swatch chart where I did super intense, medium intensity and nothing at all for the first swatch. I did not label them, which I realize now was a mistake. I think I will do this over again and label them so I can have a good idea of what the color will look like. I have a key, but it is not very useful if it is not on the page. It is great to see the variation in color that can be achieved with these pencils.

Here is the key.

Here are all the colors and pencils. They come in a nice metal tin and have individual spots. The color are a 4 digit number. There is one color that is a black outliner and does not activate.

Color Information

Here are all the colors available in the 72 Derwent Inktense Colored Pencils.

Sherbet Lemon, 0100, Sun Yellow 0200, Cadmium Yellow 0210, Sicilian Yellow 0220, Golden Yellow 0230, Sienna Gold 0240, Cadmium Orange 0250, Burnt Orange 0260, Tangerine 0300, Mid Vermillion 0310, Scarlet Pink 0320, Poppy Red 0400, Hot Red 0410, Chilli Red 0500, Cherry 0510, Carmine Pink 0520, Shiraz 0600, Crimson 0530, Red Violet 0610, Fuchsia 0700, Deep Rose 0710, Thistle 0720, Dusky Purple 0730, Mauve 0740, Dark Purple 0750, Deep Violet 0760, Violet 0800, Lagoon 0810, Peacock Blue 0820, Navy Blue 0830, Iron Blue 0840, Deep Blue 0850, Vivid Green 1330, Ionian Green 1320, Iron Green 1310, Teel Green 1300, Mallard Green 1230, Green Aquamarine 1220, Apple Green 1400, Field Geen 1500, Beech Green 1510, Hooker's Green 1520, Felt Green 1530, Light Olive 1540, Spring Green 1550, Fern 1560, Leaf Green 1600, Mustard 1700, Amber 1710, Tan 1720, Oak 1730, Saddle Brown 1740, Backed Earth 1800, Willow 1900, Red Oxide 1910, Madder Brown 1920, Dark Chocolate 1930, Bark 2000, Sepia Ink 2010, Indian Ink 2020, Chinese Ink 2030, Charcoal Grey 2100, Payne's Grey 2110, Neutral Grey 2120, Ink Black 2200, Outliner 2400, Antique White 2300

Here is the back and the front of the tin.

2022 Colors of Kindness 12 Colored Pencils and 10 Fine Line Markers

Crayola came out with Colors of Kindness crayons in 2021. They were released at Walmart. The box count was 24 count and contained four new colors, oatmeal, crayellow, cool mint and powder blue. In 2022 Crayola released Colors of Kindness fine line markers to compliment the Colors of Kindness crayons. The Colors of Kindness Colored Pencil contains 12 colors with the four new colors. The Colors of Kindness Fine Line Markers contains 10 colors with the four new colors.

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Here are all the boxes side by side with one another They all have a similar feel and design with the Green and Purple color.

Find these at Walmart, Markers, Colored Pencils.

Color Information

The colors in the Fine Line Markers and Colored Pencils are similar. All the colors in the Markers even though it is a 10 count box are in the Colored Pencil box. It is interesting to note that all the colors in the Fine Line Markers are also in the colored pencils, but the only colors that are the same "color" on paper are the new colors. For example orchid in the pencil line is more purple than orchid color in colored pencil.

Boxes: Colors of Kindness Fine Line Markers and Colored Pencils
What's inside the box:

Colored Pencils

salmon-go with the flow, peach-warm & fuzzy, crayellow-hello sunshine, oatmeal-a warm hug, granny smith apple-kind of the core, cool mint-peach of mind, turquoise blue-breath depth, powder blue-sky's the limit, cadet blue-always brave, wisteria-best buddies, orchid-nurture nature, mauvelous-heart to heart

Fine Line Markers

wisteria-best buddies, orchid-nurture nature, salmon-go with the flow, crayellow-hellow sunshine, peach-warm & fuzzy, oatmeal-a warm hug, granny smith apple-kind to the core, cool mint-peace of mind, turquoise blue-breathe deep, powder blue-sky's the limit

Purchase Information: Walmart

Where to buy: Walmart, Markers, Colored Pencils

Here are swatches of the pencil colors. They are lighter than the markers.

Here are swatches of the Colors of Kindness markers. They are super bright and saturated except the oatmeal and cool mint.

Collecting Information

Boxes: 10 Crayola Fine Line Colors of Kindness Markers, 12 Crayola Colors of Kindness Colored Pencils
Other Boxes: There is a match box of crayons

Year: 2022

Style Numbers: 58-7807 (markers), (colored pencils)

Code Numbers: 58-7807-0-200 (markers), (colored pencils)

UPC Numbers: 071662007872 (markers), (colored pencils)

Manufacturing Location: USA with foreign materials
Where to buy: Walmart, Markers, Colored Pencils

Here is the front of the 10 Crayola Fine Line Colors of Kindness Markers box.