 Hi everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft, thank you for watching today. So I've got another Arteza product review, you've really been enjoying the other ones that I've shared and I do have some more to bring you over the next coming weeks. So today I'm going to be showing you the 72 watercolor pencils, these are the Expert pencils and they come in this really nice tin, they've got all of your colors on the back with all of the names, so they're named and they're also they have a code as well, so you know if you do like to swatch and keep records and things like that then you can you know use either or. Now you've got the three trays here with all of these colors so the first impression is wow great selection of color so I mean you can get different amounts I think there's a smaller size I can't remember exactly but I will share all the links and that will all be there for you so you can kind of choose if you wish to do so you know which one you want to go for but this is the 72 so I'm just kind of going through here just showing you all of the colors. You know there's a real nice variety of shades so I'm just pulling out the greens here for example there are more as well but there's a few that I thought looking at them they looked very similar but actually when I swatch them out which you'll see me do now there are quite a lot of variations there's maybe one or two colors that are very very similar other than that everything else had a really nice mix. Now watercolor pencils are my preferred coloring you know kind of medium I it's what I always have used over the years that's not to say I don't like other watercolor products I do watercoloring in general is my favorite but out of you know all of the different kind of things you have within the watercoloring it's pencils that I choose so here first of all I'm just going through and just coloring them dry onto the Artaisa watercolor pad so this is the cold press acid free watercolor paper which I used in my other reviews it's really nice it's super super thick it's 300 gsm and I actually do color on the other side as well so you will see that there's no bleed nothing goes all the way through to the other side so I'm I'm actually not even putting this in order I'm just grabbing all of like the pinks and reds first then I go into the blues the greens then I've forgot a few greens and they get added onto the end so I'm not to me a swatch I have a swatch for probably a very different reason to a lot of other people it's for me it's not about organization it's just so I can quickly look and check a color I'm not really bothered about them being in rainbow order or even the colors being in order from light to dark so if you're looking at that and thinking hers is all over the place yes it is but I don't care so that's just how I do it so you'll see there I'm just going through first thing I did notice is they're really creamy they're full of pigment they you know I didn't have to put much effort in at all so with you know comparing it to my more expensive pencils that I have they probably hold up just as well these are the expert ones so you know going on dry onto the paper I think they were you know just as good as any really now when I start bringing in the water there is I did notice a difference you know to my maybe more you know expensive ones but these are a great price point they have a great variety of colors and they are perfect if you are starting off so for that I cannot fault them and the reviews for this product are very very good it's only because I've got other ones then I'm able to maybe compare it and there are a few that I would think maybe you know could maybe be a bit better but like I said for the price that they are definitely well worth it so I'm using the water brushes here which are also by Arteza and I shared them in other tutorials they're really handy the control with the water is perfect so if you want more you just squeeze it if you don't want any more then it will just trickle out and it's it's good you can see me they're dripping it on now these yellows so the light yellows the a 028 down to like the a 7 6 I found that they dissolved the color really well you couldn't really see the square that I'd originally drawn so these ones here that I'm doing now they just like I said the pigment lifted really well and it was you know it dissolved so it was great some of them I think probably would have if I'd maybe work them with a thinner brush so you know it just needed maybe a bit more work to kind of lift them out of the grain of the paper but that's just being really picky and to be honest when I use them for what I do which is when I'm stamping my images and coloring them in I'm working in such a small area that you would never notice this so it's only really I guess if you're doing maybe a wash on the background you may have to work some of the color a little bit more now these colors on the back I just thought were for well I just thought they were quite weak there wasn't too much pigment in them you can see the grays there they were just not so yeah I just thought they would be a bit darker saying that though the noir black was very very good and it covered that cardstock perfectly so I'm just showing you now I'm closer you can see there that a 088 you can still see the square kind of underneath there are a few that I like that but the greens they kind of blended really well here I'm just talking through those yellows you can see that you know there was the odd faint square behind but otherwise they completely dissolved the colors I thought were great the a106 and the a089 they were probably very very similar and then here I'm just showing you they just the colors great still I'm still going to be using them but yeah just a bit weak those ones but the a012 there the noir completely covered that so overall you can see there you've got a really good variety of color and yeah there was nothing really to there's no negatives really with it at all like I said the colors are great the blues a couple of the blues they were very very close in color but other than that I thought no it's quite a good variety there so now I've just gone and stamped some images this is actually now another day so I've done this video over you know a few days but I'm kind of creating a little palette really a color palette so I'm going to work from this now the card there above is one I'd already done I didn't film that one but I just wanted to show you the you know just how lovely these pencils do work so here I am going to be coloring in this Alsatian dog along with the others there and I'd already done the one above and already cut that one out so I'm just bringing in the colors that I kind of looked on google to see what you know shades and stuff you needed to create a more authentic looking Alsatian so hopefully by the time this one is complete you'll agree and I think I've done not a bad job with it so this here the main colors that I'm using is this is a 064 then I'm also using a 118 a 07 1 a 027 so a lot of the browns and the deep yellow colors a couple of maybe I think I might have brought in one orange color ish just to kind of mix in but again I'm going in completely dry first so I'm just highlighting the areas where I want the color to be so focusing on real light colors in the center and then real darker colors on the outside which is how it tends to be from the pictures that I looked at anyway so now the brush I'm using here is the Arteza this is the three slash zero spot pen pen sorry paint brush it's one of my favorites now I love it it's so small and it is perfect for just getting into the smallest part especially when you're doing these small stamped images you can see there just I've got a lovely blend I'm able to really concentrate on very small areas I'm able to lift the color well so even when it had dried I was I found that I could go back in and lift color out and you can see although he's upside down the Alsatian looks really good I've got his nose to finish in a few other little detailed parts but I'm moving on to the others now why that kind of dries so now I'm doing the pug in the noir black and actually the blend from that is just the weaker color you know diluted of that noir it's not a gray color that I've used in there so again I you know you've got a nice kind of gradient with that then I'm just kind of hopping between the others now this one I was using I think this was the a 064 again because it's the same as the Alsatian but then I came in with the I think what other brown it was then I can't quite remember anyway it was all those ones that are to the right there that you can see and then again I'm doing the dashhound and he was more of a very dark brown that one there was the a 118 that I'm using and again I just didn't really add too much of other colors to him I just kind of pulled that color out into the middle and you know kind of lifted it again with a dryer paintbrush but the paintbrushes I've raved about last time a lot of you have already gone and purchased them and I've had a few emails saying that you're really enjoying them all of this product will be linked below along with a coupon code as well that you can use but now what I'm doing is I'm going in with the dry brush again so the sorry the dry pencil and I do kind of finish my stamped images with the dry pencil because it just gives you a really nice kind of definition and then I just pull it out a little bit in places but I think they've really come to life now I really like you know the colors that I've chosen and yeah I think when you see the cards at the end you'll be able to see it you know and it's been taken in my lightbox and stuff so you can see the color a bit better but that was the card that I ended up doing I've added the little bows and the bandana around his neck but I think they all look really really nice they've got character the Alsatian I love the colors I love the blend I think again they were very very easy to use and this is what I tend to do you know with my pencils my watercolor pencils and there is the lovely birthday cake there as well which was really really fun to do so they're the cards that I've made and now here are the beautiful vibrant colored images so overall really like these pencils I think if you're you're starting off they're great their price point's great you've got so many colors I think they're just going to be great for you to use so these are now going to be mixing in with my other pencils so I've just got a great variety of color but like I said check out the links below have a little look around look at my other videos and let me know what you think thanks for watching bye