YITHINC Acrylic Paint Pens, 18 Colors Water Based Permanent
YITHINC Acrylic Paint Pens, 18 Colors Water Based Permanent Marker Paint Pens for Rock Painting, Kids DIY Canvas, Pebbles, Ceramic, Mugs, Wood, Fabric
| Weight: | 420 g |
| Dimensions: | 14.5 x 1.5 x 14.5 cm; 420 g |
| Brand: | YITHINC |
| Model: | COLOR-PEN |
| Colour: | 18 Colors |
| Dimensions: | 14.5 x 1.5 x 14.5 cm; 420 g |
We attended a local craft club where my friend brought these along. I was so impressed, I bought some too. We’ve been using them to write and draw on stones and slate in the garden, as signs or just to make a pretty display. Great, cheap product that would suit all ages, and would definitely keep kids busy for hours!
First off these are much better value for money in regards to the overall price and how many pens/colours you get per set which is always a plus.
They are easy to use, just a quick shake, and a few pumps of the nib in some scrap paper and you’re ready to go. The colours were vibrant and laid down smoothly without the constant need to ‘pump’ to get the ink flowing. The metallics do actually look metallic unlike some pens we’ve tried in the past.
The nibs didn’t clog, nor have they frayed.
They work well on multiple surfaces including; paper, acrylic, stone, wood.
My daughter loves them and they aren’t a great addition to her art supply collection. All in all we are both very happy with this purchase.
I have tested these over a few months now and I’ve found them to be excellent. Most of the colours are opaque, and work well. Would recommend painting a white base on terracotta pots; but used them straight onto stones with success. Some are harder to use than others, I struggle with the yellow, but if you keep shaking and pressing them they work well. The silver one is incredibly reflective, I love it. I would purchase these again, especially since they are so much better value than posca pens which perform similarly. The typo on the pen barrel is very charming and made me laugh
I brought these for the children to use at my daughters 6th birthday party as I thought it would be less messy than paints and brushes. Since buying they have been used to decorate wooden fairy houses, stones, plaster characters and more. Cannot recommend them enough, really good coverage and they lasted forever. This is the second pack now the original pack has finally run out after over 18 months!! Great product and alot cheaper than some other brands for the number of colours you get.
I have acrylic posca pens, but wanted a less expensive option to make cardboard crafts for my son. These are excellent pens, and excellent value for money. The only downside is that you need more patience when working with them, as they are much slower to dry than posca pens, but for less than a third of the price (maybe even less), I couldn’t recommend them more. The pigmentation I have found to be brilliant. I will happily replace this set at this price, and won’t feel as bad when my son rejects my crafty work!
The pens were bought for my teenage daughter’s birthday specifically for rock painting. The paint pens work beautifully, the colours are rich and very easy to paint the rock surface. For this activity, the pens are proving to be a very convenient and effective substitute to acrylic paints in tubes. It has allowed her to rock paint even for a few minutes with no mess as it’s literally taking a lid off the pen. We have used it on card as well with perfect results. One uses it just like a pen so very easy for little ones to use too.
Just to highlight that to first release the ink, one has to shake the pens quite vigorously, press the nib onto a piece of paper and then shake again. This activates the flow of the paint.
Would recommend this set of acrylic pens. Delivery was super efficient.
I have done a side by side comparison of these and can say:
Pro:
– They cost a fraction of the price
– They are a thinner paint so you can get quite a lot of coverage without the paper ripping up as much as the posca paints have caused (I use mixed media paper by Dale Rowney).
– They seem to have good layering coverage, as you can see from the photo. I will say that if you layer too much I feel that it would cause bad bleeding. But I would say with proper care this can be limited
– excellent colour palette for the price
Cons:
– I feel the colours are slightly duller than that of the posca pens
– because the paint is thinner it takes a long time to dry. I use a lot of layering, and posca pens dry in seconds so I can sit and work on a single piece of work for along time. These pens take several minutes, even for these small test patches it took more than 5 minutes for it to dry, some patches took even longer. The blue circle with drawn with these markers wasn’t dry enough when I did the pink lines, so you can see some bleeding of the colours.
– I do feel like these have the potential to not hold up to several layers. Again probably because of the paint thinness it feel like if you tried more than 2 layers that it would just turn into a mess…..But I have not yet tested this
Overall I think the pros do outweigh the cons. Im not sure I would use these 100% of the time over posca, but definitely will buy them again.
These pens work really well and are easy to control. I was worried they might be leaky when you press down to release the ink (which I find often happens with metallic writing pens) but that wasn’t the case at all. They are very easy to control, whether you are drawing lines or dots. I’ve tried them on glass and pebbles and was very impressed with the results. A great range of colours so there’s plenty of scope for designs.