cosmiccreativebits

     I was at a discount store out of town that I'd never been in before, they sold all sorts of stuff but I found something that's super exciting!!! Watercolours in felt tip format, oh WOW.  A concept I thought i'd found last year, but they were just water based markers pretending you could create a watercolour effect *so disappointing* thought i'd imagined the concept of watercolour pens being a real thing but anyways I found these Art Hub 24 Watercolour Dual Ended Brush Pens for £6.99 and I was BUZZINNN. This being a real product is something that amazes me. I've used watercolour pencils before and this is a similar concept just in marker pen format instead. Which is cool because I really like to use felt tips, I find them a lot easier to use in comparison to a pencil.  As some of you may know I started my art journey with normal watercolours and a biro pen, so my love of watercolours has been there since the start in late 2018.  The watercolour pens hav...

  Introducing Craft Planet's 6 Neon Paint Sticks! I'm not new to craft planet's products, they're a brand i've been loving for some time; the aesthetics scream my kinda vibe and the products themselves are really good quality so  I'm super excited about this one... It's paint in a stick format but not liquid paint which intrigues me. It's more like a jelly consistency which i've not tried in a stick *i've only tried jelly gouache* but I think the paint stick idea is a great concept.   I think the packaging is cute; it's simple it has the brand name, some stars, texture for grip and a clear lid which is giving off spacey vibes.  I bought these from a local discount store, I can't remember how much I paid but they are available online for £6+ depending where you get them from. They make the standard coloured paint sticks too, a pack of 12 but I didn't pick them up as I wanted to see if the neon ones were any good.  I didn't do a swa...

  I needed some new colouring pencils and The Works had a sale on so I managed to get some Crawford&Black colouring pencils for £3 which I didn't think was bad for 36 colours and a sharpener. I've only tried their sketchbooks which I really like the quality of, for the price they're amazing and was interested to try their other products.   I did a swatch for you below, the colours are in the order that they are in the packaging; not in rainbow colour order but an order of cools and warms which I quite liked as it's different. Not all brands have a good cool to warm ratio and I think the colour selection is great. The packaging doesn't have any names on them but I don't really mind since there's a colour order to them.  The consistency is kinda hard at first and the colour pay off is nice on some colours; I didn't press on that hard for the swatches in hind sight I probably should have but I wanted to see what they're like naturally without pressu...

 I went to B&M for some glue and saw these set of 10 Aquamarkers for £6 and was super excited to buy them and try them out. They're double ended water based markers that from the name and writing on the packaging suggests that you might be able to use with water for creating a watercolour effect which is a really cool concept.  In the pack there are 8 green shades, an orange and a yellow.  With the markers you get a storage tray that you can place horizontally and in theory stack other sets they offer on top of it. Personally I won't be using the tray as I've got a pencil case full of felt tip markers that are stored horizontally...BUT I like the idea of being able to display the art supply.  Upon doing a swatch test I was really impressed with the quality how they just glided on the paper and didn't bobble up or anything. It wasn't streaky it was vibrant and fun to use. I like the brush tip more than the fine tip because the ink flows nicer.  After I did th...

  After buying some watercolour pencils that weren't quite upto par, I decided to buy some from Wilko for £2.25 which is mega cheap for watercolour pencils. I usually like the quality of Wilko's art supplies so i'm gutted they've gone into liquidation and will be closing forever. I'd never tried their watercolour pencils before so I was keen to try them out.  Below is the swatch of the 12 watercolour pencils: They're super creamy when applying you don't have to press down really hard to get a vibrant colour. I like the colour range and think it suits most people's projects.  It effortlessly became watercolour I was really impressed at how vibrant it stayed, the paper did bobble up a bit but I went over the same area a few times to test if the watercolour pencil would just disappear with more water which it didn't happen.  Have you ever tried Wilko's art products? Get your hands on them while you still can! Till next time, Stevie x

Want to level uppp your artwork? Posca paint pens are a life changing art supply and one of my favourite to use, if you're new to the art world you may not have heard of them but basically they're acrylic paint in a pen that you can draw or colour/paint with!  I discovered Posca paint pens fairly early in my art journey (I started in 2018 but discovered them in 2019) and it was an absolute game changer, I've never felt so inspired by an art product - I was excited to use the paint pens and was impressed by the ease of use and how good the quality of the product was like opacity was perfect it gave a professional finish,  it really did level up my work.  The paint pens come in various sizes which I've experimented with and they also do lots of colour variations but my favourites are the metallic or the pastel colour set, I've recently seen they do the paint pens in glitter format too which i'm interested to try; The only down side to this is I've only seen th...