K I have been watching your channel for years now.. You've been fun to watch and a great teacher and inspiration. I love these pencils for the muted colors. They are great as a muting down set of colors. I really like soft colors. Thanks for all you do. Deb
I appreciate that you showed these off!! I have looked them up on the web site, they are reasonable prices, but the shipping deterred me...SAD, I will wait til they come on Amazon US for that reason, hopefully not making a mistake....
@@ColouringwithK update!!! i broke down and purchased with Castle art ( i know) so far i like them---i think they work best with the other castle art sets filling in the gaps!!
Ooooo i was wondering about these pencils !!! I did see them quite a bit on instagram but i havent watched any videos on them yet. I love the idea of muted colors to compliment larger sets, these shades remind me of the Graphitint pencils i love so much in terms of the shades. Im a little dissappointed that there arent any greens or earthy colors. It seems more of a cool tone set, i think for those that love purples and grays its a great set. Thanks for sharing the video K xoox
I love the new pencils and also watched Susan Berry's release of them and fell down that rabbit hole!! I feel the same as you as far as these and the Golds. They are brilliant together!!! Thank you K!!!💗
These are beautiful pencil colours K, I did get them at the reduced price with a code so was a bargain for 72 colours. I had heard they are not coming to Amazon for the foreseeable future 😊 love your picture and how you coloured the background 😊💕
I really love this set, I also got it a few days ago using the lovely Suzanne's code. These muted tones are stunning and will be really useful added to all our other sets (and how great to get a set that doesn't have millions of yellows in it 😅). What a great idea this is from Castle Arts. I enjoyed hearing your thoughts on them, and how cute is this pic you're colouring? I'll have to add this book to my list 💕
Great video, K. Lovely to see these in action as I'm considering getting them. I did tell myself no but now I've seen your video, I'll no doubt take the plunge, lol.
I got these earlier in the week and I LOVE them. I’ve done the best colouring I’ve ever done with them. Having the lighter muted colours really helps make the blends to do shading which I’ve struggled with for ages and ages. My biggest annoyance is that it’s missing warmer browns/yellow tones. Best thing is the very very light tones and so many purples!! Sets are always so stingy with purples and they’re my favourites hahah. My play nicely with my arteza experts and polys and the cheap marco pastel square pencils
Hello K Absolutely love love this set. Definately a wonderful intermediate colour range. Love this set. I would love the Pasteltint and Metallic set and of course this .💗💗💗
I use your trick and satin glaze it . thank you for sharing xxxx my man brought me the 150 set of Prisma colors they will arrive in few weeks time. I am in the UK . Happy coloring
Looking at your colour swatch, they made me think of the Brutfuner Macron set so I got the chart out too. There are some similarities but they are not the same. I like the neutrals in this range and this dirty lilac pink you are creating is very pretty. Having seen them appearing I went off to look on Amazon this week but they were not there. I didn't think about the actual Castle Arts web site! You have either broken up by now or are in the last few days so I hope you have a lovely break in your new home. Do you have lots of gardening to do now? It looked like a steep garden. I thought I had got to the end of my planting for the year. Then on Thursday I went to a garden centre for 1 thing. Now I have to go out and start planting and yes, it's more than one thing. Plants are as bad as pencils for jumping into your basket.
I can see myself getting into gardening at some point but for now, my husband takes care of that! Holidays have started and so far it’s been nice but I’ve still not switched off from school fully, that will happen just before it’s time to go back, no doubt!
@@ColouringwithK It does take a long time to come down from stressful times. Gardening has become interesting to me because I had a brand new big raised border to plan and I did it by choosing only to plant perennials that will come back year on year, using roses as the skeleton holding the boarder together and I used my colouring knowledge to pick the colour scheme and it's worked really well. It goes from yellow/orange/reds and white/cream at the top end and then morphed it into blues/mauve/pinks again with white and cream. I have 3 hours of help each summer week and this week Biddy said to me that she felt my colours were lovely and that the whole thing is very pretty. That meant a lot to me. It's also a great stress-buster. You have to switch methods of thinking and focus to garden. I hope you get relaxed very quickly. You have had a big stressful year. Working hard and moving house. Those are big deals.
I feel like these muted tones would be good for doing atmospheric perspective. Most of my pencils are very saturated colors its harder to get muted tones.
Beautiful pencils ! Castle arts won’t ship to Canada ( boo !) so will have to wait until they appear on Amazon Canada . I agree about the theme of having the bunnies shopping for art supplies; that would be brilliant!❤ Thanks K !
The colors of these pencils appear as slate shades which are different then you see in other sets. Which I can see using often. Thank you for sharing K. I don't understand why one can purchase the same books from other countries and the paper is better quality then from the US.
They are lovely colors. I don't quite get the "harmonious" thing, to me "muted" would have been a bit more apt. Castle Art is just way too expensive for what they are.. budget pencils with no open stock, that think way too highly of themselves. I would bet money Brutfuner is going to come out with a set as well, if they haven't already, at a much lower price and better performance. That is how it was with the pastels and the metallics.
That would be interesting, if Brutfuner come out with a similar range of pencils! I think Tooli art are similar in the sense that they are very overpriced but the colour range is so good, I think they end up getting away with it!
I got really frustrated with Amazon paper as well.. but I've learned a few techniques that work wonderfully, and ways to tell just what kind of Amazon paper it is.. because there are multiple different papers and you just never know what you are going to get. It's much harder if there are no flips or review photos.. but if there are you can generally tell by the color of the paper and the color/quality of the ink. Lines in the print, or a grey/taupe cast are a dead giveaway it's really awful. I find black backs tend to work much more poorly as well and avoid them. The more crisp dark print with a bright white paper is usable at least. There seem to be certain artists that produce on the really bad paper.. and although I've been told you only have two options, one of which being "premium" which is quite glossy and obvious, and almost always contains color ink somewhere... I have to wonder if Amazon is choosing paper based off the price point of the book? Books selling for around the $10 (USD) + mark seem to have the better paper. My go-to's are bases.. alcohol marker or my most recent new favorite, inktense or watercolor pencil blended with alcohol marker which gives no bleed through and no warping at all. You can use either alone as well, I did a page with nothing but the inktense that was lovely and left it just the way it was.... but I'm usually going back in with a bit of pencil for shadow and highlight to really take it up a notch... and of course some metallic, glitter, acrylic, etc pens for accents. Bases make it so much easier to get saturated color, and a smoother finish, with much less work. Now I'm working in a ton of Amazon books I avoided before, and have bought a few more as well.
Thanks for all the handy tips. I agree, I like using the Inktense with alcohol marker blender on Amazon paper with pencils on top, definitely the way to go, for me at least! Some of the Amazon paper is really terrible and if I can avoid it, I do!
Unfortunately not, I wrote Castle Arts and they don´t plan on getting them on Amazon - only their own website and therefore only to UK, US German and French customers.
@@CatColouring Bummer, they don't know what they are missing out with all those customers not being able to order because of import taxes etc, they would reach so much more ppl if they'd sell through amazon
Only Just Found Your Channel, You Have Such A Calm Voice. I Am Thinking Of Buying These. I Have Just Subscribed To Your Channel, Hope That Is Ok? Take Care. Deb
There is something deeply satisfying about a beautiful tin of coloured pencils. I love these colours. 🩷🧡💚💜
I totally agree!
I got a set K. Couldn't resist. Love all Castle Arts pencils. I've coloured in Small Victories with mine. Great review 😊
Thank you!
K I have been watching your channel for years now.. You've been fun to watch and a great teacher and inspiration. I love these pencils for the muted colors. They are great as a muting down set of colors. I really like soft colors. Thanks for all you do. Deb
They are great pencils, thanks for watching 😊
I appreciate that you showed these off!! I have looked them up on the web site, they are reasonable prices, but the shipping deterred me...SAD, I will wait til they come on Amazon US for that reason, hopefully not making a mistake....
I think they will be available on Amazon at some point
@@ColouringwithK update!!! i broke down and purchased with Castle art ( i know) so far i like them---i think they work best with the other castle art sets filling in the gaps!!
@@donnabost4445 awesome, hope you enjoy them! I need to put mine on my desk so that I use them more! Enjoy! 😊
Ooooo i was wondering about these pencils !!! I did see them quite a bit on instagram but i havent watched any videos on them yet. I love the idea of muted colors to compliment larger sets, these shades remind me of the Graphitint pencils i love so much in terms of the shades. Im a little dissappointed that there arent any greens or earthy colors. It seems more of a cool tone set, i think for those that love purples and grays its a great set. Thanks for sharing the video K xoox
Thanks so much Maia, I really like the colour selection. It’s nice to have a wider range of tones to choose from
I love the new pencils and also watched Susan Berry's release of them and fell down that rabbit hole!! I feel the same as you as far as these and the Golds. They are brilliant together!!! Thank you K!!!💗
Thanks for sharing!!
These are beautiful pencil colours K, I did get them at the reduced price with a code so was a bargain for 72 colours. I had heard they are not coming to Amazon for the foreseeable future 😊 love your picture and how you coloured the background 😊💕
@@Hillary-hl9ly It’s a shame they are not selling them on Amazon. It worked out at a good price with the code
I really love this set, I also got it a few days ago using the lovely Suzanne's code. These muted tones are stunning and will be really useful added to all our other sets (and how great to get a set that doesn't have millions of yellows in it 😅). What a great idea this is from Castle Arts.
I enjoyed hearing your thoughts on them, and how cute is this pic you're colouring? I'll have to add this book to my list 💕
Thank you so much!
Great video, K. Lovely to see these in action as I'm considering getting them. I did tell myself no but now I've seen your video, I'll no doubt take the plunge, lol.
I don’t think you’ll regret the purchase Rebecca 😊
I got these earlier in the week and I LOVE them. I’ve done the best colouring I’ve ever done with them. Having the lighter muted colours really helps make the blends to do shading which I’ve struggled with for ages and ages. My biggest annoyance is that it’s missing warmer browns/yellow tones. Best thing is the very very light tones and so many purples!! Sets are always so stingy with purples and they’re my favourites hahah.
My play nicely with my arteza experts and polys and the cheap marco pastel square pencils
Glad you like them! 😊
Thank You.
Hello K Absolutely love love this set. Definately a wonderful intermediate colour range. Love this set. I would love the Pasteltint and Metallic set and of course this .💗💗💗
Hi there, yes they are a nice set of colours 😊
I just got these pencils too they are beautiful colours and really nice pencils I started using them in our buddy colour page in worlds of wonder 💜
I’ve been using them on our buddy colour page too! ❤️
@@ColouringwithK lol great minds think alike 😁💜💜
I use your trick and satin glaze it . thank you for sharing xxxx my man brought me the 150 set of Prisma colors they will arrive in few weeks time. I am in the UK . Happy coloring
Wow, that’s so good of him, I bet you’re excited. Hope you enjoy those lovely pencils 😊
@@ColouringwithK thank you xxxxx
Looking at your colour swatch, they made me think of the Brutfuner Macron set so I got the chart out too. There are some similarities but they are not the same. I like the neutrals in this range and this dirty lilac pink you are creating is very pretty. Having seen them appearing I went off to look on Amazon this week but they were not there. I didn't think about the actual Castle Arts web site!
You have either broken up by now or are in the last few days so I hope you have a lovely break in your new home. Do you have lots of gardening to do now? It looked like a steep garden. I thought I had got to the end of my planting for the year. Then on Thursday I went to a garden centre for 1 thing. Now I have to go out and start planting and yes, it's more than one thing. Plants are as bad as pencils for jumping into your basket.
I can see myself getting into gardening at some point but for now, my husband takes care of that! Holidays have started and so far it’s been nice but I’ve still not switched off from school fully, that will happen just before it’s time to go back, no doubt!
@@ColouringwithK It does take a long time to come down from stressful times.
Gardening has become interesting to me because I had a brand new big raised border to plan and I did it by choosing only to plant perennials that will come back year on year, using roses as the skeleton holding the boarder together and I used my colouring knowledge to pick the colour scheme and it's worked really well. It goes from yellow/orange/reds and white/cream at the top end and then morphed it into blues/mauve/pinks again with white and cream. I have 3 hours of help each summer week and this week Biddy said to me that she felt my colours were lovely and that the whole thing is very pretty. That meant a lot to me.
It's also a great stress-buster. You have to switch methods of thinking and focus to garden. I hope you get relaxed very quickly. You have had a big stressful year. Working hard and moving house. Those are big deals.
Beautiful colours,they haven’t reached Australia yet,we r always last so I will research them then.Thankyou K n Happy Colouring ❤
My pleasure 😊
I do like the look of these pencils - they would certainly fill a gap in my set(s). Thanks for showing!
You’re welcome 😊
Thanks K been trying to resist as the colours do appeal to me 🫣 nice seeing you do a little colouring 😅
Thank you!
This is so good, I love your reviews ☺☺
Thank you so much!
I received mine and bought a zippered holder for them. They are very nice.
I feel like these muted tones would be good for doing atmospheric perspective. Most of my pencils are very saturated colors its harder to get muted tones.
Good idea!
I purchased these and downloaded the coloring book and find them fabulous!
They are great pencils
Beautiful pencils ! Castle arts won’t ship to Canada ( boo !) so will have to wait until they appear on Amazon Canada . I agree about the theme of having the bunnies shopping for art supplies; that would be brilliant!❤ Thanks K !
Yes, definitely would be more of an interesting picture to colour for me, if they were shopping for art supplies
The colors of these pencils appear as slate shades which are different then you see in other sets. Which I can see using often. Thank you for sharing K. I don't understand why one can purchase the same books from other countries and the paper is better quality then from the US.
Yes, it’s odd, paper quality across countries does vary as they use different publishing companies
Lovely pencils I can’t wait until they become available hear in Australia
Hopefully they will be available soon
I wrote Castle Arts, and they will NOT come to their Amazon store or any where else. Only sold on their website...
@@CatColouring oh no,that’s really disappointing. 😞
@@ColouringwithK I quite agree, it's really too bad 😟
They are lovely colors. I don't quite get the "harmonious" thing, to me "muted" would have been a bit more apt. Castle Art is just way too expensive for what they are.. budget pencils with no open stock, that think way too highly of themselves. I would bet money Brutfuner is going to come out with a set as well, if they haven't already, at a much lower price and better performance. That is how it was with the pastels and the metallics.
That would be interesting, if Brutfuner come out with a similar range of pencils! I think Tooli art are similar in the sense that they are very overpriced but the colour range is so good, I think they end up getting away with it!
I got really frustrated with Amazon paper as well.. but I've learned a few techniques that work wonderfully, and ways to tell just what kind of Amazon paper it is.. because there are multiple different papers and you just never know what you are going to get. It's much harder if there are no flips or review photos.. but if there are you can generally tell by the color of the paper and the color/quality of the ink. Lines in the print, or a grey/taupe cast are a dead giveaway it's really awful. I find black backs tend to work much more poorly as well and avoid them. The more crisp dark print with a bright white paper is usable at least. There seem to be certain artists that produce on the really bad paper.. and although I've been told you only have two options, one of which being "premium" which is quite glossy and obvious, and almost always contains color ink somewhere... I have to wonder if Amazon is choosing paper based off the price point of the book? Books selling for around the $10 (USD) + mark seem to have the better paper. My go-to's are bases.. alcohol marker or my most recent new favorite, inktense or watercolor pencil blended with alcohol marker which gives no bleed through and no warping at all. You can use either alone as well, I did a page with nothing but the inktense that was lovely and left it just the way it was.... but I'm usually going back in with a bit of pencil for shadow and highlight to really take it up a notch... and of course some metallic, glitter, acrylic, etc pens for accents. Bases make it so much easier to get saturated color, and a smoother finish, with much less work. Now I'm working in a ton of Amazon books I avoided before, and have bought a few more as well.
Thanks for all the handy tips. I agree, I like using the Inktense with alcohol marker blender on Amazon paper with pencils on top, definitely the way to go, for me at least! Some of the Amazon paper is really terrible and if I can avoid it, I do!
Thanks for the video, Castle Art Website do not ship to Australia, and so far can’t find them on Amazon, interesting though I will keep looking.
Thanks for the info! I’m hoping they do eventually release on to Amazon as all their other pencils are available on there
I wonder if these colors are in their full set? I have the metallic and pastel tint set.
There may be a few similar colors, greys and such, but most are unique.
Where did you get these from
Too bad they don't ship to the Netherlands, only France and Germany besides UK. I hope they will become available on Amazon some day
I think they will be coming on to Amazon at some point
Unfortunately not, I wrote Castle Arts and they don´t plan on getting them on Amazon - only their own website and therefore only to UK, US German and French customers.
@@CatColouring Bummer, they don't know what they are missing out with all those customers not being able to order because of import taxes etc, they would reach so much more ppl if they'd sell through amazon
@@astrids1203 Yeah, I know - and I wrote exactly that to them and said that they discriminate all those who can't buy them.
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Take Care. Deb
Aww that’s fab to hear, thanks for subbing. I hope you enjoy the content and welcome 😊