Watercolor Journey #4: Derwent Inktense Pencils

Happy Wednesday! I hope everyone had a fantastic Halloween! On today’s post I will be covering the Derwent Inktense Color Pencils. These color pencils are one of my favorite watercoloring mediums! I find them easy to use and vibrant.

To start with I wanted to show you what the colors look like, so I created a color chart. I have the set that comes with 24 pencils. In the color chart below, you can see how vibrant the colors are after applying water. I always get excited when I color with these pencils because the vibrant color from the pencil shows only after applying water! I glued the color chart I made to the lid of the color pencils’ container for future reference.

For my watercoloring project, I performed the following steps:

Stamped the large floral image from Simon Says Stamps “Floral Bliss” clear stamp set using VersaFine Black ink.
Clear heat embossed the large floral image using clear Ranger ultra fine embossing powder. Note: I personally do not like using Black embossing powder. I find that using black ink for stamping and then using clear embossing powder gives me cleaner results.
Colors the image using the Inktense color pencils and a water pen. Colors used: 0200, 1700, 0300, 0400, 0600, 1600, and 2000. To color the image, I applied the color where I wanted my shadows to be (darkest areas) and dragged the color to the rest of the image using my watercolor pen.

To turn my watercolor piece into a card, I cut down the focal image to be 5.5” by 3.25”. I used items that came in the Simons Says Stamps June 2017 Blissful kit: the stripes pattern paper and the black color cardstock. In addition, I stamped the sentiment from the Painted Harvest Stampin Up set in VersaFine Black ink and added some black twine. See the final card below:

Overall I just love the fall colors of this card! It is definitely one of my favorite cards. The pencils are amazing to work with and I found them super easy to use. I definitely recommend these!

Bonus Picture: Check out our Halloween pumpkins!!! Had such a great time with my husband and one year old baby boy this Halloween!