Art Supplies I Regret Buying. Don't Waste Your Money! 

I like the Faber Castell textliners. They are not supposed to be opaque. They are textmarkers/highlighters to use on text. The nib seems standard size for the purpose 🙂

If you want to use the water soluble part of the Gelatos, put some color down onto a piece of palette paper or plastic and then give it a spritz of water. This will activate the solubility and allow you to use them like that. I use the Gelatos often in my mixed media art by using them to outline parts of a painting, make marks and then wet the mark to activate and make the mark bolder. I also like to make backgrounds by laying down a couple of different colors on a piece of plastic, giving it a spray, and then smushing my papers around onto the colors. They actually produce a lot of color and will make great backgrounds for my pieces. I hope this helps and that you might give them another try.

You seem like a lovely person and I love that you create. However, most of your complaints are due to user error. Big Box store brands and chinese drop shipment items are pretty universally trash bin ready from the time of manufacture. So Lesson learned. You cannot blame the product when you fail to read the label. Those markers are highlighters, nib and opacity both standard for the type of product.The standard artist markers are super cheap. You paid for 3 markers less than one quality marker goes for. In short, buy quality name brands, know what the product is designed to do, read the packaging. All that said, good on you for putting yourself out there and creating art and making videos.

If you use cotton water colour paper or a palette, the gelatos will work. I have all the gelatos work with me. The gelatos are high end believe it or not. Sorry they didn’t work for you. There are a lot of videos to help you use the gelatos better. Keep creating 💛💜💙

Neocolors are like my favorite art supply 😂 i love them so so much

Whenever I have non toxic art products that don't work for me, I donate them to a local elementary school or one of their affiliated assiciations. In the US we get tax credit for donations to non profit organization and small children enjoy working with art products even if the quality isn't good. I've been told that some senior organizations welcome them as well.

I stay out of Hobby Lobby altogether.

I use the Gelatos dry and they blend very well. Check out some videos on ways to use Gelatos. Karen Valentine has a good video on how she uses them.

Gelatos are awesome, you just have to learn how to use them.

Thanks for the video! If I had found most of this I would have possibly bought them, specially the sunny water soluble pastel, they look pretty. I do have the caran daché but they are sooooo expensive in my country that it hurts my heart every time I use them!!! I remember I had the Faber castel markers in my hand once but happily did not buy them!! Love from Chile!

Thanks for sharing your opinion! I disagree about the Gelatos. I love them. Have been using them for years.

I've seen those faber castell markers and thought "there's no way those are metallic". Glad I found a video showing how they look!

I deleted previous comment meaning to update. As noted - you can look up individual pigments online. Here was the important part I forgot: hoe pigments are treated in processing has fair big impact. The same pigment can produce colors a bit bit different - example - a blue pigment treated differently creates different structure - which can result in say a blue with a green undertone, or treated a different way can create a pure blue. It can also affect lightfastness to some degree. So when you look up pigments online - it's often incomplete information. You will find seemingly contradictory ratings for some pigments. This goes to how they are treated in the process. So to some degree you have to trust the brand is reporting accurately - how the paint factory is treating the pigments for a particular color. Masters Touch is a pretty decent rugged paint. I've rolled up test strips for 7 years and soaked in water for a week. Remained flexible and unaffected. It really sounds like you used a neon color - given the fading. Neon colors have very poor lightfastness.

I agree

When you buy art supplies, you get what you pay for!

I agree with those temu water crayon thing I do agree it’s horrible.. I have the full set of neo colours 2 the full set.. thanks you for your video too

Nothing is like Neocolor other than Neocolor. But I loove the Sunny pastels and use them as an underlayer for drawings with my water-resistant Neocolor Is in my sketchbook (I imagine the Sunny are not lightfast, so I'd rather not waste my more expensive ad more lightfast Neo IIs in the sketchbook). I bought 3 packs of them because I love them and the tin so much (I plan to use it as a travel tin form my Neo II when I run out of Sunnys). They are so incredibly cheap they offer really great value for people wanting to try water-soluble pastels and get 25 colours to play with. They are better than the Mungyos IMO. I was so impressed with them I looked the company up and they seem to mainly make children's art products that they white label to other companies (they mention Lidl as a client - they are a supermarket chain here in Europe) so I imagine this is what they are meant to be, but I love how they perform for the price! I am about to start postgrad studies to become an Art Therapist and I think these will get put to good use, for that too - if I ever need art supplies for clients I will probably get some of these as they are quite versatile! I think it helps with the marks you mention if you use them (and other water-soluble drawing media) on hot pressed watercolour paper and test a bunch of different papers out. I personally really love Clairfontaine bamboo paper specifically for water-soluble markers, pastels and pencils (but not so much for actual watercolour as it's not cotton paper and behaves differently). Stuff like pastels, pencils, etc... seems to dissolve with no marks and felt tip pens like Tombows or Ecoline reactivate like a dream on it, and the paper seems to take quite a lot of scrubbing from even the Ecoline pens without pilling. On the other hand, already having a bunch of water-soluble oil/wax pastels (Talens, Mungyo, Lyra, Neocolor, Sunny,...) I see zero point in spending a hefty fee for Gelatos. They always struck me as a (re)marketing gimmick (children's product rebranded as art material, but with added markup, unlike with, say, the Sunnys) and so wasteful...

I think the struggle you are having with the Gelatos is that you are expecting them to behave like watercolors and they are not meant to be watercolors. They are much more analogous to oil pastels. You can get watercolor effects from them, for sure, but you shouldn't expect them to just smoothly dissolve into water like a watercolor paint. That isn't what they are for. I would not say they are top of the line, but they are actually a pretty high quality product, if your expectations align with their intended use case. Even top of the line products like Neocolor IIs will show their marks if they are applied too thickly to the dry paper and get stuck in the tooth, and the thick and sticky texture of the Gelatos makes that a foregone conclusion. You just have to know and expect that and use them accordingly. I don't often want a smooth, transparent effect from the Gelatos, because I have other better materials for that purpose, but I do have one iridescent color that makes a beautiful gradient, and to get that effect, I apply the pigment to a ceramic palette and apply it from there with a wet brush. Or, I will just take a wet brush to the tip of the crayon. I apply them directly to paper when I want to use them like an oil pastel and I blend them with a lightly-damp brush just wet enough so they will melt into each other for a smooth and opaque blend. I rarely draw lines with the crayons, but if I do it will be because I specifically want textured lines that will show up clearly, and this is usually a top layer. The vast majority of what I would use these for is on the top layer of a project. I use my Neocolor IIs similarly, the difference being the texture is waxy rather than sticky at the end.

The Blue Faber Castell are excellent , as are the Caran Dashe , gelatos products. There is a learning curve. Please watch some videos on the on how to use the products for best results.

I love my Gelatos I I only have a few left, but I got them a few years ago maybe they changed the formula?

What I regret buying is the Acrylic paint set from Five Below that has the metallics, black and white. They are super chalky. Really bad paint. You can't even mix it with your other paints it makes them chalky and gunky. I do love Masters Touch but I have only tried the permanent red paint from that brand. It has never fainted or anything, maybe it is most of their other colors, very strange.

Hmm, were there any light fastness information on the tubes? If the purple only has one out of three stars, for example, then you could check before you buy whether they have sufficient light fastness or not. I like the painting regardless too, interesting look.🙂

I bought the gold faber castel felt and I agree it is not metallic, it is like a highlighter so was disappointed in it.

Hobby Lobby has been replacing all the brand name products in their stores with their own brand and the majority of it is absolute trash! It's made it easier for me to stay out of their stores because they never have anything I need. Michaels was starting to do the same, but last time I went a bunch of it was in the clearance bins. 😂 I'm glad they got the message and went back to the higher quality materials.

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Coloured pencils are a problem - avoid the cheap ones because they always break, or the colours are very washed out. That washed out acrylic paint that lost it's colour though was brutal - I've never seen an acrylic paint go that bad before.

I don't think highlighters are supposed to be opaque, but they are way more glittery than metallic.

If you want a decent series 1 use Sennelier Abstract

Thank you for the video I have heard good and bad things about the gelatos, I think it’s just depends on what you’re trying to get out of them and how much you use them, they do have a high learning curve. The basics line from Liquitex is a very good low end or beginner paint. Now it’s not as good as their professional Line. I am also going to say look at your labels and light fast ratings, if they don’t have those ratings don’t waste your money.

Gelatos are awesome. I trust Faber-Castell quality wise, though some of their products are a miss. All the others are super cheap brands that are not worth the money.

Faber-Castell They have their art supplies divided into 3 colored coded options: RED packages are designed for kids BLUE packages are designed for crafters/students GREEN packages are designed for professionals 😉

You should give them away to others who would appreciate them.

watch videos of people demonstrating products and how to use them before buying or just do some research before buying

if you want top quality buy Copic

Why would you expect cheap TEmu trash to be equal to Professional level supplies?

I would be interested in buying your gelatos if you decide to sell them.

Wrong paper for your Gelatos. They work well on the right paper.

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Are you willing to give away the art supply that you regret buying. Because I would like to try the gelato Water soluble crayons, and the water soluble crayons that you got from Timo.

I can only guess that anything that is Hobby Lobby’s own brand is junk. For acrylic paint, it pays to get a good brand, especially white. I worked at an art supply store when I graduated from art school and mostly, I found that you get what you pay for. Most of the art supplies I regret buying are some type of marker - they are expensive, I really don’t use them correctly and I just get annoyed. I haven’t bought oil pastels in many years but I suspect that I would regret buying those.

All the arts and crafts stores such as Hobby Lobby and Michael's etc. have been phasing out their name brand art supplies in favor of their house brands for the last 2 or 3 years. Those house brands are all of poor quality. I only get name brand supplies online now.