NEW 28 Derwent Inktense Colors -- Was it Worth the Wait (and Cost)? 

A hair dryer should help with those sticker labels. Usually doesn't need to be too warm for the "glue" to release. Thanks for showing these off! Can't wait until they are more readily available in the US!

Great demo 🎉 Since I’m impatient and don’t want to wait for open stock in the U.S. I just ordered these from Cult Pens. Can’t wait to see you use the new colors in a painting ❤

I got mine from Cult Pens yesterday. Oooh that beautiful smell when I opened my mailbox. I also ordered a bunch of lumis, pablos and polys open stock. You got free shipping on orders over $135 so I was trying to get there. I went a bit over but 🤷🏼‍♀️I agree with you on most of the colors. Sugar plum stood out right away but I was kind of let down after I saw your swatches. I have to take my stickers off and swatch them myself. I’m a little busy coloring a mermaid at the moment. Thank you for sharing!

I noticed Blick now has the 100 set on the website available sometime next week. So I'm hoping they will have open stock around the same time. Full set syndrome, so I'll need them all. 😂

I got my 28 Inktense today too! love them and spent all afternoon reswatching them ! ❤️🥰 happy dance!!!

I’ve just watched Lisa at Lachri Fine Art paint a gorgeous painting with Inktense. Not the new colours, but my goodness she is good with this medium. It’s also great to hear you using Cult Pens. Such an awesome U.K. shop, who somehow started life as an SQL database company!

Haven't been able to find them yet where I live, but I'll definitely be getting all 28, my full-set-syndrome won't let me pass up on any of them. 😂

Hi Kori, long time…I received my new 28 Inktense last week but I wasn’t home!😎 I love all the new colors but I do agree with you on the like colors. I fell in love with most of the colors but Amethyst I about died for, it’s so beautiful! It’s really lovely to have 100 Inktense, even if some colors are alike. As always, Kori you did an excellent review…Thank you so much!

I will get mine at CultPens. I look forward to Sunday!😘TFS

I love Inktense! Full set syndrome- I’ll need all 28 lol

Thank you so much for putting out this video! I only recently learned that Derwent added some new colors to their Inktense line. Seeing the comparison between existing colors and the new colors quickly made me realize that I don't need the full set of 28, so I ordered the 12 that most appealed and saved myself $30! :-)

I will definitely get a few(Malibu, light amethyst and the mint green) open stock! Thank you for doing the large swatch chart. 🎉❤ I totally concurred with your pro/nay choices 😂

Thanks for the review! I just ordered the new set of 28 from Cult pens with your link. I just want to add, in case some folks may not know, that Blick carries a delightful little Derwent Inktense pastel palette with 12 colors. It comes with a little travel size water pen and a sponge you can wet to clean it. The lighter colors were definitely needed.

I'm waiting my roll to arrive, very impatient! :D I found the Inktense -series paper on a sale bin in January - even half off it was expensive, so I haven't really used it yet, but maybe swatching all hundred colors would be just the thing... Can't wait to see what you'll color with these! :)

Thank so much for Linking to cult pens. I have been dying to get my hands on them but didn’t know where to find them Mine Are on the way! Yippie 😊

Thank you so much for sharing where we can get them! I am going to get these ASAP! Your videos rock always enjoy them! Have a super weekend!

Really love them... Got my set from CultPens a few days ago. The labels came off super easy with just using my finger nail and didn't leave residue..yay!

Thank you for sharing your opinion. I agree with your choices for open stock as I found I had to mix with my Museum Aquarelle. Like you I don’t want to mix. I go straight to paper. I’ll tell Claire thank you too. Both swatch sheets are helpful but in totally different ways so I greatly appreciated your showing us both. Blessings Nancy Rolfe

I bit the bullet Kori! I’ve been wanting the entire lot of these since I heard they were coming out. I thought about getting only the ones you suggested but then FSS happened and I really like the case they come in. Only one more set on my list to get and I’m trying to talk myself out of them (Holbeins). Ugh!

Seems like they needed a pastel or tint set, and some grays.

Beautiful colours.. I’m waiting on mine to arrive can’t wait thank you kori for this upload 🥰

Thanks for showing

Thanks for your review. I would be interested to see how each colour washes out. I find that when i lay down the colours they are very vibrant and strong, and i like to see what it is like when more water to the wash. As you say a small swatch is great to see the colours all together.

Thank you for this. I think I’ll just get the Malibu, Flamingo and Lapis.❤

Awesome video ya after seeing multiple swatches I realized I only wanted a few of the new colors ! I don’t need so many blues, yellows and reds lol! Im excited mainly the greens , browns and malibu . That Jungle color was sorely missed in the okd set goad they finally added and “normal” type green. Hopefully blick will get them soon

Hi! Ive been putting off watching because i was afraid.😂 FFS gotta have them all. Thanks for the review girl.

Thanx Kori. Looking forward to getting them when they're in the US.

Ordered mine today from Cult Pens,Thankyou Kori ❤️

I just run off Claire's charts on 11 x 17 fit to print...gets the job done. I hate writing out names of pencils so I appreciate Claire's Charts so much. They are the best out there, the most intuitive organization system and she has done most professional sets except Derwent Lightfast (but Barbara Colour was inspired by her and to put them in order similar to Claire's method but in spheres so I just made a chart like Claire's with that organization. Swatch charts are an invaluable learning tool.

I just bought mine from Cult pens! Thanks for the info on these! I can't wait to get them!! 😁👍

I have no plans to but the pencils but you have inspired me to pull out my Intense pan set again and give them another try.

I think I'll get them all eventually. I've got the natural brown coming tomorrow I hope. I added it to an order to get over the line for no shipping, so that was perfect. I guess it's what I'll do with all of them, and now I know which ones to order first. Thanks for the comparison!

I am tempted to get the new colors! 💜

Thank you for comparing the sheet is truly helpful 🥰

💖💛💜💙got all ink tense pencils LOVE LOVE LOVE

GAH, I was trying to hold out for either Blick or Jackson's art for open stock, but I caved. I ordered from Cult pens. I justified it with myself because it comes in such a nice little wrap. Perfect for taking your colors on the go if you are working on something. Such a sale out. HA.. TFS!

I just got my set today but sad to see a couple pencils were missing from the roll. Contacted them and will await the missing pencils to arrive. Swatched the ones i receieved out in my "Painter's Color Diary" and they are vivid as usual. Agree with your assessment about the new colors. My faves are amethyst, gold, and Lapis.

I'm so happy for you that you were able to get those. Maybe someday I will be able to get more than just the 12 set of inktense. As it stands I really don't use them because I don't have the kind of colors that I would although I would just love to be able to add them to my arsenal of art supplies.

FYI for all, I just phoned Blick to ask if they expect to have these new colors open stock at any point in the foreseeable future, and they said no.

Had to go order before even finishing the video🎉

I ordered these the first day they opened up the preorder and mine are still not here. 😩 Lucky you! I’m sure mine will be here in a day or so….I hope.😃 I too picked up this color chart from Claire…I can’t wait!

Edit..I see the link 😂 Do they sell them individually? I have been using my inktense on both my Chinese traditional painting AND western style-primarily for permanent backgrounds I can paint over. If you use them as much as I do, I’m sure you know about the textured Caran D’Arche Palette? Scribble some inktense, add a drop of water & paint! 😁. Add more paint into the wet, or more water. Also, since I’ve given away (“loans” apparently no longer exist) all but two of my Chinese ink stones..(including an elaborately carved antique ink stone I try not to use and if I do, I only use my best black ink sticks on it)…but I also have a collection of antique colored ink sticks-not many, all made from natural minerals, they stick mostly to primaries. The problem is these colored ink sticks are tough on my ink stones; that was how I discovered the textured palette. Then, inktense opened the door to SO much more! Because of the “traditional color scandal” currently going on in China; I’ve got 2 older professors now using inktense. In fact, a few weeks ago a Govt official criticized Dr Chen for not using traditional sticks and/or chips/paint in one of his recent renovations in the Forbidden City. Myself and others happily replied that if the Govt would classify traditional paints as an intangible cultural heritage-as they’ve done for all other traditional materials; MAYBE these huge companies, who until the past 5-10yrs had made ONLY traditional paints, would go back to the high quality paints & pigments they were known for for over 400yrs. But..the western market they branched into is so profitable, even with an ICH classification, they’ll do what some brush makers have done and move the factory out of China (there ARE still high quality, humanely produced Chinese brushes, my brilliant late Son spent 2 days with one and I have some brushes made just for me, including a goat brush from a spring haircut of a young goat and my favorite horse hair brush, made from the artists own horse-a spring trimming of her mane and hair. My rabbit hair brush, from the artist’s wife’s collection of long-haired rabbits..a BIT harder to paint with…for me). Anyways, the topic of paints being protected and overseen was brought up in the People’s congress in Feb and we think it might get its classification before the end of the year. While they don’t allow lobbying or things like political donations..billionaires like the owners of Marie’s, and the parent company of Paul Ruben’s and Super-Vision, still have more power than they should. But, artists, professors, students and other artists who happily adhere to their over a thousand years of art material production..THEY also have a loud voice right now. Even the famous Spring Festival Gala in Jan had a 5-minute dance, music and 3-D beautiful computer generated background…on Traditional Chinese Colors..kind of a nudge…it’s just not old ladies in the US Poconos with big mouths! 😂 Although I DO still have my antique ink sticks and paints and chips I got before the quality plummeted..I’ve spent almost a year experimenting with western materials to find those I can either use on xuan paper without any added binders (inktense) OR paint we can use with slight adaptations..(Rosa’s gallery, using brush water with some dissolved mingjiao..a “fish glue”, odorless, made from fish bones, was used in almost all Asian paints until Vegans screamed of the inhumanity of using thrown out fish bones from restaurants & factories…no offense to civil vegans and vegetarians. I’m primarily a vegetarian, which is why my son spent 2 days with the brush maker. 😂) PLEASE let us know if we can find any of these pencils in singles..VERY interested in the pale pink & purple! I’ve been mixing my carmine pink & white..but just can’t get it where I want, ditto for the purple. Also that blue.. 😍. A pale blue is a bit easier to achieve..but in my traditional paintings, my “mineral blue”, kind of a non-granulating (when using my paint chips or tubes..my ink stick has granulation if I need it) cerulean, is what I normally fall back on. Actually, my chips & ink stick, according to Prof Chen, are made with Lapiz and in mass tone, are much more vibrant than the paint..which he says has some chalk mixed in. Still though, haven’t found a western eqivilant

I saw them on Cult Pens. I really had to talk myself down cause that shipping cost....whew! Going to try to hold off, but appreciate your feedback!

Ooh these are colors I need!

Thank you so much for showing 💚 I love hearing your thoughts on them. I do have theses, and I think they are worth it. There are a few I'd probably not buy open stock, but most of them I definitely would get. Though I think they still miss some natural greens and browns, like for example terracotta. But this is better then nothing and when it comes to Inktense, I take what I get😂

If the sticker glue doesn't release go over it with gamasol or a similar product. Remember a little bit of that goes a long ways.

Are these additional colors outside of the 100 count set??

I watched a few videos like this trying to decide which colors to buy. When I made up my mind I was leaving I think 6 colors out. Then I went to order from Cult Pens and the total of the ones I wanted open stock was less than $5 away from the full 28, so I ended up buying them all since I also got the nice roll which I'm thinking I can use for the Graphitint (whenever I pick those up lol).

Thanks! comparisons help me know which colors I want when they are available as singles in the U.S. markets Paprika, Flamingo, Amethyst, Mint, the two blues (sea breeze, Malibu) .. Lapis, Lime green, Jungle Green, Olivine, Gold, all the browns, and the two greys...or may as well get them all :0) p.s. so shipping from cult pens to u.s. is $20 for this item? I have never ordered from cult pens is why I ask and someone else here seemed to be saying $20.

These are pretty new colors for sure. I have the 36 count set. Once I practice and get better using them I will most likely order a bigger set when on sale. Where can I find the swatch sheet that you used since I also prefer the larger swatch area (squares) I am looking forward to your live tomorrow! Thank you and TFS.

These are so pretty=3

Great review don’t think I need all 100 colours

I did mine yesterday! Now I must see if we agree! 😂😂😂

I ordered from Cult Pens but have not received yet.

Thanks for sharing. My set arrived yesterday. I had printed out the color chart fro Colour with Claire and when I swatched mine out, the printed lines blead everywhere. Could you please share what you used to print your charts out? I'd love to know so I can redo mine. Thanks in advanced

Am I missing something? I’ve scanned everywhere and can’t find the link to the chart?? Please help me find it. My new babies came in and id love to have that swatch chart.

Hi, I like your review, I just received my 28 new colours of inktense pencils from Cultpens. I would like to know how to get a swatch card for the 28 new colours.

Got mine today😀

Cool 😎

I’do❤❤

Amen ❤❤

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We agreed on most!!!!

Where did ou get the pencil holder from?

Oh yeah. I think I’ll take your advice and wait for Jackson’s to get them and have a sale….lol

Thanks for the comparison! How long did it take you to get your order from cult pens?

I heard it problems when you sharpen them Derwent intense pencils

Derwent is pricy but they make great products. This is bad for my wallet because I want all of them.

What kind of paper are you printing your chart on?

Where do you orders these from ?

Oo❤❤

I’m still at that stage of “what do I need all these grays for?” Yeah, cringe! But those blue greens and the lighter colors I want!!!

I have full set syndrome so as so these are available in the US I am snatching them up! Thanks for sharing!

No Fair! What is this i see? Is that Kori with the new inktense pencils? Here in the US? Who dares to dazzle us with 28 new inktenss colors? The UK RU-vidrs have all been popping up with these and im really trying to be patient! Im sure the new pencils will soon be available here in the US. But for now,( unless youre Kori )unless you order directly from Derwent or Cult pens and dont mind paying the hefty shipping fee from the UK to the Us, youll just have to sit tight and be jealous like me! Unless youre Kori! 😂Lol thanks for sharing with us.

Blick has the 100 set..😂 349!!$ not today 😅

🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉yessssssssss... so nice gotta watch it twice 😂😂