ParKooWatercolor Brush Pens, 24 Colors Flexible Real Nylon Brush Tip Pens for Watercolor Painting, 1 Blending Brush, Paint Markers for Artists and Beginner Painters Coloring Books, Calligraphy

These brush pens are fantastic! The colors are beautiful. They work really well and are so easy to use. Price is good, too.

I bought these for an art project decorating canvas bags and they work perfectly. The colors are nice and bright. There is plenty of in and it doesn’t bleed. Everyone had fun using them and there is still a lot of ink left to do more projects.

I bought these for my daughter. She makes beautiful greeting cards and she says these watercolor pens make it easy to paint images, especially small images on small cards.

I'm ABSOLUTELY in LOVE with THESE, but a few important things you'll want to know going in: I know this review is long but most of it is directions/instructions as none were included, but very needed. So i think you'll be glad that you know them of you get this WONDERFUL set!I ended up reading every single review here about these Watercolor Brush Pens because as i set about taking them for a test drive i was quickly stumped! Especially about how to fill up the water brush, aka Blending Brush.I uncrewed the brush tip housing to see a stopper/reducer. I realized that even if i took the reducer out, it isn't likely a big enough of an opening to be fillable by pouring wàter into it. I felt i could fill it with a pipette or funnel IF i took that black stopper out (see photos if your not clear about what i mean).I was concerned that even IF i could figure out how to remove it, that it might break it, making the whole kit unusable as watercolor brush pens. So after reading the entire listing for ANY instructions I thought maybe or someone else might have said how they did it in their review. They did not. Maybe it would be obvious how to do it for everyone else in the world, but it took me a bit to figure it out.Actually judging by most of the negaive reviews, it seems like many who were unhappy with these may not have even realized that there was this Blending Brush to be filled with water to make them work as watercolors at all. So thats another point i wanted to make here for future buyers.If you use the brush pens without the water filled Blending Brush, then they are just buildable markers with a fantastic brush tip. The Blending Brush filled with water is what allows you to add water and blend them nicely as watercolors do so nicely - though i do still recommend approaching this as an entirely new medium as they still work very differently and you'll want to develop your techniques.You could grab a watercolor paint brush and dip it in water to do a lot of the same effects, but not all. This is definitely easier and more convenient. But because you are not mixing the paint with the water before laying the paint on your canvas or paper, its different and i recommend experimenting to see how you will get the effects that you want.Okay, so back to filling the water pen brush (which just looks like a white pen at the far end of the set) here's what I figured out and worked beautifully for me. I unscrewed the brush head, as you see in my photos. Then with a full water glass next to me, i squeezed the body of it, and dipped the head into the water upside down and let go. That caused the water to be sucked up into the body of it. Then I held it right side up again, squeezed and repeated the putting it upside down into the water and let go for more water to be drawn into the body. It's not at all difficult to squeeze. i would say I had to do the squeeze while right side up, dip it in the water inverted and let go of the squeeze to draw up the water,between 5 to 8 times to fill it completely. Sorry I couldn't describe all of that with less words, but I did the best I could to make it clear - being consise is not my forte.The other advice I will share is to have some tissues or paper towels on hand as you will want to clean off that water brush regularly throughout the time you are working with these. Originally I didn't wipe it off well quickly and then it took a bit of work to get the paint completely out of that brush.What seemed the best thing to do for me was to have the water brush always also in my hand or at the ready. Depending on how wet you want that brush, you put the appropriate amount of pressure to make it as wet as you'd like. Then if I was changing colors, or if there would be time passing before I used it again, I would wipe that brush, then squeeze out a bit of water onto my tissue, which also runs that water through the brush, cleaning it somewhat just in that process and then wipe it again, and repeat if necessary.Also important, anytime you use one color over another color, quickly wipe off your brush so that you're not cross contaminating the brush of that pen. Ex. If you lay some yellow down on top of a blue to green it up, wipe the tip of your yellow brush so that it won't become a green brush, or at least not give you green the next time you go to use it.It sounds like a lot just because I'm trying to describe it clearly enough that you won't have to figure it out yourself as I did, but it is actually faster and easier than working with traditional watercolors, and less mess as well as you can do it anywhere. Airplane, car, anywhere you could color with markers, you're all set of you water brush is full.Now, my actual review of these Watercolor Brush Pens: its probably obvious that the reason I took off one star was because of the lack of needed instructions.If I didn't LOVE everything else about these soo much, or if I hadn't learned about the water brush as I was looking at all of the different sets of them while I was shopping on Amazon for this set, I probably would have given an unhappy 2 star review.I chose THIS set because, as you can probably tell by my nail polish, (which i made myself btw, and show how, including my recipes on my channel) I'm seriously passionate about purples!! And this set, hands down, had the most and the best purples (based on the photos in the listing).And let me say, that in person, they did not disappoint!!! In fact, I would say that all of the colors actually exceeded my expectations. And with watercolors especially, the quality of the colors, is of the utmost importance because so much of the magic of watercolors is in the blending of colors. Really exceptional in that department!I originally went searching for creative projects to do with my 10 year old twin nieces, who were coming for a 10 day visit, and I thought this would be fun. We'll, let me tell you that I'm sooo glad that I also bought some acrylic marker/brush pens as backup because when I saw these, I selfishly hid them away from them before they could even see them and want to play with MYYYYY new watercolor brush pens!!! I love them sooo much that I'm just not willing to share them!!This would seriously be a 10 star review if not for the lack of instructions which i consider to be necessary. In fact, if the maker/seller of these sees this review, my advice to them is that they not only include instructions, buy also include tips.Heres some of my tips: if you want a very light flush of even color, like the blue background of the painting I put up photos of here - which was totally just a practice page for me for learning this new medium - then start by wetting the paper. Then I shook out a few drops into the cap of the blue brush pen, and squeezed some water into it from the water brush. I then dipped the brush into that and used it to get a super light and even coat of blue from that.Using these is so different from traditional watercolor paints where you mix the water and paint before applying them, that I'm actually considering making a short tutorial on how to use these on my channel because i figured out so many great cool tricks that would be hard (and looong) to try to describe in written form, but super easy to visually demonstrate. It seems to me, by the negative reviews, that this would open up a new option that people would love and enjoy en masse. The maker or seller might want to consider having a short video showing some basics here on Amazon. I would be happy to make one for them if they want because I'm now such a HUGE fan! Idk how anything like that works, but i invite them to reach out to me if they think they might want that.So, would i recommend this item to others? ABSOLUTELY!! If you're getting these for some youngsters, you might want to grab two sets, because you'll want a set thats all your own! Lol! With all of that said... I hope that my review and photos were helpful to you.💜💜💜

Wow, these are great watercolor markers. I bought them for a kid, and then ended up keeping them. These are inexpensive markers, priced for kids or beginners, I wasn’t expecting much. I was pleasantly surprised by the quality. I am using them to make greeting cards. The color from these markers is rich and vibrant. You can control the saturation to dilute it, by dipping the tip of the marker directly into water, or by wetting the paper first, or by painting over the color with water using a paintbrush. You can can get really dense saturation, or a pale wash, or anywhere in between. The colors blend really nicely. They are probably not “light fast” as these are not professional grade — I don’t know, you’d need to check on that detail if you’re concerned about preservation. For the short term, these are great. Very easy to use, the colors are so rich, the marker tips make for easy application. Art supplies can get really expensive. These are incredible pens in the affordable price range.

I love these, they have lasted forever for me, they're going out now but I've used them consistently for months making cards and having them to color, they were a good price too. The ends never frayed like some other pens I've bought even when it started running out of ink, I would order these again.

Vibrant colors that respond well to water, even on terrible paper. Brush tips are super soft and responsive; more like actual paintbrushes than typical brush markers. These will be perfect for adding in details to larger pieces.

They're decent brush pens but I found in my experience that they dried too quickly and I was not able to achieve the color palette and blend I wanted because I couldn't activate them with water after putting them down on the watercolor paper. Frustrating buy. Never again for this brand.