I love the rich colours of this ink stick. My old ink stone was not worthy of this beautiful smooth ink stick but I couldn’t wait until my new stone arrived before I tried it. I expect it will be even better with my new ink-stone that just arrived.
Highly impressed at the quality and rich color of these Sumi ink sticks! Long lasting, easy to use, beautiful phoenix design! They come with a nice, lined case to store them! Perfect for beginners or experts! Very competitively priced! The Xuan paper included is a very large size, and a great gift! Very professional color kit!
Color Ink Sticks Extraordinaire!
I own this set of color ink sticks from Inkston. I enjoy using these sticks very much. Grinding the color sticks is a meditation for me getting my mind ready to paint. I enjoy this Asian painting tradition. The color you get from these ink sticks is beautiful and strong. Well worth the time of grinding. Inkston is a wonderful company as well. Their products are top quality and they answer any question. I can give them and this product my highest recommendation. You will need an ink stone for grinding your ink as well. I have attached a photo of one of my ink grinding stones.
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Vraiment très satisfaite de ces encres de qualité supérieure
Les couleurs sont très belles
Je recommande à tous ceux qui aiment le beau
Old Hu Kai Wen Natural Mineral Colours.
I like the colour inksticks very much, they catch the eye, are easy to grind and have rich bright colours with a sophisticated natural look.
You can see immediately that they are high pigmented.
The colours also blend together beautifully!
Pongo 5 estrellas pero el producto merece muchas más.
Las doce barras de colores minerales, son de una calidad extraordinaria. La presentación de lujo. Con esa base de madera realizada a la medida. Insuperable.
En estos momentos he podido probar cuatro de las barras. El resultado está a la altura de las mejores acuarelas europeas. Los colores son algo menos vivos, pero su calidez y espíritu añejo los convierte en únicos. Voy a preparar tinta y a mezclar la entre sí ( diferentes barras de color) , intuyo que los tonos resultantes pueden ser ILIMITADOS.
El embalaje y la entrega perfectos.
Muchas gracias.
Este tipo de productos son EMOCIONANTES.
UN AUTÉNTICO TESORO. !
I have tried the colors on a Red Star double sheet of Xian paper and found that the reds and blues are augmented with a soluble color that bleeds from the basic stroke. the greens only slightly adulterated while the gold yellow is greatly soluble. The chocolate brown. possibly made with a red, bleeds a red color also.
The colors are good but one must allow for the migrating color.
added later,
I must apologize for leading you into believing that the Hu inks bleed!!
It was a mistake in using the Red Star Double paper, which has a open
‘weave’ that allows very small particles of pigment to diffuse away from a
stroke. When I used two machine made and pressed papers the amount of
diffusion was less on one and not at all on the other. Both of the last
papers have a more ‘closed’ but absorbent nature and would have shown
bleeding if it were there.
I apologize to both you and the ink makers at Hu Kaiwen again for my
error.
Daisy Caban
Beautiful colors. Bright red and indigo. Interesting Beige (Grayish) many possibilities.