Faber-Castell Gelatos Colors Set, Metallics - Water Soluble Pigment Crayons

Colors with a subtle shine in your beloved Gelatos, can't beat them if you're a Gelatos fan! The first thing I did as usual was to try them out by making my own color chart and this collection is awesome! Some of the colors are non-metallic offered in other collections such as "Grape" and "Melon" but the metallic formula gives a sweet subtle yet attractive shine to the basic available colors. And an added benefit I like is that they're smoother and easier to blend with just your finger alone (I love that simply because I don't have to run around trying to find a blending tool - I can just use my finger and it blends so well. So far I've only used my Gelatos for stamping; spray the stamp with a mist of water, apply the Gelato like a crayon, spray another quick fine mist and stamp! What you get is a beautiful "watercolor" image that can be further blended if so desired! My next endeavor will be to slice a sliver off then add a little water to my palette tray and paint a flower or fill in a stamped image....& after that take another slice to concoct a colored spray to ink an ATC tag and design a shiny base background! These are a fabulous color medium for countless projects and the possibilities are endless. And for less than $21, this is an unbeatable deal and a dynamic way to add more color to so many crafts. (I would also recommend these for kids too, they're that versatile and easy to use - as long as said kid isn't in the "eating crayons" stage!) highly recommend and would buy again!

I love gelatos and these work beautifully. Very pigmented and creamy

These are amazing!!! So versatile and so great to add to my abstract floral to fix an oopsie or mellow an area that is too busy. They blend amazing and have great pigment to brighten up an area as well. These are a new must!! Try them!

I was hoping to be able to just pop off the cap and run a water-filled brush around the top of the product until it mixed to a creamy consistency, then apply to the page. This works only with the darkest, most saturated of the "gelato" colors; the pale green barely registers on the page this way, being one of the more delicate colors in the collection, and most of them are delicate and pastel. In order to get as much as the pigment is going to give, the crayon should be applied directly to the paper and only then worked with the waterbrush. Another way to go is as shown on the seller page: slice a piece off the top onto your palette, then work it into desired pigment saturation with a little water. The less water, the more saturated the color will be, but again, most of these metallics do not yield much pigment and go on as pastel; I would characterize most of the colors as shimmery in effect rather than metallic. For heavier pigment, I recommend the reasonably priced collections (brand name starts with an "M") of crayon "pastels" in darker colors, and especially recommend the " vintage" color set (the larger set does not contain enough differing colors to make purchase of both necessary, and colors can be mixed as necessary). Back to the "gelatos" under review: they are pretty, delicate and shimmery, and will find their uses (mainly as background washes), but they are not true metallics, and seem to contain more wax than pigment.

This is a very easy and fun product to use. I purchased the iridescent pack and was pleased with the sheen of the mica. I've found that some iridescents have too much mica and some too little, so this was a nice Goldilocks. These are used wet or dry. I like to blend dry and then go over using a wet brush for blending colors. I'm glad I purchased these.

I’ve been using Gelatos on and off for years, and they always have been consistent in quality and performance. You can do so much with them—I like to mix with a little water and blot with sponges or tissues. Gelatos can be hard to find! So I was excited to try the metallics when they were on sale. In the above pics, I mixed them with black ink, white ink, and colored pencil in my Bible journaling for a “galaxy” feel. Buy these—you won’t regret it!

These were recommended by my instructor and I am glad that I ordered these gelatos.

They are ok. Pretty colors.

You need to get a set of these. Period.

El producto llegó antes, bien empacado sin maltrato en el manejo. Me encantaron los gelatos, además de que los encontré en muy buen precio! Muchas gracias!

Beautiful colors goes on smoothly I love using them in my journal

Schöne Farben, verwendbar für schnelle kleine Kärtchen, Lesezeichen. Gut mit Schablonen und Feuchttüchern zu bearbeiten.

I haven’t used these yet but I’m very excited just owning then I can feel my life is better also they were expensive and the design is good so those two things are high indicators I will thoroughly enjoy this product