Over the past 12+ years I’ve shared hundreds of various arts and crafts projects on the TwoClassyChics blog. A lot of them involve seashell and rock painting. When working on those projects I use a combination of Acrylic Craft Paint (comes in a bottle and you use a brush) and the Tool-Art Acrylic Paint Pens with Dual Tips. You can use them on wood, glass, rocks, seashells, canvas, ceramic mugs, cardboard, tiles, fabric, metal, etc.
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Why Tooli-Art Acrylic Paint Pens? Well, I’m going to tell you! These acrylic paint pens come in various configurations (sized sets) and in tons of different colors. I personally buy the dual-tip paint pens where you get a fine tip on one side and a medium tip on the other side.
Fine Tip – That’s great for writing/painting words, outlining and adding fine details like facial features.
Medium Tip – That’s great for those larger areas that need to be filled in.
The colors are fantastic! The shade that you through the barrel of the paint pen is the actual shade that comes out! The colors are vivid and true. Highly pigmented paint! These paints dry fast…but you still get a minute or so to do any color blending. I like that they don’t take an hour or longer to dry.
Clean-up is a snap! My grandchildren will use them from time to time when crafting with me. If they get it on their hands, don’t worry. It washes off quickly with soap and water. They’re safe to use, non-toxic, have no foul odors (like other paint pen brands), water-based, and acid-free.
In my honest opinion…they’re the BEST if you’re into seashell, clam shell and rock painting like me! In the photograph above you can see 2 painted clam shell seashell designs that I made using the Tool-Art Paint Pens. I purchased the plastic stencil from Amazon. I used a #2 pencil to trace the design onto the clam shell using the stencil. I then used the Tool-Art Paint Pens to color them in, decorate, outline, add the finer details and all of the wording. As you can see, no clumping, no smears, etc. The color glides on smoothly!
I recommend that if you’re new to Tool-Art Paint Pens that you start off with the 18 Pen Essentials Set (shown in my second photograph). Then you can add-on to that once you fall in-love with them like I did. Seriously, they’re the best ones out in the retail marketplace that I’ve tried and I’ve tried a lot of them!!!
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It looks like they have some beautiful colors. I like that they dry fast.
I like those. I know my granddaughter would love to have that set.
I am going to have to add this set o my Amazon wishlist. I sure could have a lot of fun with these pens.