New woodless watercolour pencils

I have been looking at woodless watercolour pencils recently and the Distress ones by Ranger and Tim Holtz seem to be all over the internet.  However, I couldn't really justify the price of those and of course, there are six different sets to correspond with all the different colours in the Distress range.  I looked at a couple of other brands and these came up in my search.  They are Koh-i-noor 'Woodless Coloured Sticks' and for the price of one set of the Distress pencils, I got double the number of crayons (24) in a good range of colours. (I have a large number of Distress products, I use them a lot and they are good quality, but I am trying to look after my pennies a little more carefully!)

So, of course, once the pencil crayons arrived, I swatched them. You knew I would, didn't you?  The pencils feel quite satisfyingly substantial in the hand, which is to be expected as they are pure pigment,  but not so heavy as to make them uncomfortable.  There is a cover around them to stop the pigment getting on your hands.  I haven't yet had to sharpen them, but I have no doubt they will sharpen well and you can keep the sharpenings, add water to them and use them too. There is a good selection of colours and they blended out with water very smoothly. I have been having a play with them and am really pleased with my purchase.