Speedball Water-Soluble Block Printing Ink Starter Set, 6 Bold Colors with Satin Finish, 1.25-Ounce Tubes

Excellent.

Worked just as I expected for childrens project. Great delivery too.

I have tried multiple times to like this product, and always come away disappointed. The colors available are very limited and some of them, like the yellow, appear to have white in them, so the colors produced when mixed are not as clean as I would like. These are fine for kids or beginner printmakers, but I would not recommend them for more experienced or serious artists. They do dry quickly, which is an advantage in some cases, but the downside is that the ink gets gummy fairly quickly. You can add retarder which does seem to help. Most water-based inks say water soluble and have oil in the ink. This makes the colors richer but you can still clean up with water. The Speedball inks are truly water-based and dont have any oil. So that might be an advantage to some. If you are picky about your colors and like to mix them, I would not recommend this product.

Good starter set with good quality products! It gave me an opportunity to see if I like this medium before investing in classes and additional materials.

Very clear colors, great product!

A good starter set for block printing - I had been using leftover screen printing ink, and wondered what the difference was - this proper block printing ink drys a lot slower, allowing you to squeeze just what you need onto your glass for each pull and keeping the brayer from clogging or drying out too quickly. When I decide what colors I want my prints to be, I will buy larger tubes of each.

good colours for printing

Perfect for my block printing experiment.

the ink quality is very nice. it spreads well and and the clean up does not require anything special. the smell is not strong or acrid. the colors are nice and bright. the gold does dry faster than the others but that tends to happen with all metallic paints or inks.

Sure, a good starter set. Personally I find white and metallics can go the quickest, because these might be a bit much on their own (and personally I print only on white/light paper) but theyre so much fun to mix.