Sai water coloring brush pens

Traditional Japanese water coloring brush pens

Sai Brush

These brush pens feature a filament brush tip that behaves more like a real paintbrush than other felt tip brush pens. This creates a finer point and greater line variation.

The colors are both vivid and unusual like a bright, pastel sky blue and a more traditional artist-based yellow ochre. There’s a super pale apricot color that is fun to use for blending and a indigo-like midnight blue that I love. The 20-colors provides a wide variety of color options and I didn’t feel like any color was missing from the spectrum.

Colors can be altered, lightened or blended with water or each other to create more colors. I tested these pens on a standard watercolor paper stock, the inks could probably be manipulated and modified to greater effect.

Individual Sai Watercolor pens can be purchased for $7.50 each in store now. If you’re looking for a brush pen that can be used for calligraphy or art-making, these are totally worth the price.

Click here for a lengthy demo on YouTube

For more product information see Akashiya website