50 State Quarters: Coloring Pages Using Ohuhu Halawa Colored Pencils

I've finished coloring all of the 50 State Quarter coloring pages! The last four states in my 8-month long project completing the 50 pages using different art materials include Alaska, Texas, Kansas, and Ohio. I colored these four with the Ohuhu Halawa colored pencil set. Affiliate link here and below. 

Ohuhu fans like me have been waiting (im)patiently for Ohuhu to release a colored pencil set and it's finally here! Ohuhu has a well-deserved reputation for making high quality art materials at affordable prices and I'm happy to report that their colored pencils uphold that reputation. This was my first time trying them and I was really happy with their performance. I wasn't entirely happy with MY performance; I'm used to wax-based pencils, so there was a learning curve with these oil-based pencils. I intentionally tried a bunch of different techniques while coloring to see how they compare to the other brands I've used. I also tried to use as many of the colors as possible across the four pages.  

The Ohuhu Halawa colored pencil set contains 72 pencils with ultra-soft lead in a nice range of colors. At only 62 cents a pencil, they are significantly cheaper than other brands of equal quality. They're packaged more securely than pretty much anything I've ever received through the mail. That said, I did have issues with repeated breakage in one pencil. None of the others broke, even with hard pressure. I'm looking forward to coloring with them again, particularly in combination with Ohuhu's markers. 

Here are the art materials I used for the rest of the coloring pages:

• Ohuhu Kaala markers (Nevada, New Jersey, Oregon, Wisconsin)
• ink and Prismacolor colored pencils (Connecticut, Idaho, Missouri, Montana)
• Flair pens (Delaware, Indiana)
• Sharpies (Maine, South Carolina)
• Stabilo Woody 3-in-1 (Colorado, New Hampshire)
• Folk Art acrylic paint (Wyoming, Rhode Island, Mississippi, Michigan)
• Crayola crayons (Florida, Maryland, South Dakota, Vermont)
• Himi gouache (Iowa, New York, Utah, West Virginia)
• Derwent Inktense pencils (Arizona, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana)
• Ohuhu Pupe markers (Alabama, Arkansas, Tennessee, Washington)
• Koi watercolors by Sakura (Hawaii, Massachusetts, New Mexico, Oklahoma)
• Prismacolor art markers (Minnesota, Nebraska, Pennsylvania, Virginia)
• Kuretake Gansai Tambi (California, Georgia, North Carolina, North Dakota)

Tomorrow I'll rank the 14 art materials from my favorite to least favorite for coloring the 50 State Quarters. If you've been following along, you can probably already guess what will be at the top and what will be at the bottom!