Tbh I've never particularly hated a specific brand, but those colorful pencils which literally broke every second you write with made me rage a lot as a kid
Did some searching, and apparently Cra-Z-Art is owned by the same family that started Rose Art. It was sold to Mega Block, which was bought by Mattel. Just last year the family bought back the Rose Art name.
I was thinking that the Cra-Z-Art was behaving the way I remembered Rose Art behaving in the 90s. I have vivid memories of Rose Art being really waxy and not putting color down well.
I’m glad you found this information. Also, terribly upset Rose-art ever existed in the first place & more so they have chosen to come back to haunt the next generation with their subpar art supplies.
Are we sure that the infamy of rose art isn't just crazy art? Their packaging is almost identical. Crazy art crayons are not at all consistent. Rose art isn't the worst though.
My mom only bought crazy art art supplies for me. I was shook when my friends let me use their Crayola. Imagine my shock when I discovered Prismacolor colored pencils in high school lol.
For some reason this made me think of the classroom pencil set a friend got for a social center I frequent. Being a classroom set, you'd expect it to suck, right? Those suckers are AT LEAST as good as Crayola! They lay down smoothly with a lot of control over intensity, and if you lay it on thick it looks SO nice! The 12 colors available also do a good job at covering your typical range of color desires, though obviously not perfectly. I want to say the brand was Schilling? My friend found them on Amazon.
Actually, I like crazy art colored pencils to help blend stuff because because the color pencils suck and it actually helps blend it because they’re not so vibrant.
When I was really into teaching myself to draw, I went through so many packs of roseart coloured pencils because they were literally half the price and their quality was not that bad
Crayola isn't bad! And honestly, anyone who is a good artist can make art out of cheap art supplies! I never liked the Rose Art crayons because there was almost no pigment to them at all, plus I was never into crayons, I liked colored pencils instead, and I made many great pieces of art with the colored pencils!
@@silvers_ink ? I never said Crayola was bad, they have great stuff for a great price (especially their coloured pencils). I just thought it was funny if RoseArt was just brutally honest with their marketing like "we're not Crayola, but we're almost as good! you might even mistake us for them! just uh.. just don't look too closely." 😂
I grew up with cra-z-art because my family was too cheap to even buy rose art. I think I learned to avoid making anything that needed color specifically because it was so bad, so I just did pencil and pen
The main thing that I remember about RoseArt compared to Crayola was how much faster they would dry out, but CraZart wasn’t much better when it came to that either
The biggest offender were the ART SETS! Every time your family thought they were getting you an amazing deal with all kinds of art supplies and it was absolute garbage! Rae, please review art sets and tell me if you can find a decent one!
The Roseart art sets that had the small markers with the white rounded tops were the bane of my existence as a kid with sensory issues. The feel and sound of them on paper made my teeth hurt and my fight or flight kick in >_> I can't believe they actually sold those little torture devices to kids
@@jackpijjin4088 i remember doing the same, i also took out the little plastic part that kept the things in place, then used it to hold my _good_ art supplies, lmao
I think the big issue why these other brands were hated was because they leaned into being knockoff crayola. It would’ve been better if they had unique packaging instead of just making themselves look identical to crayola only not being the same. Crayola was so fun for color names etc. if the other brand did a better job of emulating in those ways instead of just copying the packaging we wouldn’t have hated opening the rose art in class in front of 25 judgy kids lol
I was born in '89 and grew up despising RoseArt. Maybe their 2000s era improved on the formulas of the 90s? The true villain of childhood art supplies, though, was those crayons you got at restaurants that were basically candles without wicks-- virtually no pigment and all chunky wax. They weren't even worth stealing. Now that I think about it, that was probably by design.
As a child from the 2000's I can tell you they might've improved, but it was still noticeable when you had the better Crayola vs the Rose Art. I always wanted to get the maximum amount of saturation in my drawings (it also didn't help that when I draw or write I basically press down so hard a person could read it on the other side). But the Rose Art always looked muted and it never got brighter no matter how much I pressed. I think I still have a few, but not because I like them. They just were avoided so much.
So funny because I literally just found a bag of my Crayola and rose art color pencils yesterday. And all of mine are from the 90s. I was pleasantly surprised that they still do the thang! 💕 Great video!
I love how rae said "everyone knows what crayola smells like, it smells like childhood" and me being non American, watching from South East Asian country like "true, I get that so true" 😂😭
I recently melted some crayon stubs into some candy molds for giggles, let me tell you it made my whole house smell like a preschool! Crayons, and that powdery stuff they used to clean with called TSP
"everyone knows what crayola smells like, it smells like childhood", as someone from the Netherlands, who never used Crayola let alone crayons in general, I have this with the scent of Bruynzeel pencils, those were the first I ever got and I still know how my first big set of them smelled.
Same! It kind of bothers me lol since I'm from Argentina. I never saw a crayola in my life, to me childhood smells like faber castell pencils and Jovi crayons and I still remember the smell too.
Omg I love Faber Castell colour pencils. It's what everyone wanted, and the 48 ones!! Crayola existed, but it's seen as the cheap alternative that no one owns
@@moonluna464 i can assure you that I never once saw a crayola product in the stores around me while growing up. I'm from the north of the Netherlands so maybe that has something to do with it, idk. It also wasn't until well into my teenage years until I saw a sharpie product on the shelves in a store here. Before that I always used different permanent markers. So my statement still stands true: I am someone from the Netherlands who has never used crayola.
I think RoseArt did improve their crayon formula in the 90’s or so. I was a grade schooler in the 70’s/80’s and even as a non-artsy kid I knew RA was hot garbage. Super waxy and sticky with almost no color payoff, almost transparent. My husband can make the awful restaurant crayons SING, it’s bananas. When our daughter was little he always did special drawings for her with them while we waited for our food. He would ask the waitress to bring every color they had and used utensils to scratch into thick layers, tightly rolled up napkins for stumps and his fingers to blend, and who knows what else for tools. He made the most amazing art out of awful supplies! 😂 Sadly that was before we carried cameras in our pockets and the finished pieces got lost along the way. I wish I had just one of his back of the kid’s menu masterpieces! I should get some super cheap crayons and see if he still has the magic touch. ☺️
@@brittanyd8103 Our (now adult) kids lucked out with their dad. 🥰 He’s definitely the fun parent, I’m the one reigning those fools back in, especially the 52yo kid! 😅
Had to Google what happened to RoseArt, and apparently they were re-acquired in 2021 by the original family founders. The company that acquired then was... Cra-z-art. They own both and said Roseart will be seen on shelves again.
I had Roseart growing up. I remember loving them just because they were art supplies in general ha. I do remember finally getting the 120 pack of Crayola and being so happy! I took them to Mexico one year and all my cousins were jealous and my mom forced me to leave it to my cousins because "they don't have these here. Well just buy you a new set." Nope. Never got my 120 pack after that
But they get mad if you even talk about giving away their things. I would of just said "quedenselo entonces langaros" hella loud outside so everyone could hear me the mom would of been too embarrassed to keep it unless she has no shame. I said that when my grandma tried leaving my clothes n shoes to my cousins in Mexico my tias were so embarrassed that i called them that n wouldn't let her leave my clothes n shoes. She was angry at me for saying that n i said "¿Pues si no son langaros porque están pidiendo limosnas? Mi mami no tiene dinero parra estar comprando me ropa y menos pará que otra gente me la quité" she went off on my mom for how i was raised but my mom said "why you tryna give away my kids clothes when I'm the poorest one in the family? Why didn't you give away (my other cousins) clothes they actually have money" n my grandma had to audacity to say because i felt like leaving her sh*t there that's why.
When you were talking about the brush that come with the knock-off watercolors, it reminded me of this morning when I was brushing my teeth and my toothbrush literally snapped in half lmao
I didn’t know RoseArt stopped existing!! My family was poor poor, but I loved drawing & thankfully my parents always made sure I had Crayola. Also hurts my heart to hear “vintage RoseArt” 😣 Editing because dang. Kids these days have it bad with CraZArt.
I definitely and obviously remember using crayola when I was like 5. And I also think that I used cra-Z-art. I have this very small memory and it's Soooo familiar but I just cant remember.
I suspect Rose Art stepped up their game in the 2000s because I remember using their products in the 90s and compared to Crayola they were considerably more awful. IIRC the markers dried out after a lot less uses than the Crayola markers. I remember the pencil quality being similar and I would use both with minimal issue. The crayons were...fine. But the markers? I remember Rose Art then being like the Cray-Z-Art now.
CONSPIRACY THEORY : crazy art is old 1980s rose art product that never sold, after 2000 rose art changed their formula to be more like Crayola ... explains how after only two weeks your crazy art markers were dried out
close, the family that started Rose Art sold the brand then started Crazy Art, so i'm guessing they used the same formula, then the company that bought Rose Art actually tried to make them better
I never knew RoseArt art supplies was so hated. I never minded them tbh. I remember using those Watercolors in school as a kid and they worked great. I think I had some watercolor pencils from them too? I had both the Crayola 64 pack with the sharpener and some RoseArt crayons/pencils and markers. RoseArt is fine! I remember especially loving the markers.
As a kid we never had rose art, but we definitely had craz-y-art. They were the nasty, thick feeling, chunky crayons that teachers bought and “so graciously” handed out to us. Once a girl got sent home because she hit another kid over getting the last crayola set. ;-; fun times
I have distinct memories of using RoseArt crayons in the early 90s. It was literally like trying to color with candlewax. Maybe they've improved the formula since then. But there were dollar-store watercolors that had stronger colors. The purple oneirritated me the most.
They can't have changed the formula because the brand is completely gone. It's no more. It's just the fact that you think it's worse than it actually was. Like how most memories are when we were kids.
I remember when I was younger we had this box filled with colored pencils and crayons. I couldn’t tell you how much I despised those terrible roseart crayons lol. Great video!
I'm so glad I wasn't the only one that HATED Cra-Z-Art as a kid! I noticed the crayon quality was so much worse, and the other products i tested out with it (markers, color pencils, etc) were just horrible- i thought it was just me because nobody else seemed to care, but Im glad ive found this to back up my hatred for that brand!
God, I love the smell of Crayola crayons. It really does smell of childhood. First day of school with a fresh sharp pack. Putting away the math work and getting together to color holiday decorations for the classroom. It's so amazing how much vivid memories can be tied to scent, feels like it's almost stronger than a photograph. It's right up there with Taste.
There’s actually a scientific reason why smell gives you such strong memory Basically the part of your brain that is responsible for memory is almost directly tied with your nose little smell thingy. So, that is why smell gives of such strong memory
That & the peppermint-y smell of paste( Ok,I'm showing my age here 🙄) but seriously one of the kids in my preschool class tried to eat the stuff (& I'm sure he wasn't the first..)
I will say, RoseArt's colored pencil turquoise is still my favorite color of all time. Though I remember cra-z-art sucking more than RoseArt as a kid (2007-2014ish)
Yes. I remember kindergarten, 2013-2014, we would fight each other to use the crayola products from the extra bin 😭 rose art was sparse and definitely from different generations but they weren’t awful awful, crazy art crayons would purposefully be broken because they’d just leave chunks, and crayola was the god 😭 I still remember a kid going “crazy art sucks, I don’t want my mommy to have chunks of color on her face I wanna make her face pretty!”
As a previous preschool teacher, toddlers get frustrated when things don’t work as they should just like adults do. In the classroom, I prefer Crayola.
But I remember being a toddler and being so put off by how difficult it was to use my colors vs my uncles colors. His worked so much better. Just think about all the kids that were put off of art because they didn't know there were better/easier to use options and they just assumed it was to hard for them
I have to say, Roseart's gel pens are REALLY good if you like working with pen alone. I've been using a new pack for a few days, and the neon/glitter pens are so bright they turn your art into a rave under blacklight. They also blend/layer surprisingly well for cheap pens
@@toysruskid5074 I just looked and Rose art OWNS Cra-Z-art! so you could be 100% correct! maybe rose art had a quality change and kept the super cheap stuff and called it Cra-Z-art
I wonder if the 2000s roseart formula had improved over 90’s roseart. I recall barely being able to get color out of rose art crayons, like you’d pick up a red and just be rubbing waxy pink bits all over the place.
Yeah, I remember the rose art crayons being a) translucent when held up to light, and b) putting down next to no color. I think they just used homeopathic amounts of pigment since paraffin wax is cheaper.
I distinctly remember the black Rose Art marker had a terrible smell and that it wasn't quite black. It was more of a very dark green that was almost black.
parents: actually ask what brand of art stuff you want grandparents: here’s a giant 122 count case of cra•z•art materials!! it includes not just markers but crayons, colored pencils AND WATERCOLOR!!!!!! and i found it at a thrift store for like $7 and of course the outside of that case is a f-cking galaxy 🧍♀️
Cray-z art is the bane of all my existence, the crayons left behind tiny little wax blobs every stroke, and I had to scrape it off with my fingernails😭
I have NEVER heard ANYONE EVER complain about anything but the Rose Art crayons. They were pure wax and one page cost you a whole crayon. Nobody was complaining about the rest of their stuff.
I think it’s possible that rose art upped their quality in the 2000’s and later, when all your samples were from. I’d be curious to see comparisons between 1980’s crayola and 1980’s rose art, crayons specifically. I remember rose art crayons depositing nothing but colored nubs of wax with almost no color between them, it was like coloring with a candle.
I specifically remember the rose art pink being my absolute least favorite. Accidentally picking up a roseart crayon from the crayon bin completely ruined a handful of my childhood drawings 😂
They aren't that bad, tbh. Some people just don't understand why they were underrated and half the time broke less for crayons. The markers weren't the best but they were cheap enough, tbh crazy art products were worse than the rose art markers. Also they tended to be digits of 2 (ex. 2,4,6....) Less than the crayola or crazy art. I loved their watercolor sets, my great grandma had them and they LASTED FOREVER! I actually don't understand where the bad rep came from, I think and have always thought crazy art was the worst brand.
apparently Cra-Z-Art is owned by the same family that started Rose Art. Rose Art used to be horrible, was sold to Mega Block, which was bought by Mattel, which would explain the formula change to better than it was, and Cra-Z-Art was made which is why it sucks. Just last year the family bought back the Rose Art name tho
They were started by the same person (company) that is why the name and packaging is so similar. Rose art was sold and the owners decided to start cra z art.
No, RoseArt was bad; I stand by it. I had a pack of crayons that were so waxy they could barely transfer color. I think younger people experienced a slightly better formula version of some of the products and I had never heard of CraZArt until this video - which seems to be the replacement to original RoseArt.
Like Heather stated, RoseArt was crap back in the day. You could barely color with them due to how waxy there were and the crayons, if you put too much pressure, had a habit of bending and breaking on you. Most people who had Rose Art crayons mostly had a box of broken pieces by the third use. And don't let me get started on the color pencils. Not only did you have the color input problem, but they were so poorly made you could easily separate the color lead from the wood. I know this because my older brother was a dick and would do this all the time to my pencils.
If you’ve ever used Craze-Art crayons, just looking at them reminds you of the texture. It sends shivers down your spine of how horrible that texture is.
I was SO lucky as a kid, because my parents both really valued the arts, and fostered my creativity, so they only bought me the best of the best in terms of art supplies, meaning I’ve literally never tried crappy brands like Rose Art!
Honestly I remember the Rose Art colored pencils chipping and breaking when I tried to sharpen them. I never had that problem with Crayola. It's not always the quality of the "lead" that makes the difference.
I was recently hospitalized for personal reasons and the hospital where I was admitted only had crazy art crayons and pencils. I remember crying when I got home because I was able to use my Faber Castell, Prismacolors, and Caran Dache pencils. Actually bawling over high quality colored pencils. That’s how awful Crazy Art was to use.
I didn’t like rose art because I felt like their supplies always broke on me and the film the crayons left made them hard to blend and lay smoothly on a page but I have always despised craZart, how are they still in business 💀
Really? I loved my Prang colored pencils and still have my set from 20 years ago as a teenager. I’ve compared them to my kids’ crayolas and actually prefer prang after my nice prismacolors. And the watercolors are supposed to be very good for the price.
Literally had this convo with my husband the other day. If my mom had even invested in something as small as name brand crayons, it would have changed my life. My mom has NPD so anything to cope was a life line. Excited to see u beat this arch nemesis for us creative kids everywhere!
i THINK YOU ARE AN AMAZING ARTIST AND YOUR VOICE IS LIKE AN ASMR. I'VE LEARNED MORE FROM YOUR TUTORIALS AND TESTSWABS THEN IN MY ART CLASSES IN SCHOOLWHAT I ENDED UP DOING WAS USING EXPENSIVE ART SUPPLIES ON CHEAP SURFACES OR UPCYCLE SOMETHING ELSE, YOUR PAINT DON'T MAKE YOU THE ARTIST IT'S THE IMAGINATION AND CREATIVITY.MUCH LOVE.
So, crazyart is owned by the same parent as rose art. My theory is, rose art perfected their formulas and as a way to rebrand made crazyart with the original formulas. 🤯🤯
Like people here are saying, maybe Cra•Z•Art was the crap one but because the logo and everything between that and RoseArt are SOOOO FREAKING similar the hate for Cra•Z•Art got transferred to RoseArt?
I use the old wonky Crayola watercolor brushes as 1/6 scale lightsabers. Take the bristles out, turn it upside down, the 'thick part is your lightsaber handle, the thin part is the blade. My 1/6 scale Jedi & Sith look great holding them.
You stacking those Crayola markers on top of each other just unlocked a memory I had totally forgotten about, so thank you for reminding me of the joy of wacking stuff with my marker sword and seeing how long it took to break 😂😂😂
I still remember when my mom visited the US in the 90s and bought me back all these roseart scented stamper markers. I absolutely loved them, as all we had in NZ was Crayola , so I felt super cool for having some markers that no one else did lol
I came here because when I was a child in the early 90s, somebody got me a giant like 100 mega pack of RoseArt crayons in a fancy case. The case was cool but using them was like trying to color with a bunch of birthday candles. I also remember experiencing the lumps of different color (sometimes a hard gritty substance??) in the crayons. My one experience with the brand but it is burnt into my brain.
I remember hating Cra-Z-art when I was little! the crayons were awful, the best way that I could describe them going down on paper was slightly tinted wax with maybe a few chunks of color if you were lucky😭
Rose art crayons have no pigment because they are too waxy. When I was younger, I ended up melting them down and I berried them under a tree and had a funeral. I'm not joking. 👍 They are in the ground underneath a tree in an apartment complex where I grew up. The manager saw me and asked me what I was doing. I told her I was having a funeral for my dead art supplies. I was a Goth art kid so yeah that happened. My brother even came in a black drench coat and black makeup and we had a funeral for Rose art. 😂 They dead years ago. 👻 Rose art is haunting me again.
I've seen a tour of the Rose art factory that was similar to the old Mr. Rogers video about the Crayola factory. It actually shows them adding more wax filler to the crayons than they do in the Mr. Rogers video about Crayola.
I didn't know Roseart had their own line, I only ever got them as that case that had the chalkiest watercolors, the tiny markers that were really dark (even the lighter ones) and the really scratchy colored pencils.
Have you ever done a video comparing the store brands of school supplies? Like is walmart brand and dollar general brand the same thing? Is one better then the other? With school coming back in and maybe having supply issues it might be worth a video.
I remember actually liking the rose art colored pencils. It was their crayons I did not like. But then again, growing up we were basically conditioned to believe that crayola was the high end and top quality brand, that you WANTED crayola, and anything else was inferior. I’m a millennial so late 80’s born.
My main experience with RoseArt was the velvet posters that you could get at Walmart for a few dollars, and the markets that came with them were cheap, scratchy, half or fully dry, and horrible. That was absolutely where my RoseArt hatred came from. I would get one of those posters, throw out the markers, and use my crayola markers to color it. I think because of that I just avoided anything with their brand on it out of spite.
Rose art is now owned by CraZArt Cra-Z-Art's Rosen brings RoseArt brand back under family control in deal with Mattel. The Cra-Z-Art brand of arts and crafts supplies, owned by Randolph-based LaRose Industries LLC, has acquired Mattel's Arts, Crafts, Stationery business, including its RoseArt brand, it announced Thursday.Jan 28, 2021
I'm about the same age as you, but from Brazil. And yes, I was "blessed" with RoseArt stuff. Alright, art supplies made here aren't the best, but damn. Just damn. White board was impossible to erase and crayons were SO sticky!
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Tbh I've never particularly hated a specific brand, but those colorful pencils which literally broke every second you write with made me rage a lot as a kid
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Did some searching, and apparently Cra-Z-Art is owned by the same family that started Rose Art. It was sold to Mega Block, which was bought by Mattel. Just last year the family bought back the Rose Art name.
I was thinking that the Cra-Z-Art was behaving the way I remembered Rose Art behaving in the 90s. I have vivid memories of Rose Art being really waxy and not putting color down well.
Thanks for posting. I never knew any of that.
That explains the change in quality.
Color pencil lore
I’m glad you found this information. Also, terribly upset Rose-art ever existed in the first place & more so they have chosen to come back to haunt the next generation with their subpar art supplies.
Are we sure that the infamy of rose art isn't just crazy art? Their packaging is almost identical. Crazy art crayons are not at all consistent. Rose art isn't the worst though.
thats what i was thinking i dont remember hating rose art but i do remember hating cray Z art
I don’t remember much about RoseArt, but I do specifically remember hating CraZArt.
I was wondering if that was the case, too.
My thoughts exactly!
Same, I only remember hating CraZArt since I was a kid (born in 2003)
My mom only bought crazy art art supplies for me. I was shook when my friends let me use their Crayola. Imagine my shock when I discovered Prismacolor colored pencils in high school lol.
lol i can imagine it
For some reason this made me think of the classroom pencil set a friend got for a social center I frequent. Being a classroom set, you'd expect it to suck, right?
Those suckers are AT LEAST as good as Crayola! They lay down smoothly with a lot of control over intensity, and if you lay it on thick it looks SO nice! The 12 colors available also do a good job at covering your typical range of color desires, though obviously not perfectly.
I want to say the brand was Schilling? My friend found them on Amazon.
Actually, I like crazy art colored pencils to help blend stuff because because the color pencils suck and it actually helps blend it because they’re not so vibrant.
When I was really into teaching myself to draw, I went through so many packs of roseart coloured pencils because they were literally half the price and their quality was not that bad
"RoseArt: slightly worse than Crayola, but you won't notice."
😂 that should've been their tagline
Crayola isn't bad! And honestly, anyone who is a good artist can make art out of cheap art supplies! I never liked the Rose Art crayons because there was almost no pigment to them at all, plus I was never into crayons, I liked colored pencils instead, and I made many great pieces of art with the colored pencils!
@@silvers_ink ? I never said Crayola was bad, they have great stuff for a great price (especially their coloured pencils). I just thought it was funny if RoseArt was just brutally honest with their marketing like "we're not Crayola, but we're almost as good! you might even mistake us for them! just uh.. just don't look too closely." 😂
@@gaygengar it made me chuckle too. Like advertising a product as "meh...could be worse" 😂 😂
@@Littlewings1211 "At least we're not Cra-z-art"
@@incognito_mode420 that's right, and there's nothing you can do about it
growing up poor, rose art was so slept on--It was, as you said, a middle ground between crayola and cra-z-art. cra-z-art is the true art supply demon.
and Crayola is the true art supply angel
@@miyeonidlee and rose art is just in between
cra-z-art wasn't around at the time. If there were ever CZA and RoseArt on the same shelves, it was old RA stock. CZA are what RA was rebranded to.
I grew up with cra-z-art because my family was too cheap to even buy rose art. I think I learned to avoid making anything that needed color specifically because it was so bad, so I just did pencil and pen
That's what they give artists in hell
I used to think Rose Art was the higher brand cause they were rarer and their crayons had a cool smell/ texture :,)
SAME MY FRIEND HAD A PAIR AND THEY GAVE IT TO ME AND I FELT SO SPECIAL 😭
@@art1stwannabe they gave it to you because they wanted to get rid of it LMAO
@@baka3262 definitely i ended up tossing it after like 3 days bc i liked the crayola crayons better 💀
Sammme lol i wanted them
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The main thing that I remember about RoseArt compared to Crayola was how much faster they would dry out, but CraZart wasn’t much better when it came to that either
I remember roseart being so waxy with the crayons that they barely left color and left chunks in the pages
The biggest offender were the ART SETS! Every time your family thought they were getting you an amazing deal with all kinds of art supplies and it was absolute garbage!
Rae, please review art sets and tell me if you can find a decent one!
My parents got me one of the plywood 'briefcase' type art sets. I took out all the supplies and turned it into a portable desk. :v
The crayola one I had is actually pretty cool.
The Roseart art sets that had the small markers with the white rounded tops were the bane of my existence as a kid with sensory issues. The feel and sound of them on paper made my teeth hurt and my fight or flight kick in >_> I can't believe they actually sold those little torture devices to kids
i remember the "oil pastels" they often came with which were just crayons with the tips cut off lmao
@@jackpijjin4088 i remember doing the same, i also took out the little plastic part that kept the things in place, then used it to hold my _good_ art supplies, lmao
I think the big issue why these other brands were hated was because they leaned into being knockoff crayola. It would’ve been better if they had unique packaging instead of just making themselves look identical to crayola only not being the same. Crayola was so fun for color names etc. if the other brand did a better job of emulating in those ways instead of just copying the packaging we wouldn’t have hated opening the rose art in class in front of 25 judgy kids lol
I agree with this, but me personally, I prefer rose art
Yeah well how are you gonna sell your markers, water colors, and colored pencils when the biggest main brand is Crayola 🤔
I was born in '89 and grew up despising RoseArt. Maybe their 2000s era improved on the formulas of the 90s? The true villain of childhood art supplies, though, was those crayons you got at restaurants that were basically candles without wicks-- virtually no pigment and all chunky wax. They weren't even worth stealing. Now that I think about it, that was probably by design.
As a former server… we really don’t care. We didn’t reuse them anyways 💀 it wouldn’t be stealing cause they’re yours
@@Trollestiatumblur when I was a kid the servers at friendlies took the crayons back. :/ not that anyone wanted the horrible waxy things anyway.
As a child from the 2000's I can tell you they might've improved, but it was still noticeable when you had the better Crayola vs the Rose Art. I always wanted to get the maximum amount of saturation in my drawings (it also didn't help that when I draw or write I basically press down so hard a person could read it on the other side). But the Rose Art always looked muted and it never got brighter no matter how much I pressed.
I think I still have a few, but not because I like them. They just were avoided so much.
It was marginally better in the 2000s. They were still pretty terrible.
Time stamps for y’all {into 0:00}{markers 1:07}{watercolor 2:55}{color pencils 6:18}{crayons 8:50}{ending 14:09} I hope it helps you
thanks 🤭
So funny because I literally just found a bag of my Crayola and rose art color pencils yesterday. And all of mine are from the 90s. I was pleasantly surprised that they still do the thang! 💕 Great video!
I love how rae said "everyone knows what crayola smells like, it smells like childhood" and me being non American, watching from South East Asian country like "true, I get that so true" 😂😭
I recently melted some crayon stubs into some candy molds for giggles, let me tell you it made my whole house smell like a preschool!
Crayons, and that powdery stuff they used to clean with called TSP
@@julieb3996 may I ask, what does TSP mean???
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You should make candles out of Crayola crayons, I'd buy them.
"everyone knows what crayola smells like, it smells like childhood",
as someone from the Netherlands, who never used Crayola let alone crayons in general, I have this with the scent of Bruynzeel pencils, those were the first I ever got and I still know how my first big set of them smelled.
Same! It kind of bothers me lol since I'm from Argentina. I never saw a crayola in my life, to me childhood smells like faber castell pencils and Jovi crayons and I still remember the smell too.
Omg I love Faber Castell colour pencils. It's what everyone wanted, and the 48 ones!! Crayola existed, but it's seen as the cheap alternative that no one owns
Lol you have Crayola to though?
@@moonluna464 it's in the market yes, but i dont recall using it much...
@@moonluna464 i can assure you that I never once saw a crayola product in the stores around me while growing up. I'm from the north of the Netherlands so maybe that has something to do with it, idk. It also wasn't until well into my teenage years until I saw a sharpie product on the shelves in a store here. Before that I always used different permanent markers. So my statement still stands true: I am someone from the Netherlands who has never used crayola.
I think RoseArt did improve their crayon formula in the 90’s or so. I was a grade schooler in the 70’s/80’s and even as a non-artsy kid I knew RA was hot garbage. Super waxy and sticky with almost no color payoff, almost transparent.
My husband can make the awful restaurant crayons SING, it’s bananas. When our daughter was little he always did special drawings for her with them while we waited for our food. He would ask the waitress to bring every color they had and used utensils to scratch into thick layers, tightly rolled up napkins for stumps and his fingers to blend, and who knows what else for tools. He made the most amazing art out of awful supplies! 😂 Sadly that was before we carried cameras in our pockets and the finished pieces got lost along the way. I wish I had just one of his back of the kid’s menu masterpieces! I should get some super cheap crayons and see if he still has the magic touch. ☺️
You really really should!!! If he does, and really likes it, get him some better ones!!
Aww what an awesome dad! That sounds like fun, I'd watch that if you ever put it on RUclips 😊
@@MartianCandies He has plenty of the good stuff, it may be time to humble him! 😉 I honestly think he could still do it!
@@brittanyd8103 Our (now adult) kids lucked out with their dad. 🥰 He’s definitely the fun parent, I’m the one reigning those fools back in, especially the 52yo kid! 😅
@@meh_lady Lmao 🤣 Hey, they never stop being your kids as I always say, even at 99!
Had to Google what happened to RoseArt, and apparently they were re-acquired in 2021 by the original family founders. The company that acquired then was... Cra-z-art. They own both and said Roseart will be seen on shelves again.
Bruh 😂
Snow White’s story inspiration be like:
So essentially, we didn't know how good we had it with Rose Art until Crazy Art happened.
I had Roseart growing up. I remember loving them just because they were art supplies in general ha. I do remember finally getting the 120 pack of Crayola and being so happy! I took them to Mexico one year and all my cousins were jealous and my mom forced me to leave it to my cousins because "they don't have these here. Well just buy you a new set." Nope. Never got my 120 pack after that
NOOOOOO
I hate when parents do that ish! I’m keeping my stuff, forget that 🤣
Relatable! This is a childhood memory right here 😂
But they get mad if you even talk about giving away their things. I would of just said "quedenselo entonces langaros" hella loud outside so everyone could hear me the mom would of been too embarrassed to keep it unless she has no shame. I said that when my grandma tried leaving my clothes n shoes to my cousins in Mexico my tias were so embarrassed that i called them that n wouldn't let her leave my clothes n shoes. She was angry at me for saying that n i said "¿Pues si no son langaros porque están pidiendo limosnas? Mi mami no tiene dinero parra estar comprando me ropa y menos pará que otra gente me la quité" she went off on my mom for how i was raised but my mom said "why you tryna give away my kids clothes when I'm the poorest one in the family? Why didn't you give away (my other cousins) clothes they actually have money" n my grandma had to audacity to say because i felt like leaving her sh*t there that's why.
i still have my 120 crayola crayons, the box is super beat up and the sharpener is missing haha.
When you were talking about the brush that come with the knock-off watercolors, it reminded me of this morning when I was brushing my teeth and my toothbrush literally snapped in half lmao
Omggg that’s so scary
@@SuperRaedizzle yeah once there was a cockroach in my toothbrush and I almost put it in
@@Space-el9hg I was gonna brush my teeth and my brother rushed in and told me it fell in the toilet.
@@DazzleCreates at least your brother told you mine would have filmed me and told me afterwards
omg
I think the reason Crayola is sold out is because of school supplies shopping. Normally kingergarten/elementary uses looots of crayola.
That's what I was thinking! Schools gotta be stocking up lol
The amount of wax that passes into the average elementary school each year could probably single handedly keep the oil industry in business. 😂
Yes in my school
I didn’t know RoseArt stopped existing!! My family was poor poor, but I loved drawing & thankfully my parents always made sure I had Crayola.
Also hurts my heart to hear “vintage RoseArt” 😣
Editing because dang. Kids these days have it bad with CraZArt.
I definitely and obviously remember using crayola when I was like 5. And I also think that I used cra-Z-art. I have this very small memory and it's Soooo familiar but I just cant remember.
Can I just say I still love the smell of old RoseArt scented markers? They had the best "flavors"!
I suspect Rose Art stepped up their game in the 2000s because I remember using their products in the 90s and compared to Crayola they were considerably more awful. IIRC the markers dried out after a lot less uses than the Crayola markers. I remember the pencil quality being similar and I would use both with minimal issue. The crayons were...fine. But the markers? I remember Rose Art then being like the Cray-Z-Art now.
CONSPIRACY THEORY : crazy art is old 1980s rose art product that never sold, after 2000 rose art changed their formula to be more like Crayola ... explains how after only two weeks your crazy art markers were dried out
close, the family that started Rose Art sold the brand then started Crazy Art, so i'm guessing they used the same formula, then the company that bought Rose Art actually tried to make them better
That makes a lot of sense because I definitely remember rose art NOT being anywhere nearly as good as what she showed in the video.
I know right when I was in second grade I had those markers and they dried out really soon
That is kinda what I was thinking lol
RoseArt: “I’m not mad I’m just disappointed”
CrazyArt: “Ok, NOW I’m mad”
I never knew RoseArt art supplies was so hated. I never minded them tbh. I remember using those Watercolors in school as a kid and they worked great. I think I had some watercolor pencils from them too?
I had both the Crayola 64 pack with the sharpener and some RoseArt crayons/pencils and markers. RoseArt is fine! I remember especially loving the markers.
As a kid we never had rose art, but we definitely had craz-y-art. They were the nasty, thick feeling, chunky crayons that teachers bought and “so graciously” handed out to us. Once a girl got sent home because she hit another kid over getting the last crayola set. ;-; fun times
I have distinct memories of using RoseArt crayons in the early 90s. It was literally like trying to color with candlewax.
Maybe they've improved the formula since then.
But there were dollar-store watercolors that had stronger colors.
The purple oneirritated me the most.
I grew up in the late 90s/early 00’s and that’s more or less my experience with the crayons too.
They can't have changed the formula because the brand is completely gone. It's no more. It's just the fact that you think it's worse than it actually was. Like how most memories are when we were kids.
"Was RoseArt really that bad?" Yes. Yes it was. It was so bad the schools specifically said they don't recommend them lol.
It seems like I remember my school supply lists specifically saying not to get roseart.
@@greatvaluechoppedonions8130 mine said "we no not recommend roseart brand." Needless to say I didn't go to a world class school...
My art teacher forced us to use them. Red is baby pink green is bright blue blue is almost white
@@SnowPheasant *do
(Just trying to help!)
@@miyeonidlee no, literally, it said "we *no* not recommend RoseArt" lol
I remember when I was younger we had this box filled with colored pencils and crayons. I couldn’t tell you how much I despised those terrible roseart crayons lol. Great video!
In Switzerland where I live, every primary school kid is using the caran d‘ache neocolors. I begin to feel bad for hating them so much back then.
Lol same except my stuff was in a giant ziplock bag
@@dusk823 dannngggg
Crayola: the protagonist
Rose art: the season 1 villain that slowly turns into a supporting character
Crazy-art: the true villain of our story
I'm so glad I wasn't the only one that HATED Cra-Z-Art as a kid! I noticed the crayon quality was so much worse, and the other products i tested out with it (markers, color pencils, etc) were just horrible- i thought it was just me because nobody else seemed to care, but Im glad ive found this to back up my hatred for that brand!
God, I love the smell of Crayola crayons. It really does smell of childhood. First day of school with a fresh sharp pack. Putting away the math work and getting together to color holiday decorations for the classroom. It's so amazing how much vivid memories can be tied to scent, feels like it's almost stronger than a photograph. It's right up there with Taste.
There’s actually a scientific reason why smell gives you such strong memory
Basically the part of your brain that is responsible for memory is almost directly tied with your nose little smell thingy. So, that is why smell gives of such strong memory
That & the peppermint-y smell of paste( Ok,I'm showing my age here 🙄) but seriously one of the kids in my preschool class tried to eat the stuff (& I'm sure he wasn't the first..)
I will say, RoseArt's colored pencil turquoise is still my favorite color of all time. Though I remember cra-z-art sucking more than RoseArt as a kid (2007-2014ish)
Cra•Z•Art IS RoseArt.
Crayola has an awesome match bc i think i know what you're talking about, its the shade "robins egg blue."
Yes. I remember kindergarten, 2013-2014, we would fight each other to use the crayola products from the extra bin 😭 rose art was sparse and definitely from different generations but they weren’t awful awful, crazy art crayons would purposefully be broken because they’d just leave chunks, and crayola was the god 😭 I still remember a kid going “crazy art sucks, I don’t want my mommy to have chunks of color on her face I wanna make her face pretty!”
Cra-Z-art would be pretty good to give to a toddler to use, cos they're so cheap and nasty it wouldn't matter when they inevitably break or lose them
As a previous preschool teacher, toddlers get frustrated when things don’t work as they should just like adults do. In the classroom, I prefer Crayola.
@@LadyDucttape694 fr, a 24 pack crayola pack crayons is 50 cents
But I remember being a toddler and being so put off by how difficult it was to use my colors vs my uncles colors. His worked so much better. Just think about all the kids that were put off of art because they didn't know there were better/easier to use options and they just assumed it was to hard for them
How to make a kid dislike art
My mom's an art teacher. She never would have let me or my siblings suffer through the indignities of Roseart crayons.
I have to say, Roseart's gel pens are REALLY good if you like working with pen alone. I've been using a new pack for a few days, and the neon/glitter pens are so bright they turn your art into a rave under blacklight. They also blend/layer surprisingly well for cheap pens
Crayola being so happy rn because she's not talking about how much she hates us 💕
Wdym us?
Hello.. crayola 😏 I've found you, finally
lol when has rae ever spoken about hating crayola? as a long time viewer, she has mostly had positive things to say about them iirc.
I think you're mixing up Rae with NerdECrafter, she's the one that hates crayola with a passion.
The brush you called “the bane of my existence” is only good for being a DISPOSABLE glue brush, if that… I HATE THEM TOO
Never really had rose art as a kid, but Cra-Z-art was the bane of my existence. I always felt embarrassed when I had to whip out the cra-z-art 😭😂
I always thought rose art had a bad rep, changed their name to crazyart and then said to heck with it and ran with the cheap and got worse.
@@toysruskid5074 I just looked and Rose art OWNS Cra-Z-art! so you could be 100% correct! maybe rose art had a quality change and kept the super cheap stuff and called it Cra-Z-art
i like how you’re just bullying crazy art 💀
i adore roseart! i still get so excited when i see roseart pencils! man idk as a kid they seemed like they drew so much better than crayola.
I wonder if the 2000s roseart formula had improved over 90’s roseart. I recall barely being able to get color out of rose art crayons, like you’d pick up a red and just be rubbing waxy pink bits all over the place.
I wondered that too. Also wondered if Crayola has changed any of their formulas over the years.
They were owned by a different company in 2000s. The company who started rose art sold it then created cra z art.
Yeah, I remember the rose art crayons being a) translucent when held up to light, and b) putting down next to no color. I think they just used homeopathic amounts of pigment since paraffin wax is cheaper.
I distinctly remember the black Rose Art marker had a terrible smell and that it wasn't quite black. It was more of a very dark green that was almost black.
that just unlocked a memory
Omg yes
crayola isn't much better in that case. dark blue isn't better than dark green.
I remember liking the cra z art marker better because crayolas black was just dark green
parents: actually ask what brand of art stuff you want
grandparents: here’s a giant 122 count case of cra•z•art materials!! it includes not just markers but crayons, colored pencils AND WATERCOLOR!!!!!! and i found it at a thrift store for like $7
and of course the outside of that case is a f-cking galaxy 🧍♀️
In my case, it had stolen disney art on it.
Opposite here
My granny went out of her way to get me good stuff
Nah bro I have to buy my own art supplies
@@BloominFleury29 same
@@rosemary3029 she legit bought me caran dache for christmas
Cray-z art is the bane of all my existence, the crayons left behind tiny little wax blobs every stroke, and I had to scrape it off with my fingernails😭
I have NEVER heard ANYONE EVER complain about anything but the Rose Art crayons. They were pure wax and one page cost you a whole crayon. Nobody was complaining about the rest of their stuff.
I think I was just SO used to Crayola's specific iconic shades... that Roseart's sliiightly different shades hurt my brain lolololol
I think it’s possible that rose art upped their quality in the 2000’s and later, when all your samples were from. I’d be curious to see comparisons between 1980’s crayola and 1980’s rose art, crayons specifically. I remember rose art crayons depositing nothing but colored nubs of wax with almost no color between them, it was like coloring with a candle.
I specifically remember the rose art pink being my absolute least favorite. Accidentally picking up a roseart crayon from the crayon bin completely ruined a handful of my childhood drawings 😂
11:26 the rose art wax looks like play dow 😂
the way the cra-z-art performed is how I remember rose art
They aren't that bad, tbh. Some people just don't understand why they were underrated and half the time broke less for crayons. The markers weren't the best but they were cheap enough, tbh crazy art products were worse than the rose art markers. Also they tended to be digits of 2 (ex. 2,4,6....) Less than the crayola or crazy art. I loved their watercolor sets, my great grandma had them and they LASTED FOREVER! I actually don't understand where the bad rep came from, I think and have always thought crazy art was the worst brand.
Crazy art us their parent company I'm pretty sure so they're pretty much one in the same. I hated both tbh cause of the different textures.
@@saltydinonuggies1841 i always thought that too! like they just changed the name so the next generation could suffer!!
apparently Cra-Z-Art is owned by the same family that started Rose Art. Rose Art used to be horrible, was sold to Mega Block, which was bought by Mattel, which would explain the formula change to better than it was, and Cra-Z-Art was made which is why it sucks. Just last year the family bought back the Rose Art name tho
While I used Crayola as a kid, I feel people have confused RoseArt for CraZ Art. At least Rose had the cool markers.
They were started by the same person (company) that is why the name and packaging is so similar. Rose art was sold and the owners decided to start cra z art.
I agree. I actually liked crayola and rose art equally as a child. Rose art had a lot of colors that crayola didn’t.
No, RoseArt was bad; I stand by it. I had a pack of crayons that were so waxy they could barely transfer color. I think younger people experienced a slightly better formula version of some of the products and I had never heard of CraZArt until this video - which seems to be the replacement to original RoseArt.
Like Heather stated, RoseArt was crap back in the day. You could barely color with them due to how waxy there were and the crayons, if you put too much pressure, had a habit of bending and breaking on you. Most people who had Rose Art crayons mostly had a box of broken pieces by the third use. And don't let me get started on the color pencils. Not only did you have the color input problem, but they were so poorly made you could easily separate the color lead from the wood. I know this because my older brother was a dick and would do this all the time to my pencils.
If you’ve ever used Craze-Art crayons, just looking at them reminds you of the texture. It sends shivers down your spine of how horrible that texture is.
you are my favourite RUclips to watch for art supply reviews
12:39 Me: tHerE onCe waS a ShIp tHat pUT tO sEaaa
I was SO lucky as a kid, because my parents both really valued the arts, and fostered my creativity, so they only bought me the best of the best in terms of art supplies, meaning I’ve literally never tried crappy brands like Rose Art!
Honestly I remember the Rose Art colored pencils chipping and breaking when I tried to sharpen them. I never had that problem with Crayola. It's not always the quality of the "lead" that makes the difference.
Rose Art: Just Vibing.
Rae: Finally, a worthy opponent. Our battle will be legendary!
Not yu wanting likes
@@ArTdontExisT Huh? They were just posting a comment like everyone else-
@@ArTdontExisT Sis what?
I was recently hospitalized for personal reasons and the hospital where I was admitted only had crazy art crayons and pencils. I remember crying when I got home because I was able to use my Faber Castell, Prismacolors, and Caran Dache pencils. Actually bawling over high quality colored pencils. That’s how awful Crazy Art was to use.
Rae your makeup looks so good!😍
I remember the Roseart working more like the Cra-z-art. I wonder if they changed their formulas by the 2000's.
I didn’t like rose art because I felt like their supplies always broke on me and the film the crayons left made them hard to blend and lay smoothly on a page but I have always despised craZart, how are they still in business 💀
“I feel like on a scale of Crayola to Crazy Art, it’s definitely floating…” …in the toilet? 🚽 You should do Prang next. 🙂 I hated those, lol.
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Really? I loved my Prang colored pencils and still have my set from 20 years ago as a teenager. I’ve compared them to my kids’ crayolas and actually prefer prang after my nice prismacolors. And the watercolors are supposed to be very good for the price.
@@Jane_H I can only speak for the prang crayons I used as a kid. I didn’t like them at all. Crayola was way better imo.
@@SuperRaedizzle do Van Bleijsvick next, they have the worst possible acrylic paint
Prang watercolor is actually pretty good
Crayola is like the chad of art
Rose art is like: IM ON MY WAY!
And Cra-Z-Art is like: “GuYs WaIt FoR mE”
😂😂😂
1:34 that is so accurate though
Literally had this convo with my husband the other day. If my mom had even invested in something as small as name brand crayons, it would have changed my life. My mom has NPD so anything to cope was a life line. Excited to see u beat this arch nemesis for us creative kids everywhere!
I vividly remember being a little girl and whining, "Awwwww, Rose Art!" when my grandparents gave me a tub of art stuff.
i THINK YOU ARE AN AMAZING ARTIST AND YOUR VOICE IS LIKE AN ASMR. I'VE LEARNED MORE FROM YOUR TUTORIALS AND TESTSWABS THEN IN MY ART CLASSES IN SCHOOLWHAT I ENDED UP DOING WAS USING EXPENSIVE ART SUPPLIES ON CHEAP SURFACES OR UPCYCLE SOMETHING ELSE, YOUR PAINT DON'T MAKE YOU THE ARTIST IT'S THE IMAGINATION AND CREATIVITY.MUCH LOVE.
yall remember those pencils that broke everytime you sharpen them?
Literally everything about crazyart is what I remember about late 90s rose art. Like crazyart just reused rosearts formulas
So, crazyart is owned by the same parent as rose art. My theory is, rose art perfected their formulas and as a way to rebrand made crazyart with the original formulas. 🤯🤯
Like people here are saying, maybe Cra•Z•Art was the crap one but because the logo and everything between that and RoseArt are SOOOO FREAKING similar the hate for Cra•Z•Art got transferred to RoseArt?
Cra-z-art was the true villain after all
I use the old wonky Crayola watercolor brushes as 1/6 scale lightsabers. Take the bristles out, turn it upside down, the 'thick part is your lightsaber handle, the thin part is the blade. My 1/6 scale Jedi & Sith look great holding them.
Oh that is genius!
ROFL, financial compensation! Loved that exclamation. Yes, the stack'em up! 🤗❤️👍🏽💯
When rose art crayons are blended with crayola crayons, it is the childhood masterpiece
You stacking those Crayola markers on top of each other just unlocked a memory I had totally forgotten about, so thank you for reminding me of the joy of wacking stuff with my marker sword and seeing how long it took to break 😂😂😂
I think we just loved Crayola so much, that we just looked for ANYTHING to hate about other brands. 🤣
I still remember when my mom visited the US in the 90s and bought me back all these roseart scented stamper markers. I absolutely loved them, as all we had in NZ was Crayola , so I felt super cool for having some markers that no one else did lol
I came here because when I was a child in the early 90s, somebody got me a giant like 100 mega pack of RoseArt crayons in a fancy case. The case was cool but using them was like trying to color with a bunch of birthday candles. I also remember experiencing the lumps of different color (sometimes a hard gritty substance??) in the crayons. My one experience with the brand but it is burnt into my brain.
“You call these crayons?!”
-Me, around 4 years old with a Roseart crayon
out of topic but can i just say that her makeup looks absolutely gorgeous? she looks so pretty!
great video as always!!
I remember hating Cra-Z-art when I was little! the crayons were awful, the best way that I could describe them going down on paper was slightly tinted wax with maybe a few chunks of color if you were lucky😭
Rose art crayons have no pigment because they are too waxy. When I was younger, I ended up melting them down and I berried them under a tree and had a funeral. I'm not joking. 👍 They are in the ground underneath a tree in an apartment complex where I grew up. The manager saw me and asked me what I was doing. I told her I was having a funeral for my dead art supplies. I was a Goth art kid so yeah that happened. My brother even came in a black drench coat and black makeup and we had a funeral for Rose art. 😂 They dead years ago. 👻 Rose art is haunting me again.
I grew up in early 2010's (born 09) and we ALL hated craze-art like we would BEG our parents to get ANYTHING other than craze-art
…what about PRANG? I still have a few stragglers - the colored pencil lead slides out. LOL!
I've seen a tour of the Rose art factory that was similar to the old Mr. Rogers video about the Crayola factory. It actually shows them adding more wax filler to the crayons than they do in the Mr. Rogers video about Crayola.
I didn't know Roseart had their own line, I only ever got them as that case that had the chalkiest watercolors, the tiny markers that were really dark (even the lighter ones) and the really scratchy colored pencils.
Have you ever done a video comparing the store brands of school supplies? Like is walmart brand and dollar general brand the same thing? Is one better then the other? With school coming back in and maybe having supply issues it might be worth a video.
The STICKINESS of the Cray-z-art is exactly what I remember about RoseArt! I literally felt the frustration in my SOULLL
12:40 brought back memories lol… ***stick, stick, stick***
I remember actually liking the rose art colored pencils. It was their crayons I did not like. But then again, growing up we were basically conditioned to believe that crayola was the high end and top quality brand, that you WANTED crayola, and anything else was inferior. I’m a millennial so late 80’s born.
My main experience with RoseArt was the velvet posters that you could get at Walmart for a few dollars, and the markets that came with them were cheap, scratchy, half or fully dry, and horrible. That was absolutely where my RoseArt hatred came from. I would get one of those posters, throw out the markers, and use my crayola markers to color it. I think because of that I just avoided anything with their brand on it out of spite.
Rose art is now owned by CraZArt
Cra-Z-Art's Rosen brings RoseArt brand back under family control in deal with Mattel. The Cra-Z-Art brand of arts and crafts supplies, owned by Randolph-based LaRose Industries LLC, has acquired Mattel's Arts, Crafts, Stationery business, including its RoseArt brand, it announced Thursday.Jan 28, 2021
I'm about the same age as you, but from Brazil. And yes, I was "blessed" with RoseArt stuff. Alright, art supplies made here aren't the best, but damn. Just damn. White board was impossible to erase and crayons were SO sticky!
Rose art crayons always melted in the car