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Getting to grips with coloured pencils
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As Jackson’s kept running out of stock for the scale dividers, I was led to the Derwent website. While browsing, I read up on all the things that I might need for using oil pencils. I discovered that their special support is smooth and water resistant, apparently it is easy to blend on. I was amazed that it this support is 35 quid for 20 sheets of 7x 10 inches but also wondered what blending meant. Consequently I bought a blending pencil. It is like a very bad rubber that smudges the colour or graphite around on the support. But can you tell the difference? I’m posting a before and after picture below. Incidentally I was pleasantly surprised, by 15 % discount, free delivery and the parcel arriving in red Jiffy bags. I was also surprised bu the scale dividers being about twice the size that I expected (13 inches).
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I’m assuming Linda that the blended one is the lower one ? If it is I prefer the crispness of the un blended one. I have had a very beautiful wooden box of Derwent coloured pencils my husband bought me about thirty years ago. I am just re discovering them , I haven’t got a blender so am interested in yours. I am enjoying them though .
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Yes you are quite right Sylvia - the second one is the blended one. I’ve been a bit quiet lately, because I have been enveloped in more coloured pencil work. It seems to take forever. Well about 3 days to do an A4 drawing.
Here is the latest, which is also in the gallery. But now I see it in photo form, I-realise that the shell on the left could do with a little more work.
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by Linda Wilson
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Hi Linda
You can also blend with a paper stub, they usually come in sets of 3 different sizes. These give a slightly different effect to the blending pencil. I tend to use them between layers rather than at the end. Oil based pencils also work well on smooth hot pressed cartridge paper, such as Fabriano Artistico Extra White. Also not cheap!
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I don’t know if I love or hate these coloured pencils, but it becomes compulsive. I have been working from a photo of my late cat, commemorated so well in Sylvias card. It takes forever to build. Up any density of colour and he still looks perhaps appropriately ghostly to me. What do you think?