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Linda Wilson

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Having had trouble with finding the best paper for coloured pencils, I bought some Bristol Board. I found this to be too smooth and it wold not seem to accept any density of colour. (Though lately I have seen that Glennis W has had some success with this. I then tried Stonehenge paper, which purports to be good for this medium, but it seems to be very grainy. I wanted to see how much detail I could render and tried copying a Stanley Spencer painting to see how it bore up, using Derwent Coloursoft pencils.
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Linda Wilson

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The result was not what I wanted at all, so I thought I would try to rectify it by using Intense pencils, to get more contrast and vibrancy. See above:- I thought that this was better, but still not what I was after. So I then tried steaming over a kettle, it to bring the colour out. this was still not very successful so i then applied water to the drawing.
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Linda Wilson

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This is the final result. Better, but not what I really wanted. What am I doing wrong? Should I be using different pencils or different paper?
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Robert Jones, Napa

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I don't know the answers to this, I'm afraid (never stopped me from butting in, though, has it?) but I used to like using a waxy coloured pencil, then made by Berol ... I have a feeling they're not made any more .... or Karat Liqua wax pencils on Daler Rowney heavyweight cartridge paper; their normal cartridge paper is also a little grainy, though some like that. Bristol board is much used by pen and ink artists, as well as by the coloured pencil brigade, but you didn't get on with it..... from what you're saying, I would imagine you want a heavy paper, with the right sort of sheen to bring out the colour of the pencils: so I would give the D-R heavyweight cartridge a try, or look at the website of the Coloured Pencil Society - I haven't, but I'd imagine there would be some pointers there.
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Linda Wilson

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Thanks for the tips Robert. Dale Rowney paper sounds very accessible, so I might just give it a go. I'll look at the CP Society too.
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Jim Morris

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I bought a set of watercolour pencils and I cheat all over the place with them. Primarily by quickly applying a wet brush either on to a drawn line or onto the pencil tip itself. I haven't used them much but they're useful. I admit to cheating and fully expect to be banned sine die by the Royal Society for the Prevention of cruelty to pencils. :hehe: p.s. I just use the same 300 gsm watercolour paper for everything except sketching. It's made by Crawford and Black and sold by The Works ( who have a branch in most towns) and is quite cheap. I find it fine.

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Kenneth Twist

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I had seen how to solve this problem in art-king if i did not remember correctly.
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Robert Jones, Napa

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Twist - I have absolutely no idea what that means....

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Twist, as we should all know by now is one of the scammers which caused such a nuisance a week or two ago, he was the one holding up the dreadful painting. I see that he has started another thread which has been replied to, he is better ignored before he brings all his mates back to plague us again. He was supposed to have been removed altogether by Dawn, but he has sneaked back in somehow.