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Sylvia Evans

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Here I go again with Inktense.  I find it relaxing and satisfying.   Not many in the hedges right now and they shrivel and die very quickly.  So I am using a coloured pencil drawing I di some time ago,plus a few buddy things .

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Denise Cat

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These are beautiful Sylvia, I can't wait to see them finished.

Sylvia Evans

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Do do I Denise....lol. Actually that's not accurate as I can get so involved with the doing of....and that's what it's about.🌻

Tessa Gwynne

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Looks gorgeous-you are so good at these Sylvia and the inktense seems like the ideal medium.
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Karen Lewis

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Beautiful Sylvia.
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Karen Lewis

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Beautiful Sylvia.  Oops! Sorry about the double post. 🤦‍♀️

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With Sarah, Phil, Ellen, Rose the dentist, and the granddaughter whose name I forget.

Robert Jones, Napa

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An expensive set of pencils there - but you're making such good use of them that they were obviously worth it.  Convolvulus is a blithereing nuisance, until it flowers - then, you make the mistake of leaving it in place and it proceeds to stealthily strangle, because the flower is beautiful.  
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Lewis Cooper

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Lovely work Sylvia.  I agree about coloured pencils.  You are certainly getting great results.  I started with inktense and still have some left, my clumsy use led to more breakages than other brands I tried so I now use Faber mostly.  But it's all the same thing.  Age has limited my use of the brush...wobbly hands.  At the moment I'm struggling with a dip-pen, so coloured pencils and pencils in general may be my last resort.

Sylvia Evans

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Glad you like my flowery pics they are satisfying....actually Robert compare the price of these pencils with tubes of o8l or acrylic @nd they Stand up pretty well.
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Robert Jones, Napa

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Certainly oil is now at a very off-putting price: but it lasts a long time.  I still think acrylic is pretty cheap, considering what you can get for your money.  But I'll look out for Inktense pencils for my next shopping trawl: so that's coloured charcoal; Inktense pencils; replacing all my oil paints which contain Zinc Oxide; and I could do with more acrylic ..... it never ends!  

Norrette Moore

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Lovely picture Syvia.  We used to call them 'nanny-pop-offs' as kids, because if you squeeze below the flower, it pops off like a jack in the box. Wondering if they sell quality coloured pencils in singles?  I have a set like yours (which I dont use often enough) but I guess they would turn out expensive, if you can't just buy the ones you need.

Sylvia Evans

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Ah... the neighbours think I'm nuts anyhow, new occupation squeezing the bottom of Convolvulus to watch them pop. New one on me Norrette o Inktense are not super expensive and possibly you could buy just the individual colours.   I always have boxes full of almost finished  and never  used so a good point . I don't think I have ever bought tube paint in a set asi know there would be so m@ny I wouldn't use.
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