The Colour Pencil trend.

Alright, let me make one thing perfectly clear.  I was colouring in with pencils before it was cool.

The modern pencils are so different to what most of us used in school.  They are brighter and can be manipulated in more ways.

Prismacolour is the brand I like.  They have more pigment than others and the binder used contains a lot of clay.  This means that you can blend more than one colour very beautifully and smoothly.
They are also much brighter so can build up to very vibrant colours, or used sparingly to achieve paler colours.  Colourless blenders are also available, which means that once the wanted colour is achieved, it can be blended and burnished to high shine.

The pencils can also be used like water colour pencils by painting with odourless solvent, which breaks the binder down and you can paint like water colour.

So there you go.  Have fun with your colouring books!

Here's a link to my work on Red Bubble.  Hope you like it.

Red Bubble/Sharon Dennis