New Tools

I was lucky enough for Christmas to receive a gift card from my bosses to Michaels, you would think they know me lol. So after some consideration I decided to treat myself to the Prismacolour pencils that I have been looking at for a while.

They were definitely worth the wait, they colour and blend so nicely and I have been having lots of fun playing around with the stamps I have. Of course my husband was laughing at me, as he pointed out I have lots of colouring tools why did I need one more set.

And he is probably right just going by this picture. I bought the Michaels brand pencil crayons over 6 months ago and they were a good starting point, they blend pretty well but the colours are not as sharp and you have to put quite a bit of mineral spirits on to blend the colours. The Spectrum Noir pencils blend really nice and the collections are great as they have three shades of each colour so you don't have to hunt to find the ones to blend. But they are hard to find, I have to order them online and either pay for shipping from the USA or from the UK so that makes it kind of painful for the cost. I love my Inktense watercolour pencils, the colours are so vibrant and they are just fun to use. It is making me rethink my decision to not purchase regular watercolours to play with.

This is the first go round just playing with the prismacolours, not the greatest since I just used plain paper I had on hand and not proper mineral spirits. But even then the pencils blended really well and I look forward to colouring with pencils now and not just my Copics.