The mail lady brought a box from Dick Blick today!! Inside were several new colors of Prismacolor pencils, and the Derwent blender and burnisher. I'd read somewhere that they were very good, so naturally I just had to try them. I opened the box right away, sharpened all the pencils, filled in my color chart and started experimenting. I used two kinds of paper one smooth and one with more tooth.
Initial impressions:
- burnisher produces a softer look, I like it better
- blender moves the waxy pencil color around a lot, actually sounds different when it comes in contact with the paper's surface
- blender gives a more scratchy, textured look
- used in combination, not much different than the blender used alone
- I like the burnisher a little better than the Prisma blender
I'm not sure how much detail will show in the scan, but some results are shown below.
Oh and colors! I just love the new greens that I got. Kelp green 1090, green ochre 1091, kelly green 1096, and artichoke 1099. Artichoke is almost not a green, kind of like one of the greens in camouflage and I know I'll use it alot. I also got blue lake, clay rose, grayed lavender, and chestnut. The rest were replacement colors. This brings my total up to 95 colors. Do I plan to get all 132? No. I'm not into just "collecting." I buy what I think I'll use. Have you seen all the colors of gray there are? There are 19! There's no way I'd use all of them. I have about 6 grays, an assortment of cool and warm. That's enough, for me anyway. My wish list has about 10 colors on it, and that'll be enough for me.
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| A trifold, using up scraps of Japanese paper. |
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Not one of my favorites, too..symmetrical or lined upish.
Nature Geisha. The Japanese maple leaves are from trees in our yard, as is the ginkgo leaf. I made some paper out of recycled junk mail a while back, and I still have quite a stash of it. This one has Japanese maple leaves embedded in the paper. |
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| This is an old optical lens I got from an optometrist who retired. (before you could buy them commercially). I dug out my stash the other day and went to work. The tiger is colored with Radiant Pearls, glued to a piece of silk paper then glued to the lens. |
