The blender pencil is perfect for smudging, blending or softening the edges, allowing you to create subtle details and smooth out the texture of your artwork. Care should be taken when blending coloured pencils and Zest-it together on fine grit boards like the Ampersand Pastelbord. The LYRA Rembrandt Splender is a colourless oil-based pencil that enables artists to gently smooth and soften colour lines and edges, and seamlessly blend and merge colour joins. Brush and pencil powder blender - The powder blender is a non-toxic, archival dry lubricant which is applied beneath any pigment and allows artists to blend colours without the use of solvents. We aim to get back to you as soon as possible, however some cases may require some investigation and therefore take longer.

br> If you want to create a subtle blend of colours then the Derwent Blender is the ideal accessory.Staedtler's blending pencil is a non-pigmented wax based pencil designed to transform the visual quality of drawings that have been created with pencil, chalk, charcoal, pastel and more. With over 150 years of know-how packed into every pencil and art tool, our creative and scientific minds never cease experimenting. The result is a multi-faceted tool that allows artists to accomplish several effects, like merging neighboring colors, softening edges, and creating unique color blends.

A fascinating paper provides an extra rough surface and works perfectly with the Zest-it pencil blend and coloured pencils. Using the blender pen on textured paper like this Colourfix, will saturate the nib of the pen as a lot of the pigment from the pencil can sit on the grit of the paper.However, some coloured pencils also leave a bloom that looks a lot like this that can also be viewed under the same conditions and these marks do not spoil the artwork when viewed at the normal angle. The results may vary depending on the pencil brand you use as well as the type of paper and it may be worthwhile trying out a few samples before using it over a drawing that will be offered for sale.

Some coloured pencil ranges only have a certain amount of colours and you may opt to mix and match with other brands. You can see a slight difference in the before (left) and after (right) images and the pen did smooth the skin out much more than having simply blended with just wax pencils ( Caran Dache Luminance range), but it was minimal to the other trials I did found below. The burnisher creates a polished finish and is particularly good for adding a sheen to drawings that include glass, metal and light reflections. This soft, colourless pencil is made from the binding material used to make the coloured pencil core.Cookies are not used to collect personal information, and if you accept, only essential cookies for navigation will be installed. They work best on absorbent papers such as watercolour ones but being alcohol based, they can cause colour bleed if used on lightweight papers. A compact battery operated sharpener with high quality durable blades that can sharpen large (9-12mm) and small (6-8mm) pencils. Available individually or in a blister containing 2 of each of the blender and burnisher pencils, plus an eraser and sharpener.

Prismacolor colourless blender pencils are ideal for artists looking to enhance their colored pencil artwork. Applying all the dark tones before blending them together with a lighter coloured pencil such as the white option will create the very colour you were hoping to achieve. Next to the other blenders covered on this page, it does feel quite dry and can produce small amounts of dust on your paper as you blend, but it appears to be more effective than the other pencil blenders.If you found this article helpful, please share using the tabs on this page (not available on a mobile) Why not bookmark and come back at a later date to see what we have added. We recommend that you only use a small amount of Zest-it, applying with a suitable sized paintbrush. The Derwent blender pencil is the ideal tool for when you want to create subtle blends of colours in your artwork.