More color pencils!

The husband bought me another two boxes of pencils while on a recent visit to Sydney.

Both are by Derwent. One is from this brand's "Artists' Pencils" range, a tin of 24 colors. Check its details out here. The Derwent site says their waxy texture makes them ideal for layering and blending. I have started using them for a drawing in my Enchanted Forest book and the pencils are as promised - highly blendable, so the gradations of color are beautifully smooth.  

Doesn't even look like color pencils, huh?
Work still unfinished. 

I'd even say that this set is more blendable than the Derwent tin of 72 Coloursoft pencils that I got from my sister last Christmas. Check out the details of that box of 72 here.   

The other new tin I have will take me to uncharted territory - water-soluble pencils! This second tin comes under the Derwent Academy series, a tin of 24 colours. Details of it here.  I have yet to use it as I have been busy, but I've had fun preparing to use them, haha.

I visited Straits Commercial Art shop a few weeks ago to buy paint brushes and a water pen, the kind with a reservoir and a brush tip. I plan to do a pencil drawing and then go over the colors with water and these brushes for water-color wash effects.

If only I had more spare time.

Li'l ol' me... four boxes of color pencils, all artist-grade!! One could be so lucky.