Thoughts on living near nature, and new Polychromos colored pencils
Japanese Maple, colored pencil in kraft paper sketchbook, 2008
One thing that I love about where I live now is that when I look out the window I can see a little bit of nature. In the apartment where I lived before, I saw a brick wall when I looked out the window. It was highly depressing. This is a sketch I made of one of our Japanese Maples with my new Faber-Castell Polychromos colored pencils. I haven’t really tried them for anything serious yet, but I do like it the color range that they have (I bought the set of 60). They seem softer than Derwents but harder than Prismacolors. I love the buttery texture of Prismacolors but it seems as if I get a lot of wax bloom with them. I haven’t noticed that problem with the Polychromos yet. One thing I love is the name, which is Greek for “many colors.”
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This is really beautiful! Reminds me of a silk banner.
I have the polychromos too and I love them. I haven’t had any problem with bloom using them, either. But if you do ever get bloom on cololured pencil drawing, try this: use a soft tissue and ‘gently’ without too much pressure rub in small circles over the area with the bloom. It should come off, repeat in stages. Some say to use a Q-tip/swab, but I haven’t tried that one myself.