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Staedtler Ergosoft Pencil Review

The Staedtler Ergosoft pencils are a budget brand and they come in sets of 12, 24 and 36 and you can get them open stock (singles) but only for the ones included in the 12 and 24 sets at the moment. The new ones from the 36 set are not yet available. The pencils are […]

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The Secrets of Colouring 2 by Jennifer Zimmermann Review

I thought this book would be more advanced than other colouring guides I have, but the steps are actually really simple to follow. The guides all use prismacolor pencils but I just used the equivalent from polychromos. There is information on materials, money saving hacks, some information about pencil brands and elements of art. Then […]

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Holbein Artists’ Colored Pencils Review

I only have the tweleve pastel tone set of these pencils at the moment, so it is those that I will base my review on. Only having twelve means that I often combine them with other pencils and find that they work really well with my polychromos. I used them for the buildings in the […]

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This Week’s Tutorials 18th – 24th April 2021

I am still obsessed by World’s of Wonder but have mixed things up a bit this week! I was lucky enough to be gifted two sets of pencils from my gift list so I reviewed those during colouring tutorials and I did a picture from the 2021 planner and one from Miniature Enchanted Forest as […]

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Color Workshop by Rachel Reinhert Review

This book jas a variety of different colouring techniques running through it. It starts with the basics, so explaining about different colouring materials and tools. It then has a section on colour and the colour wheel. There are then different techniques that you can use with different mediums such as pencils, pastels, gel pens, watercolours […]

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Arteza Premium Pencil Review

This is a review of the tube of 48 Arteza pencils which are triangular. There are actually two tubes available as Arteza has updated them. The colours vary a bit, so I will not go into detail about these as they may be different depending on where you buy them from. The pencils themselves have […]

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2021 Weekly Planner Pages

Each Monday I publish a video on YouTube which is from the Johanna Basford 2021 Weekly Planner. The video is for that week’s picture and the idea is that it will give those with the planner some ideas as to what to do for their picture. Sometimes I do a series of videos to include […]

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This Week’s Tutorials – 10th – 17th April 2021

I release a video tutorial each day on YouTube and thought it might be useful to give you a weekly roundup of what I have been doing so that you can catch up. This week everything has been from Worlds of Wonder as everyone (including me) is obsessed by it! The exception is Monday where […]

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Colorist’s Special Effects by Helen Elliston Review

If you are looking to improve your colouring techniques, then Helen Elliston has produced a series of books that can help you. There are four books in the series and they all cover different things. I find that there are always some things in them which I can apply to Johanna Basford books, but I […]

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Faber Castell Polychromos Pencils Review

I would say that these are probably my favourite brand of pencil. They were the third set that I used and I have kept using them ever since. They sharpen to a good point which I like and they have a good variety of colours in the 120 tin. They do not smoosh and blend […]