Fluff - How colored pencils are made

So cool, I love colored pencils!

Thanks for sharing!!

I love using good colored pencils. I’m not particularly talented, so I only use them to do the adult coloring pages, but I get beautiful results. I’ve spent years making my pages look like stained glass windows, and I think that practice helped ready me for watercolor which I took up in 2020.

One thing I’m for sure good at is buying art supplies, though. Only the best for me, I love researching online and choosing my tools

Thanks for posting this. I found the video mesmerising. I'm lucky enough to have a large set of Polychromos pencils and a large set of Prismacolour pencils. Should drag them out and have a play.

One of the coolest stops I've ever made on a vacation was a visit to the Derwent Pencil Museum in Keswick England. We learned about how the pencil factory came to be, and its very cool role in WWII. The museum is now in a fancy new building, but when I first went it was in a very old building full of quirk and charm.

During WWII, the Derwent Pencil Company made pencils that had little maps rolled up where the pencil core is and the eraser could be popped off revealing a compass to help soldiers find their way.

That girl's animal portraiture is insane!

Love it. Thank you for sharing this!

That was so interesting! I hope those masks really filter the air well! I think my students may enjoy it! Thanks for sharing.

I love a good set of colored pencils. I have a couple big sets of Prismacolors but my all time favorite brand is Lyra. I have several sets that I used to teach classes back in the day and I still use them even though some are down to nubs. I also have a brand new set of 72 still in the shrink wrapped tin box that I kept when I moved my business online and stopped selling them, just in case. That was almost 25 years ago.

When I was in art school, I made a point to only buy and use good quality supplies and it showed in my pieces. They just work and perform so much better. A friend of mine always tried to go cheap and that showed too in her grades. When my DD was little and showing real promise as an artist, I didn’t ever hesitate to let her use my quality materials and supplies and ai taught her how to take care of them. I wanted her to be able to see and experience the difference between the cheap stuff and the high end ones because it does make a difference.

It was called How It’s Made. It was a Canadian show with Mark Tweksbury as the host, he was an Olympic champion in swimming. It was an interesting show.

Fun fact (most) Canadians call them pencil crayons.

I’ve always wondered if the brand made a difference