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Post by elaine on Dec 1, 2015 20:13:11 GMT
A friend taught me a technique of using Mineral Spirits (you buy in art department) to blend my Prismacolor pencils. It looks so good. I tried to find a video on this but didn't find a good one. Will look again and try to update this thread. Rainbow just posted one in a thread she started yesterday or the day before. The person colored a stamped bunny with pencils and used spirits and a q-tip to blend. My kids have a set of prismacolors for their important school projects, along with the sharpener, but I'm wondering what the difference is between the point styles? One point is shorter and wider - more stable, but not as fine - the other point is longer, narrower and more pointy, allowing g for finer lines, but you have to be careful with force, or it will break easier.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 1, 2015 21:48:25 GMT
Thanks for posting about this. I have been planning to use my JoAnn's 60% off coupon online (good Dec 3-6) to buy a set of 48. The price on Amazon with free shipping is better than using the 60% off and paying shipping at JoAnn's. Just as a heads up, I was hoping to do a similar deal at Michael's this week with my 50% coupon. But they had the Prismacolors on sale at 25% off so of course I couldn't use my coupon. I have a feeling this will be a pretty consistent scenario, at least through the holidays. And another thing - Michael's has a nice selection of coloring books, but they put up a sign that as of Nov. 27th (or something like that) you can't use coupons on them. grrrr...... annoying!!
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Post by underwatermama on Dec 1, 2015 21:50:45 GMT
A friend taught me a technique of using Mineral Spirits (you buy in art department) to blend my Prismacolor pencils. It looks so good. I tried to find a video on this but didn't find a good one. Will look again and try to update this thread. Rainbow just posted one in a thread she started yesterday or the day before. The person colored a stamped bunny with pencils and used spirits and a q-tip to blend. My kids have a set of prismacolors for their important school projects, along with the sharpener, but I'm wondering what the difference is between the point styles? One point is shorter and wider - more stable, but not as fine - the other point is longer, narrower and more pointy, allowing g for finer lines, but you have to be careful with force, or it will break easier. Thank you. You'd think I would have wondered why it came with two sharpeners, but I never even gave it a thought. I am a ditz sometimes LOL.
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artbabe
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Post by artbabe on Dec 1, 2015 23:23:06 GMT
I've been an art teacher for 22 years and I've done pencil and colored pencil drawings my whole life. I have a set of Prisma because they are supposed to be wonderful.
I usually use my pack of 50 Crayola. Obviously there is something I'm missing about Prisma. They are fine but I like Crayola. I can get very fine detail with them and I blend by laying color over color, often crosshatching, so I don't use a blending pen.
I guess I am going to have to do a side by side comparison to see what people are talking about. I think the prisma colors are shinier and smooshier (probably not a word) but I don't think they are necessarily better.
Of course, the rest of the world disagrees with me, so I need to figure out why I'm wrong.
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msliz
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Post by msliz on Dec 2, 2015 1:08:13 GMT
The soft ones are worth the price because they blend so beautifully. The hard ones, so not worth it. The hard colors are as vibrant as the soft, but you can't really do anything with them.
Like Artbabe said, with the soft ones, you can just layer the colors over and over each other to blend. It's a dry technique. You won't need a solution to blend them, so your colors stay vibrant.
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Post by SnowWhite on Dec 2, 2015 3:47:10 GMT
I usually use my pack of 50 Crayola. Crayola colored pencils or crayola crayons?
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Post by DinCA on Dec 2, 2015 4:23:16 GMT
You can never have too many colors. That is all. Oh, and that's a great price! ETA: I used a 50% off coupon on the tin of 132 awhile back at Hobby Lobby. After much shopping, it was the lowest price.
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