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A new section on the UKCPS website, this is a list
of some tools that you might or might not find useful, with hopefully
some indication of how they might be used and where to get them. Please
bear in mind that the views expressed here are the personal views of
the webmaster,
Bob Ebdon, or other named artists, and should not be attributed to the
UKCPS. If you have anything you wish to add here, or correct, please contact Bob.
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Blending
Tools
- see Bob's Article on Blending
for more information on how to use these.
1.
Some artists use a solvent, applied with a brush or cotton bud, to
blend colours. Solvents include Bestine, Turpentine, Turpenoid, Lighter
fuel and other equally obnoxious liquids with health warnings on! Zest-it
is citrus based, smells nice and does the job. Available mail order or www.zest-it.com
Stop
Press: Jacqui Blackman, who markets Zest-it, is bringing
out a new package called 'Zest-It Pencil Blend'.This is the same solvent, but in a smaller bottle
and easier to dispense. This should be available in the shops from Jan 2006,
or can be found on Jaqui's own website - www.jacquiblackman.co.uk.
2.
Prismacolor solvent blender, available USA.
3.
Torchons, available most art stockists
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| 4. Blender pencils.
These are basically wax pencils without any pigment. They are great for
smoothing out pigment, pushing it down into the valleys in the paper,
filling in the white specks and making the colour look more intense.
The one shown is the Lyra Rembrandt Splender Blender. Derwent also make
a good soft Blender, and a slightly harder blender that they call a
Burnisher. |
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