How to use Zest-it Pencil Blend with Coloured Pencils, applying and blending.

Using Zest-it® Pencil Blend, with techniques to blend Coloured Pencils.
The Pencil Blend works with many makes of colour pencil, from our testing we would suggest
Luminance, Prismacolor, Karisma, Polychromos, Derwent; Drawing, Artist and Coloursoft.

Pods by Jane Monk	Tangle with colour added using Zest-it® Pencil Blend. New Jane is a Certified Zentangle Teacher and gives two excellent demonstrations of blending Coloured Pencils on Youtube and has kits and information on her studio website. Copyright © Jane Monk 2011
Tutorial on blending colour, ink and graphite pencils by Jane Monk on YouTube	Watch the Video - Blending colour using Zest-it® Pencil Blend. New This is an excellent and informative video for anyone wish to 'see how it's done', you can find it on her blog or click the link on the left to watch it on YouTube. Jane shows blending colour using Prismacolor, Inktense and Graphite pencils, with Pencil Blend and paper stumps. Copyright © Jane Monk 2011

Due to the tutorial being removed please try this Youtube video	A coloured pencil tutorial on blending, burnishing and layering of pencils, including using Zest-it® Pencil Blend. * A 4 part article by Belinda on using Coloured Pencils, with a video clip of Zest-it Pencil Blend in use showing techniques to blend coloured pencils on the Austrailian Colored Pencils Network site. This is now no longer available to the public.
Santa hat by Belinda Lindhardt	Apply Coloured Pencil using Zest-it® Pencil Blend. A very nice video clip on Youtube by Belinda showing blending coloured pencil using Zest-it® Pencil Blend and cottonwool buds. This is where the Zest-it Blending Sponge comes in so handy, just dip the tip of the cotton bud in and keep working. Copyright © Belinda Lindhardt 2010

Blending Coloured Pencils - this is part of a 'blending' page on my own website.

This was Traceys' second drawing now showing the shading, it was drawn first using coloured pencil. The whole mushroom was under-painted using Zest-it® Pencil Blend and a brush, with Derwent Drawing range "Wheat" colour pencil for the main body and "Warm Grey" for the shadows under the cap. This was drawn from life, unfortunately the mushroom deceased before the painting was finished, but I know she found it a good learning exercise.

You may be wondering 'why mushrooms'? It's often best to start with something fairly simple but that you find interesting - mushrooms filled that criteria for her.

second mushroom blended with colored pencils
Second Mushroom
on Whatman watercolour
paper (no longer available).

On this mushroom, the second layer of pencil was added whilest the 'cap' was still damp from the Pencil Blend. The richness of the colour becomes more apparent, the light and dark areas are building.
When you apply layers of pencil while the drawing is still damp, it will tend to have a slight 'drag' across the surface. Also you will probably need less pencil then when working dry because the colour is 'spreadable' with your brush, tortillion, cotton bud or paper stump.
The colour will look darker when first applied although it will return to normal as it dries, because Zest-it dries without leaving any residue on or in the paper.

showing the blending of colour pencils
Another Mushroom
on Whatman paper

Laying down pencil colour and under-painting with Pencil Blend allows you to have colour without using up the tooth of the paper. This is important if you wish to work in layers, the more tooth you retain, the more layers you can apply and the richer the result.

The Mallard on the right, is a work in progress, showing the under-painting and the building of colour and layers as the painting progresses.

I hope this has given you an in-sight into using Zest-it® Pencil Blend with your Coloured Pencils, Pencil Blend can be found on the above link or from retail stockist.
Copyright © Tracey Blackman 2004

mallard picture using colored pencils
Mallard pencil drawing

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