Pencil Blend 125ml

Best product in the world

warning ... only use in open space with airflow. the smell, for me, is too much. About the same intensity as terps.

love this product and used it for about 6-7 years . It blends pencils perfectly and smells lovely of oranges.

Love this. Only started to use it. Great for intensifying coloured pencil, or even softening a ‘blurry’ background.

A good pencil blender solution with a noticeable smell which is a mix of oranges and chemicals. This is used in the same way as odourless mineral spirits with coloured pencils either to achieve a more painterly result, assist in colour blending, or to move pigment down into the paper off the "teeth" so further layers can be applied. Because of the smell you will want to be sure you only use it with adequate ventilation and do not keep it out/open longer than necessary. Pour a little into a small cap or similar and use some cheap brushes (do not use nice brushes that you use for actual painting) to spread it on. Easy to use, but do note that results will vary depending on the brand/range of pencils. In terms of ranges I have personally tried it with, it works exceptionally well with Faber-Castell Polychromos and reasonably well with Castle Arts Gold and Faber-Castell Black Edition but less well with Castle Arts Soft/Pasteltint/Harmonious. As such your first purchase can be a bit of a gamble unless you can find out how well it works with the pencils you intend to use it with. I would add, in the event you use metallic coloured pencils, that due to the way such pencils achieve their metallic effect (which is never that metallic anyway) the metallic sheen will be lost if you use this.