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This week John and Lisa answer some of the questions you submitted to us!  If you’d like to submit a question that may be potentially featured here on the show, just write to us at podcast@sharpenedartist.com  or complete the online form at http://sharpenedartist.com/qanda

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Some of the questions this week are:

• What kinds of things do you see newer artists struggle with at the beginning?
• How do I know when to Burnish?  It seems like I’m burnishing too early and when I’m done, I still see the paper showing through.
• When measuring a drawing for selling a commissions, where does the paper measurement start?

Links mentioned in the show:

Lisa's longer Patreon videos

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What are inktense?

This week Lisa and I talk about Derwent’s Inktense pencils.  

They are not really watercolor, although the way you use them can be very similar.  You can also opt to use them dry and without any water at all.  They lay down very smoothly even without applying water.  

They are permanent when dry.   They can be painted on lots of different surfaces.

Blocks vs Pencils

• blocks can be applied directly to the paper, but will have a grainy look. You can also use a paint brush and water to make your own ink mixture and apply the ink directly to the paper for a much smoother look.
• The blocks are a bit more versatile because you can so easily make your ink mixtures with them. You can then apply that ink with a tiny brush for fine detail or a large brush for larger areas.
• Pencils can sharpen to a fine point for detail, then add water if desired to blend out directly on the paper.
• The blocks and the pencils work very well together.

Tips for working with Inktense:

• When wet, the colors may be very different than when dry. Especially the white. When dry the white from the Inktense block is super opaque, but totally transparent wet.
• My favorite paint brushes to use with these are taklon bristle filberts, liner brushes, rounds and flats.
• mix your ink mixture in a cheap acrylic painting palette
• when your premixed areas on the palette dry up, you can reactivate them by adding water
• Colors can be muted by adding their complimentary. While they may seem too bright by themselves, they mix and layer very well for any color palette.

Cons:

They are not lightfast when wet (and there are some that aren’t when dry).

Available in sets of 6, 12, 24, 36, and 72

And available in open stock in fine art stores.

Prices:

Arount $100 USD for the set of 72 pencils

And around $80 USD for the full set of blocks

A small set of 12 blocks will run around $6.28 and are great to get started with.

Links mentioned in the show:

Special Audible Offer for Colored Pencil Podcast

Videos mentioned in the show:

Lisa’s demonstration of the inktense pencils

https://youtu.be/mJY4uv6mmJ8

https://youtu.be/XP9DadEVHxc

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