liquid pencil

This is one of the art supplies that I bought on a recent trip to Wellington (New Zealand). It is 'liquid pencil' by Derivan. It is like pencil in a paint form and it is yummy!

I say yummy because it is the consistency of a thick glossy cream. You can thin it with water or acrylic medium and you can paint it on like a watercolour. It comes in six different colours: red, sepia, yellow, blue and two shades of grey. These aren't bright colours, they all look like pencil, but the colours are the undertone.

Here are a couple of links for you to have a look at:

Matisse Derivan product information page (includes some videos)

eHow.com article about how to use it

So far I have only used it to stencil through punchinella. The effect was brilliant though. I was able to vary the thickness I put it on for a varying effect, and it had a wonderful chalky pencil finish which was brilliant for a different texture and feeling to ink or acrylic paint stencilling.

I will blog the page I used it on in the next week after I am sure that my journal partner has got my journal and sees it first.

art bag contents

"The Art Journal" Yahoo Group started talking about taking your journals on a trip, and that lead to queries about what is in our art bags, so I have photographed my travelling art bag.

It includes a rollup art case with all range of markmaking supplies in it, including rubbers and sharpener, glue pen, and paintbrushes with water tanks. Also magazines for collage images, plastic folder with collage images and ephemera in it, tinted charcoal pencils, tinted graphite pencils, watersoluble coloured pencils, watersoluble crayons, souffle pens, sharp craft scissors, double-sided tape, punchinella, art rag, digital camera.

My favourite things at the moment are probably the watersoluble crayons and the Sakura Souffle Pens. Everyone knows that I love my Souffle Pens!!! They are so brilliant for doodling over journals!! The watersoluble crayons because you can draw them on then smooth them out with water, then draw over the top again, then smooth out again.