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Use What You Learn: Color Shiny Pink Heart Balloons with Copic Marker & Colored Pencil

Use What You Learn: Color Shiny Pink Heart Balloons with Copic Marker & Colored Pencil

You can use techniques borrowed from other Vanilla Arts classes to color shiny balloons.

You can color these balloons, your own balloon drawing, or any other balloon stamp you encounter.

Good technique isn’t just good for one project.

Good technique is good for a lifetime of coloring!

Derwent Lightfast Colored Pencils: A Safe Substitute for Prismacolor 931 Dark Purple

Derwent Lightfast Colored Pencils: A Safe Substitute for Prismacolor 931 Dark Purple

As much as I love my Prismacolors, they do have a few drawbacks.

One of my favorite pencils is Prismacolor 901 Dark Purple. Unfortunately, it scores poorly in lightfast tests. Even worse, Dark Purple has a nasty tendency to bleed through other colors.

Can Derwent Lightfast Pencils solve some of these issues?

I’ve been testing to find out!