Being a color pencil artist myself i know just how lovely these pencils are they are nice and soft layer wonderfuly well and are an absolute dream to work with , they are waxed based so would recomend a good pencil sharpener with them a descent hand crank one is best, i use a derwent super fine point [the small one ] or the dahl 155. I would not recomend using a hand held pencil sharpener as the are rough on the pencil and can cause breakages and fractures to the leads.
Thanks for looking and if youd like to see my color pencil work please do have a look at my greeting cards which are prints of my colour pencil art and hand made by myself
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