Review: Blending and Burnisher Pencils

This review is for blending pencils and burnishing pencils.   Blending pencils are a colorless pencil that you would rub on already colored areas.  It helps in blending the colors together and softens the area without using mineral oil or baby oil.  I have used two brands Derwent and Prismacolor pencils.

Derwent Colorless pencils work nicely.  Pencil come in a pack of two and you can also get it with two burnisher pencils, price is about $10 to $15 for the four pencils somewhat.   They have a chalky consistency when being used.  What I don't like is that it lets go of a lot of powdery chalky residue that will stain your page.  If that happens you would need to use your eraser and erase the area to try to clean it as best as you can.  I am using a small brush that is for cleaning cameras and the mess is minimal.

Prismacolor Colorless pencils is a blending pencil that comes is a pack of two.  The price range is about $10 or less, shop around.  Now I like this pencil better then the Derwent because its less messy.  It works the same and its less waste.

Burnisher Colorless pencils is a blending pencils that gives a subtle shine to the surface of your paper. You can use it before or after the page is colored.  If you use it before it will prevent you from coloring in the area you used the burnisher pencil even if you color over that area with a colored pencils.  If you use it after it gives it a shine to your work as a wrote above.  You use over the area then rub your thumb or finger over it and it will bring the shine.  I like to use it on my fish or bird pages.  I can only tell you about one brand because I have not seen any other company  who sell it.

Derwent Burnisher Colorless pencil works great on all your pages.  It is not messy like the blending pencil.   It comes in packs of two or accompanied with blending pencils see above.