MADISON AL.
How about a colored pencil comparison test. Since OFM does a lot of color pencil coloring for the fun of it, how about a test of good stuff vs cheap stuff. The OFM has been playing with colored pencils for a couple of decades now and is still not an artist but he does do a lot of coloring book coloring for several years now.
In the past I had made a choice to use Prismacolor coloring pencils for my coloring book fun. They are a professional grade and very first cla$$. I have had wonderful times with them and had no performance complaints at all. Keep in mind I am a mildly accomplished knuckle head coloring nut. Prismacolor is definitely an excellent performer for coloring but expensive.
A couple of years ago cheap coloring pencils of decent quality come onto the market from overseas manufacturing facilities. Several brands are on the market. I piddled around for about four years with several of them and at first they were kid level junk art wise. But about a year ago some major improvements came onto the market by those folks. So today I ran some testing efforts of my Prismacolor pencils against the Kalour brand of cheap pencils.
Prices are a lot different between the two brands. Prismacolor I normally buy and use is about $38 for a 36 pencil pack. The cheaper Kalour brand is about $12 for a 72 pencil pack. That is a bunch in my wallet.
Quality of Prismacolor is extremely high in every respect. Kalour is too new for me to find out a lot of things about them to report like how long they do not fade and things like that.
What I do know is the color of either is very good but how long til Kalour fades is not known. The lay down of both is very good. The burnishing of both is really good. The color trueness from one box to the next is very good. The laydown of color and lead strength of both is very good.
Since all of my coloring is just for fun and gets thrown away a couple of months after completion, the time before fading and things like that are not known. I have thrown away over 200 colorings this year alone so I do not know about color fading time at all. But for my style the cheaper Kalour brand is making a serious drop on cost happen in my hobby with no drop in color quality or workability. I hope this info is helpful.
You should offer your finished pictures to other residents in the home.
ReplyDeleteIt may be a great way for helping them a having tooooo much fun, just like you are feeling.
Stay Safe and keep Enjoying what you are doing.
It's about time.
The pics have been offered many times and nobody wants them.
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