#01 THEY'RE BEAUTIFUL I love the way they look beautifully nested in their tray. I like to stare at them because they're so shiny and colorful. :-D #02 AMBIGUITY With the current definition, people are confused whether colored pencil fine art should be called a drawing or a painting. As for ME, colored pencil is a class of its own—and I love it! "modern colored-pencil drawings may approach or cross a boundary between drawing and painting." (Wikipedia) #03 PACKAGING Colored pencils look gorgeous in their metal tin casings and plastic trays. I can stare at them all day long! Absolute eye candy! #04 X-FACTOR I love it when I see the jaw-dropping reaction of people as they exclaimed, "OMG! That's made with colored pencil?" #05 SHARPENING I just love the sound and the feel when sharpening them and they come out looking great with sharp pointy tips ready for action! #06 LUXURIOUS Luminance colored pencils by Caran d'ache cost around $4.00 EACH. A complete set of Polychromos or Mitsubishi colored pencils is about $400 to $600+. Good thing they're not available in my local art store—I can't afford them anyway! #07 THE UNDERDOG In a society where art is dominated by the more popular medium like oil, acrylic, watercolor, and pastel, colored pencil is making its mark into the art scene. Someday, it will have its rightful place and receive the recognition it truly deserves. I'll be there when that happens! #08 ELIGIBLE BACHELOR Every medium has its mate, canvas for oil/acrylics, watercolor paper for watercolor, and pastel paper for pastel, but as far as I know, there is no paper or substrate that is made specifically and solely for colored pencil use at the moment. #09 FAIRY TALE Getting featured in, not one, but two colored pencil magazines never crossed my mind—not in my wildest imagination! Fairy tales can come true after all! #10 MY COLORED PENCIL GARDEN
How else can I build my garden without colored pencils? A sacred sanctuary for the artistic soul, a place where inspiration blooms, where passion can be cultivated in a fertile mind. A place where I can be—ME!
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Kevin Scott
10/11/2012 12:05:49 am
Well my friend I don't think that these are wacky reasons at all... I find that just by looking at my colored pencils sets and all of the pretty colors I can get inspired to work on a new piece or even pick up on something I've already started... I just love working with them and I learn something almost every time! For me that never get's old :-)
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Bleuie
10/11/2012 12:14:53 am
Very true Kev and only we colored pencil artists can well understand it. :-D
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Great reasons! That started me thinking on a few of my own -
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Bleuie
10/17/2012 09:24:54 am
Thanks for sharing your thoughts Chandra.
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defeated
10/30/2012 09:01:34 pm
mine look particularly wonderful dumped in a plastic shoebox and crammed in pencil rolls...I'm so jealous of people who manage to keep them neatly in their tins
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Bleuie
10/30/2012 09:13:10 pm
I have no problem keeping a 24 piece set in their tins, I wonder what will I do if I had a larger set, but then again, I think 24 colors are enough for me. :D
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7/25/2013 02:17:07 am
I love this, Bleuie! Can I share this on my new art page? Could you send me a link?
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Bleuie
7/25/2013 09:47:05 pm
Glad you like it Cathy. You're welcome to share it, just copy and paste this link on your FB page http://bleuie.weebly.com/2/post/2012/10/10-wacky-reason-why-i-love-colored-pencils.html
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