Colored Pencils Galore

 Most of my coloring has been in books I got from Swap Shop (free) or bought at a Goodwill store while we were on vacation. I have been using some pencils I have had since pre-teen years when I did color-by-number pictures. When I did an Amazon order for Christmas gifts, I needed about $8 more to get free shipping. I ordered myself a coloring book which I put in the closet until Christmas Day. It is mostly scenes of lakes, ponds, mountains, plants. All I could see before I ordered was the front and back covers.

 As I was coloring a simple picture not from that book the other day, I thought it would be nice to have more pencils so I had more choices and could do gradations of color. Voila! An order to Amazon brought me 180 colored pencils in a set. They arrived this morning.

 

It is a good thing I am not doing color-by-number these days because these pencils are arranged by color, not number. (Each pencil does have a number, however.) I may eventually put them in order by number, but I am not sure there is any advantage to that except I might see something on the swatch chart that interests me and not know exactly where to find it.

I am going to do the swatch chart with one half of the box full pressure color and the other light pressure. 

The set came in a metal case. The reviews for this brand were pretty good. The pencils are for craft/hobby use not professional use, but a few people doing reviews said they are professional artists and this brand is better than most non-professional sets. 

I am going to try to complete the swatch chart this weekend because next week I will start working on my income tax returns. Probably not much coloring going on next week. I may need to color to de-stress after working on taxes. 

An Ollie's store just opened in Warsaw. When I shopped at the Fort Wayne store for books for the retirement library, I noticed they did have adult coloring books. Maybe ours will, too. No hurry for more coloring books though because I only do a few a month. With so many fun colors, I may even try to draw a few pictures.