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water soluble pencils
of troy, I recall an coloring implement (is it a water-soluble pencil?) that goes by the trade-name Caran d'Ache, the pronunciation of which would be identical with the russian word meaning "pencil".
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water soluble pencils
I am not much of an artist, but these sound like they would be easy to use, as well as fun to experiment with. Can you blend the colors easily, or do they come in 1,001 shades? I mean, is it 24 colors, and you can put one on top of the other before wetting, or do you need multiple shades of each color?
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yes, of course you can blend shades.. and yes, they come in sets of 12, 24, 36, 50 (but at about $2.25 per pencil, a set of 24 cost over $50!) Derwentwater (an English company) is one company that make them, and there are other brands.. you can get stubby travel pencils set in 8 colors too.
when dry, and going on, they are just like any colored pencil-- you can sharpen them and get really fine points, or lay them almost flat and skirt of the paper to fill in large areas..
and after you have blended say, greens for fields, and roughed in some grey for stones, and blended them wet, you wait till they dry, and can draw in finer details.. shadows on rocks.. little flowers in the washed green field..tufts of grass growing in the crannies of the stone wall. then, gentle, barely dampen them, just to blur the edges a little,and now it looks like you are an skilled artist, who can work both wet and dry water colors!
Do not, i repeat, do not go into an art store in the next 24 hours, unless you have an extra $60 bucks-- if you once try them, you will want them, and the 50 pencil pack, will tug at you! forget you read this post..
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LMAO! I did say: " I am not much of an artist, It just sounds so easy and fun! But, I think I will follow your advice and stay out of the art store for the next 24 hours! Thanks, of troy, for shining a light here for me. 
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One of the reasons that men and women cannot get along is that most men see only red, green, blue, black, and brown. Stop lights are red. Go lights are green. Police lights are blue. Night is black. Poop is brown. Men are pretty basic, you see. Puce? Mauve? Taupe? Chartueuse? Men don't talk this way!  Now, I'm goin' back to my cave to chew mastodon bones.
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To show my childish side - when I was a kid, we had these colouring books... but they were SPECIAL colouring books, because all you had to do was brush water over the colours on the page - and viola! a 5-year-old was doing water colours! of course, with NO control over the brush, you could easily end up with browny swirls all over the place and no delicate little colours like you were meant to get.
Does anyone else remember these books? Actually, I'm sure I saw a young cousin with one not too long ago...
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...SPECIAL colouring books, because all you had to do was brush water over the colours on the page....OH! Yes! I had these for my kids when they were little. But trying to get them to use almost a dry brush to activate each color individually was tough! I remember that the color appeared as patterns on each individual section...some stripes, polka dots, stars, etc.! What fun! Thank you for bringing this memory back! Now I will have to see if they still make them. After all, I am a granny now and can go through the whole process with another generation.
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all you had to do was brush water over the colours on the page - and viola!Wowee! Could you also get violins and cellos?
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Geoff, you naughty man. You make me !
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