With the use of many very kin donations is able to get the Icarus Art Board. If you are a colored pencil artist, pastel artist this tool might be for you. Here is a 2 questions about materials

What types of colored pencils are recommended?
Only colored pencils with very specific characteristics respond to heat: 

• they must be wax-based
• they must contain enough wax to be considered soft
• their wax needs to be thoroughly mixed with the pigment during manufacturing

(Sometimes colored pencil leads are extruded first and then immersed in molten wax. When these colored pencils are exposed to heat, their leads crumble as soon as the outer layer of wax melts).

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Will all types of wax crayons or wax pastels work on it?
Only artist grade wax crayons/pastels are recommended.

This will give you some ideas about medium that can be used. Since it is using heart to manipulate your medium you don't have the chemicals in your studio. I also ordered a few pencils do i will set up the webcam and give you a look see. God bless and much love to all.

A few days ago i ordered some special pencils. They are from General Pencil Company this is a copy from there page.

GENERAL'S® CARBON SKETCH™ PENCIL

This fine art pencil has a unique formula combining the smoothness of graphite with the deep rich blacks of charcoal. It lays down smooth, strong, jet-black lines for sketching, drawing, or layout. Perfect when used alone, it can also be combined with charcoal or graphite for a variety of effects. Available by the dozen or in blisterpacks of 2   I have used these once on my piece "Tiger Lily at Night" which can be found on my website or on my facebook page. When i used then the first time I was looking for a nice deep balck coverage for the background of the piece, and i got everything i wanted and more. The Coverage was fast and even, the carbon layed down very smooth and was easy to use. I love them so much i ordered 12 more.

As soon as i get a video camera for my computer i will start doing some prodcut and book reviews. I have several things i would love to talk about and share my thoughts on.

A new Start

Hello everyone, this is my first ever attempt at blogging. So i decided to blog about something i know a little about and something that has literally saved my life. That very thing is Art, by art i mean drawing colored pencil, graphite, and charcoal. I am however looking at expanding what media i am using, but all things in due time. I hope you will find some interest in this and maybe learn a new trick of two or even share some