But, with a little pressure, oh the bright colors I could get! Deep, Rich Colors with Crayola Colored Pencils

They reminded me a bit of what you would get if you took a pencil and made the lead out of some mixture of lipstick, graphite and crayon. These were definitely not those brittle, virtually colorless pencils of my childhood. More on the paper later but from the first mark I made on my test paper, I was intrigued. My book used both sides, so I copied my designs onto matte photo paper. Mom colored directly into her book – it was printed on only one side of the paper. , we were joining the adult coloring book craze. So, with new coloring books and with our own sets of Crayola 50ct Long Colored Pencils Amazon made it simple to buy Crayola Colored Pencils and the coloring books at the same time. I didn’t know if Mom or I would even like coloring with pencils. Crayola Colored Pencils – a Non-artist’s Reviewįast forward to Christmas 2014 the year we decided to join the adult coloring book craze. You would have to color over and over the same area just to get something with the barest hint of color that was distinguishable from the colored areas/countries around it. The colored pencils were hard, brittle and were various shades of pale. Geography class was often spent coloring in pre-printed maps and labeling the countries. I hadn’t really used colored pencils since I was a middle-schooler taking geography – yes, we are talking multiple decades here. I admit that it has been quite a while since my interaction with Crayola and I probably should have written about it sooner but I wanted to use the pencils some more before writing a review. Before you buy Crayola Colored Pencils, I thought I would share my impressions about them and Crayola’s impressive customer service.

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