My FAVORITE Way to Organize COLORED PENCILS

There’s a good chance that in my videos you have seen a small colored swatch strip inside of my colored pencil cases. I am often asked about these, so here is a detailed explanation of what they are and how they help me organize my colored pencils into my perfect order.

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CHAPTER MARKERS
00:00:00 Welcome
00:00:31 LAST CHANCE to Enter Our Giveaway!
00:02:29 How I Like to Organize My Colored Pencils
00:08:13 Coloring the Swatch Strips
00:11:12 Laminate & Cut Each Color Card
00:13:13 Putting the Swatch Cards into Their Cases
00:18:00 Final Thoughts & Recommendation

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[thestevestay]

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[winterrain]

Here I am looking at ways to keep all of my art supplies in perfectly beautiful order. I'm obsessed with keeping them all nice and neat.
But looking back, when I was a kid, I used to just throw all my crayons and into some kind of a box or a big cookie tin. It was a gross mess, but I had fun with it. I'm sure there were a few legos mixed in with the crayons too.

[Claudia_som]

Now a comment....I love your channel, all the effort and time you and your husband Steve put into all this work in order to teach us so many things about artistry since you have videos of different aspects of coloring and with different mediums to use. You are very creative and talented. Thanks so much for sharing all of this with us. Also enjoy seeing little Rose helping you along the way!!

[veystone]

I use browns a lot, so I have a lot! I organize my pencils pretty much like you, BUT, first I place my grayscale, I use the white, the 18 greys, and the black, from Prismacolor, then the tritone, and then all my browns, starting with beiges tones, then the ochres, the orangy browns, reddish browns, greenish browns, and finally, the more neutral browns from light to dark. 😊
Aside from those Prismacolors all the rest of my pencils are from different brands. I have bought them open stock.

[ArtJourneyUK]

This is a very prescriptive way of organising pencils, with the Tri-tones your colouring blends will always be exactly the same. I like to make blends on the fly, depending on what I am colouring 😊

[janeteggleston]

I purchased this type of case several years ago. I found that putting 3 pencils under 1 elastic caused too much strain on the pencils as I used them. It could have been because I was organizing Prismacolors at the time that I felt it caused a problem.

[ruamcdill]

This is great, I’m glad you went through these steps. After watching the first Color Theory video and using the printed Quick Color Picker Guide book and printing out the Faber Castell Polychromos Tri-Tone pages I was able to complete organizing the tri-tone portion of the Polychromos colored pencils.

Once I started coloring I soon realized I needed to label the pencil colors in the pencil carrier. I didn’t even realize Steve already had created those nice, tiny labels to color and laminate. Yeah!!

I also needed to see how you laminated those label tags. And finally I needed to know how you organized the remaining colored pencils.

You covered it all for me, thank you!! I suspect this info might be in the remaining Color Theory Workshop videos but I just wanted to jump in.

Finally, after coloring with the tri-tones organized, it started making sense. Still a lot more learning ahead and I’m so excited 🥳

[heatherwarner]

I tried this but it wound up driving me nuts because I work from multiple sets at a time. I finally took all of my pencils out of their tins and cases and put them mixed all together by color.

[bihippychic]

I’ve got my entries in since the first video. I became a premium member yesterday, because I simply love all your content. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge with us!

[lisakoehler]

I have almost completed my Prismacolor workbook. I did however, organize my Prismacolor pencils in their case just as you showed in your videos. I love the organization and the simplicity of finding the colors I need. Thank you so much for creating a smart way to be ready to color anything. I have learned so many techniques from you.

[lulugregory]

Can I just say that I am very new to colour pencils, and I appreciate so much the work that you have done on the tri-tone downloads!! I didn’t really understand the little swatch strips included, but now I have seen this video I TOTALLY get it! I will be finding a printer and a laminator immediately and reorganising my case! Thank you so much for all your hard work on making these systems, so so useful! 😊

[maylynncupp]

Thus is such an amazing way to organize thank you for sharing this and good luck to everyone what a blessing to receive such a beautiful gift thank you Jennifer and Steve, and for all you hard work.

[saraharris]

Thank you for all your hard work. It definitely means more than you will ever know!!

[MissEddieBlueKawaiiKrafts]

I recently got about 50 Caran D’ache Luminance pencils & I can’t believe there is no nice true pinks! No bright pastel pink & no bubble gum pink! 😕 2 of my fave colours that I use in pretty much every picture. they all have either a purple or a brownish undertone. Just another reason to love Brutfuner pastels & Holbein 😸however I’ve fallen in love with the luminance white so I def won’t be trading that in for another brand any time soon! You put so much effort into swatching I’m sure it’s greatly appreciated, it takes me HOURS just to get ONE SET into a good order with so much swatching & switching up & more swatching I often end up wondering if it was even worth it.. just to then do it all again with the next brand 🙈 I do love swatching tho, when I’m not bent on trying to get things in perfect order I find it quite relaxing ☺️🦋💘🍭

[deepowers]

Hi Jennifer, I enjoyed watching this video again and am so impressed with your color knowledge and organization skills, I've been a member for about a decade, but can't ever seem to enter the Give Aways, because they always direct me to sites that I don't use. YouTube is my only real connection. I used to use Facebook for family, but some kind of glitch started an avalanche of notifications from anyone who addressed anyone who knew a member of my friend or family group even though they weren't addressed to me. I now have over 9, 700 emails that I am trying to remove and block, so that I don't keep losing some very important contacts in the clutter. Could you tell us where you got your laminating machine, and where we could find a small vacuuming type device about the size of our rechargeable erasers that can be used on the pencil crumbles on our pages? Some of those smear and stain even when using a very soft, fluffy brush. Also, most coloring books and pencil swatch sheets seem to be coming out on paper as amooth as glass with no tooth to enable layering or pulling color off of our soft wax pencil cores. Is there a way to treat such paper prior to coloring that would give it a little texture without ruining our books? Thank you and Steve for all your hard work and all the knowledge that you both share with us.

[KimberlyInSoCal]

So glad I found your YT channel! Such an interesting system for organizing colored pencils! I love the idea of the tags and the order/system. Your little dog is watching you so intently, I feel like she is learning so much and could probably tell us all a thing or two about coloring and organizing!

[courbry]

I love the first case you showed. If only I could be so organized. Thanks for sharing!!!

[nikkik]

I love my pencil cases with the single slots. Works well for my small collection. Lol

[pollyweinmann]

I typically organize my colors according to the rainbow ROY G BIV.

[cherywilson]

I am working through your system in my Tri-Tone Worksheets for Prismacolors. It is taking me some time, but it is very rewarding. Thanks so much.