First Impressions of the new Powder Blender for Colored Pencil and drawing demo w/ Lachri

Today I'm reviewing the new Powder Blender from Brush and Pencil. I'm going to show you how easy it makes it to blend colored pencils smoothly for a soft blurry background, and still get tons of detail after. I will also be giving you a few tips so that you can avoid some of the mistakes I made! I'm using polychromos and Luminance for this video.


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Time lapse and speed painting tutorials and demonstrations by award winning artist Lachri. Learn how to paint portraits, surreal landscapes, pets, lions, tigers, and birds...pretty sure a Wizard of OZ reference should be made right about now. Get tips and watch techniques for working in acrylic and oil paint, carbon pencil, graphite and colored pencil.

This video was shot using the Canon VIXIA HF G20 HD camcorder.

[abominablesnowpanda]

"i don't get out much" i died. thus is the life of artists.

[pamhighfill]

You are a kind and generous women for your time your talent and loyalty to your students. Thank you

[loveabbygrace]

that is literally the most beautiful work I've ever seen

[charlotterose]

Glad to say that the Brush and Pencil Powder Blender is now available at Jackson Art in the UK!

[funkrates]

Oooooh. Getting the pastel look without pastels! Nice. : ) Thank you for sharing this, Lisa!

[sandramartin]

I ordered the starter kit. Can't wait to try it out. I also ordered her book, "Colored Pencil Painting Bible" and that is going to be a great reference tool. It's amazing.

[gurujad]

You are lucky, Lisa, to have this product and so many others!!
Here, in the Middle East, we hardly get stuff!! Still living the Cave Era!

[adamw]

Lisa thank you! I asked you about this a few weeks ago, you are one of the most talented cp artists I know, and knew you would be the best to review this.

[sambeawesome]

Color me impressed, haha. This is incredible! I'm especially loving that white colored pencil. I'm really interested in seeing you do larger more serious pieces with this stuff :) Best of luck experimenting! :D

[astrinymris]

I'm a mere hobby colorist, but may I say how relieving it is that a professional artist like yourself also finds doing skies tedious? I swear, the next time I have a sky, I may print the line art with the sky already light blue. Since I'm just coloring for my own amusement, I can do this. ;-D

[iiFX_Colleen]

That's BRILLIANT!!!!
As an Australian, I cannot wait till they come here!!!!

[nikkisigmon]

Thank you so much Lisa!! :D
I started out with pastels and love how fast and smooth they blend out. Unfortunately, they are messy and not for traveling.
This looks very interesting- it will be worth to try out!

[robertheilmeier]

Thanks Lachri Fine Art for this amazing review and demo, you made my fingers itch to get this Powder :D!

[scapegoat]

So amazing how much work you put into your videos! The quality of them are done so well! Thanks for all you time & effort in helping the art community Lisa! You're doing an amazing JOB!!!

[darylbottema-adkins]

The one that you said didn't work on the absorbent paper is still quite beautiful. I love the texture in the in the grey sky. Great video. Thanks.

[SunnysEyes]

my birthday is on saterday and my hubby asked what I want. now I now what to tell him! I only have so much patience to complete a project...thanks ADD. this will help a ton! thanks for reviewing these products! I can't wait to see how your next project works.

[Windkisssed]

Amazing product...AND drawing!! I'm excited to try this! I feel the same about (chalk) pastels... I! Can't! Touch! Them!!!! I even gave the Pan Pastels a try... Nope! I like to be free of fear when working with art materials! Loll!
Thanks Lisa for another exciting product review... Actually I hate these! Now I gotta get it!
Lauri

[colinjewett]

Can't wait for next week surreal painting 😊😊😊

[MsFnmc]

In 2014 a fantastic book came out called The New Colored Pencil by Kristy Ann Kutch. She describes and recommends (among a great deal of other grounds/surfaces for colored pencil) a long list of sanded papers for colored pencil use. And yes, the coverage as far as being able to layer and layer and layer is fantastic! It's about continually trying different new and different products and working outside your comfort zone or as some say out of the box. What's a bit ironic is that you seem to pride yourself of trying new things...but these sanded papers have been out for decades used by pastel artists...and their use with colored pencil has been known by professional colored pencil artists for years. Welcome to the party! : )

[bettychilldres]

Girl I agree with you on this powder blender... I don't like messy medias either.
THIS might be a great idea for me, "color pencils & powder blender". 🤔