Since I make art quilts I'm always looking for new ways to use colored pencils. Color Prismacolors directly onto plain cotton fabric, then paint on a fabric medium, allow to dry & heat set according to the fabric medium directions. Your fabric colors are permanent.

Using these marker's are the greatest. Even if you do not get the color right you can go over and over them and the blend so wonderfully!

When you want to apply an intense color over one light color (for example blush in a girls face) try the following: 1. In a piece of paper make a circle with the marker with the intense color you want to apply. 2. When the color is still wet, pass the colorless blender over the circle with the intense color. This will make the colorless blender get some pigment of the intense color. 3. Carefully color over the light color with the colorless blender (it will have some pigment or tint of the intense color) starting with the darkest part and continue to the lightest part; this will make a beautiful soft gradient. Hope it's useful! :)

Take a stylus tool and a small piece of scotch tape, lay the tape down on the colored spot you did not want(or a mistake) and rub the tape with the stylus tool and gently lift up the tape. The tape should pick up the color where you rubbed it. Becareful with the tape not to put it on a big area because it will lift off any color it touches. Great to use this tip in small areas using the corner of the piece of tape. Try it on a scrap paper first, it has helped me in many situations.

Use Premier Watercolor Colored Pencils wet or dry, over or under Premier Soft Core Colored Pencils. Just add water to blend and fill in any white spaces.

Use Premier Soft Core Colored Pencils to outline and make fine details like hair, fur and eyelashes appear lifelike.

Use them to create lines or turn ‘em on their side to create large color blocks for shading or rubbings.

Use with Premier Art Stix® Colorless Blender for broad blending.

To sharpen your pencil to a perfectly fine point, hold the pencil steady with one hand and use the other to turn the sharpener around the pencil. This will ensure that your lead stays sharp with minimal breakage.

Always hold the pencil in the middle when sharpening (as opposed to the end). This will reduce the tendency of the pencil to torque.