That's right, adding the bittiest amount of Vaseline or any other petroleum jelly to the tips of your Crayola Colored Pencils is a coloring game changer! And, I walk you through the process in this, my first honest-to-goodness coloring tutorial. There is one trick in particular that I want to share with you about coloring with Crayola Colored Pencils (or any other inexpensive colored pencils: RoseArts, Marco Raffine, Arteza, etc.): magic things happen when you dip them into regular old petroleum jelly! Yes, IMHO, Faber-Castell's Polychromos are currently the gold standard in traditional colored pencils (there will be a review on those and other art goodies I have collected over this year in the next episode of the Coloring Nerd's Supplies Guide), but you can create beautiful art with the most humble of colored pencils, the tried and true Crayola Colored Pencil, especially when you've got a few tricks up your sleeve! But, honestly, WHICH colored pencil you color with isn't always as important as HOW you are using that particular colored pencil. Which colored pencils are good for budding artists? Which colored pencils are the best bang for your buck? Which colored pencils are the smoothest? Which colored pencils are the easiest for older hands or younger hands? Which colored pencils work the best?Īnd, I have answered all of these questions to the best of my ability many, many times.

Something fun to color (pictured here is one of my new colorable cardsįrom my Dancing Amoeba Garden collection), and a clean paper towel.įolks ask me about colored pencils.a lot.

All the ingredients you need to have some creative fun on the cheap:Ĭrayola Colored Pencils, generic petroleum jelly, a pencil sharpener,

Crayola colored pencils