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Discover LudwigThe phrase "color pencil" is correct and commonly used in written English.
It refers to a type of writing or drawing utensil that contains colored lead or pigment inside a wooden or plastic casing. Example: "She reached for a color pencil from her art supplies to add vibrant details to her drawing."
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The other works here are smaller color pencil studies, often equally barbed and resonant.
Working in either gouache, watercolors or color pencil, he creates landscapes, seascapes and floral or wildlife studies.
Let's say in French I have a 78-color color pencil box set (or even the 148 if I'm fresh from reading Balzac), while in English I have the 24-color pencil box set, or maybe 16 on a bad day.
Their vast expanses of infinitesimal pattern, rendered in muted color pencil and contained by decorative borders, evoke Persian carpets, ancient maps and tantric mandalas as well as the repeating, mutating structures of Bach.
The sequential illustrations, in ink, watercolor, color pencil and coffee on paper, refer to many sources, including 19th-century slave narratives, children's books and homoerotic S-and-M fantasy.
The bookend bits -- the domestic drama of the sick mother, the doctor's visit, the loving reunion at the end -- are rendered in soft pastel shades, color pencil laid evenly within sharp outlines.
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Many are deftly adorned with butterflies, drawn in ink or color pencils on the first page of every work.
Paper and crayons or color pencils.
Materials: Bins of common objects, drawing paper (8.5 × 11), crayons or color pencils.
I used Prismacolor Premier color pencils, graphite pencils, and acrylic paint".
Using watercolors and color pencils, she sketches these figures on small scraps of paper.
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