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REVOLUTIONARY DERIVAN LIQUID PENCIL FROM MATISSE

Have you ever been sketching and wanted to cover a larger area quickly? Or wanted to just variegate the tone very subtly, similar to using a watercolour? Well … Derivan Liquid Pencil is capable of all these things and more!

Derivan Liquid Pencil – a revolutionary way to create sketches!

Derivan Liquid Pencil is an innovative new product that allows you to create authentic graphite pencil effects and pencil sketches using a liquid. It has been formulated to be easily thinned with water or MM9 Acrylic Painting Medium (to maintain permanency) and allow for the softest of colours to be applied with a brush, nib, or other art tools.

With a consistency of cream, and a different rheology, artists now have a wider scope for creating sketches. Due to a precisely balanced formulation, another great benefit of the Permanent Liquid Pencil is that it will ‘burnish up’ in a similar manner to traditional graphite – but it will not smudge.

The re-wettable formula will also allow you to remove areas using water – in a similar manner to watercolour techniques; or it is possible to use with a traditional eraser. Another advantage to using Derivan Liquid Pencil is that large areas can be built up and covered quickly and easily.

Colour Mixing

Derivan Liquid Pencil is available in six graphite shades, each with a permanent or re-wettable formula. Each of the shades has a definite graphite colour; however, there are distinct undertones such as blue, yellow, red, sepia and neutral in two different strengths to

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