Coloured pencils revisited
As did millions of children, I cut my artistic teeth using coloured pencils. Mine were Derwent, made by the Cumberland Pencil Company. Other manufacturers, including Faber-Castell, Caran d’Ache, Koh-I-Noor, Lyra and Blick were also making coloured pencils at that time – nearly 70 years ago – and continue to do so.
The pencils available today are far superior to the products I used in my youth. This is primarily evident in the range of colours available: no longer do we have to make do with generic green, pink, light blue, red, or purple but can choose from up to 120 different hues, which in competent hands will deliver hundreds if not thousands of different shades and tints.
A range of 120 seems the gold standard on offer from several manufacturers,
