THERE IS ALWAYS a certain thrill that comes from opening a new tin of coloured pencils. Prising open the lid of Derwent’s Lightfast 100 in preparation for this article, I was particularly delighted to discover not just two, but three trays of sharp pencils arrayed in neat rows – a huge range of colours ready to use.
For a long time, coloured pencil drawing languished in relative obscurity, but in recent years
