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Colorless Blender - What is a Colorless Blender?

From Helen South's Drawing/Sketching Glossary, About.com Guest

Definition: A colorless blender is a colored pencil containing wax and fillers but no pigment, used in blending overlaid colors without adding any further color. Colorless blenders allow the artist to create transparent, jewel-like effects when burnishing. A fine layer of colorless blender can be used to slightly fill the tooth of the paper, so that a finer layer of color may be applied, allowing a greater degree of control over light values.

Solvent pens and fluids are also used to blend colored pencil, though these liquid mediums create a different effect to the dry medium colorless blender pencil.

Also Known As: blender pencil
Alternate Spellings: colourless blender (UK English)

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