With a proud heritage dating back to 1832; we have been creating pencils in the Lake District, UK, ever since. This 50/50 cotton/cellulose paper is an ideal choice for effective blending with pencil and solvent.

Designed for use with pencils, these Blender pens enable the artist to blend away pencil lines, creating smooth and even colour. These pencils are colourless and made with the same binder used in coloured pencils which allows you to blend two or more colours together.

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Before introducing the blender into your work, you need to spend time building up your tonal layers. Some coloured pencil ranges only have a certain amount of colours and you may opt to mix and match with other brands. It does boost the colour pigment but we just wasn't able to smooth out the notable grains and lines. Apply the blender once you have placed all your colours as it may be harder to apply additional colours as the blender acts as a sealant, however you can get around this by applying a spray fixative over the top if you do wish to add further layers. All your colours should be applied before you blend, as further layers will become stubborn as the tooth becomes saturated.If you are working with coloured pencils and want to create a subtle blend of colours then the Derwent Blender Pencil is the ideal accessory.

They blended together far easier and with less effort than the wax-based example before and we would recommend that you use this blender with other oil-based pencils. When applying your pencil strokes, follow the natural shape of the circle which will help to create depth a 3-dimensional appearance.This review is about how the pens work on different papers as opposed to how they work with different pencil ranges, I may decide to trial them out with different pencil ranges and add them to this page, but as there are quite a lot of reviews already out there showing that information, I decided to just keep it simple and opt for a review suited to other solvent newbies like me!