Burnishing... "polish by rubbing."  Well it kinda is like that, but we are using pencil crayons, instead of the traditional metal burnishings. What we do is place a lighter colour on top of the base colour, and the act has pressure to it because we are rubbing it into the base colour. So it is the a...

Last #TuesdayToolsAndTechniques, I shared about burnishing with a white pencil. Today I will be burnishing again, but not with a white pencil crayon, You can burnish by taking a colour that is lighter than the pencil crayon you will be burnishing. Yellow is the lightest colour in the colour wheel. T...

Today's pencil crayon technique is one that I love. It is called burnishing. Burnishing is applying hard pressed white on top of another colour ( I chose purple in the video). It changes the colour and the texture of the pencil crayon.

Today's #TuesdayToolsAndTechniques is a continuation from last Tuesday. Last week i showed you burnishing with a white pencil crayon on top of another colour. This week, I am taking a coloured pencil crayon and burnishing on top of another colour.  The key to this is to pick your burnishing colour (...

For today's #TuesdayToolsAndTechniques I will be sharing more about pencil crayon techniques. This technique has a name and it is called burnishing. Burnishing is a technique that most people don't know and don't know how to do it. It is a very simple technique that smooths the look of the colour be...