colored pencil tips/videos...#1

These videos are all on YouTube and contain lots of information.  All are under 10 minutes (most are much shorter than that).  While I hope you all benefit from this, I confess I have begun to collect these videos for my own practice.  Enjoy.

1.  Blick Art presents Prismacolor Tips & Techniques.  She crams a lot of great information in here--first, how the pencils are actually made (very interesting & brief), then how to hold the pencil (usually), then blending and burnishing with the colorless blender pencil, when you may want to use a "workable fixative" and why, the colorless blender marker (I'd never heard of this before).                                           4 minutes 14 seconds.

2.  How to sharpen colored pencils.  This also covers battery-powered & electric sharpeners. You may never have seen this technique. Surprise!    2 minutes 16 seconds.

3.  A review of Prismacolor Pencils by someone who is enamored of them (as am I, to be honest)--while doing the review, he draws an apple and it's completely hypnotic to watch him layer the colors.                                                              8 minutes 23 seconds

4.  A wow! very short tutorial on blending without blending pencils by a master artist, with great tips and techniques.  Fascinating.                                   3 minutes 40 seconds.

I'll stop here for today but hope to include more collected videos in the future.