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I’m happy to announce that “The Butterfly Effect” received First Place in the San Clemente Art Gallery Spring Judged Show, Other Media Category (Colored Pencil on the Icarus Drawing Board). If you’d like to find out how I did the background, you can click on this blog link.

The Butterfly Effect

When using oil-based colored pencils with the Icarus Drawing Board, make sure to combine them with a wax-based medium. As you can see below, a thick layer of wax-based colored pencil is necessary to make the oil-based one as blendable as its wax counterpart.

Oil-based and Wax-based Colored Pencils