DIY Colored Pencil Blending Marker

DIY Colored Pencil Blending Marker
Today we will recycle an old dried out alcohol marker into a brand new marker that will blend colored pencils.

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An old marker you would otherwise throw away, cleaned out with nibs and center felt disregarded. *Because I do not know what kind of chemical interactions the old marker ink might have with gamsol I don't recommend reusing the old felts and nibs.

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Replacement nibs, I am using the Optional Round nib from Copic because you can trim them to the desired shape with a sharp craft knife.

Odorless Mineral Spirits, I like Gamsol:

Pipette or small eyedropper:

Sharp craft knife:

The stamp I colored was from Lost Coast Designs:

I used Derwent Coloursoft pencils to color: but any waz or oil based pencils will blend with this DIY marker!


Variations:
You can make one for waterbased pencils by using a mixture of glycerin and water instead of Gamsol. The glycerin keeps the water from pilling the paper.

You could use alcohol in a marker to blend colored pencils (Prismacolor sold their clear blending marker for that) but I never found it dissolved the wax and pigment as well as Gamsol or Odorless Mineral Spirits. some artists like a citrus based solvent but I have not used that myself.

DIY Colored Pencil Blending Marker

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