The Colours of the Rainbow
When I was twelve, I entered a drawing competition, and I won my first set of Derwent pencils: a tin case of 36. As a designer and illustrator as well as a photographer, over the years I have acquired several different sets of Derwents for different purposes, including my beloved Derwent Studio Pencil set of 72 which I use predominantly these days for designing clothes.
The theme for “Looking Close on Friday” for the 9th of April is “pencil points”. What better way to meet the theme (although now I look at them, some are pointier than others) than with my beloved Derwent Studio Pencil set? Colours in this photo from bottom left to top right are: Number 25 Dark Violet, Number 33 Light Blue, Number 45 Mineral Green, Number 48 May Green, Number Zink Yellow, Number 11 Spectrum Orange, Number 15 Geranium Lake, Number 22 Magenta, Number 17 Pink Madder Lake, Number 19 Madder Carmine, Number 23 Imperial Purple, Number 29 Ultramarine and Number 32 Spectrum Blue. The pencil point printed ribbon was a Christmas gift from a friend who gave me a whole box of ribbons to be creative with.
Derwent, or the Derwent Cumberland Pencil Company, is a manufacturer of pencils and other stationery. The business began in 1832 in Cumberland under the name of Banks, Son & Co. The company was bought by Acco UK and became a brand of their product range.
The Colours of the Rainbow
When I was twelve, I entered a drawing competition, and I won my first set of Derwent pencils: a tin case of 36. As a designer and illustrator as well as a photographer, over the years I have acquired several different sets of Derwents for different purposes, including my beloved Derwent Studio Pencil set of 72 which I use predominantly these days for designing clothes.
The theme for “Looking Close on Friday” for the 9th of April is “pencil points”. What better way to meet the theme (although now I look at them, some are pointier than others) than with my beloved Derwent Studio Pencil set? Colours in this photo from bottom left to top right are: Number 25 Dark Violet, Number 33 Light Blue, Number 45 Mineral Green, Number 48 May Green, Number Zink Yellow, Number 11 Spectrum Orange, Number 15 Geranium Lake, Number 22 Magenta, Number 17 Pink Madder Lake, Number 19 Madder Carmine, Number 23 Imperial Purple, Number 29 Ultramarine and Number 32 Spectrum Blue. The pencil point printed ribbon was a Christmas gift from a friend who gave me a whole box of ribbons to be creative with.
Derwent, or the Derwent Cumberland Pencil Company, is a manufacturer of pencils and other stationery. The business began in 1832 in Cumberland under the name of Banks, Son & Co. The company was bought by Acco UK and became a brand of their product range.