Art Fun Cheap

Rainbow Stix pencils are some of my favorite cheap, wonderful art tools. As I wrote in September, though, in Pencils that Write a Rainbow, they had disappeared from the stores about three years ago.
Then last Thursday afternoon, surprise! My local dollar store had just gotten in a huge supply of them. (Naturally I bought […]

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Magic pencils are fat, colorful wooden pencils with multicolor lead, made by the pencil company, Koh-I-noor Hardtmuth and sold for 99 cents at most Walgreen’s stores. Michael’s may still carry them, too.

Each pencil has three colors arranged in the fat “lead” in a checkerboard pattern, so you can write a rainbow, and make multicolored […]

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Here is the info I promised on how to get the three-color rainbow-writing pencils. What you want is the Marvy Color Tricks Mechanical Pencil. It comes in a package with a supply of extra lead for just a couple of dollars.

Marvy products are sold in many art and craft stores, especially their markers. However, […]

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Rainbow-writing pencils sound like a novelty item, but I’ve found the best ones to be a versatile and addictive drawing tool. They are so much fun that they brighten your day.
I like using them at work, because they look like ordinary mechanical pencils. Doodling with them makes boring business meetings bearable. Rainbow pencils […]

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