The new craze of coloring books has people searching for the best tools to bring color and life to their pages. There are so many kinds to choose from! Marker Supply is focusing several blogs on markers and more that are perfect for use in coloring!
See Part 1: Zig Double-Ended Markers
See Part 3: Alcohol-Based Markers
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Part 2: Pens & Pencils
If you’re unsure about how your coloring page paper will handle using markers, you can always go with alternative tools such as gel pens and colored pencils!
SAKURA GELLY ROLL PENS
The Sakura Gelly Roll pens are fantastic tools for adding special effects to your coloring books. You can use them alone or on top of already colored spaces. Color carefully however! The gel ink is very opaque (non-see-through) and will cover over the black outlines of your images.
Gelly Rolls come in classic colors, or try our favorites with fun features:
–Gelly Roll Stardust with super glittery ink!
–Gelly Roll Moonlight with bright, neon ink!
–Gelly Roll Metallic with a sheen of colorful metallic ink!
Or try our new giant 74-piece Gelly Roll Collection!
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ZIG WINK OF STELLA GLITTER PENS
Another great choice for adding some sparkle effects to your pages! These special glitter pens come in either a fine plastic tip, or a bristle brush tip, and along with their color, they lay down a nice amount of shimmer. Use them alone, or over already-colored pages! (The clear Wink of Stella markers are great for overlaying on top of color!)
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PRISMACOLOR PREMIER COLORED PENCILS
The Prismacolor Premier pencils come in a large range of 150 colors and a variety of sets, allowing you to find just the colors you need! There are even different styles to fit your coloring needs, including the Verithin with a more narrow lead and the Col-Erase with an eraser tip! The soft cores and high color pigments make these super easy, artist-quality tools to color with!
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PRISMACOLOR WATERCOLOR PENCILS
A fun type of pencil that will color normally as other colored pencils do, but when blended with water, the Prismacolor Watercolor Pencils with move along with the water and act like watercolor paints! You don’t need to use much for awesome blending and shadowing effects! (Tip: For best results, make sure your paper is thick enough or specially designed for use with watercolor mediums. When tools are used with water on too thin of paper, your pages can buckle, wrinkle, or tear.)
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POLYCHROMOS OIL-BASED COLORED PENCILS
A special type of colored pencil from Faber-Castell, the Polychromos use an oil base rather than a wax base- allowing for super smooth color laydown and blending. The thick 3.8mm leads come inside a premium cedar wood casing, making these super strong coloring tools. They are available in 120 rich, permanent colors.
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KOH-I-NOOR TRI-TONE PENCILS
A new and limited-time colored pencil line here at Marker Supply, the TriTone Pencils feature a blend of 3 different colors within each pencil tip- giving you some fun color effects! Color normally or twist the pencil as you color for a unique coloring style!
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Stay tuned to the Marker Supply Blog for more coloring book marker highlights!
Hop on our social media pages and hashtag #MarkerSupply to let us know which markers you like to use!
Happy coloring, everyone!!
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