found pencils

I thought I would share with you my slightly weird obsession with found pencils. Now I am not expecting to reach the levels of blogging about pencils as such luminaries as pencil revolution but nevertheless I do like pencils, and that being so I often pick up discarded pencils whenever I see one, and quite often they are good pencils. So I am going to start with a recent favorite, the Boldmere Sketching Pencil 6B.

First off obviously this is a drawing pencil being a 6B and most of the stuff I am going to talk about is drawing related. The Boldmere has a round body and I must admit I prefer round pencils (as appossed to the hexagon shaped body) as I find them easier to hold for longer drawings.

for a 6B it's pretty versatile in that the leads consistency is firm not crumbly like a Derwent 6B so an ideal pencil for outdoor location drawing as its range is good, it generally feels like a 3B but with a bit of added pressure you can get some lovely deep tone.

So there you go a pencilcoholic. more to follow.