Nadia Geller, accomplished interior designer featured on TLC's "Home Made Simple" and "While You Were Out", has teamed up with Prismacolor providing monthly tips and techniques to fellow artists. Whether you're creating a piece of artwork or designing a bedroom, Nadia's "how to" approach will help you to improve your technique.

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Water Color Pencils

A. Before experimenting with Prismacolor Watercolor Pencils, purchase watercolor paper or paper with a heavier tooth or stock.

B. Brushes, cotton swabs, paint brushes and a spray bottle are great tools to blend and apply water to your laid down watercolor pencil.

Watercolor Colored Pencils

C. Where you lay the line of watercolor pencil will be darker on the finished drawing, keep that in mind and wash away from the line to create depth.

D. You can achieve dense color by layering different colors. Then start washing the color with a little water on a brush after each layer. I like to continue to add color over dried washes to create a vivid color lay. Keep in mind the amount of water you use. You don't want to destroy the paper or the tooth of the paper.

E. With Prismacolor Watercolor Pencils you can create a saturated vivid color that completely hides the paper color below without damaging the paper surface.

F. Experiment with the other Prismacolor pencils and markers. You can add the water color pencils over or under the other mediums for cool effects, especially with Prismacolor Premier Colored Pencils and Premier Verithin Colored Pencils. Experiment and save the samples and note the color choices you made for future reference.

Premier Colored Pencils