Hello and welcome to Behind The Pencil, an Artists podcast sharing all the highlights and lowlights of being a self-employed Artist, life behind being a Coloured Pencil Artist and all the magic that happens behind the scenes, before the pencil touches the paper ✍🏻

Episode eleven is a follow on from last week’s episode where I spoke about my favourite paper, pencils and favourite white and black pencils! In this week’s episode I’m chatting about all the other tools I use to accompany my pencils on a daily basis. I’m always really nosey when it comes to other Artists’ materials (hope you can relate 😆) so over the years I have tried lots of different products. Everything in this pod episode has been tried and tested for a length of time (some 10+ years 👵🏻) and I’m only recommending the things I currently use and I know are great investments. I talk about easels, erasers, sharpeners, the slice tool, the scanner I use, and other little bits and bobs.

Please get in touch if you have any questions or need any advice.

Top tip 💡 - if you are interested in any of these products, especially the ones that are a little pricey, see if there’s any better deals elsewhere or check your Facebook Marketplace or eBay for second hand easels / art materials etc. These links aren’t sponsored or affiliated - I have just found the products online. Everything I talk about is linked below:

Easels / Desk Easels:

Cowling & Wilcox Lexington A2 Workstation

Daler Rowney Artsphere Easel A3

MEEDEN Art Painting Easel

Blundell Harling Champion Mk 11 Drawing Board A1

Erasers / Rubbers:

Tombow MONO Zero Eraser - Fine

Tombow MONO Zero Eraser - Broad

Derwent Battery Operated Eraser

Faber-Castell Kneadable Eraser

Slice Manual Pen Cutter

Sharpeners: