Colouring Pencils

Somewhere between a box of ordinary colouring pencils and a full watercolour set sits a strange little hybrid that nobody quite warns you about at the art shop till: watercolour pencils. You draw with them like pencils, then drag a wet brush across the marks and, almost by magic, the lines melt into something that … Read more

Hand a toddler a fresh pack of colouring pencils and watch what happens in the first thirty seconds. Half of them snap. One rolls under the sofa. And somewhere in there, a small fist is gripping the pencil like it owes them money. If that scene sounds familiar, you already understand why not all colouring … Read more

There’s a particular kind of quiet that settles over a kitchen table at nine in the evening when someone finally opens a colouring book after a chaotic day. No emails. No doom-scrolling. Just a page, a handful of colouring pencils for adults, and the small, stubborn decision of which shade of blue goes where. It … Read more

Here’s a confession every stationery-obsessed colourist eventually makes: you do not need to spend £80 on a tin of pencils to fall in love with colouring again. Colouring pencils under £20 are, frankly, having a moment — squeezed between the toy aisle and the “serious art supplies” shelf, quietly doing brilliant work for a fraction … Read more