About Coloured Pencil Painting

At Magic Pencil, we supply products that support the coloured pencil painting process. Yes, coloured pencil is not paint - but you can use the medium to deliver astonishing, painterly results if you use the right set of materials and appropriate techniques. This is where Magic Pencil can help.

The unique collection of materials that we supply is exclusively available in New Zealand on our website. The products have been researched, developed, formulated and tuned by fellow coloured pencil artist, Alyona Nickelsen.

These materials vastly improve your coloured pencil experience and allow you to work with methods and approaches similar to those that were used by the Master Oil Painters Leonardo da Vinci or Rembrandt - but without the mess, tedium and long drying times that were forced upon them by the materials of the day.

Alyona’s own work is a strong testament to the effectiveness of this totally new methodology. The popularity of her techniques has grown immensely since the publication of her first bestselling book, Colored Pencil Painting Bible, using more traditional colored pencil techniques involving burnishers and odourless mineral spirits.

With her second book, Colored Pencil Painting Portraits (which we supply at Magic Pencil), Alyona introduces her revolutionary new products which challenge the boundaries and deliver so many more options, techniques and allow you to produce beautiful results with coloured pencils. Her hand picked products and educational materials will show you exactly how to utilise them to achieve the effects you never thought possible.