OP790 – Colorless Pencil Blender

Colorless Pencil Blender

The Holbein Colorless Pencil Blender is the ideal medium for mixing, blending, and intensifying the color of artwork created with Holbein Artists’ Colored Pencils. This colorless oil‑wax pencil moves pigment smoothly across the surface to unify layers, fill in grain, and polish drawings with added brilliance and gloss—without altering the original shades. Designed to enhance saturation, refine transitions, and increase lightfastness, it performs beautifully with oil‑based colored pencils and works across a wide range of supports, including paper, cardboard, fabric, wood, pottery, and stone. Acting as both a blender and a burnisher, it can even create water‑resistant effects when used with water‑soluble pencils. Available in open stock or Pencil Blender two-pack, the Holbein Colorless Pencil Blender features a coated cedar barrel and offers a versatile, professional tool for elevating colored pencil artwork with clarity, depth, and refined finish.

*We do not offer the full, uncased stick for broader coverage and flexible application*

OP850 – MELTZ

Holbein Colored Pencil MELTZ Blender in a 35ml Squeeze Bottle

When using oil-based colored pencils to create watercolor-like effects, “blurring” is key to eliminating drawing lines. Solvents commonly used in traditional oil painting, such as turpentine or petrol, are often used to achieve this blurring effect; however, they soak into the paper and damage its fibers. To eliminate this inconvenience, Holbein Art Materials Inc. developed MELTZ, a water-based blending and thinning medium.

OP801 – Holbein Colored Pencil Dual-Tipped MELTZ Pencil Marker

Holbein Colored Pencil Dual-Tipped MELTZ Pencil Marker

Holbein MELTZ Colored Pencil Blender is used to create watercolor-like effects with its brush and round marker tips. Water-based and non-refillable.