The pigment
marker really woke my interest with the unique lightfastness and the two
blender alternative that are available. It is brilliant to have a normal
colorless blender AND a white blender. This open up endless color possibilities.
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| The Winsor & Newton white blender and colorless blender |
Also, the
design of the marker and the the design of the case for the marker are
stunning.
These
markers are nothing like alcohol markers, or water based markers for that matter.
They are so much more like paint in the way that you actually can blend two or
more colors to a totally new one with ease.
When used
on other papers than the Winsor and Newton marker paper, they will not work the
same. They can feel dry, but I will come back to this. On the Winsor and Newton
paper however, they work very well in that sense that they are very easy to
blend with either of the blender alternatives or with each other. The big
problem with these markers is that they are very difficult to control since
they never really dry on the paper. Everything that you draw will move when you
come to close. Anything to complex are very difficult to draw, but a sketchy
drawing work very well. One of the problems is that It is very difficult to do
larger areas without streakiness (something a marker user will straggle with).
The ink quickly become very uneven, grainy and details are very difficult to do.
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| It is difficult to get a smooth even layer |
In a way,
you can work over an area over and over since the color doesn’t really dry,
this makes the marker unique, but also a part of the reason that the markers
are so difficult to control. Also, if you work a lot with the markers, all
papers I have tried the pigment markers on have buckled after a while and this
includes Winsor and Newton’s own paper.
As always,
it is a question of what you want to use an art material for. I will not use
these for finished complex art work (which I hoped to do, since they are
lightfast), but for a layout and sketches these markers a fine. I have tried
the Pigment marker on different papers and however they loose the uniqueness
that they have on the paper meant for them, and they can feel very dry on most
papers, I prefer that to the uncontrolled feeling on the Winsor and Newton
paper. Because, if you don´t try to use
them as a “paint” where you actually blend the colors together, they can be
used on a lot of different papers. Just don´t try to fill a large area or do to
much details.
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| Pigment markers |
Another problem
I found with my markers are that a lot of them are leaking. Suddenly a large
ink bubble will appear. This happen with too many and too often not to mention.
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| The case for the 36 set of the Pigment markers |
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| A color chart for the Pigment markers |
