Susan, thank you for all the info! I love working with pencils. I rarely use markers as I am more comfortable with pencils and like the looks I can get with them. I was thinking one of the online places I looked had the individual pencils. Of course, now I don't remember where that was. Maybe Dick Blick? I've never tried the Prisma pencils, either. For the past few years I've been using my Koh-i-Noor woodless pencils, which I like a whole lot better than the Rose Art and Crayola I had before that.
I'll see if I can't get together with my friend and try her pencils. She said she has a few different kinds.
Golda
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