- Freestyling an Inktense palette

I've said it more times than I can count, but I've never met a recipe that I followed exactly. So why change now?

Sharon Tomlinson is doing a wonderful free online class over on her blog The Cloth Side of Me and today's video was about creating an Inktense color library since the color at the end of each pencil is not a reliable guide.

For better or worse, I actually have a 48 color set of Inktense pencils, which is why I gulped realizing how challenging it was going to be to keep track of them all. So I changed Sharon's suggested technique a bit by making a square of each color on wet linen ...

then brushed the colors out with a damp paintbrush, touched them up with a bit more pencil, ironed them dry, and cut them into thin strips ...

After that, I attached them to the pencils with Matte Mod Podge, twisting some of the strips around as I belatedly realized that it would be helpful to have the most intense color visible over the name on each pencil ...

I'm halfway through and cautiously optimistic this will do the trick ...