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I use an emry (spelling?) board or nail file to sharpen mine. I tend to have one for each color family, but if it's a light color or yellow, I'll file the stump to get any of the prior color off before I use it.
I also use an emery board to get rid of the previous colour (unless i'm going from a light shade to a dark one then i don't bother). When my stub gets a bit blunt i sharpen it very carefully in a pencil sharpener, not sure if you should do this but it works for me and i have never had any problems from doind it.
I use a manual metal sharpener. I place the paper stump in, turn gently and pull out at the same time so it doesn't 'shred' or cut to deep. I repeat this untill i have worked my way around the whole stump.
I hope that makes some kind of sense. I don't do this every time, probably about once a month.
I use an Emery board or a fine grit sandpaper to sand my stumps into a point. I have also taken scissors and cut them into a point and then sanded the edges to clean it up a little.
As for colors, I keep one stump end for each color. So, I have red on one end and pink on the other. Blue on one and green on the other. That way with just a set of 5 stumps, I have 10 stump colors - which is all I ever need.
For instance, I use the blue end for all shades of blue. You can wet the stump with OMS and scribble on scratch paper until no more color comes to clean off any dark color residue if you want to switch to a lighter shade.
1)what do you do with your stumps when they are flattened? Is there a way to sharpen the point again for coloring finer/smaller spaces?
2) do you use a different stump for EVERY color, or do you mix the colors? Do the colors bleed if you mix them?
Yes, the colors will mix together if you use different colors on the same stump.
Sometimes that's good though. For instance, if you want to warm your yellow sun a great way would be to go over your yellow with orange or even red stumps. I do that a lot when I'm shading and blending colors.
But, you wouldn't want to take a blue or black stump to color the sun yellow - that would be a big blurry mess and not the look you're going for at all!
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