The biggest discovery has been oil pastels. I bought a big box of these with a good range of colours, and I've enjoyed using a much looser style and more extravagant strokes which they seem to demand.
It's also great that you can smooth them out and merge them with your fingers, and also scratch away the surfae with a nib to get thin white stripes in the surface. It's very liberating.
Exercise 1 - this involved drawing a tube with red at one end and blue at the other with the colours merging in the middle, using a mix of stippling and hatching/crosshatching. Although I didn't see the point of stippling at first, I can now see it achieves some nice effects (good for depicting shimmering water, for example).
I tried the exercise with oil pastels, coloured inks (using a bamboo dip-pen), coloured pencils, pastel pencils, soft pastels (very messy and not very successful for this this exercise), and watercolour pencils (these really came into their own with the application of a wet brush - the colours were bright and the effect is smooth and limpid).
Here's the first flourish with oil pastels:
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