Color Workshop

Color Workshop
Author: Rachel Reinert
Publisher: Get Creative 6
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781942021575

Reinert shares techniques for creating vivid works of art with basic materials. From choosing your tools and supplies and introducing color theory to methods for combining mediums and exploring depth effects, her tips will have you achieving stunning results in no time.

Colored Pencil for the Serious Beginner

Colored Pencil for the Serious Beginner
Author: Bet Borgeson
Publisher: Watson-Guptill Publications
Total Pages: 128
Release: 1998
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780823007615

The artist shares her expertise in mixing colors, composition, and shading techniques

Pencil Workshop (Guided Sketchbook)

Pencil Workshop (Guided Sketchbook)
Author: Sasha Prood
Publisher: Abrams Noterie
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2020-02-11
Genre:
ISBN: 9781419741449

Explore the creative possibilities of the artist's most accessible tool--the pencil Never has the humble pencil--the most readily available and affordable of art supplies--produced such exciting and sophisticated effects. In Pencil Workshop, author and artist Sasha Prood brings a sense of experimentation and fun to sketching with graphite, colored, and watercolor pencils. Through 50 different experiments, you'll learn traditional techniques like hatching, contouring, and stippling; develop your skills by creating compositions; and try out the unique effects that you can achieve with blenders and water-soluble pencils. This unique instruction book is structured so that you have space to do pencil test swatches and draw directly on the pages next to the author's examples. Pencil Workshop provides everything you need to explore the limitless creative potential of this versatile medium! Special Features Full-color illustrations throughout Paperback with lay-flat binding Check out the other books in this series: Watercolor Workshop, and Marker Workshop.

Colored Pencil Secrets for Success

Colored Pencil Secrets for Success
Author: Ann Kullberg
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2009-04-16
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1440317216

Even with a keen eye, it can be difficult to troubleshoot and fix your own artwork. That's where this guide comes in. Featuring a range of styles and subjects, Colored Pencil Secrets for Success is like a personal critique session, featuring proven tips, tricks and fixes that will transform your work from good to great. Ann Kullberg has helped countless artists with her classes and writing. You'll learn what's needed to get off to a great beginning with the right tools, techniques and reference photos; then reap the rewards of Kullberg's visual instruction in this unique critique format, highlighting the why and how of what's working, and what needs work, in 29 inspiring colored pencil compositions. In each example, Kullberg gets right down to the details, revealing crucial secrets for avoiding and fixing things like "Chiclet teeth," streaky skin tones and flat highlights. You'll learn that other artists, in fact, share many of your artistic challenges, as Ann shares the solutions and secrets you need for your own success.

Creative Colored Pencil Workshop

Creative Colored Pencil Workshop
Author: Carlynne Hershberger
Publisher: North Light Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2007-04-26
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781581808186

Take Your Colored Pencils Out of the Box ... and Combine the Best of All Mediums! Creative Colored Pencil Workshop is your guide to exploring a new world of artistic possibilities. Following clear, step-by-step demonstrations, you'll try your hand at a range of exciting techniques that blend colored pencils with all kinds of dynamic mediums, including: Watercolor Gouache Acrylics Ink Graphite Oil pastels Metal leaf More than 25 fun projects show you how to use each medium successfully, while offering in-depth guidance for working with various papers, textures and surfaces. Best of all, this book features the insightful instruction of two accomplished artists who offer different yet effective approaches to colored pencil creations. From highly realistic art to more abstract representations, you'll learn how each medium and technique can accommodate virtually any artistic style or subject. Creative Colored Pencil Workshop gives you the best of both worlds: the fluid spontaneity and speed of mixed media and the control and precision of colored pencils. Mix it up, and see what happens!

Portfolio: Beginning Colored Pencil

Portfolio: Beginning Colored Pencil
Author: Eileen Sorg
Publisher: Walter Foster Publishing
Total Pages: 131
Release: 2017-09-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1633225399

Beginning Colored Pencil lets you master the art of drawing with colored pencils. *Named One of the 54 Best Colored Pencil Drawing Books of All Time by BookAuthority* What medium is as immediately relatable as the colored pencil? Vibrant, versatile, and familiar, the simple colored pencil is the proverbial first step on your journey to becoming an artist. Beginning Colored Pencil is an inviting and approachable guide loaded with everything an aspiring artist needs to know about colored pencil, including tools, materials, composition, and color theory. Walter Foster Publishing’s Portfolio series takes a technique-driven approach, emphasizing topics like blending, shading, and creating form and texture to provide a well-rounded approach that allows readers to master key concepts. Try step-by-step demonstrations with a fresh, contemporary design to keep lessons vibrant, so you can practice your fresh, new skills. Get in touch with your inner creativity, and dive into colored pencils today! The Portfolio series covers essential art techniques, core concepts, and media with an approach and format that’s perfect for aspiring, beginning, and intermediate artists. Also available from the series:Beginning Acrylic, Beginning Drawing, Beginning Watercolor, Beginning Pastel, Beginning Color Mixing, Expressive Painting, Beginning Color Mixing, Beginning Pen & Ink, and Beginning Composition.

Yellow Owl Workshop's Make It Yours

Yellow Owl Workshop's Make It Yours
Author: Christine Schmidt
Publisher: Clarkson Potter
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2017-03-28
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 0770433650

Transform everyday objects into handcrafted pieces to wear, share, and display. In Yellow Owl’s Make It Yours, you’ll learn techniques for bringing personal touches to objects all around your home. Upgrade your plain scarf with a colorful abstract design. Turn a dresser into an eye-catching art deco showpiece. Whip up a desert-inspired quilt to enliven your living room. Expert printer and Yellow Owl Workshop founder, Christine Schmidt, shares her trade secrets for creating gorgeous projects using unexpected materials, from gold leaf to cake fondant. What’s best: the included Yellow Owl Workshop templates and techniques can be mixed and matched to create countless more projects! Featuring inventive ideas for every room, skill level, and time constraint, Yellow Owl’s Make It Yours will teach you to print, stamp, stencil, and dye your way to a personalized life. Projects include: • Monogram Leather Clutch • Roll Stamp Table Linens • Fruit Shoji Blinds • Shibori Dyed Bed Linens • Plaid Tote • Upholstered Chair with Hand-Printed Fabric • DIY Delftware

The New Colored Pencil

The New Colored Pencil
Author: Kristy Ann Kutch
Publisher: Watson-Guptill
Total Pages: 178
Release: 2014-05-20
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0770434479

Learn to draw and paint using colored pencils in The New Colored Pencil: a how-to guide for creating vibrant, textured, and easy art illustrations by best-selling author and teacher Kristy Kutch Master the Latest Breakthroughs in Colored Pencil Art If you want to create colorful, radiant works of art, colored pencil and related color media (pastels, watercolor pencils, and so on) provide you with limitless options for adding vibrancy to your creations. In The New Colored Pencil, artist and instructor Kristy Ann Kutch guides you through the latest developments in color drawing media with examples of and recommendations for the newest pencil brands, drawing surfaces, and groundbreaking techniques (including using the Grid Method, grating pigments, blending with heat, and more). Supported by step-by-step demonstrations and showcasing inspiring art from some of today’s best colored pencil artists, The New Colored Pencil shows you how to use color theory to your advantage, combine color media, create and enhance textures, and experiment with surfaces to create interesting effects. Whether you use traditional, wax-based, or watercolor colored pencils, The New Colored Pencil will take your art to the next level.

Basic Colored Pencil Techniques

Basic Colored Pencil Techniques
Author: Bet Borgeson
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 251
Release: 1997-03-15
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1440334021

Easy-to-follow demonstrations show you how to use colored pencils to paint trees, flowers, animals, people and other popular subjects. The colored pencil is an easy-to-use, inexpensive and incredibly expressive medium. And nobody is more skilled with the pencil than Bet Borgeson. Using many visual examples to illustrate her points, Bet will teach you how to use layering, burnishing, lifting color and other basic colored pencil techniques to create an exciting range of effects—from highly detailed realism to loose, luscious color. She also offers advice on choosing the right materials, conveying textures, layering in backgrounds, and combining colored pencil with other mediums.

Drawing and Designing with Confidence

Drawing and Designing with Confidence
Author: Mike W. Lin
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 208
Release: 1993-08-30
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 0471283908

Readers of this book learn graphic rendering skills quickly with the proven how-to approach that has made Lin the most successful teacher in the field. His method emphasizes speed, confidence, and relaxation, while incorporating many time-saving tricks of the trade.