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Ann Kullberg's Portrait CD and skin tone kit - Ann's Skin tone value chart/Portrait CD kit is a must have for all cp artists!

Derwent Coloursoft Pencils

Derwent Coloursoft Pencils

These soft, smooth, velvety pencils can be mixed and blended to create an infinite spectrum of rich, vibrant colors. They're ideal for a wide range of drawing styles, from bold contemporary still lifes and portraiture to finely detailed work — fashion illustration, animal portraiture, and landscapes. The unique formulation is highly blendable and glides smoothly over a wide variety of drawing surfaces. They are acid-free and tested for lightfastness. Pencils are pre-sharpened.


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Derwent Coloursoft Pencils

Derwent Coloursoft Pencils

These soft, smooth, velvety pencils can be mixed and blended to create an infinite spectrum of rich, vibrant colors. They're ideal for a wide range of drawing styles, from bold contemporary still lifes and portraiture to finely detailed work — fashion illustration, animal portraiture, and landscapes. The unique formulation is highly blendable and glides smoothly over a wide variety of drawing surfaces. They are acid-free and tested for lightfastness. Pencils are pre-sharpened.


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Prismacolor Colored Pencil Sets

Prismacolor Colored Pencil Sets

Our most popular colored pencils, Prismacolor pencils have thick, soft leads made from brilliant, light-resistant pigments. The colors are easy to blend, slow to wear, and waterproof. Each round wooden pencil is unsharpened and lacquered to match the core. Prismacolor sets are packaged in collectible tins. Blick carries open stock, allowing you to replenish your Prismacolor colored pencils individually. Note — Manual sharpening is recommended for these pencils. Clogging can be prevented in electric sharpeners by periodically sharpening a graphite pencil to keep the blades clean. This set contains one each of the following colors: Beige Sienna, Chestnut, Chocolate, Putty Beige, Ginger Root, Peach Beige, Sky Blue Light, Powder Blue, Muted Turquoise, Pale Sage, Kelp Green, and Green Ochre.


Lyra Rembrandt Polycolor Premium Oil-Based Colored Pencils

Lyra Rembrandt Polycolor Premium Oil-Based Colored Pencils

It's like having a creamy crayon in a pencil. Offering the ultimate control on paper, these premium oil-based colored pencils lay down smoothly with no wax build-up. They're easily blended and overlayed for limitless hues and formulated with the highest standards of lightfastness. Three assortments are presented in metal boxes. The pencils are pre-sharpened.


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Lyra Rembrandt Polycolor Premium Oil-Based Colored Pencils

Magazines


The Artist's Magazine

1999-March
Redefining the limits of Colored Pencil -
by Greg Schaber

1996-April
Closing the Circle on Realism -
by Maggie Toole

1995-May
Building Texture into Wood
by Sandra Angelo

2004-July
From Crisis to Creative Breakthrough -How to build color and depth.
by Jennifer Phillips Webster

2005-March
Making the Leap - Seven colored pencil artists share how embracing change can pave the way to more powerful work.
by Sandra Carpenter
2005-April
Under Pressure - Rich color is possible with colored pencil
by Fred Paulson

2005-July
Your Best Yet - Four top artists share unique colored pencil approaches
by Steve Smith

2007-January/February
Pencil Possibilites - Discover the range of artistic options colored pencils can provide.
by Alyona Nickelsen

2007-July/August
Sandpaper and Paintbrushes? - A colored pencil artist's unusual techniques create vivid, compelling effects.
by Linda Lucas Hardy

2008-November
Uptight Is All Right -Colored pencil offers different strokes for atists who enjoy working with detail.
by Gary Greene


Color Pencil Websites

A Process - a lesson on drawing a dog in color pencil

Achieving Depth or Dimension and Recognizing Values - A great demonstration on making a grey scale and great points on values and depth.

Choosing Color Pencils - Seeing and choosing the right color pencils for a portrait by artist Ann Kullberg.

Colored Pencil Basics - Colored Pencil for Beginners - Basic Pencil Strokes.

Color Pencil Hair Demo - A step by step lesson on creating hair with color pencils by artist Ann Kullberg

Color Pencil Skin Demo - A step by step lesson on skin by artist Ann Kullberg.

Color Pencil Techniques - color pencil tutorial by artist Tiffanie L. Gray

Color Pencil Tutorial on a Cheetah - A step by step tutorial on a Cheetah using color pencil by artist Linda Poynter.

Color Pencil Tutorials - A wildlife and portrait tutorial by color pencil artist Scott Tillet

Colored Pencil Lessons - free visual arts lesson site dedicated to teaching the visual arts to all that would be interested whether they be a homeschoolers, beginners, intermediates or advanced students.

Colored Pencil Techniques by Kristy Kutch - Color Pencil artist Kristy Kutch shares a step-by-step demonstration of her colored pencil techniques.

Colored Pencil with Ann Kullberg - Seeing and choosing the right color pencils for a portrait by artist Ann Kullberg.

Colored Pencil Society of America - Society for color pencil artists. They have a yearly exhibitions and yearly fee for US residents is $40.

Combining Ink and Color Pencil - Establish and learn how to apply an ink color value foundation and punch up the colors with color pencil by artist Janie Gildow.

Creating Shiny Metal - Creating Shiny Metal with Color Pencils by artist Janie Gildow.

Eye Spy II - cat tutorial on creating fur by artist Gayle Mason.

Getting to Know Your Colored Pencils - Making a color pencil color wheel and learning how to mix your colors.

Painting with Colored Pencil - Artist Barbara Newton shares techniques of grisaille and juxtapositioning of colors as she paints with colored pencils

Prismacolor Wheel - Janet Couture's Prismacolor wheel - palette of all the colors.

Scribble - Resources for the Color Pencil Artist
Scribble

Tips and Techniques - Derwent ACCO UK color pencil tips and techniques.

Wet Canvas Color Pencil Tips and Tricks - Tips, Tricks and Techniques from various color pencil artists on Wet Canvas.

Wet Canvas Colored Pencil Library - various tips, tricks, demos, techniques, step by step lessons and other valuable color pencil info by various color pencil artists.

Wet Canvas Colour Pencil Recipe Book - detailed thread about which colours you can use to create a particular effect or color.

Karen Cardinal's The Colored Pencil Challenge - Unfortunately this site is no longer existing but I did print off each of the following lessons.
Backlighting and Solvents Challenge - Featuring Barbara Benedetti Newton
Colored Papers Challenge - Featuring Constance Moore Simon
Skin Tones Challenge - Featuring Ann Kullberg
Creating Texture Challenge - Featuring Carlynne Hershberger
Circulism Challenge - Featuring Maggie Toole
Black Paper Challenge - Featuring Kay Dewar
Painting Florals Challenge - Featuring Kristy Ann Kutch
Combining Pencils Challenge - Featuring Barbara Krans Jenkins


For a list of further interested links check out the following on my site


Art Tutorials
Art Supplies
Color Pencil Artists


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