Color Pencil Tips and Techniques






Color Pencil References



Books






CDs and Kits



Carol Moore's Color Pencil Kits - All new down-loadable (PDF Format) Color Pencil Kits. For various skill levels, online help and art gallery.

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!


Magazines



The Colored Pencil Magazine - Sally Ford's Colored Pencil Magazine now in print with step-by-step lessons, critiques, tips and much more.
Colored Pencil Magazine

CP Colored Pencil Artists - Ann Kullberg's magazine for colored pencil artists.

From My Perspective - Ann Kullberg's online color pencil magazine with tips, critiques, and step by step lessons.
From My Perspective-A color pencil e-magazine


The Artist's Magazine

1991-July
Colored Pencil:Secrets of Modern Masters
by Sandra Angelo

1992-Feb
Techniques for Using Colored Pencils
by Barbara Edidin

1992-Nov
New Depths in Colored Pencils
by Barbara Edidin

1995-May
Building Texture into Wood
by Sandra Angelo

1996-April
Closing the Circle on Realism
by Maggie Toole

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

2000-Sept
Painting with a Pencil
by Sandra Angelo

2002-Aug
Show Stoppers
by Jill Kline and Thomas M. Thayer Jr.

2004-Feb
Paint Flowers
by Barbara Edidin
page 35-36

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 Possibilities - 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 artists who enjoy working with detail.
by Gary Greene



Color Pencil Websites



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

Blenders and Burnishers - test and review on the Lyra, Derwent and Caran d'Ache blender pencils.

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

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: Techniques and Tutorial - A Guide to Color Pencil Painting

Colored Pencil Art - Colored Pencil Instruction and Techniques.

Colored Pencil Tools and Techniques - for the Wax and Oil Based Colored Pencils, Blending Techniques, Blending Colored Pencils with Solvents

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

Colored Pencil Instruction - 5 important colored pencil techniques that form the basis for everything you will ever do with colored pencils.

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

Colored Pencil Studio - Everything about colored pencils, watercolor pencils, water-soluble pencils, and colored drawing pencils.

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

Coloured Pencil Topics - Information, choices, techniques and adice on all things coloured pencil by artist Peter Weatherill.

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

Coloured Pencils - Resources for Artists - a list of resources all about color pencil.

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.

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

How to Sharpen a Color Pencil - Discover how to sharpen a colored pencil to a nice, fine point! Learn how to prevent your Prismacolor colored pencils from breaking.

Introduction to Three Types of Color Pencils - Kristi gives a brief explanation of the three major types of colored pencils - wax-based, oil-based and water-soluble pencils.

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.

Review: Prismacolor Pencil Blend Test in the Moleskine Journals - test and review of using Prismacolor Color Pencils on Moleskine and Ciak Journals.

Robs Art guide to Colored Pencils - a list of color pencil brands and accessories.

Scribble - Resources for the Color Pencil Artist
Scribble

Ten Reasons to Sketch with Color Pencils - Katherine Tyrrell gives 10 reasons why artists should sketch with color pencils.

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

Wetcanvas Colored Pencil Color Charts - Color pencil charts of all brands of pencils.

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.

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


A further list of links about color pencil and tutorials can be found at the following links on my site


More Color Pencil Art Tutorials
Art Supplies
Color Pencil Artists


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