Book Description
Explore the full potential of this fascinating and versatile medium and learn how, using simple techniques, you can create works of tremendous subtlety and delicacy. A comprehensive techniques section introduces readers to the materials needed, and demonstrates in easy-to-follow step-by-step sequences essential coloured pencil techniques such as blending and shading. Readers are encouraged to look closely at their subjects - simple exercises demonstrate how to search for hidden tones and colours that might otherwise be missed. The author then provides 15 step-by-step projects for readers to follow. Starting with close-up drawings of subjects such as cat's eyes and pebbles, the projects work through to more complex illustrations such as a still life with fruit and a tulip in a glass vase. In this way readers can build up skills gradually, using simple techniques learnt in earlier projects to complete the later ones. Each project is accompanied by a reference photo, a black-and-white outline sketch and a colour key, plus a 'Now Try This' box to suggest further creative explorations.
About the Author
Beverley Johnston trained as a graphic designer and became a full-time artist in 2000. She has written for Artists & Illustrators magazine and is a founder member of the UKCPS (UK Coloured Pencil Society), formed in June 2001 to promote coloured pencils as a fine-art medium and to support and educate artists wishing to use them. She lives in Bulphan, Essex.
The Complete Guide to Coloured Pencil Techniques FROM THE PUBLISHER
Colored pencils offer artists a wonderfully versatile approach to drawing images. This inspirational book explores the full potential of the medium and encourages, through practical demonstration, how to take the art of drawing with colored pencils further.
FROM THE CRITICS
Library Journal
Full-time artist Johnston trained as a graphic designer and is a founding member of the U.K. Colored Pencil Society. Her hope, embodied in this book, is to promote colored pencils as a fine-art medium. The result is one of the most comprehensive and useful books available on the subject. Johnston begins the book with introductory material for beginners and quickly moves to advanced techniques in blending, layering, textures, and highlights. Part 2 comprises 12 projects clearly organized for novices but sophisticated in intent. Each contains a reference photo, a black-and-white sketch, a color key, and suggestions for variations. The only other book that accomplishes as much is Janie Gildow and Barbara Newton's Colored Pencil Solution Book. Highly recommended. Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.
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