COLORED PENCIL CAN DO JUST ABOUT EVERYTHING

  One art medium that is relatively inexpensive, offers extensive color blends, textural opportunity, exciting contrasts, can be used dry, wet or with mixed media, has quick drying time, requires no further fixatives, special papers, or additives, can be easily carried anywhere, and is simple and fun to use, is of course, colored pencil. Whew! And that's a fact!

Two handy tools to have available for all colored pencil work are a sanding board and small sharpener for sharp and angled point adjustments.

Here is the first practice sheet we used. Won't you get your pencils ready and join us!

Colored Pencil Drawing

Rendering in Colored Pencil employs many techniques that give this medium its unique character. This practice skill introduces Blending

1. LIGHT AND COLOR APPLICATIONS create the illusion of 3-dimensionality and suggest volume. As light changes, the hue shifts towards warmer of cooler adjacent colors on the spectrum.

The 8½ X11 paper was the first practice skill. The center hues were required. Blends to the right and left could be personally chosen as long as the proper contrasts of "darker" and "lighter" blends were maintained.

Students were given a "Tonal Chart" demonstrating the strong/light contrasts resulting from the gradual blends in both directions.

Study the mixtures when they are completed. All along the scale to the left and right are many new blends of various "moods" and "temperatures", each of purposeful use for future "modeling" techniques.

With this practice completed, we're ready to move on to some applications. So, lets take a look at Line Design in the next section.