Download or read book Creative Techniques in Colored Pencil Graphite and Oil Painting written by Veronica Winters and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-08-11 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the secrets of rendering subjects correctly and creatively in various mediums, from pencil to paint. In this easy-to-use drawing and painting guide packed with hundreds of illustrations and 20 step-by-step demonstrations, learn everything you need to know about materials, techniques, subjects, and methods. This handy, reference book with teen-friendly, fun subjects is a book that burgeoning artists will turn to again and again for creative inspiration. Learn how to: - Draw and paint in graphite, charcoal, colored pencil, pastel and oil; - Master tone gradations and colors; - Create beautiful compositions; - Use correct proportions and perspective; - See basic shapes in complex objects; - Develop artistic thinking; - Create fun and imaginative artwork; - Find solutions to drawing problems; - Create art that educates and inspires.
Download or read book Creative Colored Pencil written by Gary Greene and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-04-13 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New, easy & fun colored pencil techniques! In Creative Colored Pencil, you will find secrets for amazing new and never-before-seen techniques that will turn your everyday colored pencils (both traditional wax-based and water-soluble into liquid pencils! Whether you want to learn how to color with colored pencils or want to learn how to paint exceptionally realistic colored pencil artwork, get ready to use materials you've probably never considered before--each a true innovation! • A full primer on types of pencils, recommended tools and basic techniques • Demonstrations for turning colored pencils into "paint" using easy-to-find materials such as rubber cement thinner, mineral spirits and rubbing alcohol • 14 colored pencil projects (including full palette lists) including flowers, landscapes and animals You will discover an unlimited variety of creative possibilities, from the painterly style of acrylics and oils to the loose watercolor look of water-soluble colored pencils and everything in between. Get ready to lose yourself as you learn how to use colored pencils in ways you never thought possible.
Download or read book The Colored Pencil Manual written by Veronica Winters and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2018-08-15 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experienced artists looking to master a new medium will relish this comprehensive guide to using colored pencils by the author of How to Color Like an Artist. Step-by-step demonstrations with photos and directions explain shading, blending, color theory, more.
Download or read book Oil Painting N Colored Pencil Inspiration Book written by Priyank Gala and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-02-27 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interested in making colorful drawings, be it with color pencils or oil paintings you need an inspiration and reference as beginners.Oil painting has been around for many, many years and with a history like it has anyone would be anxious to dive right in but we can help! Drawing with colored pencil n oil paintings is super easy if you use the right colors and have drawn a good sketch. Unlike the graphite pencils, colored pencils cannot be easily erased, so we have to draw carefully, particularly the darker areas. Always draw parts with colored pencil pressing down lightly and if it looks good, color over the same area pressing down hard. You can find variety of Oil painting and colored pencil drawings that you can use as reference and get inspired to create beautiful Oil painting n colored pencil drawings yourself.A very helpful book for beginners for reference and inspiration.
Download or read book Artist Toolbox Drawing Tools Materials written by Walter Foster Creative Team and published by Walter Foster Publishing. This book was released on 2019-03-05 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Artist Toolbox: Drawing Tools & Materials covers all drawing media, from graphite and colored pencils to crayons and pastels, as well as their uses and interactions with traditional drawing surfaces. Learn how to work with specific drawing tools, and then use them to create your own artwork. Artist Toolbox: Drawing Tools & Materials first discusses how to create a drawing workspace—in particular, ensuring proper lighting and storage. This guide then details all of the most popular drawing media: the differences between and advantages of each, their purposes, and the effects that each tool can create. The book covers every drawing tool, including all pencil grades, flat sketching pencils, charcoal and vine charcoal, white charcoal, conte crayons, conte pencils, colored pencils, and pastel. Surfaces and supports are discussed as well to provide a thorough introduction to everything you need to learn to draw. Step-by-step drawing projects round out the book. Artist Toolbox: Drawing Tools & Materials provides tips, techniques, clear instructions, beautiful artwork, and detailed demonstrations for a comprehensive look at drawing. This book will make an expert out of anyone who wants to learn this classic technique. The Artist Toolbox series includes useful, practical reference guides designed for beginning artists and art hobbyists interested in fully understanding the focus and function of essential art tools of the trade.
Download or read book Modern Colored Pencil written by Chelsea Ward and published by Walter Foster Publishing. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn to use colored pencils and watercolor pencils to create vibrant, exciting works of art! *Named One of the 54 Best Colored Pencil Drawing Books of All Time by BookAuthority* Modern Colored Pencil delves into all the basic techniques and concepts required to create fresh, colorful works of colored pencil art. Talented artist and author of Your Year in Art and Modern Drawing (both from Walter Foster Publishing) Chelsea Ward takes you on a lively, easy-to-follow exploration of colored pencils in this book. It is packed with creative exercises and projects designed to show you how to work with the versatile, approachable colored pencil medium. Modern Colored Pencil begins with a brief introduction to various tools, such as pencils (including colored pencils, graphite pencils, and watercolor pencils), papers, and other tools. This handy book also demonstrates often-complicated concepts, such as color mixing, shading, texture, and more, in an easy, approachable manner. Once you have a handle on the basics, explore how to create dynamic color palettes, use basic shapes and techniques to render a range of subjects, and create various marks and textures. From beautiful florals and nature motifs to animals and everyday items, Modern Colored Pencil provides a fresh, contemporary, and enjoyable approach to learning how to create vivid artwork in colored pencil. The Modern Series of books offers a fun, contemporary approach to working with traditional art media, demonstrating that with the right type of instruction, encouragement, and tips, drawing and painting success can be achieved by any artist or creative type. Also in the Modern Series:Modern Acrylic, Modern Drawing, and Modern Watercolor.
Download or read book 101 Textures in Graphite Charcoal written by Steven Pearce and published by Quarto Publishing Group USA. This book was released on 2017-03-01 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A must-have resource for graphite and charcoal artists, this guide offers step-by-step instruction on drawing key textures found in any illustration. Accurately rendering surfaces and textures is one of the most challenging aspects of working with graphite pencil and charcoal. 101 Textures in Graphite & Charcoal gives artists essential techniques for capturing a wide variety of surfaces, including sand, water, metals, foliage, wood, fabrics, stone, grass, hair, and many more. Opening with a general introduction to basic drawing tools, materials, and drawing techniques, each page in this comprehensive resource features two to three easy-to-follow steps demonstrating how to create each specific texture. You will discover tips and techniques for working in both graphite and charcoal and how to manage their differences when hatching, stippling, scumbling, blending, and more.
Download or read book Colored Pencil Explorations written by Janie Gildow and published by North Light Books. This book was released on 2012-07-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get Creative with Colored Pencils! Find out just how versatile colored pencils can be! Janie Gildow and friends show you how to combine colored pencils with an exciting variety of media for extraordinary results! You'll learn how to add luminescence to your colored pencil paintings with watercolor and acrylic; how to create richness, depth and a quick color base with pastel or airbrush; and much more. Twenty-four step-by-step demonstrations by fourteen well-known artists illustrate just a sampling of what you can achieve. You'll be encouraged to experiment with colored pencil, stretch your artistic boundaries and express yourself as never before! Create colored pencil magic with: Watercolor Water-soluble colored pencil Acrylic Ink Pastel Solvents Airbrush Brülage Graphite Textured paper Suedeboard Plastic vellum Mylar Clayboard Polymer clay Rice paper
Download or read book Drawing Colored Pencil Basics written by Cynthia Knox and published by Walter Foster. This book was released on 2012-04 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces basic techniques for using colored pencils to create drawings from photographs, offering instruction on working with colors and achieving correct proportions.
Download or read book Mastering Colored Pencil written by Lisa Dinhofer and published by The Monacelli Press, LLC. This book was released on 2017-12-19 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many people who bought colored pencils during the adult coloring book craze are now looking to learn new ways to be creative with them. In Mastering Colored Pencil, artist and colored pencil evangelist Lisa Dinhofer presents everything artists need to know about traditional and contemporary drawing techniques, materials, and color theory in order to master this versatile medium. Colored pencils, an inexpensive, easy to use, and mobile medium, are coming of age. More and more artists are discovering the incredible qualities of drawing with colored pencils. The wide variety of vibrant color choices among the major manufacturers seems endless. At a recent count, there are more than fifty different reds in the colored pencil spectrum of Prismacolor, Faber-Castell, and Derwent. The base of the pencils vary as well: wax, watercolor, pastel, and graphite. These can be interchanged or mixed together. The effects that can be achieved are limitless. A work in pencil can be a drawing, a watercolor, or an oil painting. A wax pencil can sketch, can draw, can paint. A watercolor pencil can do the same. The drawing can be transparent as a loose wash or as dense as an oil on canvas. Artists can work as small as a postage stamp or as large as a wall. Mastering Colored Pencil is illustrated throughout with Dinhofer’s fresh and sophisticated artwork and includes more than twenty-five step-by-step demonstrations, thoughtful exercises, workbook templates, and specific assignments that are sure to help every artist achieve striking results with pencils. A special exhibition section includes work, technique descriptions, and insights from seven additional contemporary artists.
Download or read book Creative Colored Pencil Workshop written by Carlynne Hershberger and published by North Light Books. This book was released on 2007-04-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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!
Download or read book Basic Colored Pencil Techniques written by Bet Borgeson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1997-03-15 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book How to Color Like an Artist written by Veronica Winters and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2017-04-19 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Simple, step-by-step instructions for using colored pencils include eight plates from Dover's Creative Haven® series for practice. Full-color photographs illustrate such methods as creating texture, layering, and blending colors.
Download or read book Creative Colored Pencil written by Vera Curnow and published by North Light Books. This book was released on 1995 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Easy-to-follow step-by-step instruction providing the tools to create colored pencil illustrations like the professionals. Presents 10 professional-level techniques as rendered by the top colored pencil artists in the world. Presents techniques including working in circles, working in mixed media, creating realistic skin tones, and working effectively with color. Each instructional section is followed by an extensive, full-color gallery of finished work illustrating finished examples using the demonstrated techniques. Provides inspiration and visual instruction for professional and amateur illustrators of all levels.
Download or read book The Everything Art Handbook written by Walter Foster Creative Team and published by Quarto Publishing Group USA. This book was released on 2016-09-01 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pick up your pencil or brush and start creating with this go-to resource for artists of all skill levels, covering drawing, painting, and mixed media. A refreshing, accessible compendium of art materials and techniques, The Everything Art Handbook is the perfect all-inclusive resource for beginning artists wanting to experiment and play with a variety of art mediums and techniques. The Everything Art Handbook is divided into sections focusing on different types of mediums and art concepts. Each section includes a basic overview of the topic, instructions for selecting and working with the right tools and materials, step-by-step sample artwork, and helpful sidebars with advice from professional artists. Expand and refresh your artistic skills with such topics as: Getting started, including how to set up a studio and where to find inspiration Art fundamentals, such as value and light, perspective, and composition Color basics, including complementary colors, primaries, secondaries, and neutrals Drawing techniques for working with graphite, charcoal, colored pencil, pastel, pen and ink, and more Painting techniques for working with oil, acrylic, and watercolor Mixed media tools and techniques, including stamping, encaustics, and textures Using clear, informative explanations for achieving the best results, The Everything Art Handbook is an approachable reference guide for contemporary artists of any skill level.
Download or read book Anywhere Anytime Art Colored Pencil written by Cara Hanley and published by Walter Foster. This book was released on 2018-05 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have fun and be spontaneous while learning to draw with colored pencils! Anywhere, Anytime Art: Colored Pencil makes it easy to draw wherever you are, no matter your skill level!
Download or read book Botanical Art Techniques written by American Society of Botanical Artists and published by Timber Press. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Botanical Art Techniques is a beautifully illustrated and comprehensive guide to one of the most delicate art forms. From the experts at the American Society of Botanical Artists, this essential reference features how-to tutorials for all the major techniques, moving from basic to intermediate to advanced, so the reader can build on their skills as they progress. Media covered in detail include graphite, pen and ink, watercolor on paper and vellum, and colored pencil, with further tutorials on egg tempera oil, acrylic, gouache, silverpoint, etching, and more. Additional information includes a detailed overview of the necessary materials, basic information about the principles of composition, and advice on how to develop a personal style. Filled with 900 photographs, Botanical Art Techniques is a must-have for creative people everywhere.
