Start coloring, relieve stress, and learn to create radiant, original works of art using colored pencils, wax pastels, and watercolor pencils. Add vibrancy to your coloring creations with instruction from best-selling author and teacher Kristy Kutch as she guides you through recommendations for the newest colored pencil brands, best drawing surfaces, and groundbreaking techniques. Including easy step-by-step demonstrations and inspiring art from today’s best colored pencil artists, The New Colored Pencil shows you how to use color theory to your advantage, combine color media, create and enhance textures, and experiment with surfaces to create phenomenal effects. Whether you use traditional wax-based, or watercolor colored pencils, The New Colored Pencil will take your creative art pieces to a whole new level.

Colored pencil painter Alyona Nickelsen reveals how to use the medium to push the limits of realistic portraiture. Colored Pencil Painting Portraits provides straightforward solutions to the problems that artists face in creating lifelike images, and will prime readers on the intricacies of color, texture, shadow, and light as they interplay with the human form. In this truly comprehensive guide packed with step-by-step demonstrations, Nickelsen considers working from photo references versus live models; provides guidance on posing and lighting, as well as planning and composing a work; discusses tools, materials, and revolutionary layering techniques; and offers lessons on capturing gesture and expression and on rendering facial and body features of people of all age groups and skin tones.

From Walter Foster Publishing’s popular Realistic series, which features step-by-step instructions for drawing amazingly lifelike artwork in the dynamic colored pencil medium, comes Realistic Animals in Colored Pencil. Whether you are an aspiring or established artist, you can learn to draw your favorite animals with incredible detail and photorealism. This follow-up to Realistic Portraits in Colored Pencil and Realistic Still Life in Colored Pencil is authored and illustrated by an accomplished colored pencil artist with numerous art awards to her name. The artwork looks complex, but it’s possible to replicate with the help of the thorough section on colored pencil techniques that opens the book. Learn how to create various effects, including: shading blending layering burnishing and more! The following pages cover animal textures, such as fur, hair, eyes, tongues, and more, and how to create them. The step-by-step projects are awe-inspiring in their realism and feature popular animal subjects like dogs, cats, horses, birds, exotic animals, and more. Laid out in a way that’s easy to follow and understand, the projects are approachable and appealing for any skill level. Whether you simply wish to gawk at amazingly photorealistic art or create your own animal portraits, Realistic Animals in Colored Pencil is the perfect resource.

Learn to paint with groundbreaking new techniques for a favorite medium! • Dazzling colors, incredible realism—with simple step-by-step demonstrations • Easy-to-follow instructions from a top colored-pencil artist • Master the wide range of colored pencil effects possible, including blending, layering, translucent effects, and more Radiant color…painterly finishes…astonishing realism…with colored pencils! Achieve rich, luminous color and eye-popping ultra-realistic effects. Artists of every level will be inspired by the amazing new techniques created by Alyona Nickelsen, presented in Colored Pencil Painting Bible for the very first time. Nickelsen’s innovations will delight readers and detailed you-can-do-it processes bring her striking results within reach for every artist. Take colored pencils beyond the ordinary with Colored Pencil Painting Bible!

Colored pencils are convenient, neat, portable, economical, forgiving. Now they're even more ideal for beginning artists because they're available in amazing new water soluble versions. Start with a drawing in colored pencil, then add water to create a painting. It's amazing and amazingly easy. "Drawing and Painting with Colored Pencil" covers traditional colored pencil techniques as well as tips on mastering the new water soluble colored pencils. From basic color layering, burnishing, and lifting, to using water soluble pencils to create beautiful florals, still lifes, and landscapes, this book is full of great ideas and step by step inspiration."

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.

Artists and teachers Bildow and Newton provide about 20 step-by-step demonstrations that reveal the secrets of working with colored pencil. They answer the most commonly-asked questions about the medium, from basic techniques and proper tool selection to creating realistic colors, light, and textur

The artist shares her expertise in mixing colors, composition, and shading techniques

An artist can create an astonishing range of hues, tints, and textures using colored pencils. This volume of Running Press's Encyclopedia of Art Technique Series demonstrates how to fully explore the potential of this remarkable medium. Covers the characteristics of various kinds of pencils and assorted techniques. Over 200 full-color photos.

No one who works in colored pencil—or wants to—can afford to be without this book, which is the most complete resource on the medium. The revised edition provides the latest information on colored pencils while retaining the best feature of the original: Bogeson's beautiful artwork; authoritative information about materials; clearcut lessons on color mixing and specific techniques; and demonstrations of various methods for creating works in colored pencils. Two new chapters introduce revolutionary techniques: applying frisket film to lift colored pencil pigment from paper, and using ordinary masking tape to remove even densely applied color. From the Trade Paperback edition.