12 Coloured Pencil Techniques: Unlock the secrets to creating rich and vibrant pencil artworks

Perfect for the absolute beginner to coloured pencil drawing, this complete seven week course will enable you to methodically and systematically develop your skills right from the very start.

Author of the ‘Complete Online Drawing Course’ and successful professional artist for more than 24 years Cindy Wider shares her secrets to creating rich and vibrant coloured pencil artworks step-by-step with every detail explained.

Throughout this course Cindy provides you with indispensable colour theory knowledge so that you can get great results with the creation of your artworks over and over again.

In this course you will learn all about these important fundamental basics and so much more;

• How to use complimentary colours to make your colours sing
• Twelve fundamental coloured pencil techniques
• Six popular colour schemes to help you choose great colours every time
• Learn to see colour as tone
• How to use temperature of colour to create three-dimensional form
• How to bring objects forwards on the picture plane
• How to send objects backwards into the picture plane
• How to draw the initial outline using the ‘Construction Drawing Method’
• How to use graphite transfer paper to transfer your drawing to quality paper
• Learn about the five major areas of highlight and shadows
• Discover how burnish at just the right time for a gorgeous painterly glow

Twelve Coloured Pencil Techniques will open up your eyes and your creativity to a whole new range of creative possibilities!

Cindy Wider grew up in the Western Highlands of Papua New Guinea with very few toys available to her. Nature and imagination became her playground as she spent the early years of her childhood gathering clay from the river banks and building bamboo cubby houses in the colourful tropical gardens that surrounded her home. At the age of 11 years Cindy returned with her family to live in Australia on her grandfather’s dairy farm where she continued to find inspiration in nature and the isolation of outback Australia. Cindy resided in Australia from 1979 until 2013 when she moved to West Yorkshire in the United Kingdom along with her husband Stuart Wider (also an artist) and their two young daughters. Cindy is an internationally recognised art curriculum author with over 24 years of experience working in the art industry as a full-time professional artist and art educator. Cindy is the author of the CPD Accredited ‘Complete Drawing Certificate Course' and creator of the 'Cindy Wider Method'; a unique method of rapidly learning to draw by refining skills that most people already possess. She is also the author of the five books; ‘Paint In Your Pyjamas’, ’12 Coloured Pencil Techniques’, ‘12 Charcoal Techniques’, ‘Six Pencil Techniques’ and ‘Action Painting Workshop’. Cindy and husband Stuart owned and operated the largest privately owned ongoing art school on the Queensland Sunshine Coast, Australia where Cindy taught her unique methods to 80 people a week for four years prior to moving into internet-based art education. At that point Cindy began training certified instructors who now present the ‘Cindy Wider Method’ both on-line and in live classes around the world. Her work is also now being actively translated into other languages so that it can reach a much wider international audience. Also an award winning artist, Cindy has been gallery represented for many years, has sold hundreds of artworks, licensed her designs and had her artworks published in magazines and newspapers. She has been commissioned to create many artworks both for private individuals and high profile businesses such as Microsoft. As a passionate art educator Cindy is devoted to sharing her love and knowledge of art with her students and the world.