Creative Colored Pencil Workshop: 26 Exercises for Combining Colored Pencil With Your Favorite Mediums

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!

Carlynne Hersberger is a charter and signature member of the Colored Pencil Society of America and is past president of the Florida chapter. Her artwork has won numerous awards and has been seen in The Artist's Magazine, The Pastel Journal, American Artist's Drawing, and the North Light book Colored Pencil Explorations.

Kelli Money Huff has taught college courses in drawing, design, printmaking and painting. She is a national award winner and member of CPSA, past vice-president of the Florida chapter, and member of Florida Watercolor Society, National Watercolor Society and American Watercolor Society.