Colored Pencils

You are using

COLORED PENCILS not

map pencils!

Pencil Pressure1.Most beginning colored pencil artists use

light pressure which gives their artwork the look of a simple drawing. With any color of your choice, fill in the oval using light pressure.

2. Skilled colored pencil artists gradually increase pressure which gives their artwork the professional look of a painting. With any color of your choice, fill in the oval using heavy pressure.

BLENDING3. Colored Pencils are

transparent meaning that the color of one pencil applied under another will create a new, blended color.

In the rectangle belowgradually blend togetheryellow and blue coloredpencils. Start with lightpressure and graduallyincrease to heavypressure.

LAYERING

4. Painting with colored pencils requires the artist to layer color over and over again. A small set of colored pencils can be blended together to create hundreds of additional colors.

Burnishing5.Applying white,

gray or other light colors can result in burnishing.

Burnishing willcreate a milky,creamy effect andcannot be undone.

Wax Bloom

A waxy, filmy coating

will usually cover thick

colored pencil paintings.

Many colored pencil

artists will spray their

work with a varnish to

stop wax bloom.

Brands of Colored Pencils

Crayola

Derwent

Prismacolor

Prismacolor Verathin

EXERCISES

• 30 Colored Pencil Blends

• Blended Colored Pencil Value Scale

Colored Pencil Sphere

Colored Pencil Fish

• Colored Pencil, Patterned Shoe

Colored Pencils are a highly versatile and quality media preferred by many artists.