Modern Colored Pencil by Chelsea Ward

Published: November 5, 2019
Genres: Arts

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Description:

Learn to use colored pencils and watercolor pencils to create vibrant, exciting works of art!

Modern Colored Pencil delves into all the basic techniques and concepts required to create fresh, colorful works of colored pencil art. Talented artist Chelsea Ward takes you on a lively, easy-to-follow exploration of colored pencils in this book, which is packed with creative exercises and projects designed to show you how to work with the versatile, approachable colored pencil medium.

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. 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.

Review:

Thank you to NetGalley for the Advanced Reader's Copy of this book. I received this in exchange for my honest review. One thing that really stood out to me was the "how to care for your colored pencils". For some reason a lot of teaching books skip this step. With artist supplies I feel like this is very important. I mean you do spend a lot of money on artist supplies so it is really important to know how to care for them. So many different techniques are included and I really loved the suggestion of what colors to use for shadows. As a colored pencil artist, it took me far too long to figure this out. A lot of older books didn't include this. this was by far one of the best "how to" books I have ever read.