Modern Colored Pencil: A playful and contemporary exploration of colored pencil drawing – Includes 75+ Projects and Techniques (Modern Series
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.
Net Galley Book review
This is a great book and tool for beginner pencil colors or someone that has been doing it a long time. Its filled with tips and technique and a color wheel that we all can use. This book is so much fun just reading and working my way through the examples -that anyone who likes to color and want to learn more would want this book. Lisa
