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| Drawing and Painting with Colored Pencil: Basic Techniques for Mastering Traditional and Watersoluble Colored Pencils | 
 enlarge | Author: Kristy Kutch
Publisher: Watson-Guptill
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (7 reviews)
Sales Rank: 308278
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 144
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 10.8 x 8.4 x 0.5
ISBN: 0823015688
Dewey Decimal Number: 741.24
EAN: 9780823015689
ASIN: 0823015688
Publication Date: August 1, 2005
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Product Description
They have always been great for drawing, and now coloured pencils perfect for painting, too. They are convenient, neat, portable, economical, and forgiving. Today's pencils come in amazing new water-soluble versions, they are even more ideal for beginning artists. Simply start drawing with a coloured pencil, and then add water to create a painting. It's amazing - and amazingly easy. DRAWING AND PAINTING WITH COLORED PENCILS starts building the reader's confidence by building basic drawing skills using simple subject matter. It proceeds to cover traditional coloured pencil techniques as well as tips on mastering the new water-soluble coloured pencils. From basic colour layering, burnishing, and lifting, to using water-soluble pencils to create beautiful floral and still life paintings, this book is full of great ideas and step-by-step inspiration.
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Great for beginners December 31, 2008
This is a good book and it does show you a lot of information for beginners and includes water-soluble colored pencils (watercolor pencils). It's one of the "old-school" CP books and it's quite useful. The only think I don't like is that you can see the paper on some of the demos, I personally prefer lay down several layers very light and with a sharp point in order to make sure my transparent layering is good coverage but that's a personal thing. If you aren't a stickler for that, you'll love the book.
 Great instruction and inspiring tips! March 21, 2007
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
This is one of the "keepers". Kristy has done an excellent job here in not only instruction, but in very informative tips and techniques. Saves the new artist allot of time in getting right to the point and avoiding common mistakes. Kristy's book is highly recommended and I'd have given it more than 5 stars if I could have!
Drawing And Painting With Colored Pencil November 6, 2006
5 out of 10 found this review helpful
Drawing And Painting With Colored Pencilery good reference book, I was very happy
 A Waste of money and time August 23, 2006
6 out of 29 found this review helpful
There are many other books available on this subject and they are all better than this one. There is nothing to be gained from reading this book. Forget it!
Stunning Examples June 28, 2006
31 out of 31 found this review helpful
The illustrations for the techniques are Kutch's own colored pencil artwork. Her flowers are stunning and if I ever achieve a drawing on the level of her poppies or the morning glories, I'll be very happy.
Unfortunately, I struggled with some of the directions, bogging down over the art terms and special tools that I don't yet have. I think I'd benefit from rereading this book after I experiment more and stock in some of the supplies (special papers, ball burnisher, citrus thinner, etc.).
The techniques are shown in 5 or 6 steps with the illustration progressing as she describes the colors used. Most of the examples are flowers or fruit, but a few landscapes round it out.
The first 49 pages deal with regular colored pencils, then the rest of the book goes on to watercolor pencils and the techniques for those.
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