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Drawing and Painting with Colored Pencil: Basic Techniques for Mastering Traditional and Watersoluble Colored Pencils
Drawing and Painting with Colored Pencil: Basic Techniques for Mastering Traditional and Watersoluble Colored Pencils
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Author: Kristy Kutch
Publisher: Watson-Guptill
Category: Book

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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars(6 reviews)
Sales Rank: 225304

Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
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
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days

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Editorial Reviews:

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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5 out of 5 stars Great instruction and inspiring tips!   March 21, 2007
  9 out of 9 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!


4 out of 5 stars 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


1 out of 5 stars A Waste of money and time   August 23, 2006
  5 out of 28 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!


4 out of 5 stars Stunning Examples   June 28, 2006
  30 out of 30 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.



4 out of 5 stars Be Advised it is much to do about Watersoluble Pencils....   March 23, 2006
  37 out of 37 found this review helpful

This is a wonderful book, don't get me wrong, however I expected it to relate more to colored pencils by themselves. The first section does, then it goes on to a much larger section on watersoluble pencils and the final section is devoted to using them in tandem. If you are interested in using them in tandem then by all means, this book should be on your shelf! The text is precise and easy to follow, the artwork is wonderful, to say the least.