An excellent guide for all aspiring art students with a particular preference to colored pencils as their...

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	• Exploring Colored Pencil Sandra Angelo Sterling, 2000 - 160 pages average customer review:based on 9 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Not for the Beginner

If you want step-by-step instructions don't buy this book. While the blurb on the back touts "step-by-step demonstrations" they are a very small part of the book and have very few steps. If you are looking for something vague like "inspiration" then this book might interest you. It does have lots of pictures done both by students and professionals in a variety of styles. But if you want help with what kind of pencils to buy don't look here. There is a general discussion of pencil types (hard, soft, etc.) but no concrete examples of which is which. You are just told that price indicates quality. Paper/board selection is also vague.

If you already know a lot about colored pencil then you might enjoy this book, but don't expect a lot of help with the basics.

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An excellent guide for all aspiring art students with a particular preference to colored pencils as their medium of expression

Exploring Colored Pencil by Sandra McFall Angelo by Sandra McFall Angelo is a thoroughly "user-friendly" instructional guide to creating the most intricate, vivid and realistic visual art with colored pencils. Introducing the reader to experienced techniques with step-by-step demonstrations, methods for creating realistic textures, combining colored pencils with a range of media, exercises for beginner, intermediate, and advanced art students, colorful works illustrating diverse styles and applications, drawings by professionals and students of all ages, and many suggestions that will help the reader develop their own style, Exploring Colored Pencil is an excellent guide for all aspiring art students with a particular preference to colored pencils as their medium of expression.

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Best book on the colored pencil

Hands down the best colored pencil book I've seen. I have over ten books on this topic including ones from Bet Borgeson and Janie Gildow and this is the best. In depth information is given on the history of this artform, practical considerations and technique. Throughout the book, inspiring works of art with colored pencil are displayed. This book is sure to enthuse the reader whether they are a beginner or advanced artist.

One-of-a-Kind!

Exploring Colored Pencil is a unique and beautifully illustrated book. For those who have never been exposed to this medium, you will be amazed at the life-like drawings and incredible detail that can be achieved with colored pencils. Exploring Colored Pencil is truly a work of art and is jam-packed with history, techniques, illustrations and exercises for beginner(me), intermediate and advanced students. I learned how to blend colors and use different techniques and loved how the book was laid out in an easy to follow format.This book is a keeper.

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Very comprehensive, easy to follow

This book covers the full gamut... from 8 different techniques to specific subjects like drawing animals, landscapes, still life and people. My favorite section is the one on faces where she gives detailed drawings that you can copy.

The quality of the art is breathtaking and there are so many different styles represented from artists of all ages.

It's neat that each chapter has lessons for various levels, beginners, intermediate and advanced students. I found the step by step illustrations and instructions very easy to follow.

This is a good follow up to her other books, Colored Pencil Drawing and So You Thought You Couldn't Draw. This books takes me to a whole new level.

I'd like to find the colored pencil videos that she mentions. I'm going to see if Amazon.com carries them.

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The sumptuous tones of colored pencil are surpassed only by their astounding versatility and simplicity. Filled with inspiring pictures, this lively manual covers methods, materials, blending colors, design techniques, composition, perspective, and drawing animals, humans, the great outdoors, still lifes, and more. ?For all levels.... Students will...be rewarded with a rich array of ideas and styles.??Library Journal.

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