Pet portrait Dog Molly's Fine Art, watercolor and colored pencils tips and tutorials

How Do I Make My Drawings Look Realistic? Use this ONE Technique

That’s the million-dollar question I get all the time! You can get realistic drawings and paintings with this ONE technique! Hello Fellow Artists! 🎨 Sometimes I feel like a broken record when I answer this question because the answer solves many other challenges with any artwork, such as colored pencils and watercolors. Which means I’m always repeating …

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How To Choose The Right Color Palette For Your Artwork 🎨

I don’t know about you, but when I start a new project, I could spend half my day choosing colors! Especially if it’s a pet portrait commission that depends on the subject’s likeness. Picking a color palette for your next project can be daunting! Selecting colors requires observation and understanding of the color tones and shades. Here …

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Colored Pencil Society of America

Hello Fellow Artists! 🌻 👩🏻‍🎨 I hope you’re all having a wonderful summer and are enjoying the great(Hot)weather!  I’m headed off to Florida this week for the 30th Annual International Colored Pencil Society of America’s Exhibit & Convention. (I know! That was a mouthful! 🤓 Ha Ha!)  I’m the newly elected Chicago Chapter President, so it’s my …

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Free Polychromos Colored Pencil Swatches Download

🎨 Hello Fellow Artists! I found a cool thing on Faber Castell’s website; blank Polychromos color charts for making swatches! Spring is on its way and you know what that means right? Organizing your art supplies! Part of my little clean-up this Spring is re-doing my pencil color swatches. My old Polychromos pencil swatches were …

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How to Speed Up Colored Pencil Drawings; Colored Pencil Technique

🎨 Hello Fellow Artists! I don’t know about you but sometimes colored pencils really test my patience. 🙄 It’s a slow medium I know, and that’s one of the reasons I love them so much; colored pencils are super relaxing and therapeutic to draw with. But sometimes I’ve got a commission to finish and I’m …

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