Hello Fellow Artist! 🎨 👉 Just a quick update on the progress of Falco, the German Shepherd memorial pet portrait 💙 I’m learning a lot with this pet portrait!👏 I can see why pet portrait artists love using Drafting Film ✍️ ❀ What I’m Liking About Drafting Film: I’m blending shavings of colored pencil on …
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Hello Fellow Artist! 🎨 When it comes to colored pencil artwork.. ✔︎ Choosing the right drawing surface plays a crucial role in the final outcome. One surface that has gained popularity among artists is Drafting Film by Grafix. 👉 In this blog post, we will explore the pros and cons of using drafting film as …
Hello Fellow Artists! 🌻 👩🏻🎨 Wow! What a memorable and wonderful week at the 30th Annual International CPSA Exhibit and Convention. The big news is that our own Tracy Frein from Chicago won the Best of Show and the CIPPY Award! Yay Tracy! Below is a photo of me accepting the award for Tracy; unfortunately, he could not be at the …
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 …
Hello Fellow Artists! 🌻 👩🏻🎨 I hope your July 4th Holiday was safe and fun! I’m just now catching up and back at the drawing board! Yay! 🤗 I recently surveyed all my email subscribers, it was the best thing to do! I now see what everybody is having challenges with regarding colored pencils. And …
🎨 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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🎨 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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🌟 The most important rule in colored pencil art…Keep your pencils sharp! There are only a few times when you won’t want your colored pencil too sharp- if you’re burnishing or pressing really hard to blend the layers or filling in the background and you just want to get pigment on the paper. I like …
