Experimenting with Colored Pencil- Experimentation Sparks Creativity

• Experimenting with Colored Pencil is a comprehensive 10-week, self-paced online course designed to help you explore what colored pencil can really do.Through a series of nature-inspired studies and finished compositions learn techniques for blending, using solvents, mixing color, creating three-dimensional form, rendering texture and shine, capturing iridescence, developing compositions, building backgrounds and working in layers.

  But this course is about more than completing projects.

  Each subject gives you an opportunity to experiment with a different challenge in colored pencil and understand why a technique works. The goal is to give you skills you can take beyond the demonstrations and apply to your own artwork.

  Explore everything from the smooth curves of a red pepper and the glistening surface of a frog’s eye to the brilliant blues of a Morpho butterfly, the delicate structure of feathers, the reflective surface of an iridescent beetle and the complexity of a Hummingbird and Heliconia composition.

  Learn the Technique. Understand the Process. Make It Your Own.

  You’ll learn to:

  • Use solvents and blending techniques effectively
  • Build rich color through layering and color mixing
  • Use light and value to create convincing three-dimensional form
  • Render concave, convex and irregular surfaces
  • Create smooth, rough, shiny and highly textured surfaces
  • Capture luminosity and iridescence with colored pencil
  • Make thoughtful color choices rather than relying on prescribed formulas
  • Develop stronger compositions from reference material
  • Create backgrounds that support rather than overpower your subject
  • Build complex artwork in manageable layers
  • Add fine details and finishing touches
  • Apply what you’ve learned to your own colored pencil subjects

  Most importantly, you’ll be encouraged to experiment, observe and discover what happens when you give yourself permission to try something new.

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Cost: $189