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| Creative Colored Pencil Workshop: Exercises for Combining Colored Pencils with Your Favorite Mediums | 
 enlarge | Authors: Carlynne Hershberger, Kelli Money Huff
Publisher: North Light Books
Category: Book
List Price: $29.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 348874
Media: Spiral-bound
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 144
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.1
Dimensions (in): 11.1 x 9.3 x 1
ISBN: 1581808186
Dewey Decimal Number: 741.24
EAN: 9781581808186
ASIN: 1581808186
Publication Date: April 26, 2007
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Condition: Brand new, may have remainder mark or slight shelfware
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Product Description
Take Your Colored Pencils Out of the Box . . . and Combine the Best of All Mediums! Creative Colored Pencil Workshop is your guide to exploring a new world of artistic possibilities. Following clear, step-by-step demonstrations, you'll try your hand at a range of exciting techniques that blend colored pencils with all kinds of dynamic mediums, including: - Watercolor
- Gouache
- Acrylics
- Ink
- Graphite
- Oil pastels
- Metal leaf
More than 25 fun projects show you how to use each medium successfully, while offering in-depth guidance for working with various papers, textures and surfaces. Best of all, this book features the insightful instruction of two accomplished artists who offer different yet effective approaches to colored pencil creations. From highly realistic art to more abstract representations, you'll learn how each medium and technique can accommodate virtually any artistic style or subject. Creative Colored Pencil Workshop gives you the best of both worlds: the fluid spontaneity and speed of mixed media and the control and precision of colored pencils. Mix it up, and see what happens!
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 excellent instruction guide November 18, 2008
This instructional book on colored pencil techniques provides artists with enough indepth information to create the colorful burnished drawings or adapt colored pencils into a variety of mixed media works.
Combining colored pencils with other mediums July 24, 2008
Was Creative Colored Pencil Workshop a good workshop? Absolutely. Hershberger and Huff state the purpose of their book is to teach more people how to combine colored pencil with other mediums and to encourage experimentation. From my perspective they were successful. I've had great fun experimenting; I was pleasantly surprised at the use of acrylics with color pencil--love it! This book gave me the push I needed to see more artistic possibilities.
In a fun, friendly, easy to follow style, the book provides exercises that artists at varying levels will find beneficial. It provides a great introduction to nine mediums in addition to demonstrating the combination of colored pencil with those mediums. The beautifully designed, colorful book is full of tips and techniques. The Surfaces chapter is a nice overview whether you are using colored pencils or another medium.
If you love your pencils because of the fine detail and realism achieved but wish you knew a way to speed things along and still get those beautiful results, give Creative Colored Pencil Workshop a try--all possibilities exist in the unknown!
 It is okay August 3, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
It is okay. It has a lot in it but it has not given me what I wanted. I like the way Ann Kullberg illustrates her books. She doesn't have mixed media but with colored pencil in itself she makes it very visible in what to do. This book is a good book but not as exciting as some others.
 Entering a competitive field August 2, 2007
15 out of 15 found this review helpful
I was disappointed in this book for two reasons. Firstly the mixed media exercises use other mediums more as underpainting than as combinations with colored pencil to create new effects. By comparison, see Mary Todd Beam's demonstrations with colored pencil in mixed media in "Celebrate Your Creative Self." The results from Hershberger and Huff still look like colored pencil, not mixed media. In my view, this means it misses out as a mixed media book. How does it fare, then, as a colored pencil book?
I find the end results of the exercises in this book rather flat compared to works by established colored pencil artists, and this is my second reason. The book begins with some promising ideas, but adding other mediums should enhance, not muddy the result as I feel they do here.
The colored pencial medium has burgeoned into an extremely professional field in the last ten years or so, and this makes it a highly competitive market where new publications are concerned. The authors of this book have hard acts to follow, and this inevitably affects any assessment of its merits. The competition includes artist/instructors like Cecile Baird, Bet Borgeson and particularly Ann Kullberg, arguably the best of all colored pencil artists.
In fact, on Kullberg's website, even unsuccessful entries in her 2007 juried competition have a "zing' that is somehow missing in the illustrations in this book. The explanation that clarity is inevitably lost in simplifying the step-by-step lessons may be fair enough, but I suggest you compare these instructions with those on the Kullberg website. Although using colored pencil alone, Kulberg's exercises nevertheless achieve radiant, light-filled results.
Perhaps minor quibbles, but the exercises are not numbered (for easy reference) and the number is incorrectly given as 52 in the subtitle on the cover.
'Creative Colored Pencil Workshop'is beautifully bound and the authors undoubtedly convey a passion for their medium, but I find that the book comes nowhere near the high standard of books by the artist/authors mentioned above. For the higher price, I really expected something more.
Beautiful Illustrations May 25, 2007
12 out of 13 found this review helpful
Beautiful paintings by the authors and other artists strike a nice balance between a how-to book and a must-have for sheer enjoyment. I uploaded two images so you could see into the book.
Herschberger and Huff share their expertise on an expansive range of materials making this an excellent entry point for beginners and great fun for experimental artists. In one demonstration, or technically two I guess, they both paint from the same reference photo, but make entirely different painting choices. Witty humor highlights their rapport as the two artists work together and play off one another.
I particularly liked the silver leaf demonstration and how it was used in a realistic, not decorative, painting. Can't wait to try that!
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