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Coloured pencil
Colored Pencil Urban Sketching
Color without water: layering and pressure, mixing by glazing, light and shadow with complementaries, staying quick, watercolor pencils on the go.
6 Modules · about 115 min
- 1Coloured pencils outdoors: choosing pencils and paperYou'll learn which coloured pencils and which paper really work outdoors – and why twelve pencils without black are plenty.15 min
- 2Layers and Pressure: Start LightYou'll learn how to build up coloured-pencil areas in several light layers, choose your stroke direction deliberately, and keep the white of the paper as your light source.20 min
- 3Mixing Colour Through GlazingYou'll learn how to mix directly on the paper with just a few coloured pencils – from light to dark, using complementaries for greys and browns.20 min
- 4Light and Shadow: Complementaries Instead of BlackYou'll learn to build shadows from local colour, complementary colour and blue, rather than darkening them with black or grey.20 min
- 5Staying fast: crop, time, leaving things outYou'll learn how a small format, a tight crop and a fixed schedule get you to a finished coloured-pencil sketch in 20 to 25 minutes.20 min
- 6Watercolour pencils: draw dry, blend wetYou'll learn how to hatch dry with watercolour pencils and then dissolve the colour with water in a targeted way, without your sketch turning into a uniform mush.20 min
Pictures from the courses
These pictures were made in painting courses with children. All painted by hand, none on a computer. Click to enlarge.
Published with the kind permission of the young painters.