Gary Greene - The Ultimate Guide to Colored Pencil: Over 35 step-by-step demonstrations for both traditional and watercolor pencils

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The Ultimate Guide to Colored Pencil. Copyright 2010 by Gary Greene. Manufactured in China. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means including information storage and retrieval systems without permission in writing from the publisher, except by a reviewer who may quote brief passages in a review. Published by North Light Books, an imprint of F+W Media, Inc., 4700 East Galbraith Road, Cincinnati, Ohio, 45236. (800) 289-0963. First Edition.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Greene, Gary.

The ultimate guide to colored pencil / Gary Greene. -- 1st ed.

p. cm.

ISBN 978-1-60061391-3 (hardcover : alk. paper)
1. Colored pencil drawing--Technique. I. Title.

NC892.G754 2010
741.2'4--dc22

Edited by Sarah Laichas and Kathy Kipp
Designed by Guy Kelly
Production coordinated by Mark Griffin

METRIC CONVERSION CHART

About the Author

Gary Greene has been working as a professional artist continuously since 1967. During his career, Gary has worked as a fine artist, instructor, author, photographer, art director, designer and illustrator. He is the founder and owner of GGArt, a business he began in 1984 and still successfully operates today. Gary graduated magna cum laude from the University of Hard Knocks.

Gary works in numerous mediums, both digital and traditional, but colored pencil has been his artistic passion since 1983. He is a pioneer in the use of water-soluble colored pencils as a mainline fine art medium and has developed or refined new techniques for colored pencil. Some of his paintings may require upwards of 500 hours to complete and when people see them they often exclaim, Thats colored pencil?

The Ultimate Guide to Colored Pencil is Gary's tenth North Light book. His first book, Creating Textures in Colored Pencil, sold many thousands of copies worldwide and was in print for more than twelve years. His other books dealing with colored pencil: Colored and Watercolor PencilNo Experience Required!, Capturing Radiant Flowers in Colored Pencil, and Painting with Water-Soluble Colored Pencils have also been bestsellers in their genre, enjoying long histories and international distribution. Gary originated the Artists Photo Reference book series and authored five titles on Flowers, Landscapes, Buildings& Barns, Boats & Nautical Scenes and Reflections, Textures & Backgrounds. Gary has also written articles for (among others) The Artists Magazine, American Artist and International Artist magazines.

Garys colored pencil art has won numerous national and international awards including the Colyer-Weston Art League National Art Merit Competition, The Artists Magazine National Art Competition, and three Colored Pencil Society of America (CPSA) Awards of Excellence. He has conducted workshops, demonstrations, and lectures in the United States, Canada and Asia since 1985. Visit Gary at his website, www.ggart.biz.

Dedication

For Gregg my proudest production (with a little help).

Acknowledgments

Thanks to my wife, Patti, for her help with the production of the color charts, and to Ester Roi for the assistance with her fabulous Icarus Drawing Board. A very special thank you to the indescribably gracious people at North Light Books, whose confidence in my work has imparted self-confidence.

table of CONTENTS

Brands and Types

Erasing

Color Charts

Paper

Solvents

Subject Material

Photo Anomalies

The Layout

Quick Demonstrations: Layering Burnishing Underpainting/

Water-Soluble Colored Pencil

Fixative

Burnishing
Demonstrations

Underpainting
Demonstrations

Water-Soluble Colored
Pencil Demonstrations

Combined Technique
Demonstrations

T he Ultimate Guide to Colored Pencil is my tenth book for North Light Books, the fifth on colored pencil. Although I try to avoid clichs, the only way to describe my nearly two-year journey in producing this book is that it has truly been a labor of love.