Painting Light With Colored Pencil

by Cecile Baird

Give your colored pencil paintings that extra glow!

Capture the qualities and textures of light! Create the light-filled quality of oil painting with the ease of colored pencils--one of the safest, most convenient and easy-to-use mediums available to artists today. Whether you're a beginner or a more experienced artist, your colored pencil paintings will take on new life with the guidance of author Cecile Baird. Using her simple burnishing technique, Baird will show you how to transform an ordinary colored pencil painting into a light-filled masterpiece.

Capturing light is one of painting's most common quests--no matter what your medium of choice is. Cecile Baird, a signature member of the Colored Pencil Society of America, provides 20 easy step-by-step demonstrations that show you how to create beautiful luminescent paintings with colored pencil on a wide variety of subjects, such as fruit, flowers, water, light, and glass.

Put your skills to work in two extended demonstrations that lead you through the painting process from start to finish to create your own refined, detailed paintings. Start creating your own realistic, light-filled paintings using colored pencils today!

Genres: Art, Nonfiction

128 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2005

Reviews

[Shweta · Rating 3 out of 5]

Another one of the colored pencils book that has limited information about the basic tools and techniques and more step-by-step projects, which isn;t necessarily a bad thing. But all the project instructions are given in Prismacolor premier colors, since the author uses them exclusively. In other words, its harder to follow the instructions unless you have specific set of pencils or know which colors maps to what in the set that you might have. I much enjoy the books that talk about using Warm or cool red or yellow etc. Projects are great in terms of insights it gives in achieving different textures but are complex and not very beginner friendly. I didn't hate the book, but it left a lot to be desired in terms of following any of the tutorials to finished works.

[Ietrio · Rating 1 out of 5]

The book is small: some pages over 100. Yet quite a lot of space is wasted with generic photos. Than composition and all the fluff uninspired authors throw in to make the requested number of pages. And the wording is also unfortunate, as, again, pointing to a need to fill up the pages. And "since I only use..." so it's just an ego trip and not an educational book. And I don't care about the author's favorite brand and how many shades they have in their portfolio. This is either an advertisment or the author is THAT amateurish.

[Jbgreendawn · Rating 5 out of 5]

for anyone who loves to color with prisma pencils this books is A++ :) found it in a M's.

[Leonie · Rating 3 out of 5]

See my brief review here: http://uuuinfinity.blogspot.com/2011/...

[Alyssa Greatbanks · Rating 2 out of 5]

Had some good information, but a lot of it wasn't very useful to me.