Painting Light With Colored Pencil

by Cecile Baird

Capturing the elusive qualities of light is one of the most sought-after goals of artists in every medium, and Painting Light with Colored Pencil helps readers achieve that goal with: An overview of the basics of any work of art, such as composition, gathering reference material, value and colour; Over 20 step-by-step lessons covering a variety of popular subjects, including fruit, flowers, textures and water; Two extended demonstrations that show readers how to combine the individual lessons to create a refined, detailed painting; Through the techniques explained in this book, readers will learn how to unlock the potential of coloured pencils to create realistic, light-filled paintings that glow.

Genres: Art, Nonfiction

128 pages, Hardcover

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.