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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!
About the Author
Cecile Baird's work has won numerous national and international awards and has been published in The Artist's Magazine, International Artist and American Artist. Cecile is a signature member of the Colored Pencil Society of America.
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Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover
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good information on innovative techniques, Jun 12 2005
By book junkie "book junkie" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Painting Light with Colored Pencil (Hardcover)
I did enjoy the book and found it to be informative with good information of her wonderful and innovative techniques. I would have liked more definative instuctions on how "Shades of Green" was done, not just a small section on rendering Kiwi fruit. The beginning 50 or so pages were on information commonly found in any CP book and therefore of little value to me and perhaps to others who have a library of books already. But if you are a beginner with no books it would be of value to you.
53 of 54 people found the following review helpful
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fellow artist's view, Jun 7 2005
By Ann - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Painting Light with Colored Pencil (Hardcover)
I'm not a beginner, but I think an artist on any level of experience and using almost any medium could benefit from this book. It's a jewel, and the emphasis on capturing light is inspiring. Cecile Baird generously shares her wonderful technique, as well as every aspect of creating a painting. Great presentation, valuable tool!There are numerous demos covering many textures. While time constraints have prevented my trying all of them at this time, I've found the ones I have done easy to understand and follow.
Information and insights......that's what I wanted, and that's what I got!!
42 of 42 people found the following review helpful
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Making it real--one artist's technique with colored pencils, Oct 11 2006
By Joanna Daneman - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Painting Light with Colored Pencil (Hardcover)
This book is of somewhat limited use if you have anything other than ultra-realism on your mind. But having said that, Cecile Baird presents a flawless technique with colored pencils that will have your jaw dropping at her gorgeous work. This book is inspiring and there is plenty of eye-candy here to admire.There are many demonstrations of example paintings, and some are quite stunning; water spilled on a tile counter, a bubbling, spurting fountain, translucent honeydew melon and kiwi, glistening shells, smooth crockery. Each texture is discussed and the technique of blending with a colorless pencil or with solvent is explained.
There is also a section on how to photograph your subjects (assuming you do still life a lot, which this artist favors as her subject matter.) There is a good discussion on how many pencils to buy (hint; start with the largest assortment you can find, 72 or more) --and she lists what colors of one particular brand she chooses for each demonstration. The materials needed such as stumps for blending, solvent, etc are covered well in the text.
The demonstrations are not as complete as a beginner would need, but a good artist can follow her progress from sketch to final work. Likewise, excellent draughtsmanship is required for this technique. If you do naif works, cartoons, abstracts, or other non-realistic, stylized techniques, this book is of limited value.
Therefore, I recommend this to people who want to work from photographs and obtain beautiful realistic results with colored penci.
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