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November 2018 Showcase - Colored Pencil Artwork

The three artists featured in the November 2018 issue of COLOR Magazine Showcase submitted stories about their artwork for our blog. Read below about their inspiration for each of these beautiful works of art. The Vanishing Vulture by Debbi Hide15 x 11 inches Prismacolor, Prismacolor Verithin and Polychromos on Pastelmat(Artist’s own photo) This is one of a series of colored... View more

My Colored Pencil Journey

by Peter Nelson The Four Jolly Old Men of Lydford - Fred, Harry, George & Henry. Thank you dad for your boyish character. People ask when I started art. I was always good as I can remember and loved drawing, with early successes, qualifications and worked as an engineering draughtsman. In 1986 I started watercolor painting, finally taking up colored... View more

Pushed Back Into Art

by Elinor Jolly "Tali" 10" x 9" colored pencil drawing of a collie, my first colored pencil commission. For as long as I can remember as a child I was always drawing, even during a stay in hospital whilst on traction when I was five years old I was constantly drawing and coloring until one day the hospital staff asked my mother... View more

The Pencil Box - Featured Artists - October 2018

October 2018 Featured Artists. Corresponding with the art gallery that is featured each month in Ann Kullberg's COLOR Magazine, The Pencil Box blog series will give artists a bit more space to share insight and inspiration about their colored pencil art. Make sure to check out links at the bottom of this post for our Facebook group partners - join in the fun and... View more

October 2018 Showcase - Colored Pencil Artwork

The three artists featured in the October 2018 issue of COLOR Magazine Showcase submitted stories about their artwork for our blog. Read below about their inspiration for each of these colorful subjects.   Clowning Around by Kylie Carney9.5 x 14 inchesFabriano Artistico paper, and various colored pencils (Faber Castell Polychromos, Pablos, Luminance, Polychromos, Holbein)(Photo from Pixabay) My usual subjects are food and flowers, but I... View more

Learning to Embrace the Creative

by Emma Kerridge A selection of work used to raise money for the wildlife garden I have drawn for as long as I can remember. I have also always loved stationary and can remember promising my Mum that I really needed that extra pencil or pen because I didn’t have one exactly like that in my ever-growing collection. Well, we’ve all... View more

The Dreaded Becomes My Passion

by Cheryl Caro Wood Elf  15" x 19" - The COLORED PENCIL Magazine Monthly Challenge that was the turning point of my colored pencil art. I would say that I am your typical artist who started drawing at a very early age. My interest was and always has been drawing animals. I began drawing from newspaper comic strips, and as... View more

The Pencil Box - Featured Artists - September 2018

September 2018 Featured Artists. Corresponding with the art gallery that is featured each month in Ann Kullberg's COLOR Magazine, The Pencil Box blog series will give artists a bit more space to share insight and inspiration about their colored pencil art. Make sure to check out links at the bottom of this post for our Facebook group partners - join in the fun and... View more