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Ann's Colored Pencil News & Stuff!

Renaissance Man

  • Ann Kullberg
  • Mar 27, 2018
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by David Hoque I’ve been asked to write this column from the perspective of the magazine’s first retired military veteran and now colored pencil fine artist. Me and members of my unit preparing for pre-jump inspection. Stuttgart, Germany 1993. I was born into a military family in Monterey, California and lived all over the country for the next 20 years. As... View more

Living my Dream - How I became a Colored Pencil Art Teacher

  • Ann Kullberg
  • Mar 07, 2018
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by Noriko DeWitt “You’d be a great art teacher!” That’s what my husband used to tell me when we first got together. I laughed, thinking he was joking, since I had no art degree or professional art experience. Little did I know that prediction would come true years later. I found my calling teaching colored pencil art. Here’s how it all began.... View more

The Pencil Box - Featured Artists - March 2018

  • Ann Kullberg
  • Feb 28, 2018
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March 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 your... View more

March 2018 Showcase - Colored Pencil Artwork

  • Ann Kullberg
  • Feb 28, 2018
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The three artists featured in the March 2018 issue of COLOR Magazine Showcase submitted stories about their artwork for our blog. Read below about their inspiration for each of these interesting animal subjects. Having a Nap by Silke Kirch8" x 11"Image used with permissionPan Pastels, Polychromos, Luminance, Pablos and Pitt pastel pencils on Pastelmat I drew this piece for my husband's cousin, aunt... View more

The Day I Started Drawing Again

  • Ann Kullberg
  • Feb 02, 2018
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by Kurt Grünsteidel Stromboli, 32x25 cm When I look back on my childhood, I can remember one thing: I was drawing, I was drawing all the time! It started when I was about 5 years old. One day I got this comic book with Donald Duck stories. I couldn’t read at that time, but I could watch the pictures. Although I was... View more

The Pencil Box - Featured Artists - February 2018

  • Ann Kullberg
  • Jan 29, 2018
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February 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 your... View more

February 2018 Showcase - Colored Pencil Artwork

  • Ann Kullberg
  • Jan 29, 2018
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The three artists featured in the February 2018 issue of COLOR Magazine Showcase submitted stories about their artwork for our blog. Read below about their inspiration for each of these interesting animal subjects. The Nest by Elena Kolotusha18" x 14" Original design/concept, drawn from life, or en plein airPrismacolor and pastel on Mi-Teintes Tex. Slightly surreal and playful still life depicting pile of... View more

An Avian Miscellany in Colored Pencil

  • Ann Kullberg
  • Jan 24, 2018
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Queen Victoria, after the portrait by Winterhalter, 1842. 29cm x 42cm approx These pieces are part of a large (and growing) collection of anthropomorphic historical portraits. The word anthropomorphic simply means attributing human qualities to non-human subjects; be it animals, forces of nature, plants or insects, and has a long history which continues to the present day in Spider-Man and... View more