Ann's Colored Pencil News & Stuff!

Art in the Big House

by Alison Philpott All my life I’ve had an artist’s heart. No matter what was going on in life I have escaped to the solitude and peace of my drawing. A few years ago the time was right to expand my horizons and I wanted to start giving back using my art. That’s when I was introduced to a medium security... View more

Finding Inspiration

by Barbara Dahlstedt Made in America, 19.5 x 29 inches, Prismacolor on Fawn Stonehenge paper. This is my 26th year teaching high school art. I figured out that I have touched the lives of about 4,000 teenagers! I’ve helped most them with drawing their own face or their friends and family. Anyone who knows me knows that I love drawing faces.... View more

April 2018 Showcase - Colored Pencil Artwork

The three artists featured in the April 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. Vision Of Wisdom by Rhishabh Kumar9.4 x 12.6 inches Prismacolor and Faber-Castell Polychromos on Canson Mi-Teintes earth toned paperCopyright free, Creative Commons, or Public Domain (https://pixabay.com/) This artwork is one... View more

The Pencil Box - Featured Artists - April 2018

April 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

Renaissance Man

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

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

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

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