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Ann's Colored Pencil News & Stuff!

Fear, Baby Steps and a Guide to Pushing On Anyway

  • Ann Kullberg
  • Aug 12, 2015
  • 3 Comments
PLEASE NOTE: This article was written in 2001. Many things have changed, but I hope the article is still useful to you. Download this article: https://sowl.co/5Y1bC Fear, Baby Steps and a Guide to Pushing On Anyway A small, pale drawing of a subject I no longer remember, drawn in a medium I’d never heard of, that years ago I saw... View more

The whole truth and nothing but...

  • Ann Kullberg
  • Aug 12, 2015
  • 9 Comments
After yesterday's Facebook hurricane over Sally Ford/Robertson getting a "trademark" on the phrase colored pencil, I went to bed feeling incredibly grateful to the hundreds of supporters who leapt to my defense. But there was a little nagging unease deep inside, too… The truth is that I am not entirely blameless. So, in pursuit of a conscience as clear as... View more

Plastic wrap & colored pencil?

  • Ann Kullberg
  • May 26, 2015
  • 0 Comments
If you've been at colored pencil for a while, you might think you know just about all there is to know about colored pencil, but someone is always coming up with someone new! Click on the image below to read an excerpt from our book, CP Treasures, Volume III -  35% Off now through May 31st! Want to read more?... View more

For my Super Workshops (5-days, limited to 5 students) I require students send me their reference photos and line drawings about a month before the workshop begins. I become Mean & Picky Ann at this point, and won't let them transfer their tracing onto their drawing paper until I'm completely happy with their tracing. When it comes to portraits, you can not be careful enough with your line drawing (tracing) and if you rush this step and trace inaccurately, all is pretty much lost from the start. 

Safe Tracing Practices

  • Ann Kullberg
  • Mar 30, 2015
  • 4 Comments
For my Super Workshops (5-days, limited to 5 students) I require students send me their reference photos and line drawings about a month before the workshop begins. I become Mean & Picky Ann at this point, and won't let them transfer their tracing onto their drawing paper until I'm completely happy with their tracing. When it comes to portraits, you... View more
About 2 years ago, North Light books contacted me about a copyright infringement. An illustrator had copied two drawings from my Colored Pencil Portraits book.  The illustrator had made minor changes (hair color) but it was clearly copyright infringement. The drawings were included in a children's book by a small publishing company.  Even though the publishers themselves were completely ignorant of the illustrator's copyright infringement,

COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT: It's a serious offense...

  • Ann Kullberg
  • Dec 02, 2014
  • 4 Comments
A Shock After 2 years in retirement, we brought our wonderful GLU-it TO-it widget back in stock. A couple days after putting it online, I checked Google to see if they'd already picked up the image from my website. They had!  (Google is some kind of magic, isn't it?) To my shock,  I also discovered that my image of the... View more

YIKES! That's a heck of a price hike??!!

  • Ann Kullberg
  • Dec 01, 2014
  • 0 Comments
I received the following perfectly understandable email this morning: Hi Ann,  The jump in the digital price of a magazine was a little under 25%.  That is quite a lot.  As a senior on a fixed income, that's a significant increase for me.  As you know, I've been a regular buyer but I am not sure if I will continue... View more
I know the price for all 3 webinars is fairly high. Each one is pretty much a stand-alone course, though. Taking just Webinar 3, if you're familiar with my portrait book, would be very helpful. It really does include video that shows much more than you can possibly see in an in-person workshop because the camera is so close and unobstructed.  I have a fair amount of costs involved: equipment, software, assistants and I personally have put in over 200 hours of work in planning, filming, organizing, writing and editing just Webinar 3!X

Why are the Webinars expensive?

  • Ann Kullberg
  • Aug 09, 2014
  • 2 Comments
Someone emailed me saying my webinars were too expensive and that I'd sell many more if they were cheaper. My latest LIVE Webinar is priced at $44.99.  Although It's a live webinar, it also includes a DVD shipped to you, a PDF that includes the photo reference for the portrait project, a line drawing to trace, 28 step by steps,... View more

My first love is teaching

  • Ann Kullberg
  • Mar 13, 2014
  • 3 Comments
I had a horrible sinus infection and to make things even more interesting, the stomach flu too on the first day of the first colored pencil workshop I ever taught, about 20 years ago. I couldn’t cancel the workshop, because I couldn’t refund money I’d long ago applied to an electric bill or kid’s school shoes. I had to ride... View more