Live & Online Colored Pencil Workshop Listings

Online Colored Pencil Workshops

Learn from the comfort of your own home!
Whether you want to better understand color, improve your colored pencil portraits, or are a beginner eager to speed up your learning curve - we have an online colored pencil webinar for YOU!

"The digital Zoom workshop was, in my opinion, great, even advantageous. We received the same great instruction from Ann Kullberg that I envisioned. I learned so much about creating skin tones and the details of making eyes come to life! It was so totally worth the the time and effort invested."

- Melodie L., Tier 2 Portraits Workshop with Ann

"The workshop transformed my two regular days in two rich and passionate days. Because Ann is passionate and generous so her teaching has such a fresh style that I am thinking to take it again."

- Alessandra T., Tier 1 Online Workshop with Ann

Upcoming Online Workshops

Mastering Colors Webinar #4 - Embrace All the Brands

When: August 16 (8:00 am - 12:00 pm Pacific Time)
Instructor: Amy Lindenberger
Cost: $45 Only 2 spots left!

About the class: You’re starting to get comfortable with Amy’s 12-color palette system of color mixing, but now you ask: what about all of the OTHER pencils I own? Can I ever use them, and how do they fit into this system? In this webinar Amy will explain Part III of her Colors Workbook: HOW and WHY to learn to categorize your other pencils, how they relate to your 12-color palette, and how to make the best use of them in your drawings.

• Limited to 35 Students

Intro to Scratchboard with Scott Krohn

When: August 20 (8:00 am - 9:30 am Pacific Time)
Instructor: Scott Krohn
Cost: $35 Only 3 spots left!

About the class: Looking for something new and dramatic? Try colored pencil with scratchboard! Scott is an award-winning nature artist, a master of both scratchboard and colored pencils, and in this introductory class, you'll be learning the many possibilities scratchboard has to offer, and the range of possibilities it has when combined with colored pencils. Scott will give you a complete overview and demonstration of the tools and techniques used to create marks, values and textures with scratchboard. Then he'll show you how take it all one step further with the addition of colored pencils.

• Limited to 45 Students

Feathers on Film! with Michiyo Fullerton

When: August 20 (1:00 pm - 2:00 pm Pacific Time)
Instructor: Michiyo Fullerton
Cost: $35 Only 1 spot left!

About the class: Learn to create feathers that are soft, touchable, and realistic! Michiyo was born and raised in Japan and drawing has always been part of her life. In this fun skill building workshop, she'll show you how to draw a small bird's delicate breast feathers on drafting film, a surface that makes rendering details SO much easier. You'll learn the trick to creating feathers without frustration by tackling the tonal values first, and how to avoid making a drawing look flat when you are creating a bird with gray and white feathers.

• Limited to 35 Students

Portrait Profile with Ann Kullberg

When: August 22 & 24 (8:00 am - 2:00 pm Pacific Time)
Instructor: Ann Kullberg
Cost: $110

About the class: See why hundreds of artists have taken Ann's classes and use her techniques! Ann's 2-day workshop will guide you step-by-step as together you draw a profile of this stunning woman. You'll learn Ann's method for building lovely skin tones, how to create high contrast images, and how to draw hair and eyebrows in simple, no-fail ways. You'll come away with solid techniques that you can apply to your own future portraits. During the workshop, you will receive Ann's personal guidance as you interact with her in real time, ask questions, text or email her your progress, and receive feedback and suggestions from her.

• Limited to 30 students

Black Can Be Brilliant! with Carmen Barros

When: September 7 (8:00 am - 9:30 am Pacific Time)
Instructor: Carmen Barros
Cost: $35

About the class: How do you make colors pop on black paper? Working on black paper can be quite challenging - in this class, you will discover how to use black paper to your advantage. Carmen will teach you the basic principles that will help you develop the skills you need to successfully work with black paper. Why spend years learning all this by trial and error? Let Carmen, the Queen of Black Paper, show you how in a sweet Jelly Bean!

• Limited to 35 Students

Impress! Stylus Tips & Tricks with Denise Howard

When: September 7 (10:30 am - 11:30 am Pacific Time)
Instructor: Denise Howard
Cost: $35 Only 3 spots left!

About the class: Find out how a small but mighty tool can save you time and add fun to your creative time! A stylus (often incorrectly called an "embossing tool") is a very simple tool you can use to change how your paper surface accepts pigment. Styluses are inexpensive, come in several sizes, and you might be surprised at how versatile they are. Denise literally wrote the book on creating textures (101 Textures in Colored Pencil), and in this class she'll demonstrate how to use a stylus (or other common household items) to make drawing whiskers, spiderwebs, grasses, how to make your signature easier, and even how to produce the sparkly look of glitter.

• Limited to 35 Students

Little Cutie with Amy Lindenberger

When: September 13 & 15 (8:00 am - 2:00 pm Pacific Time)
Instructor: Amy Lindenberger
Cost: $145

About the class: Learn to handle color and lighting like a pro! Portraiture presents a unique challenge, and you’re in expert hands with Amy. In this workshop, from Amy’s Even More Colors: Workbook 2, you’ll learn how to select colors that work together to create smooth transitions with skin tones and realistic lighting. By the end of this class you'll own the color mapping technique, have a better understanding of the color families to which your colors belong, their specific value levels within that family and how to apply colors in a dark-to-light fashion from the start to dramatically improve your portrait work. Get ready to conquer skin tones and different lighting!

• Limited to 35 Students

Portraiture with a Twist with Peggy Magovern

When: September 24 (8:00 am - 3:00 pm Pacific Time)
Instructor: Peggy Magovern
Cost: $85

About the class: Ready to try something completely new? This fun and exciting one-day workshop is a special chance to learn skills from Peggy that will fire-up your own artwork. You’ll focus on translucent color overlays and will be encouraged to venture out a bit by approaching portraiture in a very unique way. Because of this focus and time constraint, starting "from-scratch" isn't possible. To free up the process, you will receive a line/under-drawing to print directly onto your drawing paper and, with only 10 Prismacolor Premier colored pencils, you'll get to the fun part right away! Be prepared to explore, experiment outside of “the box” and get even more creative with your colored pencils. We know you’re going to love what you create!

• Limited to 35 Students

Summer Beach with Scott Krohn

When: October 20 & 22 (8:00 am - 2:00 pm Pacific Time)
Instructor: Scott Krohn
Cost: $145

About the class: A pro at drawing wet sand and shiny rocks and a master instructor, Scott will teach you how to draw the challenging subject of sand. And you get to stipple in class – bet you haven’t done too much of that before, right? Scott says it’s fun! You’ll also draw shiny wet beach rocks as well as bubbly, foamy waves as they spread across the sand. So many marvelous textures and techniques to enjoy trying your hand at in this Summer Beach Pajama Class.

• Limited to 35 Students

Red Fox with Gemma Gylling

When: NEW Dates: November 1 & 3 (8:00 am - 3:00 pm Pacific Time)
Instructor: Gemma Gylling
Cost: $165 Sold out!

About the class: Learn from one of the top wildlife artists! If you want to learn to draw animals, this is the workshop for you! Gemma’s a legend in the animal art world, with dozens of awards, and is the author of CP Cats. Learn how to use your tools with your colored pencils to get the look you want, best practices for using Pastelmat and the remarkable things you can do with Pastelmat, including layering light colors over dark. Short fur, long fur, soulful eyes and shiny noses - are YOU ready to answer the call of the wild?

• Limited to 35 Students

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In-Person Workshops

5-Day Super Workshop with Ann Kullberg

When: September 17-21 (9:15 am - 4:45 pm first 4 days, 9:00 am - 12:00 pm last day)
Instructor: Ann Kullberg
Cost: $680 Sold out!

About the class: Super Workshops: Super Intense, Super Fun! This 5-day intensive workshop with Ann and just a handful of students is all about YOU. It’s basically a one-on-one workshop that you’re sharing with 4 or 5 others. That means you decide what you want to concentrate on. Portraits? Skin Tones? Hair? Drawing skills? Animals? Color? It really is up to you! Join Ann in this unique opportunity for an in-person workshop, focused on what YOU want to work on.

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On-Demand Video Workshops

Video: Glistening Cherries with Carmen Barros

Instructor: Carmen Barros
Cost: $115

About the video: What is the secret to making colored pencil shine and glisten with contrast on black paper? In this video recording of her live workshop, Carmen will show you step by step how to make your cherries glisten and glow and how to isolate sections of crystal to gain accuracy. Begin with a value study in white, then gradually add color, starting with light reds and going ever darker to recreate these plump, vivid, eye-popping bombs of glistening color. You'll learn a ton about working on black paper, creating dramatic color and light, and how to draw cut crystal with ease. Carmen is a born teacher with years of experience and a calm, welcoming manner. You'll have anytime-always video access. Learn at your own speed... and refer to it again and again.

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Video: Colored Pencil Boot Camp with Jan Fagan

Instructor: Jan Fagan
Cost: $40

About the video: New to colored pencils? This video is for you! You could spend months learning all this on your own...or learn it all from Jan in one video workshop! Absolutely perfect for beginners. Spend 3.5 hours with Jan and make your very own CP Reference Manual stuffed with info you need to be well armed to tackle any colored pencil project. As Jan covers pencil brands, paper choices, tracing paper, paper stumps, sharpeners, erasers, pencil strokes, lightfastness, blending and too many more topics to mention, YOU will be creating your own book of colored pencil facts and tips for you to refer to forever. You'll have anytime-always video access. Learn at your own speed... and refer to it again and again.

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Video: Vintage Glass & Grapes with Cynthia Knox

Instructor: Cynthia Knox
Cost: $135

About the video: "Paint" like the Old Masters with your Colored Pencils! Join Cynthia in this workshop video as she teaches how to transform colored pencil drawings into luminous and richly saturated paintings with a variety of tips, textures, and techniques. This classic still life offers a few unique textures: Sleek grapes, shiny and reflective glass, and different wood grains. The rich background lends a moody touch and is offset by the directional lighting that illuminates one side of our subject. Cynthia shows you how to brilliantly create them all. You'll have anytime-always video access. Learn at your own speed... and refer to it again and again.

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Video: Bengal Tiger with Mark Menendez

Instructor: Mark Menendez
Cost: $75

About the video: "Simply stunning... and those eyes!" In this fun, skill-building workshop video, Mark Menendez will show you how to go fast-forward through a drawing by letting colored paper do a lot of the work for you. He'll lead you through building rich darks and brilliant lights — and all with only 20 colored pencils. Best of all - you'll learn how to perfect those intense eyes! You'll have anytime-always video access. Learn at your own speed... and refer to it again and again.

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Video: Free Colors Workbook Help Session

Instructor: Amy Lindenberger
Cost: Free

About the video: Learn Why - Learn How - Learn The Strategy - It's All Free! Watch author Amy Lindenberger in this free video to get started and learn more about her breakthrough system for accurately and easily seeing, choosing and mixing colors from Amy's best-selling book Colors: A Workbook. Understanding color is a huge part of creating successful art - but until now, there have been so few tools. You'll have anytime-always video access. Learn at your own speed... and refer to it again and again.

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Video: Mastering Colors #5 - Understanding Neutrals and Near-Neutrals

Instructor: Amy Lindenberger
Cost: $60

About the video: Watch Amy in this newly available video in the Mastering Colors series! Very pale and almost — but not quite — browns and grays present a special challenge to artists. Those kinds of colors seem so different from our full-spectrum color wheel, so how do you best work with them in this 12-color system from her best-selling publication Colors: A Workbook? Let Amy Lindenberger show you how! You'll have anytime-always video access. Learn at your own speed... and refer to it again and again.

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Video: Furry Fox with Judith Selcuk

Instructor: Judith Selcuk
Cost: $55

About the video: Furry, Fluffy Fun! Enjoy this popular class on video! With this video, just 13 colored pencils and a few short hours you will be so happy with what you've created under British artist Judith Selcuk's expert guidance! Drawing fur doesn't have to be painstaking. Let Judith teach you how to simplify what can otherwise seem a daunting task. This workshop is based on Judith's extremely popular Jumpstart Fox Tutorial. Even if you already have the lesson, nothing beats learning by watching! You'll have anytime-always video access. Learn at your own speed... and refer to it again and again.

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