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

Dynamic Duo: Brilliant Cardinals with Cynthia Knox

When: March 29 & 31 (8:00 am - 3:00 pm Pacific Time)
Instructor: Cynthia Knox
Cost: $165 Sold Out! Lucky You - We've Opened Up More Spots!

About the class: Let Cynthia guide you to the next skill level! Bring these brilliant cardinals to life and learn how to transform a simple line drawing into a personal masterpiece! You’ll enjoy working with creamy Prismacolor pencils, along with a few other favorites, as you develop this feathered duo and their textured branch on blue paper. It’s always great when the paper becomes the background! Instant impact and reduced time. Learn a variety of pencil strokes and techniques to paint soft, wispy feathers, realistic little eyes and beaks, and natural wood with colored pencils. Cynthia truly takes you to the next skill level as she teaches you how to transition a colored pencil drawing into a fully saturated painting during this enjoyable two-day Pajama Class.

• Limited to 50 Students

Bobbins the Cat with Amy Horton

When: April 7, 10 & 12 (8:00 am - 12:00 pm Pacific Time)
Instructor: Amy Horton
Cost: $145

About the class: Could your cats be cuter? Well, not your living, purring cats, of course. Your cat DRAWINGS! We can help you with that. Amy Horton has a truly amazing way of simplifying drawing felines without losing a meow of realism! And she’s willing to teach you how to do the same. Learn how to capture realistic fur textures, from tapering white whiskers to the challenges of a complex, striped tabby cat’s coat. You'll also master how to create those characterful, life-like eyes and how to achieve convincing depth and distance with the patterned fabric back-ground. Lucky you! Get ready to improve your cat-drawing skills!

• Limited to 30 Students

Let It Snow! with Gemma Gylling

When: April 8 (8:00 am - 9:30 am Pacific Time)
Instructor: Gemma Gylling
Cost: $35 Only 1 spot left!

About the class: Learn from "The Wildlife Whisperer!" Gemma’s the colored pencil wildlife whisperer – if it’s wild, she can draw it splendidly! And drawing wildlife sometimes means drawing wintery scenes. Learn her various methods for creating differing kinds of snow using sanded papers, solvent and brushing techniques. Gemma is a real winter wonderland of expertise and you’ll learn lots – like how to avoid muddying of color when drawing snow. This Jelly Bean is sure to be a real sweet treat!

• Limited to 35 Students

Intro to Scratchboard with Scott Krohn

When: April 8 (10:00 am - 11:30 am Pacific Time)
Instructor: Scott Krohn
Cost: $35

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

Botanical Art: What Is It, Exactly? with Amy Lindenberger

When: April 19 (8:00 am - 9:30 am Pacific Time)
Instructor: Amy Lindenberger
Cost: $35 Sold out!

About the class: Begin your Botanical Art journey here! Botanical art is not just drawing plants... it's an elegant art form all its own. Colored pencil is the perfect medium for the level of accuracy, detail, and precision botanical artists are working towards when depicting plants and flowers. Explore the natural world around you and share it in colored pencil!

(#1 of 5 in the series.)

• Limited to 35 Students

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Botanical Art: Blends & Shapes with Amy Lindenberger

When: May 3 (8:00 am - 9:30 am Pacific Time)
Instructor: Amy Lindenberger
Cost: $35

About the class: Rendering a botanical subject with accuracy involves good observational skills, a good understanding of light and shadow in all its variations, and good pencil control. Amy will guide you through all three to help establish your understanding and competency in these foundational aspects of botanical drawing. (#2 of 5 in the series.)

• Limited to 35 Students

Reflecting on Glass: A Demo with Peggy Magovern

When: May 13 (9:00 am - 10:30 am Pacific Time)
Instructor: Peggy Magovern
Cost: $35

About the class: There's a rainbow of color in clear glass? This is a demo-only Jelly Bean class that will focus on rendering clear glass. Clear glass requires creating strong contrast for interest. And in addition to creating contrast, this class will also show you how to add interesting color! Discover how clear glass can still allow for a vast variety of color. Adding color can create a powerful image, and is controlled by YOUR vision.

• Limited to 35 Students

Botanical Art: Underpaint for Depth! with Amy Lindenberger

When: May 17 (8:00 am - 9:30 am Pacific Time)
Instructor: Amy Lindenberger
Cost: $35

About the class: A single color is capable of achieving only a limited value range. To extend that range and create added richness and depth, an underpainting technique can be employed, using either a neutral (brown or gray) or a color's complement. Understanding both methods, as well as when one might be preferred over another, is key to developing form in botanical drawings. You'll learn it all in this class!

(#3 of 5 in the series.)

• Limited to 35 Students

Feather & Fluff with Pearl de Chalain

When: May 13 (1:00 pm - 2:30 pm Pacific Time)
Instructor: Pearl de Chalain
Cost: $35

About the class: Bet you’ll learn some brand new techniques in this one! In this sweet Jelly Bean Class, you’ll learn how to capture the direction, movement, detail and color variations of a pretty little feather - all in just 90 minutes. Drawing a realistic feather really is all about a trick of the eye. Let Pearl’s innovative techniques guide you through the process.

• Limited to 35 Students

Emerald-Eyed Cat on Scratchboard with Scott Krohn

When: May 21 (8:00 am - 3:00 pm Pacific Time)
Instructor: Scott Krohn
Cost: $95

About the class: Scratchboard & Colored Pencil! Exquisite detail. Soothing, meditative repetition. Stunning, pet-able fur. And a pop of color with those piercing emerald eyes! What a lot you’ll experience in a single day! In this intermediate scratchboard class, you’ll be expertly guided into the magical land of colored pencil and scratchboard in this 7-hour Pajama Class with one of our most popular instructors, Scott Krohn. With years of experience teaching secondary art, Scott is a master at anticipating your needs as an art learner. Organized, friendly and talented, any class with Scott is a real treat!

• Limited to 35 Students

How Refreshing! A Water Demo with Peggy Magovern

When: June 3 (9:00 am - 10:30 am Pacific Time)
Instructor: Peggy Magovern
Cost: $35

About the class: Come on in... the water's fine! If you've ever felt out of your depth when it comes to creating water, you'll love Peggy Magovern's live demo on rendering water! She'll show you how to use unique and surprising color – way beyond what you see in the reference photo – to bring out the vibrance and movement of water. You'll discover how sharper edges help create the high contrast highlights, and how a gentle blend of multi-layered, translucent colors creates depth. Come discover a fun way to go beyond photography!

• Limited to 35 Students

Airbrush Backgrounds! with Aimee Croteau

When: June 3 (11:30 am - 1:00 pm Pacific Time)
Instructor: Aimee Croteau
Cost: $35

About the class: Airbrushed backgrounds will blow you away! Come discover how to use an airbrush to create a blurred background for your colored pencil artwork. Artists with all levels of experience are welcome, but beginner to intermediate airbrush artists: this class is for you! Aimee will share proper use of supplies, layering, common mistakes, and achieving the bokeh effect will be covered so that you can pick up an airbrush with confidence after watching this course.

• Limited to 35 Students

Dramatic Dahlia on Scratchboard with Scott Krohn

When: June 20 & 22 (8:00 am - 1:00 pm Pacific Time)
Instructor: Scott Krohn
Cost: $135

About the class: Colored Pencil with Scratchboard is Mixed Media Magic! Learn an exciting way of combining colored pencils and scratchboard - it's a natural fit for colored pencil artists to learn, as there are so many possibilities when combining these two mediums. Award-winning artist Scott Krohn will teach you the basics of scratchboard, as well as how to make this black and white medium come alive using colored pencils. Whether you want to try something new, or rekindle your artistic fire, this workshop is for you!

• Limited to 35 Students

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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