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

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Stunning Stargazer Series Pajama Class Class with Amy Lindenberger

When: September 18, October 2, 16, 30, and November 13, 2024 (8:00 am - 10:30 am Pacific Time)
Instructor: Amy Lindenberger
Cost: $175 - Only a handful of spots left!

About the class: Join us for this new series that just might be your ticket to mastering the art of botanical illustrations. From understanding light sources to nailing down intricate details and textures, get ready for a colorful and detailed ride that takes you from start to finish with this beautiful Stargazer Lily. No need to have completed her previous botanical series - this class will dive deep into the magic of color theory, taking your botanical creations to the next level! We know you’ll be tickled Stargazer-pink with this new series taught by one of our best loved and respected instructors, Amy Lindenberger. Remember...your Happiness is guaranteed!

• Limited to 35 Students

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Harvest of Glass Pajama Class with Carmen Barros

When: September 25 & 27, 2024 (8:00 am - 2:00 pm Pacific Time)
Instructor: Carmen Barros
Cost: $135 - Only 3 spots left!

About the class: It’s autumn, and what reminds you most of the season? Pumpkins and apples! Join Carmen as she walks you through creating this composition of two shiny glass pumpkins and an apple on black paper. Working on black paper can be challenging but Carmen will provide you with lots of tips to help you succeed. In the process, you will also learn how to break down complex glass objects into simple steps to make rendering them fun and easy!

• Limited to 35 Students

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Mindful Drawing: Neurographic Art - Jelly Bean Class with Scott Krohn

When: September 28, 2024 (8:00 am - 9:30 am Pacific Time)
Instructor: Scott Krohn
Cost: $35 - Only 1 spot left!

About the class: Hottest New Drawing Trend! Find Out Why... Scott is an award-winning artist, a master of colored pencils, and in this class you'll discover this hot new art trend is an excellent way to create. It's easy to learn and is a very relaxing process that can go in a million different directions. Each drawing is unique and there is an endless variety of things you can do. There are so many possibilities that can be explored, the possibilities are truly endless!

• Limited to 35 Students

Top Tips for Drawing Horses - Jelly Bean Class with Carrie Lewis

When: October 5, 2024 (1:00 pm - 2/2:30 pm Pacific Time)
Instructor: Carrie Lewis
Cost: $35

About the class: Ready to up your horse drawing game? Dive into Carrie Lewis’ world of horse portraits! With over four decades of experience, she reveals her secrets for nailing realistic horse drawings on various surfaces. Get the scoop on her hits and misses, and gear up to gallop your horse portraits to the next level. This class is all about dissecting Carrie's past portraits, showcasing the good, the bad, and the neigh! It's like a self-critique session to guide fellow artists in creating their own majestic horse masterpieces. Time to saddle up and draw like the wind!

• Limited to 40 Students

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Sweet Temptations Pajama Class with Paco Martin

When: October 12 & 13, 2024 (8:00 am - 1:00 pm Pacific Time)
Instructor: Paco Martin
Cost: $125

About the class: Come delve into the realms of realism and hyper-realism with Paco Martin! Layer by layer, you will learn Paco's unique techniques, utilizing mixed-media for droplet effects, mastering that rich, velvety black background, and creating various textures - we know you're going to find this class enjoyable and highly beneficial for your artistic development!

• Limited to 35 Students

Draw-Dropping Backgrounds - Jelly Bean Class with Kathryn Hansen

When: October 19, 2024 (10:00 am - 11:30 am Pacific Time) - Sold Out!
Instructor: Kathryn Hansen
Cost: $35

About the class: Attention artists: Don't abandon your colored pencils when creating backgrounds. That's right - leave the solvents, watercolors, and PanPastels in the drawer - and create gorgeously soft backgrounds with pure pencil! Kathryn Hansen will show you all the tricks to award-worthy backgrounds: The best way to hold the pencil, layering colors together to create blurry edges and shapes, and her signature "noodling" pencil stroke. A well-crafted background is powerful. It sets the mood, tells a story, and helps your subject stand out.

• Limited to 35 Students

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Beautiful Belgian Series Pajama Class with Carrie Lewis

When: October 26, November 9, 23, and December 7, 21, 2024 (1:00 pm - 3:00/3:30 pm Pacific Time)
Instructor: Carrie Lewis
Cost: $125

About the class: Verdaccio – a new word for you? Let us let you in on a brand new way to create luminosity in your drawings! In Carrie Lewis’ new workshop series, you will learn a fascinating technique first utilized by Italian painters. You’ll start with, of all things, a green underpainting. Notice how this beautiful light brown horse is glowing and radiant? That’s thanks to Verdaccio – a technique of underpainting with green, which helps bring out more luminous tones. You’ll love Carrie’s gentle, calm teaching style, her clear, concise instruction, and her helpful comments on your own work as you draw this beautiful Belgian horse, step by step, week by week.

• Limited to 35 Students

EZ Grids! - Jelly Bean Class with Scott Krohn

When: November 9, 2024 (8:00 am - 9:30 am Pacific Time)
Instructor: Scott Krohn
Cost: $35

About the class: Love low tech solutions? This one’s for you! Scott will show you a surefire method for creating a grid that can be used to accurately enlarge an image. For example, what if you want to work from a 4 x 6 photo? How can you enlarge it accurately? Scott will show you a great method that is easy to learn and simple to repeat. Bonus - it doesn’t require any calculations or math! Students will learn how to create the grid on a foldable printed image, as well as create an equally proportioned grid on the drawing surface. The class will also cover how to utilize the grid to accurately render the image.

• Limited to 35 Students

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Teapot Trio Pajama Class with Scott Krohn

When: November 16 & 17, 2024 (8:00 am - 1:00 pm Pacific Time)
Instructor: Scott Krohn
Cost: $125

About the class: Such a treat you’re in store for! In this two-day Pajama Class, learn how to capture four distinctive shiny surfaces. You'll draw a metallic silver teapot, a copper teapot with metallic gold handle, and a glazed ceramic teapot. Follow along with Scott as he shows you how light and reflections can be used to create a realistic representation of each of these surfaces. Scott’s very straightforward technique takes much of the guesswork out of textures. Learn his repeatable process for drawing nearly everything under the sun!

• 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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