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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Dramatic Landscapes - Jelly Bean Class with Carrie Lewis

When: July 27, 2024 (1:00 pm - 2:30 pm Pacific Time)
Instructor: Carrie Lewis
Cost: $35 - Only 2 Spots left!

About the class: Let's Do Drama! Does weather fascinate you? Do you love the look of a sunny landscape against a dark and stormy sky? Have you ever wished you knew how to capture that kind of drama with colored pencils? If you answered “yes” to any of these questions, you’ve come to the right Jelly Bean class. Carrie shares her tips, tools, and techniques for drawing dramatic landscapes on a dark colored Pastelmat. Watch as Carrie makes stormy clouds, sunlit fields, and grass and foliage come alive on her Pastelmat.

• Limited to 35 Students

Botanical Art: Underpaint for Depth - Jelly Bean Class with Amy Lindenberger

When: July 31, 2024 (8:00 am - 9:30 am Pacific Time)
Instructor: Amy Lindenberger
Cost: $35 - Only 2 spots left!

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

Photoshop Basics - Jelly Bean Class with Scott Krohn

When: August 10, 2024 (8:00 am - 9:30 am Pacific Time)
Instructor: Scott Krohn
Cost: $35 - Only 4 spots left!

About the class: Find out why so many artists say "Photoshop is the one tool I just can't live without!" If you work from reference photos you know: Great colored pencil art starts with a great photo. In this class, you'll learn some basic Photoshop skills to help you get the most out of your photos. Not only are better reference photos easier for you to work from, they also help you eliminate a lot of guesswork. In this Photoshop Basics class, Scott will show you how to create beautiful compositions to draw, PLUS how to prepare your digital files for sharing online or submitting to shows and competitions.

• Limited to 35 Students

Botanical Art: An Expert Leaf - Jelly Bean Class with Amy Lindenberger

When: August 14, 2024 (8:00 am - 9:30 am Pacific Time)
Instructor: Amy Lindenberger
Cost: $35 - Only a handful of spots left!

About the class: Create Botanical Art That Leafs an Impression! Leaves are such an important part of most botanical drawings. Even though they are often simpler in coloration than flowers, creating realistic veining and surface texture on leaves can be challenging. In this class, Amy will show you techniques for creating the proper values, hues, and intensity changes that make a leaf look like a leaf.

(#4 of 5 in the series.)

• Limited to 35 Students

Draw-Dropping Backgrounds - Jelly Bean Class with Kathryn Hansen

When: August 24, 2024 (10:00 am - 11:30 am Pacific Time) - Sold Out!
NEW! October 19, 2024 (10:00 am - 11:30 am Pacific Time) - Only 2 spots left!
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

Botanical Art: An Expert Flower - Jelly Bean Class with Amy Lindenberger

When: August 28, 2024 (8:00 am - 9:30 am Pacific Time)
Instructor: Amy Lindenberger
Cost: $35

About the class: Create Flowers that Bloom! Flowers are usually the stars of the show in a botanical drawing, and it's important to use all the tools at your disposal to get the best possible result. Learning to capture some of the subtleties of drawing, texture, and color changes is what will take your botanical artwork to the next level.

(#5 of 5 in the series.)

• Limited to 35 Students

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

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

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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