Drawing the Color
Color pencils are one of the first media with
which we start experimenting drawing. We use color pencils to learn how to draw
the first forms as well as associating certain colors with certain objects.
Within education institutions we are quickly exposed to felt-tip pens, gouaches, acrylic and oil paints, so that color pencils become a forgotten memory of first childhood drawings.
Still, many scientific illustrators use color pencils, using it as a tool which allows for a better precision, and which is then mixed with other marker tools, from India ink to watercolors to ecoline ink and so on. Quite often, they use almost exclusively color pencils above everything else, and not only to make sketches. Quite surprisingly, it is the very material for the finished drawings. This field of illustration gave a good push for pencil to “return” into the realm of visual arts, and it became just one other “noble” material for works of art.
This workshop’s goal is then to show you a little bit more of what one can draw from a color pencil. Each person will have a personal language and approach, but we will attempt to match each person’s traits to the expressivity and the various techniques possible with color pencils.
Within education institutions we are quickly exposed to felt-tip pens, gouaches, acrylic and oil paints, so that color pencils become a forgotten memory of first childhood drawings.
Still, many scientific illustrators use color pencils, using it as a tool which allows for a better precision, and which is then mixed with other marker tools, from India ink to watercolors to ecoline ink and so on. Quite often, they use almost exclusively color pencils above everything else, and not only to make sketches. Quite surprisingly, it is the very material for the finished drawings. This field of illustration gave a good push for pencil to “return” into the realm of visual arts, and it became just one other “noble” material for works of art.
This workshop’s goal is then to show you a little bit more of what one can draw from a color pencil. Each person will have a personal language and approach, but we will attempt to match each person’s traits to the expressivity and the various techniques possible with color pencils.
To whom this workshop is addressed
This is not a workshop for beginners in drawing, so some drawing skills are expected. We will focus exclusively in drawing techniques using color pencils.
Minimum attendance: 6 people; maximum: 10 people.
Duration
The workshop is divided into two daily sections of three hours each.
This is not a workshop for beginners in drawing, so some drawing skills are expected. We will focus exclusively in drawing techniques using color pencils.
Minimum attendance: 6 people; maximum: 10 people.
Duration
The workshop is divided into two daily sections of three hours each.
Student experience
Student experience
