Colored Pencil Painting Bible: Techniques for Achieving Luminous Color and Ultra-Realistic Effects

By Alyona Nickelsen

Book Overview

Learn to paint with groundbreaking new techniques for a favorite medium - Dazzling colors, incredible realism--with simple step-by-step demonstrations - Easy-to-follow instructions from a top colored-pencil artist - Master the wide range of colored pencil effects possible, including blending, layering, translucent effects, and more Radiant color...painterly finishes...astonishing realism...with colored pencils Achieve rich, luminous color and eye-popping ultra-realistic effects. Artists of every level will be inspired by the amazing new techniques created by Alyona Nickelsen, presented in Colored Pencil Painting Bible for the very first time. Nickelsen's innovations will delight readers and detailed you-can-do-it processes bring her striking results within reach for every artist. Take colored pencils beyond the ordinary with Colored Pencil Painting Bible

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823099202
• ISBN13: 9780823099207
• Release Date: March 2009
• Publisher: Watson-Guptill
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.4" x 10.4"

Customer Reviews

Excellent & Thorough!

I have so many colored pencil drawing, art, and painting books, and this one is superb. It is one of my favorite colored pencil art books. Helpful, easy to understand, and thorough instructions, and other information you need to learn the art of painting with colored pencils. Highly Recommend!

Color Pencil Painting sounds impossible...

Alyonia Nickelsen is not only a tremendously talented woman, she is an inventor, author, and pace setter. Her book shows stunning artwork that she helps to take the mystery out of producing. She discusses the paper, pencils, blending mediums, and tools that are helpful in producing stunning works of art. She produces photorealistic designs. she encourages each artist to make their own color samples to become familiar with the individual properties of each one. . This book is a stepping stone for her as well as those who read it. She continued to grow in her work and ended up developing a line of color pencil mediums to allow her to blend, layer, and protect her art, but that is in her book Color Pencil Portraits...