COLORED PENCIL POINTS:   Exploring and discovering the capabilities, boundaries and strengths of this vibrant fine arts medium while providing help for the beginner along the way.

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Welcome to Colored Pencil Points

With determination and perseverance, anyone can make beautiful art with colored pencils. Sometimes it is a struggle for a beginner to draw in color with confidence, this site is therefore an attempt to realize and understand the true qualities of this medium. In time - exploring various techniques and methods of working with colored pencils. See this site as a guide with suggestions, not as hard and fast rules and note that it is a project that is only just getting started.

Some advantages and reasons why this medium is a perfect fit for many artists:

• You can easily set up your work space or take your colored pencils wherever you go
• The artist grade pencils are relatively inexpensive, non-toxic and do not diminish in quality over time.  Many of the archival papers are inexpensive as well
• There is no color mixing necessary before you work as you would with paints, and you can stop and start at any time without worrying about drying
• They have luminous and transparent like qualities, similar to watercolors, enabling rich and radiant build up of color
• You have maximum control over your application and details
• There is potential for techniques that are either simple or elaborate, sketchy or painterly
• This medium is notorious for being slow, but it doesn't have to be, though slow and methodical work can produce extraordinary precise, smooth and painterly results. There is no right way or wrong way, there are various methods of working and styles as individual as each artist
• Adjustments and corrections can be made easily
• The colored pencil medium is advancing and gaining popularity and there are wonderful support systems both online and in many local communities, as well as a myriad of helpful books

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Follow the links to the left or visit the site map. Points and tips and other helpful information will be added frequently to this site, what you see here is just the beginning of an intended large project.

coloredpencilpoints.com by Liesl Huddleston, 2007