Paula’s Blog

Yes, it’s true.  I’m now teaching a colored pencil class at the Village Artists Gallery in Northeast Columbia.  It is a beginners class and I am having such fun.  It’s great to be teaching again, and imagine that - its in colored pencil instead of English or computer applications!

There are five people in the class and I think they are all having a good time as well as learning some basics about using colored pencils.  We started out talking about materials and supplies.  Of course, I told them how “great” I am at supplies and then I demonstrated that skill!

We have been practicing pencil strokes and techniques by doing a layering exercise, a value scale and a complimentary color wheel.  Our first project is painting an apple or apples.  We used our digital cameras to take pictures of some red delicious apples in one session and then transferred or drew our preferred image to some Stonehenge paper.  Note our progress in these images!