Colored Pencil Painting Bible: Techniques for Achieving Luminous Color and Ultrarealistic Effects

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. Take colored pencils beyond the ordinary with Colored Pencil Painting Bible!. Nickelsen’s innovations will delight readers and detailed you-can-do-it processes bring her striking results within reach for every artist. 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

About the Author ALYONA NICKELSEN is an award-winning artist whose work has been featured in numerous national and international exhibitions as well as in most of the country’s major art magazines, including American Artist, American Artist Drawing, The Artist’s Magazine, International Artist, American Art Collector, and Art Business News. Ms. . Nickelsen is a signature member of the Colored Pencil Society of America. Nickelsen lives with her family in Southern California. Ms

Ms. ALYONA NICKELSEN is an award-winning artist whose work has been featured in numerous national and international exhibitions as well as in most of the country’s major art magazines, including American Artist, American Artist Drawing, The Artist’s Magazine, International Artist, American Art Collector, and Art Business News. Ms. Nickelsen is a signature member of the Colored Pencil Society of Am

Good for advanced artists. Not very good for beginners. If you're an intermediate or advanced artist with colored pencil experience this is a good book.If you're new to colored pencils like I am this is not the right book for you. It starts out covering a lot of things as if you have never used colored pencils, then moves onto advanced topics.What bothers me is the book title and description saying: `incredible realism- with simple you-can-do-it-processes!'. Which is very misleading. Same thing when you look inside the book and see it starting with ba. Wow. Much more than I expected! joaneblue Making art has been one o the greatest passions of my lifetime. I have had a formal art education (BA - Fine Arts) and, like most artists, hobbyists or professional, I have learned and developed most of my technique through practice and a lot of trial and error. A lot of practice. A lot pf trial. And a lot of error! As happens to many people, life got in the way over the years, and my focus on making art has gone through many shifts. But recent changes have brought me back to what used to be my m. elle.h. said Great learning tool.. This book is so helpful. I've completed many of the projects in there with what I believe to be successful. Alyonya nickels on is such a great colored pencil artist. She is bringing clout to the world of colored pencil paintings. Unfortunately I can't seem to locate the book with those projects in it. I do however have two to show for now. I'll update the pics asap when I locate my other book. The one is a pair of marbles and the other is a swatch of denim. (Hopefully you can see that without my