Build a Lightweight Laptop Drawing Board
Learn how to build your own inexpensive, lightweight laptop drawing board from materials you have lying around the house.
How to Finish a Colored Pencil Drawing
Do you know how to finish a colored pencil drawing? What should be your final steps? How do you know when your drawing is finished?
4 Tips for Choosing Reference Photos of Flowers
Today, I want share a few tips for choosing reference photos of flowers, especially complex flowers. The choice of topic arises from the following question: Dear Carrie,My daughter always said her favourite flowers were sunflowers so for her birthday I drew and coloured two sunflowers but when she was asked …
2 Common Colored Pencil Problems
Carrie L. Lewis addresses two common colored pencil problems and offers a few solutions to help you improve your colored pencil experience.
Transitioning from Oil Painting to Colored Pencil Drawing
Transitioning from oil painting to colored pencil drawing isn’t always as easy as it seems like it should be.
How to Adapt the Flemish Painting Method to Colored Pencil
Today’s topic covers one of my favorite subjects: How to adapt the Flemish painting method to colored pencil. I spent several years experimenting with and learning the Flemish painting method in oils. There were more than a few missteps along the way, but there were also some great results. I …
Where to Start with Colored Pencils
Want to know where to start with colored pencils and drawing? Carrie shares a few suggestions to get you going. The rest is up to you!
Is Tracing Cheating? My Opinion
I love getting questions from readers (what blogger doesn’t?) The readers who ask questions also love getting answers. It’s long been my practice to answer each question as I receive it, personally and directly. But some of the questions are so good, I know other readers are wondering the same …
Color Theory Drawing Exercise
This fun and easy color theory drawing exercise will help you grasp how color theory works. All you need is an adult coloring page & your favorite pencils!
Understanding the Basics of Color Theory
If you’re like me, the very thought of color theory evokes all kinds of complicated definitions, higher levels of learning, and intimidation. But every artist needs to understand the basics of color theory, and how it affects their art. Fortunately, it’s not really all that complicated. In short, color theory …
