CP Magic magazine October 2026 has arrived! Let’s take a look at what’s inside.
CP Magic Magazine October 2026
Kelly Almer is this issue’s featured artist. Kelly is a professional artist, teacher, wife, and mom, who started drawing at an early age. Although she began making her own art with acrylics, which her parents purchased, she is now a dedicated colored pencil artist.
Her subjects include intricately detailed city scenes and storefronts, whimsical holiday subjects, and more serious pet and animal portraits. As you can see in the cover design below, she has a unique style with furry animals, but she can also do highly polished subjects.
Her tutorial is very appropriate to the season, featuring a steaming cup of something yummy, pumpkins, and a rustic window showing the colors of autumn through glass panes. There are opportunities to draw a blurred background, steam, and some lovely still life elements.
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Also in This Issue
Have you ever thought about using ground pigment to add color to your drawings? I have (by accident), and share the results of those experiments. I also tell you how to salvage or make your own ground colored pencil pigment.
The paper review for this month is Legion Lenox Cotton. This medium-texture paper is lovely and soft, just like Stonehenge used to be. Does it perform like Stonehenge? That is why I purchased it, after all. The review includes color swatches, a finished project, and the pros and cons of this paper.
Are deadlines and due dates a help or a hindrance? As a portrait artist in the past, and now a blogger and publisher, I know a lot about deadlines and due dates, including how I best interact with them. I share those experiences in a short article.
Kim Vlahovich adds a product review on an inexpensive pencil sharpener from an unexpected source. I’ll tell you now he didn’t spend much for it. Was it worth the money? Did he like the sharpener? I’ll let him tell you all about it.
The Reader’s Gallery features two submissions for October.
If you’re thinking about submitting a recent finished artwork, check out the details here.
Don’t forget that if you buy 10 or more issues mix and match,
you save 20% off the cover price with the discount code cpmagicdiscount2 at checkout.
