What’s in CP Magic! April 2022
Featured Artist: Patricia Lentine interview and tutorial
Are You Having Fun Making Art?
Shading Exercises for Smoother Color
Art Corners
Featured Artist: Patricia Lentine
Interview
Patricia Lentine is a multi-talented artist who works in a variety of mediums. She paints many subjects, though she is quick to say that her seven grandchildren are her favorite subjects.
Pat is a signature member of the Colored Pencil Society of America, and was a member of the Society of Decorative Painters for over thirty years. She teaches acrylic, colored pencil, watercolor and oil classes to artists of all levels through in-person classes, online courses, and download-able tutorials.
Tutorial
For her CP Magic! tutorial, she chose UArt Premium Sanded Pastel Paper for the support. She demonstrates layering and blending methods with Prismacolor pencils for a portrait with a blurred background.
Are You Having Fun Making Art?
It takes time to make art with any medium. It takes an especially long time with colored pencils, so you have to be dedicated to your work. Is it also important that you enjoy the process? Carrie talks about that subject in the featured article for this month.
Shading Exercises for Smoother Color
The key to blending smooth color with colored pencils is shading smooth color. The more smoothly you can apply color to your paper, the better the final results. Carrie shares shading exercises for three different strokes to help you shade the smoothest possible color on any paper with any pencil. She concludes the exercises with a comparison of those three strokes so you can see how they are similar and how they differ.
Art Corners
Do you have a dedicated studio space? No? Wonderful! Carrie shares five tips for making the most of limited drawing space whether you work in a corner of a room or on the kitchen table.
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