What’s in CP Magic! August 2022
Featured Artist: Patricia Mitchell interview & tutorial
Before You Accept Your First Commission
Colors for Skin Tones
Uses for scraps of expensive paper
Art Corners
Featured Artist: Patricia Mitchell
Interview
Patricia Mitchell has been an artist for most of her life, doing both fine art and decorative painting. She divides studio time between watercolors and colored pencils, sometimes combining those two mediums to produce her own distinctive artwork.
Tutorial
While her tutorial is all colored pencil, it is a combination of her two art loves. The result is artwork with a decorative flair and a subject that’s suitable for colored pencil on paper, paint on wood, or your own, unique combination.
Before You Accept Your First Commission
If you’re thinking about becoming a commission artist, you’ll want to read this month’s featured article to find out what you need to consider other than what you’ll draw and how you’ll draw it.
Colors For Skin Tones
Carrie answers a recent reader question with her recommendations for skin tone colors. But she also explains why every color in your pencil box could be considered a skin tone.
Art Corners
Shelley Oberholser shares her tip for making the best use of space with the digital device on which she views reference photos while drawing.
The Tip Sheet
Shelley also shares a very good tip for making use of those scraps of expensive paper you have left over when you trim paper to size.
Product Review: Cotman Watercolor Landscape Set by Winsor & Newton
What does Carrie think of Cotman Watercolors by Winsor & Newton? That’s the topic for this month’s product review.
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