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Vivid Flowers in Colored Pencil

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Description Achieve captivating floral compositions blooming with lifelike color, form and depth alongside professional colored pencil artist Cynthia Knox. Learn to select, edit and transfer the perfect reference photo to your paper. Choose and layer colors that match corresponding areas in your reference. Build eye-catching depth with value shifts between shadows, midtones and highlights. Make your drawing look more like a painting with burnishing techniques. Add rich details for a more intriguing image. Create expressive painterly effects with blending techniques. Draw leaves that spring to life with nuanced details. Capture a garden of gorgeous imagery as you learn how to draw flowers with colored pencils.

Syllabus

  • Class Preview
  • Layering, Blending & Burnishing
  • Working With Reference Photos
  • Value & Fixing Mistakes
  • Adding Dimension
  • Blurring & Blending
  • Natural Shadows & Leaves
  • Dramatic Backgrounds & Petal Veins

Taught by

Cynthia Knox

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