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    Colored Pencil Portraits Step by Step
    Colored Pencil Portraits Step by Step
    Colored Pencil Portraits Step by Step
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    Colored Pencil Portraits Step by Step

    By Ann Kullberg

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    Portraits not only capture a likeness, but offer for generations to come a glimpse into the subject's life. Sounds like quite a challenge. But with Ann Kullberg's help, it's not as difficult as you might think to create lifelike colored pencil portraits. Using her own beautiful portraiture for instruction and inspiration, Kullberg walks you through the process step by step--from basic information about materials and techniques to two demonstrations that show how complete portraits come together from beginning to end. 

    You'll learn how to: 
    ·         choose the right tools and master basic techniques
    ·         compose a portrait—examples show right and wrong ways to do it
    ·         use light to create mood in your portraits
    ·         create a range of rich, believable skin tones
    ·         paint the face—step-by-steps of eyes, mouth, nose and ears make it easy
    ·         paint realistic-looking clothing—step-by-step demos show you how to paint denim, velvet and other fabrics

    You'll also find Kullberg's secrets for making your portrait come alive, along with 17 mini-demos that make it easy to paint realistic features, hair and clothing. Inside is everything you need to get started, as well as advice and important information on painting portraits professionally!
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Publishing Group
    Release dateMar 15, 1999
    ISBN9781440319945
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      Colored Pencil Portraits Step by Step - Ann Kullberg

      Colored

      Pencil

      Portraits

      Step by Step

      ANN KULLBERG

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      NORTH LIGHT BOOKS

      CINCINNATI, OHIO

      ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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      Ann Kullberg, a self-taught artist, received a degree in education from Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington. After discovering colored pencils in 1987, she devoted herself to art and portraiture. Her work has been published in Creating Textures in Colored Pencil, Creative Colored Pencil, the American Society of Portrait Artists' Portrait Signature magazine, and in several volumes of The Best of Colored Pencil. She has conducted numerous workshops in the Pacific Northwest and throughout the country. Ann invites you to visit her portrait web site at: http://www.prtraits.com/kullberg.

      Colored Pencil Portraits Step By Step. Copyright © 1999 by Ann Kullberg. Manufactured in China. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means including information storage and retrieval systems without permission in writing from the publisher, except by a reviewer, who may quote brief passages in a review. Published by North Light Books, an imprint of F+W Publications, Inc., 4700 East Galbraith Road, Cincinnati, Ohio, 45236. (800) 289-0963. First paperback edition, 2005.

      Other fine North Light Books are available from your local bookstore, art supply store or direct from the publisher.

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      Library of Congress has cataloged the hardcover edition as follows:

      Kullberg, Ann

        Colored pencil portraits step by step / Ann Kullberg—1 st ed.

         p. cm.

        ISBN 0-89134-844-1 (hardcover : alk. paper) ; ISBN 1-58180-639-6 (pbk : alk. paper)

        1. Colored pencil drawing—Technique. 2. Portrait drawing—Technique.  I. Title.

      NC892.K86 1998

      743.4'2—dc21

      98-19181

      CIP

      Editor: Jennifer Long

      Production editor: Nicole R. Klungle

      Designer: Angela Lennett Wilcox

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      DEDICATION

      To Katie, my babydoll

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      THE SECRET

      30″ 12½″ (75cm × 3lcm)

      ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

      I owe this book and all else I've accomplished with my art to the two people who bought me boxes of crayons and little watercolor sets in the sixties, when the budget was already stretched too tight and there really was no extra money … who paid electric bills in the eighties when gallery sales were slow … who wired mortgage payments in the nineties when there were no portrait commissions … who continued to believe in me when most would finally have given up. From my heart, thank you Mom and Dad, thank you.

      And there are others to thank: my brother, Phil, for being my first customer; my sister, Marylou, for happily accepting art as payment for outstanding loans; all the friends and family who encouraged and helped me through the years; the fine editors and staff at North Light Books who made this book possible; and finally, Vera Curnow, friend and founder of the Colored Pencil Society of America, for cheerfully and enthusiastically answering all my way-too-many questions.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      INTRODUCTION

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      CHAPTER ONE

      Getting Started

      CHAPTER TWO

      Composing a Portrait

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      CHAPTER THREE

      Seeing the Light

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      CHAPTER FOUR

      Creating Believable Skin Tones

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      CHAPTER FIVE

      Painting Features and the Face

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      CHAPTER SIX

      Painting Hair

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      CHAPTER SEVEN

      Painting Fabric

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      CHAPTER EIGHT

      Putting It All Together

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      APPENDIX

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      OCTOBER MORNING

      20″ × 27″ (51cm × 69cm)

      Collection of Alan Yates and Linda Tweedie

      INTRODUCTION

      In grade school I was frustrated with colored pencils and crayons. Crayons put down lots of rich color but were never sharp enough for detail. Craft-grade colored pencils could be nice and sharp, but no matter how much pressure I used, the color was pale and lifeless. Mind you, I didn't lose sleep over any of this—I just wished my little maps of Uruguay's mountain ranges and major rivers could have a little more oomph. Little did I know that someday I'd be making my living with just the sort of tool I wished for in fifth grade!

      When I did pick up my first professional-grade colored pencils around 1988, I admit I immediately felt I was home. This was it. This was a medium I could do something with. No time-consuming setup. No messy cleanup. No toxic fumes or dust. No stretching. No color mixtures turning to mud. No expensive surfaces and supplies. I could draw for ten minutes, heat a baby bottle, draw for twenty more and change a diaper. Life was good.

      Then I stumbled onto portraiture and life got better. Who could complain about a career that allows you to travel to beautiful homes, meet darling children, then go home and draw to your heart's content, ten feet from your kitchen and in your slippers? What could be more satisfying than doing what you love, and knowing that what you have produced has already become a family heirloom? Just when I thought it couldn't get better, I received the thrilling opportunity to write this book. I love teaching almost as much as I love making art, so now I guess I've reached nirvana.

      Some of you are new to colored pencil and still can't quite believe the quality of work the medium can produce. Others of you already know what can be done with colored pencils but haven't yet tried them out on a portrait. I've attempted to address both the inexperienced and experienced in this book. For the novice, I begin with the most basic information about materials and colored pencil techniques. For the initiated, I offer a step-by-step progression through all the elements that go into a portrait. It is very important to me that I really show these steps, so in my demonstrations I've included as many progressions as possible.

      You may find that many of the demonstrations I've included in this book look different from those in most art instruction books. As a working portrait artist, I decided to include step-by-step demos of actual commissioned works in progress, rather than create something specifically for the different sections of this book. Consequently, many of the demos show areas not specifically addressed in the text. I trust that rather than confusing you, this will add to your use and understanding of the material presented.

      Finally, a word of warning. This book presents the methods I use to paint a portrait; it does not attempt to decree how you should paint a portrait! Please take all of the following information as a guideline and not a formula. There are as many perfectly legitimate ways to paint a colored pencil portrait as there are colored pencil artists. Consider this only one path on your journey to finding your own way.

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      KATE

      18″ × 22″ (45cm × 55cm)

      Collection of Mark and Debbie Madden

      CHAPTER ONE

      Getting Started

      The beauty of colored pencil is that it takes so little to get started: pencils, paper and a few minimal tools and you're on your way. There's no setup, no cleanup, no health concerns, and on top of that, it's very affordable. You also need little space to set up your colored pencil studio; in fact, for years I worked in a tiny four-foot-square area stolen from the family room, behind the sofa!

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      Everything you need to get started

      Paper

      Over the years, I've tried dozens of papers and have finally settled on one called Stonehenge, which is manufactured by Rising. It is a wonderful paper I guarantee you'll fall in love with. It's strong, clean and inexpensive. There are few decisions to make with Stonehenge as it only comes in one surface and one weight. All you need to know is the size and color you prefer. I use plain white, although it comes in several shades of white, off-white and cream. You can buy it by the sheet or in smaller pads of fifteen or so sheets. I confess it's a little hard to find if you don't have a well-stocked art supply store in your area, but it can be ordered from most of the larger art supply catalogs. Even with the loads of layers and heavy pressure I apply, this paper holds up beautifully. You won't be sorry if you take the time to find it.

      Pencils

      I started using Sanford Prismacolor pencils ten years ago; by now I know them much better than I know my own children! Prismacolor pencils have the widest color range, with 120 colors available, and are by far the most widely used colored

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