Product Description

Capturing the elusive qualities of light is one of the most sought-after goals of artists in every medium, and "Painting Light with Colored Pencil" helps readers achieve that goal.Through the techniques explained in this book, readers will learn how to unlock the potential of coloured pencils to create realistic, light-filled paintings that glow.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #165595 in Books
• Published on: 2008-07-25
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 128 pages

About the Author
Cecile Baird's work has won numerous national and international awards and has been published in The Artist's Magazine, International Artist and American Artist. Cecile is a signature member of the Colored Pencil Society of America.

Customer Reviews

Even better than Alyona Nickelsen's Coloured Pencil Bible
I have many books on coloured pencil art, but this is by far the best. The level of realism that the author attains is greater than Alyona Nickelsen, Janie Gildow, Barbara Newton, Bet Borgeson, and she even gives Ann Kullberg a run for her money. The front cover of this book does not really match up to the quality of the illustrations inside. The author generously gives away all the tricks of her trade, and by following her very clear methods anyone can produce beautiful lifelike pencil paintings. I found her tips for setting up and lighting a still life composition particularly helpful. However, like all American coloured pencil art books, her chosen brand of pencil for all the demonstrations is Prismacolor which is very hard to find here, although we can now get the famous Rising Stonehenge paper at last.

Realism is not slavishness to reality
I found some of this author's tips about mark-making and colour blending useful. But on the whole her approach is for people who want to use coloured pencils to make an imitation of a photograph. Why bother? Why not just hang a photograph on the wall? This is a fancy version of painting by numbers and lacks interpretation and creativity. She even tells people to begin a painting by transferring a photograph to their paper and colouring it in! An "artist" who thinks that drawing is something you can let a machine do for you is hardly worthy of the name.