INSTRUCTOR

Mark Jones

DESCRIPTION

Capture boldness and vibrancy in your urban sketches utilizing color pencils and art sticks. Broaden your skills using color pencils and the use of color pencil art sticks.

LEARNING GOALS

• Learn how the blending and layering of color pencils can bring out bold color, texture, depth, and richness in their sketches
• Learn techniques for drawing hard and firm with color pencils and art sticks.
• Learn blending and shading techniques of color pencils with graphite.
• Learn techniques to sketch windows, water, and sky.
• Learn techniques for sketching brick, stone, and field of color.
  

SUPPLY LIST

• Color pencils: A minimum of a 24-pack is recommended.  Additional pencils of white, shades of blues, reds, greens, and grays.  Cream, Terra Cotta, and Burnt Orange are additional colors suitable for buildings and ornament; Caron d’Arch Luminance, Caron d’Arch Pablo, Faber-Castell Polychromos, Derwent, and Berol Prismacolor are all good brands of pencil. Art Stix:  Prismacolor, 12 pack or 24 pack.
• Fountain Pen
• Sketchbook or pad of paper, minimum A5 size.  Smooth grained paper is preferred but not required.
• Graphite pencils: Various lead weights from soft to hard; 4B, 2B, HB, 2H, and 4H.
• Pencil sharpener
• Small stool or chair (optional)
  

I will bring numerous spare color pencils for participants to use.