FUN WITH COLORED PENCILS

So - the cover for this book needed to be fun.

Of course the palette is colorful.

I choose this surreal pencil still life, 

almost realistic, but then - not.

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The illustrated children's picture book.

There are many illustrations required for a picture book.

To insure consistency throughout the book, I can't work on just one illustration at a time. I usually work on all of them simultaneously. If I am working on the sky, I paint the sky on all the pages at one sitting to make sure the colors I use are the same on every page.

I have learned that the eye of a child reader is very

 discerning and will find even the smallest boo-boo!

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Every year I create my own Christmas card.

The illustration with the swan decoy was used by the 

Baltimore Sun Newspaper in 1990. With my love of primary colors - 

Xmas cards are my favorite!

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Abstract colored pencil art.

This is an example of how diverse colored pencils are. You are not just committed to realistic still liges or portraits of youe neighbor's pet cat. You can do anything, even abstract.

I created texture in this painting by making impressions in the paper.

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As you might have noticed, I favor 

anthropomorphic animals. In this painting, 

I have turned the tables and given 

my lady rabbit features, all with just colored pencils.

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The Frog Prince and Princess

Pure colored pencil and pure fun!

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This colored pencil illustration is for the cover of 

Barbara Gorski's chapter book,

The Solisbell Adventure.

Children's literature lends itself to my whimsical style and 

palette of bright primary colors.

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I am very partial to whimsical colorful illustrations.

Here's an example below. I started with a pen and ink drawing, added watercolor washes and finished with colored pencils.

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Collage and Colored Pencils

This collage was homage to my birthday sign, LEO.

I drew lion masks and lion fish and spelled out LEO with the scrabble tiles.

The benefit of using cut out colored pencil drawings is 

I can remove them if there are too many, or draw more if needed. 

So much easier than painting.

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Colored Pencil collages.

Each Kewpie doll is cut out separately. As you can see on the right column ~ I moved the dolls around until I found the composition I liked the best.

The beach umbrellas were made from cocktail napkins.

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