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No Experience Required - Colored & Watercolor Pencil (No Experience Required (Course Technology))

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I have always wanted to learn how to use colored pencils. This book covers the basic techniques of both colored and watercolor pencils and how to combine them. The author does not assume anything and explains basic techniques you can try along with step by step directions for several drawings. I found this book an excellent way to get started.

The way Gary Greene explains how to use colored and water color pencils makes it very easy to follow the steps. He clearly
shows what results to get in an easy to follow manner. Great for beginners as well as more advantaged users of these mediums.
I highly recommend this book.

Constance Hingert

I've spent a lot of money on books to teach myself painting. I believed many grand promises made by these books and have found myself more disappointed than successful. Not the case with this one. This book was so easy to understand, I was thrilled to find success at my early attempts. Techniques were explained clearly and the demonstrations were also easy to understand. Highly recommended.

This book does a very good job of showing how to use colored pencils and watersoluble pencils both indepently and together. I used it to use watersolubles for large areas and the colored pencils for detail and it helped quite a bit.

The information regarding color theory, materials required, and techniques that can be used in painting with these pencils, was very informative. I was hoping that there would be exercises in which the steps needed to complete a painting, would be supplied, with pictures illustrating each step. This was the case with this book, however, I felt the steps and illustrations could have been broken down into a few more of such, for a simpler understanding of what's involved.

Overall, I thought the book was well worth purchasing.

The author states he prefers tight, detailed, formal work, and that is not what interests me. I like looser, less representative approaches to water media. Once I set his approach aside, I could adapt his exercises to my needs, and the step by steps were useful. If you like a precise approach, this book may be right for you. I found it fussy.