by Belinda Lindhardt - ACPN Admin | Sep 13, 2016 | Beginners CP Tips, CP Supplies & Materials, Featured, Industry Products |
Karen has just released a new and extended version of her popular Coloured Pencil Conversion and Comparison Charts. The conversion charts help artists to work out which pencils to substitute when the brands they have are different from the ones used in a tutorial,...
by Belinda Lindhardt - ACPN Admin | May 17, 2015 | Articles, Beginners CP Tips |
If you haven’t already picked up Instagram are kinda curious but don’t know where to get started. Here is a brief run down on what, why and how to do Instagram. What is Instagram? The definition on Wikipedia is: Instagram is an online mobile photo-sharing,...
by Belinda Lindhardt - ACPN Admin | May 3, 2015 | Articles, Beginners CP Tips |
Continuing on with our series of The Why, How, When of layering, burnishing and solvent. Here is Part 3 – Solvent Starting with the basics – What is solvent? Solvent is a liquid you can use to blend your coloured pencil layers together. There are a few...
by Belinda Lindhardt - ACPN Admin | Nov 22, 2014 | Articles, Beginners CP Tips |
A common question we always get asked at ACPN is “Which pencils do I buy/ use?” It is tempting when starting out in coloured pencil art to want to use pencils you already have, you may have a set of pencils you have had in your cupboard for a long time,...
by Belinda Lindhardt - ACPN Admin | Oct 5, 2011 | Articles, Beginners CP Tips |
ahhhh The ugly stage. We all have it. I have found it comes often with coloured pencils … it’s that moment where everything looks ugly, crap, where our vision in our heads is not meeting what we see before our eyes. For me the ugly stage usually occurs ...
by Belinda Lindhardt - ACPN Admin | Apr 18, 2011 | Articles, Beginners CP Tips |
Continuing on with our series of The Why, How, When of layering, burnishing and solvent. Here is Part 2 – Burnishing Starting with the basics – What is burnishing? Burnishing is when you use a light coloured pencil (usually white) or a colourless blender...
