EXHIBITION – Julie Podstolski
Julie Podstolski's latest exhibition is opening this week and is running from September 17th to October 2nd 2016. Fascination: Maiko, Geiko, Kyoto celebrating maiko and geiko (geisha) of Kyoto. I have had the wonderful experience to have seen Julie's work in real life...
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Call for entries for the 2017 ACPN – Coloured Pencil Artists Calendar
Each year for the past 6 years we have put together a calendar showcasing 12 artists for the ACPN Annual Calendar as a collaborative project to help support our local artists and support us a collective group showcasing coloured pencil art in Australia. If you are...
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EXHIBITION – Julie Podstolski
Julie Podstolski's latest exhibition is opening this week and is running from September 17th to October 2nd 2016. Fascination: Maiko, Geiko, Kyoto celebrating maiko and geiko (geisha) of Kyoto. I have had the wonderful experience to have seen Julie's work in real life...
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NEW: Coloured Pencil Conversion Charts – By Karen Hull
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,...
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Featured Artist- Sylvie Carter
Today I am featuring our dedicated ACPN facebook group admin Sylvie Carter. Sylvie was a little bit reluctant to do this interview but I love to feature up and coming pencil artists, so here it goes, Thankyou Sylvie for taking part! 🙂 Website address: ...
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Not your average Adult Colouring Book by Richard Klekociuk
Very happy to be showcasing today on of our fabulous ACPN supporters and coloured pencil artist Richard Klekociuk has published an adult colouring book which is just that bit different! As the title implies, this adult colouring book is far from average! Designed and...
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2016 ACPN Calendar – Celebrating Australian CP Artists!
Well it's here: the 2016 ACPN Calendar This calendar is a collection of Australian Coloured Pencil artists who have generously donated the use of their artwork for this collaborative calendar. We hope this this calendar helps support each and everyone of these artists...
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What is the Australian Coloured Pencils Network?
Are you confused ? During my journey over to Perth recently and meeting with Julie Podstolski and Ann Kullberg, we had a a little discussion about the ACPN. I shared with them some experiences I have had in sharing the concept of ACPN with my own workshop...
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Instagram for artists – What do you need to know?
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,...
read moreAmazing what you can do with pencils, new work by Karen
It always amazes me watching what artists can do with coloured pencils, every now an then something pops up that you haven't seen before and surprises you. Today I wanted to share some fabulously different but wonderful work by our very own Karen Hull. Watch the video...
read morePart 3 – The Why, How, When of layering, burnishing and solvent.
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 different types...
read moreHow do you connect with other Australian coloured pencil artists ?
If your reading this you could be either getting started in pencils, love using pencils or maybe an experienced artist and have been using coloured pencils for a while. The question is how do you find other coloured pencil artists either in your area or across...
read moreAnn Kullberg’s Coloured pencil workshop, Fremantle Australia
Ann has been teaching people how to draw beautiful portraits in colored pencil for over 20 years. She's taught in Japan, the UK, Canada, Mexico, on cruises and in 44 states in the US and now... Ann's coming to Australia in May! Ann's info-packed 2-day workshop will...
read moreCongratulations Karina
We love to celebrate our Australian artist friends achievements here on the ACPN! A big Congratulations to Karina who won first prize in the Cardinia Grand Art Exhibition last week. Karina said: my portrait of a little girl with her teddy 'Sad' has won first prize in...
read moreFeatured Artist – Karina Griffiths
From time to time love to bring to you and support some of our local coloured pencil artists, last year this artist won our "People's Choice Award" in our ACPN online exhibition, so i have much pleasure in bringing you a bit more about Karina, and who has a active...
read moreCPSA Best of Show goes to Australian Artist Julie Podstolski
BIG BIG BIG Congratulations to our very own Julie Podstolski for her peice "Step by Step" which won Best of Show in the Colored Pencil Society of America - Exlpore This 11 exhibition. www.juliepodstolski.com Also a big Congratulations goes to another fabulous...
read moreFeatured Artist – Michelle Ripari
Winner of our 2014 Just Pencils category, here is our latest featured artist Name: Michelle Ripari Website address: www.artbymichelleripari.com Location: Melbourne, Australia Here is some more about Michelle. Please tell us a little about how you got started in...
read moreWinners of the 2014 ACPN online Exhibition
Our judge Karen Hull had a tough job ahead of her when she got to judging our online exhibition this year, I could see as the entries were coming in that as she is personally involved in supporting the ACPN that she would evidently know many of the artists and had...
read moreFeatured Member & our 2014 judge Karen Hull
Karen Hull was our first ever featured member here on the ACPN back in 2010, she is one of the handful of artists (and all you know who you are) who has been with us from the start supporting us along the way (wouldn't be here without you). Recently she has been our...
read moreAnn Kullberg’s Theme show – Eyes is now online
Take a moment out of your day to go along and take a look at all the beautiful "Eyes" in Ann Kullberg's 15th Annual theme show. There is many fantastic works on display and its so fantastic to see some of our Australian Colouredpenci Artist friend in the group....
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Article: Which pencil brands do I use?
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, watercolour...
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