Congratulations 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...

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Featured 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...

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Featured 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...

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Winners 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...

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Featured 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...

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ARTICLES & BEGINNERS TIPS

NEW: Coloured Pencil Conversion Charts – By Karen Hull

by | September 13, 2016 | Beginners CP Tips, CP Supplies & Materials, Featured, Industry Products | 0 Comments

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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Instagram for artists – What do you need to know?

by | May 17, 2015 | Articles, Beginners CP Tips | 0 Comments

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,...
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Part 3 – The Why, How, When of layering, burnishing and solvent.

by | May 3, 2015 | Articles, Beginners CP Tips | 0 Comments

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...
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Article: Which pencil brands do I use?

by | November 22, 2014 | Articles, Beginners CP Tips | 0 Comments

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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Article: Which pencil brands do I use?

by | November 22, 2014 | Articles, Beginners Tips, Featured | 1 Comment

A common question we always get asked at ACPN is "Which pencils do I buy/ use?" In this post, we hope to clear that up because we know there are SO many choices it can be very daunting. The answer isn't of course a straight forward one! To put it simply: Every pencil...
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Blending on Canson Mi-Teintes

by | May 28, 2012 | Articles, Beginners Tips, Featured, Pencil Techniques, Videos | 0 Comments

When using different supports in your coloured pencil artwork it can mean that you have to alter the way that you may normally work. Here is a video showing the way that I have been blending coloured pencils on Canson Mi-Teintes paper.

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How to sharpen your prismacolor pencils correctly.

by | October 12, 2011 | Articles, Beginners Tips, CP Supplies & Materials, Featured, Industry Products, Pencil Techniques, Videos | 0 Comments

Here is a video that I know some of you have been looking for: How to sharpen your pencils correctly.

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The UGLY stage – We all have it, & 5 tips to beat it!

by | October 5, 2011 | Articles, Beginners CP Tips | 0 Comments

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  before I...
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The UGLY stage – We all have it, & 5 tips to beat it!

by | October 5, 2011 | Articles, Beginners Tips, Featured, Pencil Techniques | 0 Comments

We all have it…. it’s that moment where everything looks ugly, crap, where our vision in our heads is not meeting what we see before our eyes this article gives you 5 tips to help beat the “ugly stage” when creating coloured pencil art.

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Derwent Inktense Blocks

by | August 5, 2011 | Articles, Beginners Tips, CP Supplies & Materials, Featured, Industry Products, Pencil Techniques | 0 Comments

If you haven’t used the Inktense products, one of the great things about Inktense is that is a permanent ink that once it’s dry it’s fixed and permanent. I have been experimenting recently with using Inktense underneath my coloured pencils as way of speed up my artwork process,

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