Pencil Painting with Nickelsen
A new technique I am learning is a process called Color Pencil Painting where you use paint thinner as a blending tool with rich color pencils. Searches of this technique yield one recurring name as a result, Alyona Nickelsen.
Alyona Nickelsen’s book, Colored Pencil Painting Bible: Techniques for Achieving Luminous Color and Ultra-Realistic Effects, is simply amazing, the tools and techniques are easy to get a hold of and understand. A matter of fact, if you have been in the art field for any length of time you might have the tools laying around already.
Alyona also offers an Online Pencil Painting School at Brush and Pencil.com where she provides some samples of her portfolio and supplies a biography.
A prime example of this persons talent is below, which was done with Prismacolor colored pencils on white Stonehenge paper.
