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Start coloring, relieve stress, and learn to create radiant, original works of art using colored pencils, wax pastels, and watercolor pencils.Add vibrancy to your coloring creations with instruction from best-selling author and teacher Kristy Kutch as she guides you through recommendations for the newest colored pencil brands, best drawing surfaces, and groundbreaking techniques.Including easy step-by-step demonstrations and inspiring art from today's best colored pencil artists, The New Colored Pencil shows you how to use color theory to your advantage, combine color media, create and enhance textures, and experiment with surfaces to create phenomenal effects. Whether you use traditional wax-based, or watercolor colored pencils, The New Colored Pencil will take your creative art pieces to a whole new level.
About the Author
Kristy Kutch is a graduate of Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, with both bachelor's and master's degrees in education, as well as a life license in teaching. She has taught over 200 drawing workshops nationwide for students of all ages. Her educational style is friendly, relaxed, enthusiastic, and supportive of the individual student's uniquely personal style. Cultivating the enthusiasm of her students, Kristy tailors her instruction to beginners and accomplished artists alike, both in her role as an author and in a workshop setting . Her instructional book, Drawing and Painting with Colored Pencil, was a summer, 2005 release from Watson-Guptill Publications. It has also been featured as a main selection for the North Light Book Club.
Kristy is a contributor to The Best of Colored Pencil 1, 3, and 5; Creative Colored Pencil; Design: Illustration; The Best of Business Card Design 3 and 5; Creating Radiant Flowers in Colored Pencil; Exploring Color (revised edition) ; Floral Inspirations, Colored Pencil Explorations, and Colored Pencil Society of America Signature Showcase. She has also filmed an instructional D.V.D. (Artist Palette Productions) , Colored Pencil Landscapes: Beyond the Basics; an excerpt from this film is featured on www.YouTube.com .
Kristy has written a second techniques book, The New Colored Pencil, slated for release from Watson-Guptill Publications in spring, 2014. This book encompasses techniques for colored pencil and watercolor pencil, as well as innovative ideas for combining these media. For the first time, there are also techniques presented for wax pastels, those beautiful waxy art sticks which look like crayons but which offer artist-grade pigmentation and brilliant results. The New Colored Pencil also presents information and demonstrations on a huge array of compatible papers, films, and boards which are suitable for making the most of these colored drawing media.
Kristy has enjoyed teaching colored pencil techniques since 1991, combining her love of art and her instructional talent. Traveling to various workshop sites around the country became a family affair, with her husband, three children, art supplies, and often the family bicycles along for the ride. She and her husband Ed now travel around the country on "the workshop trail".
