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New Electronic Pattern Packets – Colored Pencils on Pastelbord

          

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 They both include an Online Class for the Acrylic Background Prep.

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A Cherry to Share

New    A Cherry to Share – Colored Pencils over Pastelbord

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New pattern packet available in printed and electronic form. Printed patterns are in limited quantities.

Color Theory   Applies to all mediums.

Here are some tips that I want to share with you,

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Chocolates

 

New Electronic Pattern Packet at Tolebrush.com

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Chocolates in Colored Pencils

Tip for fixing a chipped Pastelbord. The surface above was fixed on the lower left corner.

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Pastelbord is manufactured by Ampersand Art Supply.

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Painting Gold – Tips and Techniques

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 Painting Gold – Tips and Techniques

Tip #1

Mix a value range of a Raw Sienna color.

Tip #2

Raw Sienna = Violet Mix + small amounts of Cadmium Yellow Pale

Violet Mix = Ultramarine Blue + Alizarin Crimson (about same amounts)

Tip #3

Gold is a metal and in order to make it shine you need to have contrast between lights and dark.

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Blending with oils

Now adding seminars for 2015.

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 Nature Still Life in Oils – Pattern packet coming soon!

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 A tip for blending oils. Blending a Large Container such as the vase in the picture above.

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Colored Pencils Tip – Acrylic Washes

DSC07147cropSerenityfacebookThis is my new Electronic Pattern Packet which includes an online class on surface preparation. Click on the link to purchase.

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Colored Pencils Tip – Acrylic Washes

You can paint acrylic washes over penciled areas that you want to fill in more or areas that you want to darken and make them fade into the background.

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Five Ps for Pencil

New Electronic Pattern Packet

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Sitting Pretty  27 Step by Step Photos

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13 Electronic Pattern Packets added to Tolebrush.com

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Five Ps For Pencil

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Inktense Pencils

Labor Day Sale

All day Monday, September 2 and Tuesday ,September 3, a 15% discount will apply to purchases of 10 or more patterns. Please note, International Customers that purchase items that are not electronic will receive a separate Paypal invoice with actual shipping charges.

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Collaboration with Peggy Harris

Whoops! Available now as an E-Packet at Tolebrush.com

Colored Pencils

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My interpretation of Peggy Harris’ beautiful design called Word to the Wise

Pattern Packet includes the original line drawing for both owls on Peggy Harry’s pattern called “Word to the Wise”.

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Rose Fragrance Online Class – The Rose Part One

This is a very short clip of the first section of my new Online Class titled Rose Fragrance. The class is the 3 days seminar taught at Peggy Harris studio in Nashville, TN. Twenty four hours of filming. It will be divided in 3 sections. Section number one will be the Rose.

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