COLORED PENCIL CLASS

This class is for students who want to learn to draw with colored pencils or just want a colored pencil class to practice and improve your skills. Explore various techniques in colored pencil: preserving highlights, creating volume, building layers of color, mixing for dark rich colors, creating interesting backgrounds, new highlighting techniques. Improve your personal style. Come meet new friends and see samples of colored pencil artwork from around the globe!

What to bring: Prismacolor Premier Colored Pencils (minimum 36 pencil set), battery operated pencil sharpener, kneaded eraser, hard white eraser, 2B pencil, colorless blender pencil or marker, #1 long liner paint brush (for whiskers and hairs).

Some great papers to work on: Canson Mi-Teintes, Stonehenge, Strathmore, Colourfix Sanded Papers. Choose a variety of colors, not just white. Check them out online at www.dickblick.com for great prices. Other great surfaces for colored pencil are hot pressed watercolor paper, vellum bristol board. DO NOT BUY MIXED MEDIA PAPER. IT DOES NOT HAVE ENOUGH TOOTH FOR COLORED PENCILS.

Class starts: Monday, February 10, 2025, and runs for eight weeks, 12:30 pm to 2:30 pm. We will have class on Monday holidays. Fee is $190.00. No refunds. A maximum of 8 students will be admitted, so sign up early to hold a spot. A minimum of 3 students is required to hold class. 

To hold your spot: Please mail a check directly to: Revelle Taillon, 26 West Pine Street, Plaistow, NH 03865, Contact me to see if there are spots left and let me know if you will be attending by calling 603-548-6694 or email Revelle at rtaillon@comcast.net.

Revelle Taillon holds a BFA from University of Lowell, Lowell, MA, and has won regional and national awards. She is a member of the Seacoast Artist Association. Her blog has info on current and previous classes, and her artwork and techniques: revelleimagemaker.blogspot.com.

Learn in a wonderful gallery setting, surrounded by beautiful artwork to inspire you!

Drawing a Barn Owl in Colored Pencil

I started this drawing in January, 2018, and it it took me about 50 hours to complete. As usual, I start by drawing in basic details of the animal's parts, and features, then I slowly erase all the graphite pencil as I add my colored pencil. This image shows the very start of the drawing.

50 hours later, I was finally finished. The size is 11 x 14 inches and I drew it on Canson Mi-Tientes paper, with about 60 colors, all types of professional colored pencils, like Luminance, Prismacolor, Caran D'Ache.

I entered it in the Seacoast Artist Association's April 2018 theme show, in Exeter NH, "Feathers and Fur", and I'm proud to say it was selected as "Best in Show".  Here's how it looked after it was framed.

I'll be offering a class called Colored Pencil II which starts May 22, 2018, at the Seacoast Artist Association, See above for details.