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Realistic Still Life in Colored Pencil
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Realistic Still Life in Colored Pencil

by Cynthia Knox
July 2020
Beginner to intermediate
128 pages
3h 16m
English
Walter Foster
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Color Basics

Colored pencils are transparent by nature, so instead of “mixing” colors as you would for painting, you layer colors on top of one another to create blends. Knowing a little about basic color theory can help you tremendously in drawing with colored pencils.

The primary colors (red, yellow, and blue) are the three basic colors that can’t be created by mixing other colors; all other colors are derived from these three. Secondary colors (orange, green, and purple) are each a combination of two primaries, and tertiary colors (red-orange, red-purple, yellow-orange, yellow-green, blue-green, and blue-purple) are a combination of a primary color and a secondary color.

COLOR WHEEL

A color wheel is a useful reference tool for understanding ...

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