DRAW Seasons: The Ultimate Guide to Drawing Seasons in Colored Pencil

There's a time for every season! The four seasons have been an alluring subject matter for artists throughout the ages, and now it’s your turn to join in the fun of depicting iconic seasonal images in colored pencil. Each of the masterful 22 contributing artists has a special something to teach you. Using a wide array of varying pencils, drawing surfaces, tricks, tips, tools and secrets, they’ve got so much to share. Under their expert tutelage, you can experiment, create, explore to your heart’s content. This seasonal journey starts with a colorful little painted birdhouse, covered in snow and empty for the winter. Pearl de Chalain shows you in 14 steps how to recreate this wintry scene, including how she uses tape and a Slice tool to create the snowy details. That’s just the beginning of your seasonal sojourn – Spring is next with several wonderful step by step demonstrations, including a beautiful spotted fawn with great big doe eyes you could drown in, by Jennifer Slouha. Summer finds you at a sunny beach with Scott Krohn, drawing sand, surf and oceans pebbles on colored paper. Then you slip into fall’s amber tones, brought to you by Carol-Ann Doran’s amazing cornucopia of fall apples and leaves. She will show you each step - and you’ll learn how to render a realistic basket, too! Fir trees blanketed with snow, spring peonies, bright primroses, neon cactus, flames, baseball mitts – it’s an abundance of iconic seasonal images too many to mention. We just know in our bones you will want to draw these tributes to nature. In DRAW Seasons, these generous artists share with you their love, their best, their art and their wisdom for all of us to enjoy for many, many seasons to come. Lucky us!