Editor’s Note – January 2019

Happy New Year! This begins our 9th year of COLORED PENCIL Magazine. Of course, we wouldn’t be at this point without you so thank you for all your support and contributions. We are starting 2019 off with a fabulous cover featuring a gorgeous leopard, selected from the...

Editor’s Note – December 2018

Happy holidays! As a tribute to the winter snow, we begin with Joel Pilcher’s Wondrous White. See what can be done with just one color. Next, Barb Sotiropoulos helps you get started selling prints and making money. Then, view the work of our fabulous featured portrait...

Editor’s Note – November 2018

The holiday season is upon us, and inside you will find a bonus 2018 Gift Guide featuring Jerry’s Artarama’s SoHo products, beautifully demonstrated by our very own columnist, Barb Sotiropoulos. If you didn’t get the print version, you can download free here at...

Editor’s Note – October 2018

It’s finally fall, and this bright orange eye seemed like the perfect cover for Halloween! Who doesn’t love the smell of autumn as we get settled in to create art and ponder all the wonderful images to appear on our blank surfaces. As I browse through my social media,...

Editor’s Note – September 2018

We are starting off this issue, like many of you begin your work – with sketching! Mindy Lighthipe teaches us how to do some gesture drawings of birds. Not only is this a great warm-up, but you will learn a lot about our feathered friends. Have you wanted to...

Editor’s Note – August 2018

  If you are a USA print subscriber, the first thing you will notice will be your sample of the brand new Derwent Lightfast colored pencil. If you didn’t get one, there might be a limited amount still available on our website. Also, anyone in the world will have...