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Step by Step Art - Articles for All Artists including product reviews & Art tutorials

18/3/2016

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A website offering help, advice and tutorials for Artists of all levels - For Free!

Are you new to Art and looking for advice on what products to buy or maybe you are a long standing Artist looking to swap brands and looking for product comparisons? My official Step by Step Art website offers Articles on varied products and recommendations and pages are being added on a regular basis. Click on any of the images in this post to visit the Article of interest to you, this will open a new tab which directs you to the Step by Step Art website.
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There are also plans to offer written Step by Step tutorials as well as mini Video Tutorials for all Artists in the UK and beyond. Articles can also be requested if you are looking for something specific and mediums covered will include Coloured pencils, Graphite pencils, Acrylics and Soft Pastels as well as other mediums that may be offered by other contributors allowing this website to cater to a wide range of Artists.
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This website also offers the chance to book an upcoming 1 Day Coloured pencil Workshop in May with myself once the subject matter has been chosen and further details will be added to the website once available.

You can also choose to SUBSCRIBE to my Newsletter if you wish to stay updated with the latest Articles, product reviews and recommendations, tutorials, workshops and any other Art related information that may be of interest.

You can 'like' or 'tweet' this article below if you wish to share this post with anyone it may be of interest to or leave me a comment below if you have any questions or thoughts regarding this post.

Hopefully there will be lots of information you find helpful.
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Looking for advice on buying Coloured pencils?

19/7/2015

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Help and advice is at hand if so....

For those who are not aware, I also have an official 'Step by Step Art' website that allows you to check out my current Workshops or take a look through Articles, written and via video (coming soon) on a plethora of Art related things including Coloured pencils, paper reviews and pencil reviews too. The Article section is still in the early stages but will continue to add to it as regular as I possibly can.  My latest Article focus's on Coloured pencils and I decided to do a trial on different pencils that I currently have in my collection. 
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Read the Article by clicking the image above - opens in a new window
This article shows the 5 most important factors that I look for when selecting my professional pencil range:
  • I need to have a range that allows multiple layering
  • I need them to blend well for backgrounds and skin tones
  • Will work well with fixative
  • The pencils must be extremely lightfast and the colours strong
  • Need soft and hard pencils for different areas of my work
The 5 'tests' shown in this article includes:
  1. Black & White Test
  2. Hardness V's Softness
  3. 10 layer test - 'Mixed' layering
  4. Fixative test
  5. Blendability
This article also gives information on the importance of paper weight (gsm), information on each pencil including costs (GBP) and lightfast ratings as well as my own thoughts on 'adapting to coloured pencils' . I hope that this will be of help to all Coloured pencil Artists out there from those starting out looking to buy their first range to those interested in how Coloured pencils compare.  

The very popular Prismacolor Premier & Verithin ranges will also be added to this article very soon and an adaptation of this article (with even more information in) will be available to view and purchase (download or hard copy) from the USA's Colored pencil Magazine 'Student' version in the next few months.
Find out more about this magazine here: Colored pencil magazine - Student Edition
Read the Article 'Comparing Coloured pencils' here
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