Still Life
 
This was my first experiment with colored pencils.  
That Old Quartet of Mine 
 
 

The orange slice was done in a colored pencil workshop with Cecile Baird, author of Painting  Light With Colored Pencils. It effectively teaches the techniques of burnishing with color and the dramatic use of light in composing a subject for a finished drawing.

Orange Lite 
 
 

My rendition of jelly beans in a crystal candy dish illustrates the lessons learned in that workshop.  Most of a day and over 200 digital photos were used to set up the configuration ultimately used in the painting.

 
 
Who Spilled the Beans?
 
 
The candles picture was developed for use in a beginning colored pencil workshop.  It can be produced using only the basic 12-color Prismacolor set.  Interestingly, analysis in a paint program detects 109,721 distinct colors. 
 
 
 
Red White & Blue
 
 
This is another picture developed for workshop use.  It can be rendered with a basic 12 - color Prismacolor colored pencil set. 

 
Glories of Morning 
 
 
 

Rich Harvest