In this lesson, you discover how to make secondary colors from primary colors, and explore a basic color wheel, complementary colors, and warm and cool colors.

Preview lesson R01 - Primary and Secondary Colors

I found this a good refresher lesson. I have attempted layering with coloured pencils but the results have been less than satisfactory.I suppose I'll have to keep experimenting with different types of paper. I decorated cards with watercolour pencils and quite enjoyed that. Using cross hatching techinqes were more satisfying than layering, but I found the results pale. Has anyone used these for large-scale work,and what are the best pencils?
C.E.D

Its always been difficult for me to merge blue and red to get purple. Like this lesson's pic, it still just looks like a blob of red and blue, not purple. Is it even possible to effectivly get purple from blue and red?

I have found it difficult as well with pencils like prismacolor to get a mix. What worked for me with prismas was a circular technique (circulism). It seem to blend the colors together a little better and worked very well with blues and yellows and I was able to achieve a vibrant green. It also took multiple layers to achieve this result. (a minimum of 4-5) Hope this helps.

Cynthia, it's not very cheap, but I found out years ago that bristol board works well for colored pencils. I used to color with pencils a lot, and I like to put a lot of pressure on my pencils to make the colors look solid and rich. Bristol board works great for that.




As far as blending colors, I've never been able to put full pressure on the pencil and get the colors the blend.

Rather than really mixing two colors to produce a new color, I relied on a large number of colors and using varying values when transitioning from one color to another.

Doing the coloured pencil class ,so any help on colour mixing is helpful.

This color lesson is simple, it is wonderful! I find it much easier to understand and apply.

Hai.....BRENDA HODDINOTT......

Iam surender......Pencil and water colour artist, Portraitist , Illustrator and animator...and...
I am working as drawing and Animation teaching faculty ....I am having nearly 15 years exeperience in this art field.

So as per my knowledge Just I want to suggest that to include Primary colour particular names.
Not Magenta and not cyan.

Those names are
Vermilion Red ( medium )
Cobalt Blue ( medium )
Chrome Yellow ( medium )
These are the particular primary colours.

This is a great lesson. I really enjoyed to descriptions of the warm and cool colors.

As for me a pencil it is possible to transfer much more shades than paints. And drawing turns out much better and rich

i want to know what is the perfect kind of colour penciles i can use it and the water colours
thanks