UKCPS Member on LAC

UKCPS Member Julie-Ann Maguire has written a piece about her experience working on drafting film for the London Art College Blog. It can be found here. Thank you for that Julie-Ann and I wonder if any other UKCPS members would like to share their experiences of working on this surface.

Painters Onlline

Many thanks to Judith Heilbronn-Crown for her excellent article on colour pencils in the current Painters Online Newsletter.  It features  number of pictures by UKCPS members, and is great publicity for the Society.

The link below should take you to the article.

http://www.painters-online.co.uk/Information/Bonus-Features-July-2013?utm_source=Newsletter+members&utm_campaign=62be48fd46-BF0713-Donna-Dewberry-extract&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b457ba95e4-62be48fd46-51646485#Judith

'The Artist' magazine

The August edition of 'The Artist' magazine (in the shops now!) features a fine article about the UKCPS, its aims, and its membership.

The magazine is always a good one to read, and this issue also features:
 

• Mariusz Kaldowski finds painting inspiration to paint in his garden
• Paint your own holiday postcard with Martin Taylor
• Jake Winkle advises on shadow colour and simplification
• Vivien Donald talks to artist Peter Messer
• Read a guide to supports for pastels from Robert Dutton
• Barry Herniman continues his pictuesque tour of the Wye Valley
• Masterworks looks at The Cliffs at Étretat by Claude Monet
• Jackie Simmonds reports on PanPastels
• How to find the right colour with Tony Williams
• Barry Freeman paints on the South Downs using water-mixable oils
• Product report on Derwent Skintones Pastel Pencils by Ian Sidaway
• Soraya French recommends earth colours
• Jackie Simmonds reports on the growing trend - a painting a day
• Masterclass with Charlotte Sorapure
• Robin-Lee Hall advises on composition for portraiture
• Oliver Lange reports on the ING Discerning Eye exhibition

Brian Ainsworth - Exeter Living Magazine

'Exeter Living' magazine features a very nice article about Devon artist (and UKCPS member), Brian Ainsworth, which includes photographs of some of his highly detailed wildlife portraits.
Brian was justifiably awarded the Faber-Castell prize, plus a 'Highly Commended' at the 2011 UKCPS Open Exhibition in London last year for two of his drawings.
You can view the magazine article via: http://content.yudu.com/Library/A1r6ti/ExeterLivingNo102/resources/34.htm

Leisure Painter - August 2011 edition

The August edition of Leisure Painter contains 3 seperate articles regarding the use of coloured pencils. 
UKCPS member, Jenny Hill, has a nice article on drawing pansies, and featuring the new Derwent 'Coloursoft Collection' tin (30 Coloursoft + accessories).  A follow-up article next month will feature the Derwent Inktense pencils and blocks.
 There is also a 'follow-me' exercise by Irina Garmashova, using Prismacolor pencils, the subject of which, a beautiful pink orchid, is prominant on the front page of the magazine.
In addition, the magzine features the start of  a new series of articles by Ros Ingram on portraiture in CP using Derwent Artists pencils.

Sharon Lomas - BBC Merseyside interview

MY APOLOGIES - I PUT IN THE WRONG DATE == 2nd JULY (not 2nd June!!) - now amended!

Sharon Lomas, a Liverpool artist and UKCPS member, has been invited to be interviewed on my local BBC station, Radio Merseyside (95.8 fm & DAB), on this coming Saturday (2nd July). Sharon will be helping to promote the use of coloured pencils as a media, and UKCPS nationally and locally.

The programme, hosted by Helen Jones, is 'Local History', and starts at 3pm, but will feature Sharon in a local interest spot at 5pm. Anyone outside the Merseyside receiving area can listen live online via www.bbc.co.uk/merseyside/programmes/schedules or via BBC iplayer.

I wish Sharon the best of luck, and if you wish to view some of Sharon's own work then visit her blog site (S A Lomas Pencil Art) via the Members Blogs links - down and to the right on this page.

Graham Brace - in the news

Graham Brace, UKCPS member and a well-known CP artist, is chuffed to bits at the moment, and all because he is appearing as one of ten coloured pencil artists featured in the latest edition of one of France's premier art magazines, 'Practiques des Arts'.

The March edition of the magazine is promoting coloured pencil as an art medium, and features 10 international CP artists, of which Graham is the only UK representative, within its monthly 'Portfolio' section.

One of the other UKCPS artists featured is Ann Kulberg, the well-known American artist, and authoress of some excellant books on colour pencil art.

CP work in the news

"Primulas" Bob Ebdon 17cm x 21cm

First published "Leisure Painter" March 2008

Just a heads up that some coloured pencil work can be seen in a couple of places at the moment.

First, there is an article in the current (March) edition of "Leisure Painter" magazine that shows some ways of getting dark tones using coloured pencils. The article shows a step-by-step of a primula, using a colourway approach, grisaille, and complementary colours to get darks. Sorry to blow my own trumpet, but yes, the author of the article is me.

Then the makers and distributors of Stonehenge paper, Legion Papers, have just added a gallery to their site which shows several artists who use Stonehenge paper as their preferred support. There are a couple of UKCPS members showing work in this gallery - Arlene Steinberg and, yes, sorry, its me again!

To avoid ALL posts being about me, please get in touch with anything that you would like me to include in future blogs - any exhibitions, awards, galleries visited where CP work is on show - anything of interest to the membership in general, please tell me about it.