Explores the art of using colored pencils, including their characteristics and handling, and presents specific techniques using colored pencils for a variety of effects.

Get Creative with Colored Pencils! Find out just how versatile colored pencils can be! Janie Gildow and friends show you how to combine colored pencils with an exciting variety of media for extraordinary results! You'll learn how to add luminescence to your colored pencil paintings with watercolor and acrylic; how to create richness, depth and a quick color base with pastel or airbrush; and much more. Twenty-four step-by-step demonstrations by fourteen...

From impossible shapes to three-dimensional sketches and trick art, you won't believe your eyes as you learn to draw optical illusions in graphite and colored pencil. Perfect for beginning artists, The Art of Drawing Optical Illusions begins with a basic introduction to optical illusions and how they work. Jonathan Stephen Harris then guides you step-by-step in creating mind-blowing pencil drawings, starting with basic optical illusions and progressing...

The people living in a tiny city on a pin, thinking that theirs is the biggest city in the world but feeling lonesome, discover another city on another pin and rejoice that they are not alone. From Publishers Weekly: Berger (Grandfather Twilight) offers a pretty but vacuous riff on the originally satirical question How many angels can dance on the head of a pin? by positing dreamy worlds within worlds of tiny, pin-dwelling angels. Her story opens...