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There is a GOOGLE site search engine
available to help you find a topic containing your search word.
This is located on the bottom of the Site Information Page
In the ‘Readers Gallery’ section of the site you will find a selection of images
and links to artist’s web sites and blogs, You can join in -
SITE NAVIGATION
MAIN SECTIONS
This web site looks at Coloured Pencil Techniques. It provides a guide for the new and intermediate Coloured Pencil user and, hopefully, a free basis for learning and for discussion.
This is probably the largest existing free Internet resource of information on techniques and products for the new Coloured Pencil user,
with over 150 pages ( some of them long ones ) covering a multitude of individual topics and tutorials.
The site has been running since January 2009 and has no financial sponsorship from any manufacturer. All the information and tutorials are available to you at no cost. However, because the site produces no financial benefit, updates and additional entries are made only when time permits. You may therefore find some topics in the early stages of completion and still in need of more data and a final edit. These incomplete topics will usually have a note to that effect.
The site was originally based on teaching notes for students attending my Coloured
Pencil courses and set out to cover some specific topics which were discussed during
the course sessions -
Since being set up in January 2009 this Internet site has become generally accessible and used Internationally from around 90 countries.
If you are outside the UK, please remember that the site was designed for UK use and the information given here is very UK based.
However, feedback from the USA and elsewhere in the World indicates the information is very helpful to all who start out to learn about Coloured Pencils and the ways to use them. Further contributions from Readers for adding to the site are welcomed, as are ideas for further content.
Be aware that the site does not set out to be exhaustive, it is a personal view and is not sponsored.
All images are subject to Copyright and copying is not permitted without approval. Most images are Copyright © Peter Weatherill and others are copyrighted as indicated on the page they are seen on ( such as those in the Readers Gallery )
You are free to use the Pencil Topics Tutorials to work your own versions but those completed versions may not be sold without direct approval from the copyright owner
BELOW -
You will find some simple guides for those new to the site to help you get started
Diary Notes which record some recent events on the Site ......and possibly the reasons for them !
Site Statistics and Information on the most ‘referred to’ pages.
Following this HOME page
The contents page lists all the main areas of interest and provides internal links to take you to the items
Above this frame (Top left) is a section list which are visible on most main pages like this one,
and sub headings are also revealed if you hover your mouse over the main title.
You can always navigate back to here .... or to the Contents page wherever you are on the site
If you would like a quick check on what is new please see the following page
Following on from these pages
There are pages describing how the site works in more detail -
A glossary of Pencil Terms, a list of PDF files included
and a running detailed record of major content updates as they are made.
ARE YOU NEW TO USING COLOURED PENCILS ?
ARE YOU LOOKING FOR THE VERY BASIC TECHNIQUES ?
THESE PAGES COULD BE THE BEST PLACES TO START ............
If you are going to BUY pencils -
look at the brands page and also the page on price and content
There is also an individual page for each of the main pencil brands available in the UK
You might also be interested in the section on colour comparisons.
HOW TO USE COLOURED PENCILS?
See the page on dry point 1 for information on basic techniques for wax type pencils
A whole range of pages follow on with a selection of techniques and ways of using.
The page on aquarelles 1 for basic information on water soluble coloured pencils
is also followed by a number of separate sections -
There are sections on pastel pencils
and mixed media
as well as pages about the most suitable paper to use.
A look at the contents page will also give you more idea what the site contains.
With over 150 pages of information, the site is a gold mine of data that you need to explore,
and with around 5,000 individual visitors a month, you are in good company.
Don’t worry, you won’t need a compass, and if you do get lost, just click on a contents link and find your way back to the core of the site
October 2011
HAVE YOU SOME EXPERIENCE OF USING CP ?
ARE YOU LOOKING FOR MORE TECHNICAL INFORMATION ?
HAVE A LOOK AT THE ‘CONTENTS’ PAGE
Most of the information on Techniques for using Coloured Pencils and the different surfaces appears in the early sections of the index to the left hand side of the Welcome Panel.
More specialised information on Coloured Pencils appears in the ‘General CP Techniques’ section and in the ‘Landscape Techniques’ section
Also there is a wide selection of items in the section on ‘Art Points’ that covers things like Perspective, Composition, The Golden Section, Using a camera, Drawing from life and scanning and printing out copies of your masterworks
Finally there is the Gallery of images from artists who work in Pencil and who have web sites where you can find even more pictures and information.
October 2011
Month of December 2011
Average number of visitors to site each day 177 Last month ( Nov ) 173
Total visitors to site during December 2011 -
Average number of pages viewed per visitor 2.5
Total visitors checked into site since January 2009 -
The top 17 Home Countries of Visitors to site during December 2011 out of 89 countries
UK 981 -
Vietnam 3 -
Ireland 10 -
and a selection of guests from a wide variety of other countries.
( the list order relates to the total time spent on the site rather than the actual number of visits recorded )
Visitor numbers relate to the number of people who log on to the site and then progress through several pages.
If a visitor logs off and returns after a short time, the statistics count them as a new visitor.
The statistics for China and Russian Federation are distorted because a large number of visits are by
automated search engines, and for the moment I am omitting the statistics for those two countries
as they are probably not a true indication of what is happening
I get regular readership statistics from www.One.com, my Internet Provider. These help me adjust the content to what readers require. The site shows steady growth over the years. Statistics are posted here each month on the previous period.
WHAT DO MOST READERS OF THIS SITE LOOK FOR ?
The list below gives a few of the pages most accessed
(November 2011 -
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We are now seeing days with over 200 visitors to the web site and total visitors for the month running comfortably in excess of 5,000.
We have welcomed our 100,000th visitor to the site (since January 2009)
And we have also totally refreshed the site appearance
We hope you like it
This web site has had over 100.000 recorded visitors since it commenced in January 2009
THANK YOU
FOR YOUR SUPPORT
AND INTEREST
The start of January will bring some further tidying up of the Topics site and possibly some slight changes in the appearance ( to give it a fresher look )
There are sections to be updated and some further pages to be written and this work will depend a lot on time available.
Please be patient.
The refreshed layout and new subsidiary page links are now in position, so readers will find it easier to see what else the site has to add to any particular point they may have searched the Google or Yahoo engines for.
NOW IN OUR
FOURTH YEAR
FOR 2012
We have made some updates to the layout to aid navigation and help visitors find associated information.
Otherwise the site remains broadly similar to that one you have become used to.
Please let me know if you find any mistypes, errors or links that don’t work
It would be good to get them correctly swiftly.
SO WHERE DO I START ?
The contents have been assembled over several years and have come from many sources.
All sources are acknowledged where I know them and I am happy to add further useful information which readers of the site wish to contribute.
There is an introduction to the site below and more information about how the site works.
© PETER WEATHERILL 2009:2010:2011:2012
I would like to alert anyone interested in the lightfastness of Coloured Pencils to an excellent article published on the web site of the Coloured Pencil Society of Canada.
Manon Leclerc has researched a very comprehensive survey on the Topic which is well worth reading.
Entries are logged in date order -
MIXED MEDIA
‘The Cottage Entrance’
from an old black and white photograph
Coloured Pencil over Pastel pencil on a black background
See the step by step illustration of this picture being worked
In the Mixed Media section
LAUNCH OF NEW PRODUCT
Caran d’Ache
will be launching their new
Pastel Pencils and matching Pastel ‘Cubes’ to the Art Materials trade
at the Frankfurt Show this coming weekend ( 28 -
and follow that up in April with a Public Launch in Paris.
The Pencils have been tested by us during production and the results are shown in the detailed step by step exercise of
In the Pastel Pencil section.
More information will follow on the products later this Spring
ANNECY REFLECTIONS © Peter Weatherill 2011
PASTEL PENCIL
A detailed Step by Step Exercise based on the testing of new Pastel Pencils being launched by Caran d’Ache of Geneva this Spring. The Company have given permission for the artwork and commentary to be published here.
More information will be given when the product is launched.
