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Other artist’s work is also copyright to the named artist            see site information for more.

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

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PETER WEATHERILL

Personal site link

This section also contains pages including

A GLOSSARY of CP Terms

A LIST OF PDF FILES on the site

The full UPDATES listing from April 2009

WHAT IS THIS WEBSITE FOR

and why does it exist ?

Those coming new to the joys of Coloured Pencil can find it difficult to locate a collection of notes to guide them through the basics - the basic information that long standing users of pencils can take for granted.  

This website tries to provide just such a collection.

Back in 2007 and 2008 I was handing out notes to my course students covering the points we had discussed in the course sessions, and I found that the notes needed regularly updating - which resulted in piles of scrap paper and untold numbers of printer cartridges being used up.  

I already ran a couple of websites and it struck me that it would be a good idea to transfer the notes to a new web site so that they could be updated whenever necessary  at a very modest cost, and past students could readily refer to the most up to date copies of each sheet whenever they wanted.

 

In January 2009 the earliest version of the site was established and publicised only to current and past students.

Since then the site has grown and as each course has run, a fresh set of pages has been added.  The site has also been re-written three times until it is as you see it now.  Along the way we have been picked up by various search engines and  a number of friendly sites have linked their pages to www.penciltopics.co.uk.

 

The site does not sell anything and does not ask for money.  

The information is free to read and use and the tutorials included in the site are also free to use.

 

I still undertake courses at Knuston Hall, Wellingborough, Northamptonshire,

...... in the UK -  I have to say that as I now have more readers outside the United Kingdom than within it ,

and I add further pages of notes to the site, following each course.

 

With a regular monthly audience of well over 4500 unique visitors to the site ( and still growing ), You are a welcome member of the Friends of ‘PencilTopics’.

Feel free to contact me with any questions ( obvious or otherwise ) and the answers may well add further to the site contents in due course.

 

Peter Weatherill  2011

 

A GENTLE WARNING !

What you read here is a personal view .  

These notes have been assembled from personal experience, information in books, magazines, discussions with other artists on Internet Forums and from speaking to other artists over some 12 years.  

Where I know an original source, I have given it,  But in many cases the origin is no longer known and I apologise in advance if, on the odd entry, I have not acknowledged an outside source I may have used or if I infringe any copyright.  

 

The images here are mostly all mine.  Those that are not, have the artist’s name quoted.   If you see something here that you know should have an acknowledgement, please tell me and I will put it right straight away

Where a page looks at products, it describes those available in the UK at the time of writing.  The information here is made available in good faith with the intention of providing a freely accessible resource on a specialist subject for those starting out in this interesting art medium.  

The site is no more infallible than I am !     

Most pages have a final note at the bottom giving the date of last revision.

You may need to bear this in mind if you are looking for the most up to date information.

 

THE SITE IS BASED in the UK  and looks at the UK market.

HOWEVER, well over half of the visitors to the site are from outside the UK,

and most of those 2000 plus are from the USA.  

To my readers from that big world outside, I hope that you find the content of the site useful.  It is written purely from a UK perspective, however, so some products you are familiar with may not yet have found their way to the UK, and vice versa !!

 

If you read the site content with the aid of a translation tool

- like the Google translator - then you may find that some of the pages have images obscuring the text.

In the original version these pages are correctly laid out and all the text is visible, but translation can make the text longer and therefore in some languages the layout becomes changed.  I have no control over this, I am afraid.

it would be a major task to lay out all the pages to be sure that all languages are catered for !

Sorry !!!

 

 

THIS WEB SITE

Was launched in 2008 and has been ‘WORK IN PROGRESS’ ever since

From an initial 12 pages it grew to over 200.

The whole site was revised in August 2010 and the number of pages reduced,

But the pages lengthened so that the same amount of information was included.  

 

The site was further refreshed in March/April 2011 to update the main structure

and update some of the content.

 

We have an internal Google search engine ( which generally finds things, but is not perfect ).  

Please let me know if there are any bugs in the system, or areas where presentation could be improved.  

Thank You.

 

 

 

On adjoining pages in this opening section

 

1/  there is a  glossary of Coloured Pencil terms which was put together by Bill Coulter in the Spring of 2007, and published on the excellent forum website, www.scribbletalk.com.  

 

2/  IN ADDITION there is a page describing how to use the PDF file facility.

PDF files are those written to a format which is opened by and printed by Adobe Reader Software, which is free to download from Adobe over the Internet.

In the earlier lives of this website, PDF files were available for all the major pages to simplify the printing of permanent copies of the notes.

These have now been discontinued, but PDF files are still available for the Step by Step pages, and Step by Step notes.

If you want to take hard copies of the pages here, please see the PDF  file section that follows and that offers some suggestions.

You are free to copy and use the information here, but if you publish them elsewhere in any format, I would appreciate a credit and a link.  

I have marked most of the sheets as Copyright © but that is there as a precaution against major commercial theft.    

 

3/ ALSO Featured in this opening section is a Page entitled ‘updates’

This records all changes in the site after 1st February 2009 and could well be your first point of reference if you are checking back on the site at some future time

 

Peter Weatherill

PERSONAL

WEB SITE LINK

 

The Google Search Engine  located below

will help you find topics within the site.

NOTE that the first one or two items in any search listing will probably be Google inspired advertising.

The search facility is updated regularly but may not be totally up to date

SEE BELOW

At the foot of this page for the

GOOGLE SEARCH ENGINE

Which will help you find  topics within the site