Advanced Art students studied the work and practiced the techniques of colored pencil artist Ann Kullberg before creating their own colored pencil paintings.
Why are they called paintings instead of drawings? Mainly because of the dry pencil "washes," the layering of colors, and the extensive use of blending, made possible by the use of Prismacolor pencils on Stonehenge paper, which we ordered from Dick Blick Art Materials.
Students started this project by selecting a photograph that they had taken, or by using a special family photo. As they had already proved their ability to accurately use a grid to enlarge a photograph--and because the emphasis of this project was on "painting" rather than "drawing"--they used a projector to enlarge and lightly trace the image onto their paper.
One student's progress using Ms. Kullberg's colored pencil painting techniques is documented below.
For more information about Ms. Kullberg's (amazing!) work and step-by-step instructional techniques, I highly recommend her books:
FINISHED COLORED PENCIL PAINTINGS
Amazon.com carries a variety of books featuring
colored pencil techniques, and my students have also referenced some of these: