BLYTHART

Wow… Amazing artists…

barbbarcikkeith

Thank you for the mention. I’d like to name another colour pencillist…..BLYTHART. Have a looksie at his work, very good indeed! :)

good on you, hes very very good, but heartco, well that just dream work

Sorry but have to mention that BarbBarcikKeith is a ‘her’

fantastic

when i come accross any others i will bubble you

perhaps you could start a new group,i dont know if they have a group for this

BLYTHART, I’m really surprised. I’ve never heard of any artist, or known any artist who snubbs coloured pencils as a legitimate art medium. Anyone who considers them an inferior tool is either not an artist themselves, or is simply ignorant. I rarely use coloured pencils as finished works purely because I can’t – I just don’t have the skill to produce the effects I want with them. Basically, I’m pretty hopeless with coloured pencils. I admire anyone who can use them effectively and comfortably. The medium of choice is really determined by the way the artist likes to work, the way they tackle whatever they create. In my own view, coloured pencils lend themselves really well to “neater” type of work, where the artist “speaks to the medium” (for lack of another description), whereas I use mediums that tend to control and determine how they want me to work. Sounds crazy, I know, but that is the only way I can put any sort of definition on the differences for me.

ditto to Whirligig ! wonderful comment. Now I realize why I don’t use mine. I bought a huge number from an art shop closing down, thinking they were pastil pencils and would be good for sketching while driving around Aus.[actully I was a passenger] I found them too soft for my way of drawing

Thanks Dave for prommoting other artists.
Gini.

Wow!! I would not have thought that Heartco did her pieces in colored pencils. That portfolio is amazing. If I did not know better I would have assumed that her works were paintings. A M A Z I N G!!!!!

And to Deborah Holman, I stumbled upon her works yesterday. I tought her works were quite stunning. I loved her concepts and how she incorporated faces into her pieces. Or is it the other way around? The artwork frames the face? Either way, I love her portfolio. Kudos to both of them. You too Blythart. And BarbaraKeith. Excellent works of art.

Great artists! You are so sweet to promote such great artists!

(And i don’t mean to toot my own horn but “toot toot” :P

sorry about calling barb a he, so tired last night ended up not being able to spell LOL

I hope it isn’t the case that some people don’t regard coloured pencils as a legitimate tool for artists, you just have to look at the quality of work being produced to be convinced, you just use the tools you are most comfortable with, thanks for highlighting the work of other artists,more power to you.

I’ve got colored pencil drawings in my work, just go to my profile page and click on the link for drawings and they will come up! :-) Thanks BLTHART for the attention you’ve brought to this genre!

Well Dave, I have to thank you again for starting this journal entry it makes really interesting reading for me and I’m now off to see the artists you have listed that I haven’t already seen. By the way I order you to put yourself on the above list at once!!! :o))

Thankyou so much Dave, I find snobbery with coloured pencil work all the time, many people are interested in my work and say ..oh thats oils is it ? and when i say coloured pencils i get a “oh” kinda sound which you can tell basically means they dont think its worth much (i actually had one guy completely walk away from me when he found out it was CP not oils). I also get snobbery from people who work at art shops as well they think your just sketching with the CP work. I read something recently i can find it now but it was to do with CP used to mainly be used for illustration work and short term work not for museums and galleries,but now lightfast standards of cp’s have changed thats all changing :)

There is a bunch of amazing CP artists out there.. try checking out the
http://www.cpsa.org/ Coloured Pencil Society of America, http://www.ukcps.co.uk/ Coloured Pencil UK society. I started to compile a list of Australian CP artists and resoureces here but i cant find many in Australia: http://www.squidoo.com/auscolouredpencils

Thanks for adding me to the list, and by the way that Ms. Hall to you ;-) lol

BTW The link you put in takes you to only one of my drawings, there is a link on my portfolio’s front page that will bring up all of my drawings posted (mostly colored pencil), my artwork is scattered throughout my photos and otherwise hard to find. If you find the time, could you please either link to my front page, or to the ‘drawings’ hyperlink, I’d be glad to send it to you but am not sure how…Thanks so much! :-)

I use colored pencil too. But I mostly use other mediums.

Thanks so much, Dave, perfect! I’m sorry, I thought it looked like you were whipping those links up there like crazy and it wouldn’t be a big deal, compared to me you are probably an expert at it! Well, I tried to help anyway…probably just made it more confusing! I appreciate you spending the time to work it out…. :-)

I did a search for ‘colored pencil’ on the RB search engine and came up with 6 pages of drawings. Using the alternate spelling of ‘coloured pencil’ it came up with 7 pages. There seemed to be somewhat different artists on each page. Subsequently, I have added both spellings to all my tags…

LOL, personally, I prefer colored pencils, myself…

I just made a suggestion in the pencil drawing forum about a logo for the group, and mentioned your list in your journal, then I noticed that you already had it posted in the group journal…oh well, can’t hurt, I guess…

lol, didn’t I tell you my name? I meant to, I’d be happy if you would call me Rhonda (I have Welsh blood, can’t you tell?) Sounds like your Welsh through and through :-)
I just always use the same, screen name so I don’t have to remember which one is which, I figured if I put my first name up now, no one would recognize me…

My Grandfather was born in South Wales as was his mother (a Morgan), his father (surname Hall) was born in North Wales, but the family had come from England a couple of generations back. Five generations back, the family was in the North of England. My Great Grandparents came to the US when my Grandfather was a child.

I should have seperate sites too, but don’t know if I could keep up with two, or if it would be easier that way…Nice to make aquaintance, Dave! I’ll have to check out your photo site… We are clogging up your Journal with all these replies! lol

I will thank you.

Thanks Dave for this, it is wonderful. There is a group here called ‘Pencil Drawing’ which, obviously, is for pencil artists. I have had many, many people ask me what medium I use. It’s hard, when they haven’t seen my work to explain that I use pencils but the result looks like a painting or even a photo. I have only just started using pastels and have noticed that pastel work is called ‘pastel painting’. So I have decided I am now going to call my style pencil painting. I think it suits my work perfectly and I might not ‘squirm’ so much when trying to explain to people what I do. The term ‘drawing’ just doesn’t seem to describe it properly. I agree with Belinda totally, I think that pencils are just starting to be taken seriously. And it’s no wonder looking at all this brilliant work here. There are so many different types of pencils on the market now. A pencil is not just a pencil anymore! Yay to the Colour Pencil!!! 8-D

Here’s another pencillist, Michelle Wrighton, link > http://www.redbubble.com/people/michelle

Didn’t seem to get this journal in my activity monitor. It’s really lovely what you are doing. Hopefully I’ll post some colour pencil works in the near future.

Here is another pencillist Sarah Pittman
http://www.redbubble.com/people/sarahpittman

Thank you, BLYTHART. I am so honored to be included in a list of such great artists. I am grateful.

Hi BH – You have done a great job here in focussing attention to this neglected medium.
I use coloured pencils as a part of some of my paintings – they are the water soluble type and you can get brilliant effects with the combination – I also use them to scratch coloured lines through the paint surface on some canvases.

Also can I let all the coloured pencil artists know that hey are very welcome to join the ‘Painters in Modern Times’ group as we accept that COLOUR is one of the most important factors when trying to define what ‘painting’ is – so as long as colour is the key element of a work (and it’s been hand drawn or painted) then it is very welcome to be shown on an equal footing with all the other ‘paintings’
kindest regards to you all…..k

Thanks so much Dave!! I’m both flattered and honoured that you would mention not only myself, but others aswell….it is from all pencil artists that this is truly appreciated!
THANKYOU!!

I’m putting a fair effort into compiling this list and I would love to think it could help people to meet other coloured pencil artists. I only wish there was a way of reaching a larger audience with this, ‘cos I’d really like to do my little bit towards drawing (pun not originally intentional) people’s attention to coloured pencil artists

I’m so glad you did join Dave…..your work has always been amazing!

I checked and double checked the list above and can’t believe I didn’t realise that Penny Edwardes was not on there. An extremely talented coloured pencil artist and Host of the Pencil Drawing group which is a blazing success.

I don’t mind if you add me to your list Dave :-)
T.

Lovely stuff,how anybody can look down there noses at the wonderful artwork beats me.Hooray to all of you .

Thankyou Dave for taking the time to compile this list – and for adding me to it:)

I have definitely found that the ‘snobbery’ exists here in Australia towards cp work. LOL I take great pleasure in telling these people that it is technically far more difficult and time consuming to create my artwork in cp than it is in acrylic paint on canvas. I wish I painted in oils, because I’d love to say the same thing about oils;)

Most people who see my cp work ask if it is oils (although I have a very painterly rather than a sketchy style). When I tell them it is coloured pencil they are either amazed or respond with the “Oh really” snob reaction.

People frequently tell me that I should paint in oils as if that is the be all and end all of art. Luckily there are enough people who do appreciate colour pencil work to make it worth while:)

Now I am off to visit the other artists on the list!

Thank you very much for adding me to the list, its a great idea. Me too my family they love what I do but they try to push me to do oil painting, as if only oil painting is an art…........ any way Love the idea, hope one day they appreciate it.

you make my day , what a suprise^___,..Thank you verry much BLYTHART
i am so honoured ,....bigest huuuuges__

Suryani Shinta

Dave, I’ve just found another artist who draws lovely Mendalas with colored pencils, her name is Angelique Moorman, she just joined this month.

I’m honored to be named among so many great colored pencil artists. VIVA LA COLORED PENCIL!!! (Okay, that was weird.) ;)

oh wowow these are awesome , oh must have a play with mine! thanks Dave for sending me the link. Must find out when brain kick in how.[links]

By the way, where is your pencilart??? I like to see you to be added all the way on the top of the page, you’re doing it for us and not adding yourself is not fair. lolololol hope you listen to me again. lololol xoxoxo Hasmig

Fantastic Dave. It is great that you are highlighting this largely neglected media. Now I just have to get you interested in printmaking. Lithographs are a way pencil drawing can take on a whole new dimension.
These paintings are fantastic!

just amazing

Photo is about 1974! So yes I was born when you were doing your lino prints.

Cheers pal it feels very honourable to be on such a list of select few some of the work is awsome and certainly deserves every recognition possible.Thanks to talented considerate people like yourself some of these dedicated wonderfully creative positive artistic minds will flurish and there art will be recognised worldwide,well done my friend

Hellooo my friend, How are you? Can you please see wayneo ’s pencilart? He has amazing pencil arts. Thanks in advance. xoxoxooxo Hasmig

Thank you so much for including me among your colored pencil artists. It is an honor. It’s wonderful that you are an advocate for the medium. I actually used to feel guilty, like I was cheeting or wasting my efforts with colored pencils! i have moved away from that. I like painting as well, but with my schedule, it’s not always practical. Also, you can acheive different efffects with them.

Thank you kindly, Blythart for the inclusion and also, Brian Towers for the mention. It’s just wonderful to see all the works from these talented and creative minds around! I think what you’re trying to do is highly commendable!
Best of regards,
John

Thanks so much Dave for adding me to your list here. What a fantastic Idea you had to bring us together. So many talented people whose work I can see through your list. I am loving coloured pencils (you can tell I was born in UK by the way I spell!) and agree that they are vastly underrated. Hugs from DownUnder xx

Ta Dave !

Thanks Dave!!!!!

wow, and quite a list this is…..got to ask the time bank to give ma credit to see all this…thanks…

Have I been asleep for 6 months or did you republish this? I do hope it is the second one. What an amazing collection of diverse artists, you do a great job collecting these for us, Thank you, do you get an agent fee yet, you really should.

This is such a great compilation. Terrific to see some artists and works that I hadn’t seen before. Good on you Dave! : )

I’m really honored to be mentioned here. You mentioned colored pencils being thought of as a transitional or gateway tool, but they really do have their own unique charms. In my opinion, if your oil paintings at all resemble your colored pencil work then you’re missing the point! Every medium has it’s own qualities, and artists should admit those qualities and use them to the best of their advantage in each piece.

Awesome article! Thanks again for including me.

I LOOOOVE:) colored pencils. Very nice representation here, Dave:)

Well done Sir D
A very stunning collection of great art!
Perhaps there should be a group featuring this gorgeous and in my mind very technically difficult to master art
And this is a wonderful created tribute to them all – a true ekphrasis!
☼ BRAVO! ☼

Hi
I am a coloured pencil artist specialising in portraits and automobile art. I would be really grateful if you were to feature my work here.
Regards John Hayes

HI
Thanks for including me with all your sketches you posted here. I feel honored to be apart of so many talented artists. So much talent here. Wow! I am just amazed what you can do with just color pencil.