Are you starting out in your coloured pencil journey and would love to draw beautiful and realistic animals? If so, then this kickstarter guide can help you with 5 tips to get you going!
Don't leave your coloured pencil journey on your 'to do' list any longer!
Discover the pencils, paper and extra tools such as sharpeners, erasers and others that I love to use in my animal drawings. These suggestions can help you with your choices amongst the vast range of brands available.
Next we look at the process of choosing the pencils and colours for animal subjects and then the application and layering of pencils to attain depth in a drawing.
Indulge in your passion for drawing and animals and change your life for the better!
Once you have started this wonderful drawing journey you will not want to stop as you explore the amazing animal world with your pencils and find the process such a joyful and meditative experience.
The first steps of any new journey are often the most difficult but once to you start it can lead to new discoveries and adventures you hadn't dreamed possible.
Take baby steps, make mistakes, they are only mistakes that teach us another way to do something, keep trying and enjoy learning.
Kate Jenvey SAA is a realistic pencil artist and oil painter using nature as her inspiration. A published and highly awarded artist, Kate has been juried into many esteemed art exhibitions on a national and international level, including 'Western Visions' National Museum of Wildlife Art USA and Wildlife Artist of the Year, Mall Galleries London and has exhibited her artwork in four solo shows in recent years. Kate has demonstrated her work in an interview on the TV show ‘Colour in Your Life.’ Kate has been tutoring for over a decade in her studio and other national venues and now is integrating her knowledge into online courses.
Her artistic interest began early as she grew to love and admire the animals that were part of her childhood in East Africa. After settling in Australia, Kate’s rural lifestyle and the native wildlife are now entwined within her colourful paintings and intricate pencil work.