Read the transcript from yesterday's live online chat with colored pencil artist Arlene Steinberg.
Be sure to attend our next live chat with pastel artist Janet Monafo on Monday, June 9 at 2pm EST.
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In her colored pencil and graphite drawings, Dee Overly invites viewers to admire the unique details of natural objects.
View an online exclusive gallery of more drawings by Overly.
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Careful use of darks and lights within and around the figure can give your drawings more power and dramatic force.
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Arlene Steinberg develops her detailed colored pencil drawings in much the same way as an oil painter would proceed. She carefully determines a composition, builds from dark shadows to bright highlights, and underpaints complementary colors to enrich the image.
Watch an audio slideshow demonstration of Steinberg's Prelude, and view an online exclusive gallery of her drawings.
Owen Gray comments on Peter Paul Rubens' Hercules and Minerva Fighting Mars.
Pennsylvania artist Kurt Long won the top prize in the contest, which required draftsmen to depict one of the specimens in "BODIES...The Exhibition," at New York City's South Street Seaport.
David Jon Kassan comments on Burton Silverman's Demonstrator.
Watch an online exclusive slideshow of an additional storyboard by J. Todd Anderson for the 2008 Academy Award winning film No Country for Old Men (1:38). Anderson was featured in the spring 2008 issue of Drawing magazine.
Ephraim Rubenstein discusses Michelangelo's The Risen Christ and The Resurrection of
Christ.
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Extended entry deadline: May 19, 2008
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Watercolor Highlights - Spring 2008
