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Please give a 132-pencil salute with 156 markers booming to our eight newest members: :devscenseable: =EuroFoxx ~chimmy89 *mooresart *trickyvicky1978 *tavington ~floflo and *megatorg. My apologies for how slow I've been to update the club.

Spring wrecks my health. Arthritis sets in and the changing humidity and pressure slams my chronic fatigue as it takes body energy just to drag out of bed, let alone go online. Also in the past two or three weeks, dA has crashed every time I logged on. This has been weird and frustrating, but so far tonight it's running well, so maybe they solved that server glitch. Anyone else have trouble with deviantART crashiness lately?

by Arlene Steinberg just got released. I first noticed it when Amazon noticed I keep buying colored pencils books and sent me a preorder notice last month. I didn't preorder because I was broke, but I lucked and got my copy on an art trade for a full burnish colored pencil ACEO from an eBay artist who liked it but was already familiar with most of its contents.

This book is fantastic both for beginners and super experts who collect every book in print and every brand of colored pencils out there (who me?) and Arlene Steinberg is a CPSA signature member who's thoroughly mastered her own technique of full burnish, layered colored pencils realism.

She works small, unlike Gary Greene. There are more examples of more different subjects in Masterful Color and more separate projects and ideas than in some other books, mainly because some of her good pieces are only 5" x 7" on Rising Stonehenge. The marbles piece "I thought I'd lost them" is one of the projects, in depth, and the original is only 5" x 7" -- so these projects are not so enormous you'll be spending all year just doing one.

I decided to apply her unique palette and technique of dry underpainting with muted complements to a colored pencil realism subject. Rather than just copy one of her projects, although some certainly belong in my sketchbook verbatim. I decided on something original. I took a photo reference using her guidelines for selecting which photo of your stream to use as a reference, of a lilac sprig I picked outside. I then put the live flowers near me as another reference and started with the complementary colors she charts in the middle of the book, going for dark opposites of all the local colors in the shading.

The first stage looked weird with red-purple leaves and goldenrod/yellow ochre lilac florets with little blue-violet centers! I laughed, but also found it eerily compelling like a photographic negative. Layer on layer on layer later, I came out with an incredibly lush, colorful, rich colored pencils ACEO.

It took me four hours for the detailed complementary underpainting layer and seven more to finish the other layers and the burnishing. This is not a fast method. It is the slow, insanely fussy perfectionistic realism that makes Prismacolor paintings glow from inside like oil paintings.

I recommend the book highly even if you have a bunch of other good colored pencils books -- and even a marker artist might experiment with complementary underpainting in the shadows. I'd love to see someone try. A good idea can be warped into many applications!

Here's my results from using the book:

(also reposted here at *Prismacolorists)

You can also see my progress layers and the original photo reference at my Livejournal and the photo reference is free for you to use as long as you show me what you did (note me at *robertsloan2) and credit me when you post it online or sell it. My usual thing for photo references.

Sorry I was gone so long, but glad the weather's letting me participate again!

*robertsloan2, founder of *Prismacolorists

We are Prismacolor artists and we are proud!



Check out *freelancers, a club for building art careers, selling art, marketing art, gaining commissions and focusing on career as well as art activities like art duels, challenges, contests, and discussion.

Also check out ~g-l-o-v-e Traditional Art club: many Prismacolor artists are involved, it's large and thriving!

We've also got a Prismacolorists forum that needs some lovin' --[link]




Prismacolorists 2008 Contest

The dates for the Prismacolorists contest for 2008 have not yet been decided upon. We appreciate everyone who took part in the 2007 contest and congratulate everyone who won prizes! If you think you would like to enter the contest this year, begin your drawings now so you have a lot of time to work on them and plan them out! That way you don't have to worry so much about life getting in the way of creating your artwork when the dates for this year's contest are announced.

TENTATIVE CATEGORIES FOR 2008:
Cartoons/Anime
Landscape
Animals
Floral or still life
Portraits
Imaginative or abstract

TENTATIVE PRIZES FOR 2008:

Best in Show: One-year subscription to DeviantART

Categories: A shorter dA subscription and Journal tributes from members of the DA community.



Coloring Challenge Print out Cockatoo -- Colour
It! by ~alilone and color it in Prismacolor products, then repost your version to the club and link to the original as well as back to ~alilone in your comment!

My 100 Pic Challenge: [link]
Use the 100 themes listed to created 100 different pieces. Only one theme per piece. There is no time limit so have fun. Let =DavisJes know you are taking the challenge if you decided to take the challenge.
Alphabet Challenge: [link]
Pic a series and each use each letter of the alphabet for one character from the series. Let =DavisJes know you are taking the challenge if you decided to take the challenge.

Original Challenges:
Shorties: Draw something using the shortest pencils in your set
All The Colors Draw something using every color you have
Long Shots Draw something using the least used colors, the longest pencils in your set


The Shell Challenge by *karincharlotte, do a Deviation using

for your reference in any medium and notify *karincharlotte, if you use colored pencils, markers or any Prismacolor products in your Deviation, then please also note *robertsloan2 and I will post your thumbnail into the Shell Challenge footer!

Actually if you do any of these Challenges and note *robertsloan2, I'll post thumbnails, we should get credit for doing these!



To join the club: send a note to *Prismacolorists with "join" or something like that in the subject line, or send a note to *robertsloan2 with "join Prismacolorists" in the subject line. I may not spot it if you ask to join in a Deviant Comment or comment or something.