Colored Pencil on Toned Paper with Priscilla Humay

Thursday, Jan. 18, 2024 | 12:00 - 3:00pm

Drawing skills are encouraged yet your individual drawing style is valued whether in a loose or more classic manner. You will focus on exploring values and color and learn to distinguish the range of values in color by layering to define textures and intensity. The tone of the paper itself is the ground base and is the starting “middle ground” value. Drawing is done from this “middle ground” value up to the darks and from the “middle ground” to the lights.

Through the use of the colored pencil medium on professional grade paper, students will work to achieve a near likeness of their specimen. The colored pencil medium has brilliant color, and can produce fine details. The instructor chose this medium because it is forgiving and can be lifted and reapplied. Mistakes can be rubbed away and colors can be layered vibrantly.

Students are responsible for supplies; please see list below. The instructor will provide Stonehenge Kraft Toned Paper 9” x 12”, optional reference photo, class use of colored pencils, papers, tape, fixative.

REGISTRATION WILL CLOSE 1/16/24

STUDENT SUPPLY LIST:

• Natural objects for you to draw or your own reference photograph (or the instructor will provide an optional reference photo).
• Drawing board, foamboard, any board larger than 9x12 inches (foam core is a good choice).
• Graphite pencils ~ B, 2B.
• Prismacolor Verithins, sharpened, in a small and complete color range.
• Colored pencils, sharpened, your choice of professional grade in a small and complete color range.
• Hand-held pencil sharpener
• Value range finder
• Black Factus 18 or kneaded eraser

About the Instructor

Priscilla Humay exhibits nationally, is in private and corporate collections, and is featured in major publications. She is a Signature Member of the Colored Pencil Society of America and served on its National Governing Board. Priscilla was a co-director of ARC, Chicago art gallery. Through the U.S. Department of Interior National Park Service, she was awarded two Artist in Residencies at the Big Cypress National Preserve in Florida. She taught at the College of Lake County IL, Chicago Botanic Garden, and the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center in Austin TX. Her BFA is from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, MS from the Illinois Institute of Technology, and Post Graduate Study at Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic. In her own art, she loves to capture the essence of nature’s beauty and enjoys sharing this through teaching.