Today's pencil crayon technique is one that I love. It is called burnishing. Burnishing is applying hard pressed white on top of another colour ( I chose purple in the video). It changes the colour and the texture of the pencil crayon.

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This Art & Soul Insider, we will look at the Principle of Design of Rhythm. Rhythm suggests movement or action. You can get rhythm by the repetition of the Elements of Design (line, shapes, colours etc.) in a picture.

Here is rhythm in lines. Notice the sense of movement.

And here is rhythm...

Today's #TuesdayToolsAndTechniques is about how to blend similar coloured pencil crayons. This simple technique makes blending so much easier and more effective. Today I chose two colours on the same side of the colour wheel: red and orange. Always remember to colour the lightest colour on top, as t...

Today's #TuesdayToolsAndTechniques is a continuation from last Tuesday. Last week i showed you burnishing with a white pencil crayon on top of another colour. This week, I am taking a coloured pencil crayon and burnishing on top of another colour.  The key to this is to pick your burnishing colour (...

Today is Thursday! What that means is it is #ThirdDegreeThursday ! Today's question is: Would you rather be a famous director or a famous actor? I gave my answer and a reason. It might surprise you! 

Tuesday's #ToolsAndTechniques are about a drawing technique called hatching. Hatching is drawing parallel lines... the closer the lines are together, the darker the value! Thus if you want a lighter value, you would draw the lines farther a part. Next week will be about a techniques called cross-hat...

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Today’s ART section will be short but sweet! So far we have covered line and shape of the Elements of Design. Today, we’ll talk about form. Form is very similar to shape. While shapes are 2 dimensional (length and width), form is three dimensional with length, width and depth. (visual below, th...