Prismacolor Pencils

By BRENNE MEIROWITZ

Prismacolor Colored Pencils are superb art materials for drawing, whether you are a hobbyist, art student, or professional artist.  Prismacolor pencils are made of high quality pigments, which lend themselves to creating drawings rich with color, tonal value, and texture. They are also excellent for black and white drawing as well.

In most foundation art classes, before color is introduced, instruction usually begins with black and white drawing.  The objective of the instructor is to teach students how to see with their eyes – not with their brains.  For most students, this is very confusing.  It is not easy for an art instructor to make their students understand that even though they can see, their way of seeing is left-brain symbol processing, rather than right-brain creative processing.  The task of an art instructor is to get their students to begin drawing on the right side of the brain.  In every class that I have taught, that situation always leads to a few humorous outbursts from bewildered students, because at first – they just don’t get it!  To watch their expressions change from confusion to clarity is one of the wonderful gifts of teaching.

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By BRENNE MEIROWITZ

Prismacolor Pencils provides information and product resources, such as Prismacolor Colored Pencils, for creative artists of all levels.  Because drawing is the foundation for building visual art expression and skill, students in particular will benefit from tips and guides offered on this website.

The process of drawing develops a student’s ability to transfer what they see in three dimensions to the two-dimensional drawing plane.  Student artists usually begin to learn how to draw using pencils, charcoal, and pastels to copy still life.  Beginner drawing classes use simple objects such as bottles, boxes, cylinders, and round objects such as balls to get the student artist familiar with how draw what they see – not what they think they see.  Inexperienced drawing students sometimes get very frustrated while getting used to seeing the world in a different perspective, especially how objects relate to their surroundings and positioning. For instance, a square box placed directly at an artist’s eye level will look different from the same box placed in either a higher or lower position.  Rather than draw what they see, the beginner artist draws what their mind knows – that a square has all equal sides.  When they look at their drawing, they often become frustrated because their rendering does not look like the still life.  Most beginning art students need lessons on perspective, proportion, and foreshortening.

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