The author, an artist and teacher, shares her techniques using pen, ink and watercolor for creating landscapes with textual detail.

Designed for mid-level art students and amateur painters, this book focuses on dealing with textures in painting and presents exercises and explanations, supplemented with how-to illustrations. It also discusses the uses of various materials that aren't traditionally thought of as standard in an artist's tool box.

With what you learn from this book, you can paint to convince viewers they see rough rocks, coarse or smooth bark, a blade or a field of grass, gleaming glass, clouds and snow, a lustrous pottery surface, and more. You'll find twenty-five step-by-step demonstrations by five fine painters, and you'll see finished works by ten more.

There has never been a better time to master textures! Knowing how to make your surfaces and textures look real is one of the most challenging aspects of creating art in coloured pencil, even for experienced artists.101 Textures in Colored Pencil provides artists with step-by-step instructions for drawing a wide variety of the most common textures and surfaces, including sand, water, metals, foliage, wood, fabrics, stone, grass, hair, and many more.101...