Colored pencils come in a wide variety of brands and diameters of their leads. They can be water-soluble or permanent.

Color Matching and Colored Pencil Demonstration

The following video (from my Colorful Botanicals course) will give you some practice with colored pencils, creating realistic colors that match your subject (flowers in this case) and give you some practice with various techniques of applying colored pencil strokes to the paper.

In the video, I demonstrate application techniques including hatching, cross-hatching, layering, erasing, and embossing.

NOTE: fast-forward to the 1:10:07 mark for the color matching exercise and 1:26:47 for the application techniques exercise. )

> Download the Flower Colors Reference Images handout at the bottom of this page.