![]() Take “Tuscan red” and start drawing from the shadows.STEP 2: Separate between lights and darks (underpainting) Draw the pumpkin first and then add stripes in the background.Tap the outlines with your kneaded eraser to clean up the page and to make the outlines as thin as possible.(You can also copy and enlarge my outline drawing via Photoshop or Xerox). Work in very light strokes with your graphite pencil. Spend enough time to make the best outline possible.(Colored pencil drawing is a very time-consuming process). Pick a rather small smooth piece of paper.Tone means shading from white (light) to black (dark) in successive gradations. Most of the time students’ drawings lack contrast and a nice range of tones (values) because we get destructed by color. The grayscale picture illustrates the right tones (values) to shade in color. On the right side you see a black-and-white version of it. Pencil sharpener (general’s or other German brand).Turpenoid or Mineral spirits / Gamsol with a small brush.Drawing paper like Strathmore brand with slight or no texture at all.Prismacolor Premier Colored Pencils (not verithin, other brands that are either wax based or oil based are OK).Visit the artist’s page on FB: watch videos on YouTube: and read her blog at: Still life with Pumpkin and American Flag: Step-by-Step Demonstration Veronica is represented by the Green Drake Gallery (Millheim,PA), KR Designs Gallery (Fort Myers, Florida), and Fleyta Art Salon (Zelenograd, Moscow, Russia). The artist has received numerous awards and magazine publications (including Artists & Illustrators, American Art Collector, and Leisure Painter UK art magazines) and commissions and her works can be found in private collections in the U.S.A. She always welcomes new students to study painting and drawing in her studio. Veronica currently teaches at the Art Alliance of Central PA and the Galaxy, art-in-education program in Pennsylvania. Today Veronica paints in her studio as well as teaches art. Veronica also took figurative art classes at the Art Students League of New York and the Grand Central Academy of Art in New York City in 2008-2012. degree in painting at the Pennsylvania State University. Her colored pencil works has always displayed astonishing detail and vivid colors. From the very beginning colored pencil was Veronica’s medium of choice and she has shown formidable skill. ![]() Only in the United States Veronica could fully explore her artistic abilities and started taking courses first at the Tulsa Community College and then in 2003 completing her Bachelor’s of Fine Art degree at the Oklahoma State University. Veronica and her husband immigrated to the United States in 1997. In 1995-1996 she was awarded a full-ride scholarship and studied at the University of Tulsa for two semesters. Veronica always thought of herself as an artist but with the collapse of the Soviet Union she pursued a different career and received her Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from Zelenograd Business College, a joint venture of the Moscow Institute of Electronic Engineering and the University of Tulsa. ![]() She has spent her childhood living in Zelenograd, a suburb of Moscow known for its electronic industry. Native of Russia, Veronica Winters was born in 1976 in Smolensk Region.
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