Excellent book...ordered it as a gift for my wife. Professionally packaged and received on time, Thanks!

If you want to teach yourself the art of painting portraits with colored pencils, Ann Kullberg's Colored Pencil Portraits is a must for your art library. Her realistic portraits are dazzling. Ann takes you through the process of painting portraits step by step allowing even a beginning artist to learn her method.

Ann Kullberg's book is great for anyone who has a hard time trying to get realistic results for colored pencils. The technique she uses is superb and she goes into great detail on which colors should be used to get the best results. However, this does not mean that what she uses is the best technique for whatever you do. An artist, depending on his or her skill, will still have to go through trial and error before he/she gets the results he/she is looking for. This book has definitely helped hone my colored pencil technique. This book could have used more ethnic examples and different types of lighting. Overall, I would recommend this for anyone learning how to use colored pencil.

For someone getting started using colored pencils to draw portraits (and even for the somewhat more advanced Art student), this book is an excellent step-by-step guide. Included are many examples by the very talented author of the book, Ann Kullberg.

This is a very useful tool to have on hand. Every area is covered. As a new artisit to colored pencil I really appreciated both the description and the illustrations. I would highly recommend this book!