This book takes the serious beginning color pencil artist through setting up a studio, to the basics of composition and technique and through every step of creating a good picture from start to finish. It offers tips and solutions for "painting" everything from glass and metal to fruit and flowers. I've gotten many good tips from this book and recommend it.

I was amazed at the tricks, tips, and techniques described in this book. I have been using colored pencils for more years than I'll admit to, and thought I knew all the tricks. I learned, from this book, tips and tricks that were new to me. It is plainly written so that the beginner will have no trouble understanding it, and even the expert will soon be using it as an indispensible reference.

This is one of my favorite Colored Pencil Instruction Book. I keep coming back to it for artistic inspiration. I highly recommend trying out all of the exercises. Your skills will improve dramatically.

This is my favorite book about colored pencils.
It's packed with valuable tips and techniques, using solvents,
gray and complementary color underpainting,
reverse grisaille,
working on colored surface and
different kinds of paper,
vertical line technique,
juxtaposing color,
crosshatch etc...
They show how to paint lace ( with using of solvents), drop of water, satin fabric, indian corn, peppers, plum, peaches, velvety rose (with pale geranium underpainting), day lily, silver, busket, reflection in water, fractured view in water and much more..

I love beautiful works of authors. Take a look at work pictured old hands, making ravioli on p.51, garlic on p.68, cabbage on p.74... Color layers are so even, all works are air fresh, not overworked, technique is fantastic.
Question and answers part is very helpful too.
Beautiful addition to my library of colored pencils books.

I have had this book for over a month now and am familiar enough to place a review of the merits and flaws. Having done well over half of the given projects, including: color wheel, color chart, layering techniques, transferring and drawing, I am more than impressed with the results. I enjoy looking at the photos to see what is ultimately possible to do with colored pencils. This book has been a great help in familiarizing me with this medium that is totally new to me. I am still working through the projects and some of them I have done more than once to see if I could improve. My only gripe is that the names of the colors are sometimes different or obsolete with Prisma's newer color charts, so I have had to work pretty hard to find solutions. I hope the authors fix that if they do another edition. It is a good idea to get the spray fixative as the book suggests. The fixative can change the colors especially if you spray on too much. Working with fixative on your practice drawings will get you familiar with which colors are more susceptible to changing when sprayed. My plums looked great until I spayed them with the workable fixative and they turned neon purple. It is definitely a great workbook as well as a text. Don't expect too much too soon. I advise lots of reading, working, and more reading and working. I highly recommend it.