Colorado Parks & Wildlife Research Library

Presents more than twenty humorous poems, with playful illustrations, that examine life from a child's point of view; features such titles as "Stinky Boys," "Dinosaur Canary," and "There's a Goblin in My Throat."

Guide to the versatile and popular medium of colored pencil drawing that includes advice on drawing tools, paper surfaces, and more.

Tired of having to mind her manners, clean her room, and wear shoes, Ginny Mae wishes she could trade places with the family dog.

Summary: On market day in a small village in Benin, Yemi tries to watch her little brother Kokou and finds that the entire village is watching out for him too.

Learn how to create exciting colored pencil paintings from Gary Greene. Presented in the same, easy to follow, casual manner as one of Gary Greene's "live" colored pencil workshops.

Using many visual examples to illustrate her points, Bet will teach you how to use layering, burnishing, lifting color and other basic colored pencil techniques to create an exciting range of effects - from highly detailed realism to loose, luscious color. She also offers advice on choosing the right materials, conveying textures, laying in backgrounds, and combining colored pencil with other mediums. Easy-to-follow demonstrations show you how to...

Discusses how to use colored pencils to create botanical portraits, providing step-by-step demonstrations on burnishing, underpainting, and layering, and featuring a gallery of colored pencil works.

15 step-by-step demonstrations teach a classic approach to color, value and composition.--From publisher description.

Drawing with colored pencils is fun and rewarding when you do it Lee Hammond's way!Starting with the basics, you'll learn how to blend, layer and shade to create soft skin tones, subtle textures and delicate shadows. She then teaches you to view what you see as a series of shapes and lines, starting with the individual components of the face. You'll practice drawing eyes, noses, mouths, ears, hair, clothes and hands, mastering Lee's methods for graphing,...