# The new Colored Pencil Plus course!
**URL:** https://community.thevirtualinstructor.com/t/the-new-colored-pencil-plus-course/3500
**Category:** Share Your Art
**Created:** [December 15, 2023, 9:55pm UTC](https://community.thevirtualinstructor.com/t/the-new-colored-pencil-plus-course/3500 "2023-12-15T21:55:37Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 5
### Author:  [@robichon](https://community.thevirtualinstructor.com/u/robichon)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2024, 4:37pm UTC](https://community.thevirtualinstructor.com/t/the-new-colored-pencil-plus-course/3500/83 "2024-02-07T16:37:26Z")
Hi Lenet - Just wanted to let you know how sorry I was to read about your daughter and grandson. Wishing them a speedy recovery.
Terri Robichon
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### Author:  [@lenetg137](https://community.thevirtualinstructor.com/u/lenetg137)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2024, 5:54pm UTC](https://community.thevirtualinstructor.com/t/the-new-colored-pencil-plus-course/3500/84 "2024-02-07T17:54:02Z")
Thanks Terri @robichon , doing much better. We literally just got back from hospital 30 minutes ago. Good to see him running around rather than being lethargic and very pale. On the upside now and out of the woods.
Lenet
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### Author:  [@Meme5](https://community.thevirtualinstructor.com/u/Meme5)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2024, 3:42am UTC](https://community.thevirtualinstructor.com/t/the-new-colored-pencil-plus-course/3500/85 "2024-02-12T03:42:20Z")
Didn’t make guacamole for the Super Bowl, but drew my avocado while watching the game. I have no idea where the smudge came from, but seems to be my trend lately. I should’ve made it a stray feather lol
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### Author:  [@Meme5](https://community.thevirtualinstructor.com/u/Meme5)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2024, 3:49am UTC](https://community.thevirtualinstructor.com/t/the-new-colored-pencil-plus-course/3500/86 "2024-02-13T03:49:37Z")
@lenetg137 I wish your grand child to get full recovery from pneumonia. Thank God children bounce back from severe childhood illnesses better than us adults do, however I totally understand the seriousness of pneumonia and the need for prompt treatment
Sonia
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### Author:  [@TLP](https://community.thevirtualinstructor.com/u/TLP)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2024, 12:11am UTC](https://community.thevirtualinstructor.com/t/the-new-colored-pencil-plus-course/3500/87 "2024-02-14T00:11:26Z")
Hello @lenetg137 ,
I too hope that your daughter and grandchild are doing better.
We all have setbacks in different ways, I hope that your family is 100% soon.
Teri
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### Author:  [@lenetg137](https://community.thevirtualinstructor.com/u/lenetg137)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2024, 1:05am UTC](https://community.thevirtualinstructor.com/t/the-new-colored-pencil-plus-course/3500/88 "2024-02-14T01:05:06Z")
Hello Teri @TLP , thanks for your concern. Grandson is doing much better, getting back to normal routine.
Lenet
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### Author:  [@robichon](https://community.thevirtualinstructor.com/u/robichon)
#### Post date: [February 15, 2024, 3:23am UTC](https://community.thevirtualinstructor.com/t/the-new-colored-pencil-plus-course/3500/89 "2024-02-15T03:23:48Z")
Hi Sonia -
I love your sense of humor. I get smudges and marks on my backgrounds all the time, and more so when the background paper is pure white. Don’t you just hate that? As a matter of fact it happened to me this week. Fortunately I spattered colored ink on the background and you couldn’t see that smudge anymore.
Terri Robichon
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### Author:  [@lenetg137](https://community.thevirtualinstructor.com/u/lenetg137)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2024, 11:28pm UTC](https://community.thevirtualinstructor.com/t/the-new-colored-pencil-plus-course/3500/90 "2024-03-31T23:28:49Z")
I did the Colored Pencil Plus - Strawberries. Thanks @Meme5 for the suggestion. Another first, never did mixed media with markers and color pencil. I almost trashed this to start over after finishing first strawberry in marker. I figured I would try to save it with the pencils. Maybe not what I was expecting, but pencils did wonders.
Lenet
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### Author:  [@robichon](https://community.thevirtualinstructor.com/u/robichon)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2024, 11:42pm UTC](https://community.thevirtualinstructor.com/t/the-new-colored-pencil-plus-course/3500/91 "2024-03-31T23:42:44Z")
Lenet this looks good. Another lesson to add to my “to do” list.
Terri Robichon
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### Author:  [@Meme5](https://community.thevirtualinstructor.com/u/Meme5)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2024, 12:31am UTC](https://community.thevirtualinstructor.com/t/the-new-colored-pencil-plus-course/3500/92 "2024-04-01T00:31:38Z")
Lenet your strawberries are great!
I didn’t have a chance to start on them today, but soon…
Also @robichon have you seen the scratchboard lessons. There’s a cat, a portrait a landscape, and can’t remember what else?
Sonia
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### Author:  [@lenetg137](https://community.thevirtualinstructor.com/u/lenetg137)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2024, 12:39am UTC](https://community.thevirtualinstructor.com/t/the-new-colored-pencil-plus-course/3500/93 "2024-04-01T00:39:27Z")
Thanks, Terri @robichon . I did skip the first two of the series for now. I just did some watercolor tomatoes, and just jumped to most recent. Fact is, I don’t eat any of the three. So call me weird, but its easier to get motivated to draw something you like. I do love the smell of fresh strawberries, just don’t eat them. It’s a texture thing for all 3.
Lenet
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### Author:  [@lenetg137](https://community.thevirtualinstructor.com/u/lenetg137)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2024, 12:40am UTC](https://community.thevirtualinstructor.com/t/the-new-colored-pencil-plus-course/3500/94 "2024-04-01T00:40:57Z")
Thank you, Sonia @Meme5 .
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### Author:  [@robichon](https://community.thevirtualinstructor.com/u/robichon)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2024, 1:01am UTC](https://community.thevirtualinstructor.com/t/the-new-colored-pencil-plus-course/3500/95 "2024-04-01T01:01:45Z")
Thanks Sonia for the info. No I had not checked that out yet.
Terri Robichon
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### Author:  [@Brenda](https://community.thevirtualinstructor.com/u/Brenda)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2024, 6:46pm UTC](https://community.thevirtualinstructor.com/t/the-new-colored-pencil-plus-course/3500/96 "2024-04-04T18:46:27Z")
My version of the strawberries. There are some wrinkles in my paper. I’m not totally satisfied with this, but also not unhappy with it. I’ve swapped out the photo. I corrected a gray area on the right side of the whole berry.
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### Author:  [@robichon](https://community.thevirtualinstructor.com/u/robichon)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2024, 6:54pm UTC](https://community.thevirtualinstructor.com/t/the-new-colored-pencil-plus-course/3500/97 "2024-04-04T18:54:31Z")
Hi Brenda - nicely done. The highlights are very realistic and the variety of values, especially in the reds are really good. I watched the lesson, and upon discovering the materials used have decided not to do this one. I have no marker paper and the only markers I have are the gray ones. Hard to justify buying all those colors of markers for this one lesson. Do you have a full set of the Prismacolor markers? and if so, have you used them much?
Terri Robichon
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### Author:  [@junenez](https://community.thevirtualinstructor.com/u/junenez)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2024, 11:11pm UTC](https://community.thevirtualinstructor.com/t/the-new-colored-pencil-plus-course/3500/98 "2024-04-04T23:11:12Z")
This one was fun. I do not have prisma color markers and used my tombow water based markers. Overall not unhappy except for somehow I messed up the gray on the top right strawberry. I liked using markers with colored pencils and plan to do a project soon.
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### Author:  [@junenez](https://community.thevirtualinstructor.com/u/junenez)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2024, 11:13pm UTC](https://community.thevirtualinstructor.com/t/the-new-colored-pencil-plus-course/3500/99 "2024-04-04T23:13:43Z")
Brenda,
That turned out great!
June
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### Author:  [@robichon](https://community.thevirtualinstructor.com/u/robichon)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2024, 11:39pm UTC](https://community.thevirtualinstructor.com/t/the-new-colored-pencil-plus-course/3500/100 "2024-04-04T23:39:22Z")
Hi June. Those look good enough to eat. Nicely done!!!
Terri Robichon
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### Author:  [@Brenda](https://community.thevirtualinstructor.com/u/Brenda)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2024, 1:11am UTC](https://community.thevirtualinstructor.com/t/the-new-colored-pencil-plus-course/3500/101 "2024-04-05T01:11:14Z")
Thanks so much for your encouraging comments! I’ve always had marker paper around for the granddaughter, but I recently changed and bought the Canson Marker Paper. I don’t know if there’s that much difference, but this seemed to be easier to control my applications on than the local arts and crafts store brand who doesn’t carry name brands any more. Phooey. They lost me as a customer, and now I order from Blick, Amazon, or shop in Houston at Texas Art Supply.
I do have a set of 72 Prismacolor markers that I got from the Blick website last year, really marked down. Currently, there are two sets of 72 on the Blick site - “New” set and “Original” set, both of which are $179. Both have a broad chisel tip and a fine tip. I was hoping the new sets would have brush tips. It was nice to have all the same colors as Matt for this project. I also have a large selection of Prismacolor Premier colored pencils and managed to have every color he used for that portion of the project as well.
Colored pencil over marker isn’t my favorite mixed media; however, I think that’s because it starts out on Marker paper which is not a very heavy paper and doesn’t allow for as many layers of the colored pencils. It also doesn’t lend itself to heavy strokes without sort of crinkling the paper a bit. I think the markers would possibly bleed/spread used on cotton paper. I may have to do some experimenting.
Brenda
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### Author:  [@Brenda](https://community.thevirtualinstructor.com/u/Brenda)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2024, 1:12am UTC](https://community.thevirtualinstructor.com/t/the-new-colored-pencil-plus-course/3500/102 "2024-04-05T01:12:30Z")
Very nice, June!! I really enjoyed doing this project. Of all the effects, I love, love, love the reds achieved like those in your finished piece. 🙂
Brenda
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