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Before and After - Reference photograph on the left / Colored pencil painting on the right
First Place - Ann Kullberg's Colored Pencil Magazine 2014 Member Show Honorable Mention - Colored Pencil Society of America's 2014 Spring Artspectations
Short List - 2014 Pencil Art Society International Exhibition, Repentigny, Quebec Honorable Mention - Colored Pencil Magazine's 2014 Art Competition
Featured - Daily Deviation in Traditional Art for October 26, 2014, DeviantArt Publication - Ann Kullberg's CP Hidden Treasures Vol 2, 2014
Publication - Colored Pencil Magazine, November 2014 Publication - Colored Pencil Student, Winter 2014 Publication - 2015 Colored Pencil Magazine Calendar
Publication - North Light Books' Strokes of Genius 7: Depth Dimension & Space, October 2015
Publication - Ann Kullberg's CP Hidden Treasures, 2013
First Place - 2D Multimedia, 2013 Ann & Bill Litaker Juried Exhibition, Mint Hill Arts
Featured - Daily Deviation in Traditional Art for January 5th, 2014, DeviantArt.
Publication - To the Point, Summer 2014, The Colored Pencil Society of America
Tools of the trade - Varnish / fixative / mineral spirits / pencils / erasers / brushes / blending tools
Colored pencil is a very slow medium, well suited for paintings requiring great detail, but shows off best in high contrast color saturated imagery. Because colored pencils are made of pigments with binders, they can be transparent like watercolor and layered several times to create warm rich hues, mixed in much the same way that one mixes watercolor, acrylic, or oil paints...it is very much an acceptable practice to call a colored pencil drawing a painting. Gina uses pencils rated highest in lightfastness by the Colored Pencil Society of America (CPSA) and archival acid free papers and substrates for her paintings to ensure that they will last a lifetime.
