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Denver Botanic Gardens Certificate Program for Botanical Art & Illustration

Complex Textures in Colored Pencil Instructor: Libby Kyer Course Materials: Sharpener – electric (Panasonic portable recommended) Kneaded eraser Click White plastic eraser White plastic eraser block Graphite pencils – 2H and 2B Eraser guard with curved openings (Purchase in drafting supplies section) Feather - large flight feather to use as whisk (get the big white flight feathers at Michaels) Scotch removable tape Magnifying glass Small ruler 8x10” Piece of clear acrylic, 1/8” (can be purchased inexpensively at Home Depot or Lowe’s) #2 stump Brush - #2 to #4 watercolor with a good point. Sketch Paper/Pad – 9x12” or larger if desired, newsprint is great! Papers: Don’t pre-purchase, will be discussed during first class. Samples for experimentation will be provided, then you may select and purchase the paper you want to use. Tracing vellum, 9x12” or larger. May be purchased cost effectively in pads. Colored Pencils: At a minimum, the colors you used for CP I, as listed below: Faber Castell Polychromos Pencils: Note: Some color names have recently changed. Use the NUMBER! White 101 Cream 102 Ivory 103 • YELLOWS • Light Yellow Glaze 104 Dark Cadmium Yellow 108 Light Cadmium Yellow 105 Dark Chrome Yellow 109 Dark Naples Ochre 184 • ORANGES • Dark Cadmium Orange 115 Terra Cotta 186 Sanguine 188 Cinnamon 189 • REDS & PINKS • Vermillion 117 Light Carmine 127 Pale Geranium Lake 121 Scarlet Lake 118 Indian Red 192 Deep Red 223 Dark Red 225 Magenta 133 Middle Purple Pink 125 Light Magenta 119 • VIOLETS • Complex Textures in Colored Pencils © Libby Kyer 2007 - 2009, All Revisions

Dark Violet 136 Blue Violet 137 Caput Mortuum Violet 263 Light Red Violet 135 Purple Violet 136 • BLUES • Cobalt Blue 143 Middle Phthalo Blue 152 Smalt Blue 146 Delft Blue 141 Dark Indigo 157 • GREENS • Permanent Green 236 Chrome Oxide Green 278 May Green 170 Earth Green 172 Olive Green Yellowish 173 Chrome Green Opaque 174 Permanent Green Olive 167 Juniper Green 165 Green Gold 268 Earth Green Yellowish 168 • BROWNS • Nougat 178 Bistre 179 Dark Sepia 175 Burnt Carmine 193 Burnt Sienna 283

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Burnt Umber 280 • GREYS • Payne's Grey 181 Cold Grey 1, III, V Warm Grey I, III, V PRISMACOLOR White Black Grape

Black Cherry Greyed Lavender Ginger Root Sky Blue French Grey 20%, 50%, 70% Steel Gray

Please sharpen all pencils before class. Lyra Splender Blender Letraset Pantone Clear Blender or other alcohol based blender(Available at Meininger’s or Guiry’s or online) Drawing board to tape to; may be foam core, masonite, or the mounting block for watercolor paper blocks that you’ve saved, 11x14” or larger. 8x10” Piece of clear acrylic, 1/8” (can be purchased inexpensively at Home Depot or Lowe’s) Water container Small tube of Chinese White or Titanium White watercolor (Winsor Newton is good) KOZO Art Materials (20% discount for botanical illustration students with class confirmation Note: A $5 materials fee will be collected by the instructor at the first class, to help defray costs of specimens and special materials .

Complex Textures in Colored Pencils © Libby Kyer 2007 - 2009, All Revisions

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