Trad Art Week: Tools of Your Trade I love colored pencils! I love the smell, the texture, the wonderful colors that no sCaNnER cAn eVER GET RIGHT--- Hello everyone! I'm Kiki-Tayler,  a collector of colored pencils. In this article I'll be talking about the technique I use when working with colored pencils. I'll cover the topics of colored pencil brands/types, paper quality, auxiliary tools, and the super secret technique. (It's not all that secret, tbh) Let's dive in and talk about the pencils themselves. I use a mixture of Prismacolor pencils and Faber Castell pencils. Prismacolor Pencils Have a Wax-coreMassive selection of bright colo

Being a Beginner Week Every artist is going to discover that they're a beginner again. We return to this important phase multiple times as we try new mediums, new techniques, and new methods of displaying our efforts. The trick is to rejoice at our status instead of being frustrated. Greetings! I'm Kiki-Tayler, a perpetual beginner and ever-practicing optimist. We all return to being beginners multiple times. Personally I've been a beginner at least a dozen times. The short above was my experience going from watercolors over to oil paints. Admittedly I did not take the transition well, and swore off oils for several years. But, when I did r