This article shows the 5 most important factors that I look for when selecting my professional pencil range:

• I need to have a range that allows multiple layering
• I need them to blend well for backgrounds and skin tones
• Will work well with fixative
• The pencils must be extremely lightfast and the colours strong
• Need soft and hard pencils for different areas of my work

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Costs:  
Single Attendance..................£42.00pp
Single Attendance with 
loan Kit.....................................£49.00pp
Single Attendance with 
Home Kit..................................£55.00pp

Venue: 
Bonsall Court Community Centre, 
Off Bowness Road, Newbold, 
Chesterfield, Derbyshire, 
S41 8AW

Having tried out the Derwent 'Inktense' pencils a while back, I thought I would add an article to this site for any of you out there thinking about buying a set but wanted to find out a little more about them first. In my latest Article about these pencils, I created my own trial piece of a 

Anyone having visited and bookmarked this Step by Step Art Website will see it has had an overhaul in the last few days, the main reason is because I have decided to extend this site to offer all those Artists out there a website that not only offers 1 Day Art Workshops to those who are able to attend but to give helpful advice via articles and video tutorials to Artists Worldwide.

I enjoy sharing my own Artistic knowledge on a wide range of things from how to produce a pencil portrait to product recommendations that I have tried & tested myself.  I hope to bring on board other Artists knowledge too, offering further Articles not just based on mediums I work with myself which limits the market considerably but Articles from Artists working on other mediums that I could learn a lot from myself.  

So why not bookmark this website, there may be some tiny nugget of advice found within these pages that helps save the life of a drawing! 
Please feel free to share this with other Arty friends and if anyone has any Articles that they would like to submit to this site, please get in touch, I would love to hear from you!   
Karen :)

WORKSHOPS AVAILABLE IN CHESTERFIELD AND NEWBIGGIN BY THE SEA

I will continue to offer private Commissions as I always have done within the UK and beyond and my current 1 Day Workshops in Chesterfield will still continue 4 times a year as I will be travelling back to my home town to continue these, however, I am pleased to say that I will also be running 1 Day Workshops in Newbiggin by the Sea too from 2015  further details will follow on my Workshops later on in the year

Great News!! 
After spending many years living and working by myself, I am pleased to share the wonderful news that on the 15th of May 2014, I will be moving up to Newbiggin by the Sea, Northumberland to live with my partner and fellow Artist, John Graham.  

As John is a fully qualified Joiner, he is currently in the process of designing our new studio in his spare room which will see us both have our own large working space, with lots more room to put all our Art products combined and will continue to offer the very best quality work that we both always strive to produce. 

Best Wishes,
Karen