How long has it been since you colored with pencil? There are all kinds of pencils out there now - ones to use dry or wet (draw or paint), expensive and cheap versions with dense color or just a bit of pigment. Regardless of what level of equipment you have in your bag, take out those pencils and start to record what you see. Entertain your kids with the how-to illustrations - art made easy.

If you wish you could go back to high school and learn how to sketch and play around with colored pencils, you'll enjoy this book. It's like having a basic tutorial without the pressures of making perfect pictures.

Art should be fun. This will help make it so for you!

I really enjoyed reading Anywhere, Anytime Art: Colored Pencil by Cara Hanley. I found this book sweet, well Illustrated throughout with step-by-step great instructions and exercises you can do anywhere. Within this book you learn who to draw basic things and gives you step-by-step guidelines covering things you may see everyday, houseplants, cats, dogs, camper vans, to cityscapes etc. I found it made drawing easier especially when you add colour with your coloured pencils.
and how to used these correctly especially how to blend the coloured pencils to make different colours.
Its a book good for adults and children.
This book would be good to be used in a classroom for young children as well, I found it fun and easy to follow.

Thanks to NetGalley, Quarto Publishing Group – Walter Foster and Cara Hanley for the ARC in exchange for my honest review.

I love color pencils and I own quite a lot of sets for different usages. Unfortunately this book didn't inspire me as much as I wanted.
The drawings and colours look very pale. The pencil strikes are very clear, although if you blend well, you get a very smooth result with pencils, which is the beauty of it. I'm not sure it looks very basic in the book as if the worst quality pencil brand is used.
I also thought the author would mention the differences between pencil brands and how to choose, because it makes a huge difference to select a good brand with this medium. I really expected more.
Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for granting a free copy in exchange for an honest review.

I believe this is the guide I've been searching for to help get my coloring to the next level. I'd see gorgeous pictures online and be unable to replicate their results but this book helped me improve.
Thanks to NetGalley, the publisher and the author for the ARC in exchange for my honest review.