A Manitou Springs artist and animal lover uses colored pencils to make beautiful portraits of wildlife.

In addition, a colored pencil is lightweight, easy to use and handle and has a sharp point on the tip that makes detailing enjoyable. Let us first look at the best-colored pencils brands on the ...

Many colored pencil sets arrive pre-sharpened so they are ready for use straight out of the box. However, the points will not remain sharp for long, and you will eventually need a sharpener.

Darcy Lohmann, Katherine Miller and Al Meloche working on their art during a San Diego Chapter of the Colored Pencil Society of America meeting in Pacific Beach.

The Colored Pencil Society of America San Diego Chapter has a free art exhibit in the Pacific Beach Library through Aug. 9.

When it comes to daily writing and drawing, one writer’s go-to pencil, the one she’d take to a desert island, is actually a Prismacolor Premier black colored pencil, which never smudges on the ...

If that seems an odd vignette to render in colored pencil, nearly all of the entries in the Colored Pencil Society of America’s 25th-annual exhibition are photorealist.

The Best Colored Pencils, According to Illustrators and Architects By Caroline Weaver, founder of The Locavore Guide. She previously owned and operated the pencil specialty shop CW Pencil Enterprise.