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. Dark Violet 136
Use the NUMBER! Blue Violet 137
White 101 Caput Mortuum Violet 263
Cream 102 Light Red Violet 135
Ivory 103 Purple Violet 136
• YELLOWS • • BLUES •
Light Yellow Glaze 104 Cobalt Blue 143
Dark Cadmium Yellow 108 Middle Phthalo Blue 152
Light Cadmium Yellow 105 Smalt Blue 146
Dark Chrome Yellow 109 Delft Blue 141
Dark Naples Ochre 184 Dark Indigo 157
• ORANGES • • GREENS •
Dark Cadmium Orange 115 Permanent Green 236
Terra Cotta 186 Chrome Oxide Green 278
Sanguine 188 May Green 170
Cinnamon 189 Earth Green 172
• REDS & PINKS • Olive Green Yellowish 173
Vermillion 117 Chrome Green Opaque 174
Light Carmine 127 Permanent Green Olive 167
Pale Geranium Lake 121 Juniper Green 165
Scarlet Lake 118 Green Gold 268
Indian Red 192 Earth Green Yellowish 168
Deep Red 223 • BROWNS •
Dark Red 225 Nougat 178
Magenta 133 Bistre 179
Middle Purple Pink 125 Dark Sepia 175
Light Magenta 119 Burnt Carmine 193
• VIOLETS • Burnt Sienna 283

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Burnt Umber 280 Black Cherry
• GREYS • Greyed Lavender
Payne's Grey 181 Ginger Root
Cold Grey 1, III, V Sky Blue
Warm Grey I, III, V French Grey 20%, 50%, 70%
PRISMACOLOR Steel Gray
White
Black Grape
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
.

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© Libby Kyer 2007 - 2009, All Revisions