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Stretch Your Drawing Muscles with Blind Contour Drawings
Athletes stretch their muscles before they work out. Do you know how to stretch your drawing muscles? No, I’m not talking about flexing your fingers and wrists so your hands don’t get sore when you...
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Three Crosses on a Hill — A Chalk Drawing (with black light) by Jim Pence
I did a chalk art program at my sister’s church in Grand Prairie, Texas this past Sunday. I didn’t video that particular program, but here’s a video of another drawing I did at the same church. Some...
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How to Draw Turkeys
We’ve already done a couple of posts with Thanksgiving craft projects, but I thought it would be fun to add a couple of drawing projects, too. With that in mind, here are a few tutorials on how to draw...
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Friday Video Tip: How to Draw Trees
Earlier this week, we looked at how to draw trees with pencil. In today’s video, I’m demonstrating some very simple techniques for drawing trees with chalk. Recommended materials: 1. Drawing...
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How to Draw a Sunset with Black Light Chalk
I love sunsets! And the only thing more fun that watching a sunset is using black light (fluorescent) chalk to draw a sunset. On last Friday’s blog, I posted a photo of a stunning sunset, highlighting...
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How Drawing Can Teach You to “See.”
Black-eyed Susans at the Pence ranch. One of the things I like most about living out in the country is what I call “natural landscaping”. My kids laugh when they hear me say that, because in their...
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A Way of Seeing
I remember the first time I noticed how many different shades of green I could see in a grove of trees. I don’t recall the location, although based on my age, it was probably somewhere in western...
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Space Stuff: How to Draw Planets with Pastels
This month, we’ve been focusing on how to draw “space stuff” with pastels and with invisible fluorescent chalk. So far, we’ve looked at how to draw nebulae and galaxies. This week, we’re going to go...
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How to Do A Chalk Drawing – Slide Show & Video with Commentary
Have you ever wondered what goes into a “chalk talk” or “chalk drawing”? Today’s post might give you a little idea. One of my favorite chalk drawings is based on the story of “The Serpent in the...
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A Cool and Easy Trick with Black Light Chalk
Here is a fun and easy trick you can do with black light chalk. Draw a Star of Bethlehem with regular chalk (or pastel), then draw a cross on top of it with fluorescent chalk. When you turn off the...
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Six Super Short Art Tips — Tip #3: What are Oil Pastels?
photo credit: Fruit bowl via photopin (license) Years ago, when I was first beginning to explore different artistic mediums, I was thrilled to discover oil pastels. Why? Because I didn’t have much...
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Resources for Drawing a Lake
In a previous post, I showed you a very important principle to keep in mind when you’re drawing or painting a lake (or a calm sea). Your water line must be level, or it will look like your lake is...
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Thursday Resources: How to Draw Cats
We have two dogs and two cats at the Pence Ranch and, although I love our dogs, I have to say that our cats are far Photo credit: Happy New Year ’09 via photopin (license) more interesting. So for...
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How to Draw Horses
Photo credit: Galloping Pony via photopin (license) Laurel and I live in Texas and, although we don’t have any horses, they are all around us. As a matter of fact, we occasionally feed our next door...
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Drawing Lesson: How to Draw a Rocket Launch, Part 2
Last week, I showed how to draw the smoke from a nighttime rocket launch. This week, I’ll take it a step further and show you how to draw the rocket. So, get out your pastels or chalk and let’s have...
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How to Turn the Star of Bethlehem into a Cross with Black Light Chalk
Christmas is just around the corner. So, this week and next I’m going to re-post my two favorite Christmas black light effects. You can do these with either lecturer’s chalk or pastels. They’re fun and...
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Coming March 1st: Drawing with Chalk — A New Podcast from See the Light
Photo credit: pastels via photopin (license) Do you like to draw? What if every week you had a chance to learn to draw a new picture with chalk? Even better…what if the lesson was free? Beginning March...
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The Ultimate Low-Tech Drawing Tool
[Guest post by STL Master Artist, Pat Knepley] Image Courtesy of Pexels.com – License CC-0 A recent trip I took became a stark reminder of how far we have come in our daily use of technology. I...
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The Ultimate Low-Tech Drawing Tool, Pt. 2
[Guest post by STL Master Artist, Pat Knepley] Image Courtesy pexels.com – License CC-0 Have you ever wondered why most pencils are yellow? One story is that the color yellow was associated with...
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Drawing with Chalk Video Podcast: Chalk Art Q&A
Photo credit: pastels via photopin (license) In just two weeks, we’ll be launching our new, weekly video podcast titled Drawing with Chalk. See the Light chalk artist and blogger, Jim Pence will be...
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