A Beginner's Color Pencil project - Drawing a Pear with 7 colors

This is a tutorial for people who are interested in learning how to use colour pencils. This pear drawing is created using only 7 pencils and covers some of the basic techniques of layering and using thinners to blend the colours.

I used Polychromos pencils:
May Green
Permanent Green Olive
Van Dyke Brown
Nougat
Payne's grey
Warm Grey II
White

If you wish to use prismacolors, you can use:
Lime Peel
Olive Green
Light Umber
Sepia
Warm Grey 90%
Warm Grey 30%
White

The pencil is blended using Odorless mineral spirits, I use Art Spectrum brand, but there are many alternative brands (such as Gamsol) . It is a staple product in oil painting and is widely available in art stores.

I used Fabriano accademia paper, but I have also had success using :
-Fabriano Artistico Hot press water color paper paper
Stonehenge ( this will drink up a lot of thinners!! but has a nice soft result)
-Arches hot press watercolor paper
-Canson Mi-Teintes, White

The reference picture can be found on my website:
http://wp.me/p7i4kg-6C

If you try this out, I would love to see your results!

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