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! You can find me on: Facebook: https://facebook.com/cassandrahanleyart Or Instagram https://Instagram.com/cassandrahanley_art Prints and original artworks are now being sold through my etsy shop!! https://www.etsy.com/au/shop/CassandraHanleyArt