Eucalyptus in Coloured Pencil

A botanical art tutorial by Emma Tildesley.

For our coloured pencil project we are drawing a branch of Eucalyptus. With its soft blue tinged leaves and red stems its a very popular choice in lots of floral arrangements and a great foliage filler that we can add to mixed arrangement compositions as artists.

  • Subject: Leaves & Foliage
  • Topic: Eucalyptus
  • Medium: Coloured pencil
  • Access: included with membership, or buy this tutorial on its own

What you'll need

  • Paper: Saunders Waterford 140lbs Hot Pressed size A4
  • Faber-Castell Polychromos: White 101, Earth Green 172, Chromium Green Opaque and 4 more
  • Caran D’ache Luminance: Middle Verdigris 713, Caran D’ache Pablo, Olive Yellow 015 and 3 more
  • Derwent Drawing: 1 colour
  • Other tools: Putty Rubber

The full colour list comes with the tutorial, in its materials download.

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