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Amanda Coulter

award-winning colored pencil artist

Dream Surface

Amanda Coulter's Colored Pencil Art Program

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In Providence, Rhode Island, Amanda Coulter won these awards for hers Carnival Glass with Pearls colored pencil design.

• People's Choice Award

• Best of Show Award         

• First Place in Professional Still Life

Amanda Coulter's colored pencil art captures the brilliance of glassware with Prismacolor pencils on a special surface that she calls her "dream surface". 

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Award winning artist, Amanda Coulter, has been working with colored pencils for 13 years.

She grew up in the family art gallery/ teaching studio and acquired experience in learning to teach art. 

She has developed and perfected her own easy colored pencil techniques through 13 years of experience, and is now teaching the Coulter Colored Pencil Art Program nationally.

Amanda is an internationally published author.  Her most recent project published in the Autumn issue of The Decorative Painter magazine.

Hallmarks of Amanda Coulter's colored pencil art style are:

• Realistic designs 

• Rich, fully saturated colors

• Luminist effects for ordinary subjects

• Exquisite drama

• Fun, playful techniques

Amanda's special surface for colored pencil designs.

Amanda's mastery of photography allows her to find just the right lighting situation for each subject to enhance and inspire her her creativity.

Specializing in luminous art works, Amanda continually searches for new and different subjects to photograph that inspire new colored pencil designs.

Amanda's special dream surface

Custom Cut Mats

Amanda uses dream surface ... Colourfix™ Paper ... to create her colored pencil designs. 

She uses Colourfix™ Primer to prep wood or metal surfaces for her beautiful colored pencil art works.

Pictured here is the first in a series of art educational DVDs by Amanda Coulter. 

One sunny afternoon, she brought out an old canning jar and laid a blue daisy next to it.  The sunlight streaming in from a nearby window caught the jar and daisy to enhance the composition.  After photographing it, Amanda brought out her colored pencils to begin sketching the design and organizing her creative ideas.   When it was sketched enough to please her, she started to work adding color and light to create this lovely colored pencil project.

Last year, Amanda had the opportunity to photograph this lovely pintail duck and has created this project to teach to her colored pencil students.

Although the feathers appear to be very detailed, Amanda says they are very easy to create with her colored pencil techniques.

You'll probably never see Amanda without her trusty camera tucked in her pocket.  She's always ready to capture that momentary magic caught in the sunlight and turn it into a new colored pencil art work.

The best gift Amanda ever received for her birthday was a wonderful digital camera. Now, she photographs whatever catches her attention and has a growing file of many subjects, from flowers, bugs and butterflies to glassware or ordinary subjects caught in gleaming sunlight to inspire her imagination.  This one is of her beloved kitty, Phebe, whom she rescued several years ago.

She favors sparkling glass, shiny metals and glowing candle flames.  Amanda is infatuated with light and color.  No matter what the particular challenge, she will find a solution with colored pencils in hand.

Amanda warmly invites you to join her art workshops to learn her fascinating colored pencil techniques that bring ordinary subjects to life through light and color.

Wine Bottle

At the left is a glass study featuring a wine bottle that Amanda taught in workshops last year.  In this project students learned how to capture the shines and reflections of the glass, as well as the textured cork and the paper label.   Amanda teaches this comfortably in a 4 hour class.

Amanda's special surface for colored pencil designs.

Students receive a comprehensive notebook,  lecture, and personal guidance from the teacher step by step through a complete project from start to finish in the workshop.

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