Colored Pencil on Toned Paper
Thursday and Friday, April 24 & 25, 2025
10 a.m.–4 p.m.
Fee: $195 members/$240 non-members
Prerequisites: Botanical Drawing I and II; Colored Pencil I
Experience how toned paper can enhance your colored pencil drawings. By starting from a mid-tone value, you will learn to see shadows and lights in a new way! In this class, Katy Lyness will cover various techniques to explore the color shifts caused by a toned substrate. We will examine how working on toned paper creates an overall warm or cool tone to your drawing, helps define light values, adds color unity, and allows for highlights that sparkle.
Click here for a list of materials needed for the class.
Throughout Katy Lyness’s artistic life, she has painted murals, designed for the theater, and ran a community printmaking workshop. Now, her focus is on drawing the fascinating, natural world. Her works have been included in ASBA’s Annual International Exhibition, where in 2022, she received an Honorable Mention. She is featured in The ASBA, Botanical Art Techniques, edited by Carol Woodin and Robin Jess. Her education includes an MA in Art Education from Columbia University Teachers College and a certificate with honors from the New York Botanical Garden’s Botanical Illustration program. She has been teaching drawing at NYBG since 2018.
Advance registration is required for all programs and events. This helps with planning and lets us contact you if programs are canceled. Many of our instructors are from out of town, and programs with insufficient enrollment may be canceled several days in advance.
