Coloured Pencil Drawing with Ricky * 7 Mondays 12:30 PM - 3:30 PM * November 3 - December 15, 2025

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Ages: Adults (Ages 16+)
Dates: 7 Mondays, November 3, 10, 17, 24, December 1, 8 & 15, 2025.
Time: 12:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Materials: Students are responsible for their own materials. The full materials list is included below.
Instructor: Ricky Schaede

Ricky Schaede is here to show you the wonderful world of coloured pencils! In this course, we will draw realistic animals and natural subjects together from a reference to practice not just drawing skills, but also the art of truly seeing, in order to render realistic forms with correct proportions. (The class will take a vote to decide which animal/subject we draw as a group!) Learn how to layer, blend, burnish and more with coloured pencils to achieve the desired result and mix perfect and harmonious colours. The course culminates with students each creating a drawing with subject matter of their choosing, with 1 on 1 help from Ricky!

“Thank you again for being a wonderfully supportive and encouraging instructor. I really appreciate your patience and understanding. You've made class and drawing a fun, safe and beautiful place to be. I've completely loved challenging myself and learning from you. You're a great teacher!!!” - Testimonial from Ann, past Drawing with Ricky student.

Materials List:

1. Set of High Quality Coloured Pencils. Preferred brands are Lyra Rembrandt Polycolor, Faber-Castell Polychromos or Prismacolor Premier. The more colour choices you have, the better, so a bigger set is best. If you already have a big set of coloured pencils but they aren’t the top quality brands listed above, they should work fine for this course, as long as they are soft and have good colour quality. I sell the Lyra Rembrandt Polycolor at my studio but all of the major brands are also available on Amazon or at local art stores.

2. Range of Regular Pencils (A good range is good to have, but for this course please make sure to have at least a 2H, HB and 6B. Any brand is good, Tombow, Staedtler, Lyra etc.)

3. Soft Rubber Eraser

4. Pencil Sharpener

5. Colourless Blending Pencil (this is a special type of colourless coloured pencil, prismacolor and Lyra make good ones, I do sell the lyra brand colourless blender at my studio but you should also be able to find these on amazon)

6. Sketch Book or Loose Paper for Study Sketching / Notes / Colour Testing, not entirely necessary, I have lots of scrap paper here too.

7. Smooth Bristol Paper for our Beautiful Animal Drawings, Size 8.5” x 11” or 9” x 12”. This paper is available in pads, I like the Canson XL brand, I do also sell these here at my studio.

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