Colored Pencil Shading

Shading with colored pencils is much more difficult and takes longer to do than shading with regular drawing pencils.  To start this out, I would provide worksheets to my students so they can practice blending .  They would do this with the basic colors of the rainbow, going in order starting with red, and blend each color to the next, after i demonstrate on how to do this.

They would also practice blending on these worksheets, as you see above\ with the circles, where they will pick a color for each circle and blend on top with a different colors to see how certain colors work together and what colors don't.

For their project, I would bring in fruit, either real or plastic, for them to use as a still like,and draw and shade it.  They will not be allowed to use a black colored pencils.  I will have these put away so the students wont have access to them.  This project is simple because the main focus is for your students to understand color pencil shading since this is a hard technique for some students.