Create Rose Pencil Drawings
From the Vaults of
Angel Jewel Rose Garden

Rose pencil drawings are dear to many people. Pastel pencils are readily available to artists and lend themselves to a wide range of drawings. Show off your art get discovered here. You can use pastels if you are a beginner or more advanced artist.

As a professional artist I like to layer medium pastel pencils, so a range of the pencils is necessary. This technique provides you with the most flexibility to create colors for rose drawings.


Another tip is to select from brands of pastel pencils that are "open stock". This means that when you need to replace colors of pastel pencils, you can buy the ones you need instead of a whole new set.

We enjoy one of the most beautiful rose gardens in the world. It is designed after the Fontvieille Park in Monaco, which is a favorite of our Angel Jewel Rose, and a model location for rose pencil drawings.

Here's a finished rose. You can use it on this free privacy door hanger template to create your own customized message and graphic.

• Ms. Petula sets up rose drawings ovals and circles to trace many times over.

• Shapes link together forming a base for each rose drawing as a rose drawing as a pencil drawing.
• Voila! The basic form of the rose in pencil or pen and ink emerges.
• Next we add detail lines for dimension giving texture to the rose in the drawings sketch.
• Here you can see rose drawings massed into a bouquet.
• And here you'll find a line drawing picture in full color. It's a still life of roses at peak season rendered with pencils.

"The first thing about being an artist or artist-in-training is thinking," says Ms. Petula. "Each of the hundreds of sketches to master here at Drawingtown give you real, detailed information about the form and position of the flower, object, or person."

Every bit of visual information is a piece of the visual puzzle - an element of the sketch or finished piece. And some of those bits and pieces you will want to change and improve. That's where the thinking comes in. Thinking through is drawing through for a visual artist.

Drawing through means that you "reduce" the flower, object, or person to its solid, basic form. And then you make it your own by changing the forms to create action, grace, decay, or something else.

In Drawingtown as anywhere else, all each of us demands from the picture you create is that it be interesting, original and convincing.