Rose Pencil Drawings Make You Smarter
From Kindergarten to College and Career

What you get combining rose pencil drawings with cognitive skills training is smarter kids who learn faster, and develop stronger self-confidence from kindergarten through college and career.

Using readily available pastels to create mixed media projects results in highly personal art with meaning. Pastels lend themselves to a wide range of drawings.

Why visual manipulation...

It's fun and builds the brain! These drawing and sketching activities can help someone who finds it difficult to focus, multi-task, or visualize images.

Looking at these blooms the child or adult artist naturally practices manipulating the image. The bloom can be viewed from top, bottom, flipped, rotated, and so forth.

Sometimes we only have a moment to see and remember. Seeing a flower from different angles, remembering the details, and then recalling them as rose pencil drawings or sketches is challenging.

What tools to use

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 pencil drawings.

And then there's picking

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.

Can you see the garden?

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 along with rose clipart to create artwork with meaning.

What cognitive skills you will learn

Lara Jonas, landscape artist and researcher, Augusta, GA

"As a landscape artist, being able to create vivid mental pictures for myself faster is essential. My 13-year-old son saw me using the rose clipart digi-kit. I let him play around with it. Not only did it keep him productively busy, he turned out a fantasy container garden using kit images and shapes.

The elements in the rose clipart digital kits are not only abundant, but a rare source for highly personalized images. As I experiment with mixed media landscapes, using the digi-kits helps me tell my stories from a fresh perspective."

• I set 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 is thinking. Each of the hundreds of sketches to practice and master here give you real, detailed information about the form and position of the flower, object, or person."

Is it an impossible confusion?

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.

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

With best regards,



Artist and Co-founder
Drawingtown

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