{"id":19930,"date":"2014-05-05T09:38:31","date_gmt":"2014-05-05T08:38:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jacksonsart.com\/blog\/?p=19930"},"modified":"2025-09-05T16:56:31","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T15:56:31","slug":"12-charcoal-techniques-complete-five-week-course-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jacksonsart.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/05\/12-charcoal-techniques-complete-five-week-course-2\/","title":{"rendered":"12 Charcoal Techniques: A Complete Five Week Course"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>A great new art instruction book has arrived at Jackson\u2019s!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In her new 122 page paperback book Cindy Wider takes beginners and teaches them how to draw good likenesses by giving them both confidence and techniques.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jacksonsart.com\/search.php?input_search=wider&#038;stock=0&#038;x=0&#038;y=0\"><strong>12 Charcoal Techniques: A Complete Five Week Course<br \/>\nbook by Cindy Wider<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Release your natural hidden talent by learning 12 of the most important charcoal techniques and skills that you may never have known existed. Once you have mastered these quick and easy techniques you can draw all kinds of things. Simply combine the techniques in various ways to achieve a massive variety of different textures. There will be no limits to what you could achieve! One thing is for sure though, this one book will change your experiences with charcoal forever!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_19931\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19931\" style=\"width: 350px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jacksonsart.com\/search.php?input_search=BKCW1&#038;stock=0&#038;x=0&#038;y=0\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jacksonsart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/BKCW1.jpg\" alt=\"12 Charcoal Techniques: A Complete Five Week Course book by Cindy Wider\" width=\"350\" height=\"463\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19931\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jacksonsart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/BKCW1.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.jacksonsart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/BKCW1-226x300.jpg 226w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-19931\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">12 Charcoal Techniques: A Complete Five Week Course<br \/>\nbook by Cindy Wider<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h5>About the Author Cindy Wider<\/h5>\n<p>Cindy Wider is an Australian born artist and author who spent her formative years in the Western Highlands of Papua New Guinea. Now a happily married mother of two little girls, she loves to create time to write, paint and draw as often as possible. She calls this time her \u2018Pyjama Time &#x2122;\u2019 because she is most often in her Pjs when she paints and draws.<\/p>\n<p>She says \u201cI have come to understand that if I don\u2019t claim my creative time no one else is going to give it to me. I use the little blocks of time rather than waiting for those big blocks that never seem to come. Leaving my art materials out ready is the best thing to do. Then all I have to do is just show up at the table and the rest takes care of itself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cindy is passionate about helping others learn to draw because she knows what it feels like not being able to. She gave up drawing at the age of 14 believing she wasn\u2019t talented enough and then at the age of 23 years she discovered art as a form of \u2018therapy\u2019 to help her overcome a serious illness. Since then she went on to win awards, sell her art to many individuals as well as major companies and organisations. She is the author of the soft cover book \u2018Paint In Your Pyjamas \u2013 every woman\u2019s guide to finding your life purpose through art\u2019 as well as a 42 week art course curriculum consisting of 37 e-books titled the \u2018Complete Drawing and Painting certificate Course\u2019 which is now helping hundreds of others learn to draw and paint.<\/p>\n<p>Cindy\u2019s art course is delivered through her own website <a href=\"http:\/\/drawpj.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Drawpj.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>With an art career that spans over twenty years, Cindy Wider is an internationally renowned art educator and multi-award winning artist. In 2011 she was selected for the ABC open and Queensland Arts Council project \u2018Artist by Artist.\u2019 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/local\/stories\/2011\/09\/27\/3353170.htm\" target=\"_blank\">A documentary was created about her artwork.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A great new art instruction book has arrived at Jackson\u2019s! 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