Pencil Artist of the Week: Gemma Gylling

This week’s featured pencil artist is Gemma Gylling, a pencil artist living in Valley Springs, California who specializes in color pencil animal art. An avid traveler, Gemma uses her experiences and the photographs she captures to create captivating pencil art depicting everything from hippopotami and ostriches, to dogs and other pets.

Gemma’s passion for animals is not just limited to her artistic life, however. Gemma is a member of Artists for Conservation and, as such, she pledges a portion of all of her art sales to various Animal Conservation groups. She also volunteers as a docent for the lions at the PAWS Sanctuary in San Andreas, California, and competes in obedience trials and shows with her two dogs.

On her website, Gemma describes her artistic process and how she came to work with colored pencils:

“After years of experimenting in oils and studying under the well known artist, Edgardo Garcia, Gemma realized her artistic potential.  Painting in oils portraying tranquil wildlife and nature occupied her interest for years. Gemma then became interested in the colored pencil medium and began participating in workshops from several well known colored pencil artists. She developed her colored pencil technique to create a photo-realism quality. Applying several layers of color with pencil allows Gemma to simulate the look of an oil or acrylic painting.”

Drawings by Pencil Artist Gemma Gylling

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If you would like to see more of Gemma’s work, you can check out her online gallery here. You can also follow her on Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest.