Colored-pencil sketches are not an art form one sees very much, said a fellow artist at the Florida Artists Gallery & Cafe in Floral City. “John's just different from everybody else.

For each of the past 38 years my partner, Jane Ashley, has given me a pencil drawing of animals or birds. All to me are treasures. Dudley Whitney, 88, Vermont Sarah Joannides ...

If that seems an odd vignette to render in colored pencil, nearly all of the entries in the Colored Pencil Society of America’s 25th-annual exhibition are photorealist.