Friday, March 16, 2012

Spring Cards with Watercolor Pencils

Lately, I have been playing with my set of Caran D'Ache watercolor pencils. I love my Copics, but I find they are not very portable (because I have lots of wonderful colors) and these days I spend more time driving my kids around than I do at home! So I thought I'd try to color my favorite stamped images with colored pencils instead of my copics.

I started with a simple graded wash over Tim Holtz backwards script...


Then I wanted to try some new shading techniques. I actually used the same blue to color the flower as I used for the shadows on the leaves!


Then I decided to play with Tricycle Marci. I used many of the same techniques to color her in watercolor as I do with my copics. I chose my main color, then used lighter and darker versions of that color. I also tried other techniques, like shading with analogous colors (e.g.-violet to shade the red trike).



I will be teaching these techniques and more at Memories Live On in Cupertino on April 15th at 2 pm. Hope to see you there!






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