Adult colouring books are HUGE right now and yes, I've been caught up in the colouring phenomenon. I had only coloured a couple of images, but they felt "flat" to me. And what the heck do you do with those images once they are coloured? These questions prompted a couple of friends and I to take a colouring class at the local high school with Marilyn Harris-Mills.
This is one of the images that I have coloured lately. This project was also done for my first challenge at "Use Your Stuff" - Challenge No. 214 - Flowers.
Products used:
- Flower
Image: Design Originals Color Joy Coloring Book
- Colouring
Pencils: Spectrum Noir
- White
pen (dots): Uniball Signo
- Background
Stamp: Recollections
- Clear
Ink: Versa Mark
- Embossing
Powder: Re-Mark-Able
- Shimmery Water Colour Paint: Michaels
- Distress
Ink: Tim Holtz
- Stencil:
Magenta (Bokeh)
- Blending
Pen: Winsor & Newton
Background:
- Stamped
the background image with Versa Mark on to smooth watercolour paper.
- Sprinkled
on clear embossing powder and heat set
- Painted
on a wash using the shimmer watercolour paint – the embossed area
resisted the paint
- Sponged
on Tim Holtz distress ink over the bokeh stencil only on the edges and corners
Flower Image:
- Coloured
the image with the coloured pencils
- Blended
it all out with the blending pen
- Added
dots with the white pen
Once everything was dry, I fussy-cut the flower image from
the coloring book and glued it on the page. Then I took some grey shimmer watercolour paint and painted around the image to give it a bit of shadow.
I wish you could see how shimmery the background is in real life.