TodayÂ’s Color Challenge has some beautiful colors & the first thing that came to mind was a dappled gray horse.
For my very dappled gray & her foal, I put them in my Misti, stamped w/ Memento, then colored them w/ Copic markers. It took me longer than I thought it would to color the horses….kind of funny when they are basically “gray”. I had to use the blender quite a bit to achieve the dappled look & this is probably the most I’ve ever used a black Copic, but I really needed it for the shadows. Since the cabana & bermuda are pretty much shades of each other, I used those Copic colors to color in the grassy area & add a bit of dappling to the lower background. Then I overstamped with Versafine to sharpen the details. The stitched rectangles & stitched ovals along w/ the plain ovals & rectangles were used to die cut the layers & frames.
Thanks so much for looking! Closeups & Copic colors are on my blog: The Write Stuff
Date: Tuesday, December 15, 2015 GMT Views: 1308
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Registered: February 8, 2004 Location: South of Oklahoma, North of DFW Airport = North Texas! Posts: 44434
Tue, Dec 15, 2015 @ 8:25 PM
Oh Julie! There's a marvelous dapple gray horse on the ranch at the end of my street ... and that horse captures my eye every time the horses are down at the fence! You've truly captured that special color variance that makes these horses so special to behold!
Registered: November 7, 2006 Location: Willamette Valley Oregon Posts: 34503
Wed, Dec 16, 2015 @ 7:19 AM
Gorgeous coloring of those beautiful horses, Julie. Isn't is interesting how the time passes when we are engaged with art? I especially like the stitched panels, they add a textural richness, even those it is just 'paper'!
I hopped over to your blog to see the Copics listed, I was amazed at how many of the Grays were used.
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