This is for Janelle's fun mixed media challenge - Royal Garden.
This is a full A4 sheet of copy paper and it will go straight into my journal along with the names of the coloured pencils used.
I only used 5 coloured pencils here, one brown, one green and 3 shades of red. I didn't use any blending solutions, just a Prisma blending pencil, to move and blend the colours a bit.
I have been tinkering away at this for ages, but when I saw it was the 300th Mixed Media challenge, I was motivated to finish it and make it mixed media and a garden head dress fit for royalty.
I added highlights of red and green using Copic pens and some walnut stain distress ink in her hair and on her shoulder. I then added a few liquid pearls spots.
At this point I took a photograph, because I wasn't sure if the next step would work, at least I would have a photo LOL.
I used my peeled paint Gellato crayon and ever so lightly added some colour to the background. It didn't look right so I very, very gently wiped the gellato with a baby wipe (I quickly blasted the baby wipe with my heat gun to get some moisture out of it, before wiping the paper).
Normally this step would be perfectly ok, actually it is the best way to move gellato 's around on your project, but this is just copy paper and won't take too much moisture.
Thankfully the paper didn't warp too much, I gave it a burst of heat with the heat gun, then sat it under some heavy books for 15 minutes, it's good as gold now.
Thanks so much for looking. I hope you have a happy, inky week.
Edit: I forgot I used 3 different coloured pencils on her face.
Date: Friday, October 26, 2018 GMT Views: 1140
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Fri, Oct 26, 2018 @ 6:35 PM
GORGEOUS! Indeed, it is a headdress fit for royalty.
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Fri, Oct 26, 2018 @ 7:32 PM
Oh, how I love the awesome image that you brought to life, Susie! Your coloring of her is remarkable! I could stare at her all day! Great piece of work, my friend!
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Fri, Oct 26, 2018 @ 8:23 PM
Wow.....you never fail to amaze me. I just looked at her for awhile...all the wisps of hair and tones of colors....her skin is fab! I wish mine was like that! And that eye! oooooo.....
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Fri, Oct 26, 2018 @ 8:53 PM
Another knockout, Susie, and another of your cards going into my Favourites! You really have mastered colouring and I love the bg on this as she just stands out all the more! The colouring of those roses, her face.... wow!!
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Registered: October 17, 2008 Location: Brisbane Queensland Australia Posts: 8939
Fri, Oct 26, 2018 @ 10:30 PM
Oh Susie this is gorgeous and thanks for all the details.
My craft room is completely denuded now and the culling went well, out of the 7000 odd stamps I have I managed to cull about 8 old SU sets lol. Might try again when I put them back.