This is for Lisa's fun ways to use it challenge, New Year, New to You.
Santa was very generous this year with lots of goodies and he also discovered that he could put money in my PayPal account!
By 10am Boxing Day, I used some of my PayPal pressie and bought some new digital stamps. The white pen is also new.
I am away for a couple of weeks, armed only with copy paper Digi prints, Prismacolour Pencils, Zest in pencil blend and a handful of Copics.
To colour this copy paper image, I rested it on a rough tooth paper pad. I sharpened the pencils to a good long tip, then used the side of the pencils in long gentle strokes, colouring up and down the page.
The rough tooth paper pad gives a bit of texture to the colouring and working in one direction also gives an arty grainy effect.
Her face is coloured normally although I did place her on smooth copy paper to colour, then back onto the rough tooth pad when I did her cheeks.
This looked a bit dark when I finished and was destined for the scrap heap. With nothing to loose, I chose my least favourite Copic (good chance it would be destroyed) and coloured all of her hair with long sweeps of the bullet end of the Copic.
Like magic, the last 3 or 4 layers of pencils disappeared in front of my eyes. I think the waxy pencil and the Zest it blend, which is like Gamsol, reacts with the alcohol in the Copic.
I then touched up the image with some more pencils, then added white streaks with my new white pen. This will go in my journal when I get home.
Thanks so much for looking. Happy new year every one.
Date: Thursday, January 4, 2018 GMT Views: 1398
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Mon, Jan 15, 2018 @ 2:51 AM
Wow, wow, wow...amazing. Love it. Happy day
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Thu, Mar 29, 2018 @ 10:37 PM
Susie, we all could take advantage of a video of you in the process of coloring. I believe you are an expert in the chemical process in utilizing different media for blending. This is outstanding- beyond words. Your choice of colors, beyond anything I'd have chosen produces such a powerful effect. This is an unbelievable a work of art!