You’re finally going to learn how to combine watercolor paints with colored pencil for realistic or artistic coloring. So you pull out the cute little set of watercolors you ordered from a scrapbooking website. You’re ready to watercolor!
Except you don’t have…
I understand. You like the finished look and you want to duplicate my results.
But here's the thing: you can be using the same exact paint colors, same brand, same line, same color, same everything and you still won't be able to completely recreate what I've done.
This is why I'll be posting palette shots for each of my watercolor classes.
I've given you the supply list but that doesn't tell you what colors I've created from the paints.
Palette shots are a peek into the process. Once you know I've used Pyrrol Scarlet and Hansa Medium to make a coral color, you can then find it on my palette and see the different versions of coral I've mixed.
This was clean when I started and the photo was taken right after I'd finished the last little bits of touch up work.
Coral colors mixed from Daniel Smith's Pyrrol Scarlet and Hansa Yellow Light.
Green colors mixed from Old Holland Sap Green Lake Extra, DS Hansa Yellow Light, and M.Graham Prussian Blue.
Violet mixture of DS Carbazole Violet and Winsor Newton Cerulean Blue (not recommended)
Designed for Watercolor but perfect for Copic or colored pencil.
This full page digital image is an original stamp used in my H2Oh! watercoloring classes in 2016. It was designed as a full page stamp (8.5" x 11") but can be scaled down if desired.
"Chinese Lanterns" has wide open areas with no texture marks and is perfect for colored pencil, alcohol markers, watercolor... your options are endless!
Lettering is not included in the digital stamp as it was hand lettered by me after the project was completed.
This stamp was taught as a watercolor class, therefore I do not have a recipe guide to include in the stamp package. You can view my “work in progress” photos for this project on Instagram here.
Yes! Watercolor is beautiful but it has one major drawback.
You can mix the most vibrant watercolor colors imaginable on your palette. Gorgeous, wet, and amazing color! But once they go onto the paper and dry, the color will fade.
It's the nature of the beast. Watercolor loses its potency as it dries.
But there are ways to keep your paintings from washing out and looking pale. It's called underpainting. We are going to try preserving vibrancy!
**Taught as a local class in 2016. Now available as a full page digital stamp**
Designed for Watercolor but perfect for Copic or colored pencil.
This full page digital image is an original stamp used in my H2Oh! watercoloring classes in 2016. It was designed as a full page stamp (8.5" x 11") but can be scaled down if desired.
"Chinese Lanterns" has wide open areas with no texture marks and is perfect for colored pencil, alcohol markers, watercolor... your options are endless!
Lettering is not included in the digital stamp as it was hand lettered by me after the project was compled.
This stamp was taught as a watercolor class, therefore I do not have a recipe guide to include in the stamp package. You can view my “Work in Progress” photos for this project on Instagram here.
What colors did you use on this project?
What's the marker list for that image?
What's your favorite red blending combination?
Admittedly, this has always been a hard thing for me to wrap my brain around.
I totally understand that using the same exact marker or pencil colors as the instructor increases the odds that a student will be able to duplicate the look of a class project... but it seems to me that holding the same supplies in your hand is only about 20% of the necessary information.
This is especially hard for crafters, people who are used to working with detailed supply lists and step by step tutorials.
I get it. You want specifics, lots and lots and lots of specifics.
But I'm warning you. The next time I'm up in the bell tower ranting at the top of my voice, this is what I'll be yelling-
Write that down and tack it on your craft room cork board. Tie a string around your finger to remember it. Tattoo it onto your dog's forehead so that you see it multiple times daily.
I can tell you every single color that I use on a project. I can list all minute details right down to the UPC code and link to the best price on the internet. And yet that tells you virtually nothing.
Very few painters use color straight out of the tube.
For my watercolor classes, it's not enough for me to tell you what brands and what color paints I used. If you want to duplicate my look, you need to understand the mixes I make and their concentration levels.
The watercolorist had captioned it something along the lines of "Isn't my palette almost as pretty as the painting?"
And she was right. Her palette was absolutely beautiful. But the more I stared at it, the more I understood her painting. Her palette told me what colors she was mixing and I could trace the mixes on her palette right back to specific areas of her project.
Her palette was a road map to recreating her artwork.
And that idea has been brewing in the back of my mind for weeks now.
The greens are mixes of:
OH Sap Green
DS Hansa Light
MG Prussian Blue
The oranges* are mixes of:
DS Hansa Light
DS Pyrrol Scarlet
DS Carbazole Violet
sometimes I instinctively grab bits of MG Quin Red or Rose to brighten things
* remember that I shade last, so some of these oranges have now been neutralized by the violet. They appear dirtier than they did when I made my original passes on the petals.
If you think it helps.
Thoughts?
Can't wait to paint with you tonight!!!
Designed for watercolor but perfect for Copic or colored pencil.
This full page digital image is an original stamp used in my H2Oh! watercoloring classes in 2016. It was designed as a full page stamp (8.5" x 11") but can be scaled down if desired.
"Nasturtium" has wide open areas with no texture marks and is perfect for colored pencil, alcohol markers, watercolor... your options are endless!
Lettering is not included in the digital stamp as it was hand lettered by me after the project was completed.
This stamp was taught as a watercolor class, therefore I do not have a recipe guide to include in the stamp package. You can view my “work in progress” photos for this project on Instagram here.
