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The Artist's Notebook: Add Realistic Texture to Your Coloring (Copic Marker, Colored Pencil)

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Want to add more life to your coloring projects?

When people first start coloring polymer, rubber, or digital stamps with Copic Markers or colored pencils, they often focus on color. Which marker colors should I buy? Which pencil colors should I use?

Color-color-color.

Later, as we build up a pretty good color collection, the focus shifts to blending. What color blend should I use on the bow? What color blend should I use for the snow?

And there’s the catch, even though you’re thinking about blending technique, it’s still all about the color-color-color.

Your Power Poppy digital stamps can be used for realistic, framable, artistic coloring projects. The kind of project that are more than coloring, they’re paintings. And you can do this.

It’s easier than you think, if you take it one baby step at a time.

It starts with making a mental shift.

Let’s move beyond colors and blends. Let’s think about texture…

Join me at the Power Poppy blog to read the full article!

Want to color Pewter & Snow with me?

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