Vanilla Undercover: Underpaint with Copic Markers for Beautiful Realism - Cucumber
Refreshing Yellow Green
Real shade is not darker color, real shade is desaturated color.
To create the desaturated colors that Copic Marker does not make, Vanilla Arts Company teaches Online Workshops and Livestream Coloring Challenges using the underpainting method. Students learn to layer colors realistically rather than blend. Underpainting creates natural colors found in everyday life.
Underpainting creates natural colors found in everyday life.
Cucumber
Elena’s Advice:
Sometimes, I surprise myself!
I tried to replicate the color inside a crisp and juicy cucumber. I tried one G combination after another but none were quite right. Who would have guessed I’d end up with a red, a yellow green, a green, and a yellow? So weird!
Start with a very generous base layer of R0000 followed by very light coats of YG, G, and Y.
Remember that these are all pale markers and these ink formulas contain a lot of solvent— if you over-work the blend or get it too wet, the hidden colorless blender will cause mottling or erase previous layers.
Work fast and confidently. Stay cool as a cucumber!
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Elena Cazares is a Vanilla Arts student with beautiful sense of color and style. She is a hurricane of positive creative energy.
Elena runs Violeta-Ink.com, an online boutique shop specializing in Copic Markers and coloring accessories. Join Elena’s Copic Facebook group here for the latest coloring news and Copic Marker updates.