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Vanilla Undercover: Underpaint with Copic Markers for Beautiful Realism - Purple Flutter

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A Royal Copic Marker Swatch

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.

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Purple Flutter

Elena’s Advice:

This might be a record breaking combination. I used 5 markers.

FIVE markers!

That’s unheard of for me!

Once I had decided on the markers to get the purple color just right I thought “hmmm what if we add a hint of magenta?”

Calling RV55! Please report for duty!

While it looks intimidating, once it’s on top of V09, V17 and V15 it gives a realistic representation of what we see in this purple butterfly. Perfect!

Purple Workshops & Digital Stamps

Vanilla Arts Company - Ink & Hydrangea

Vanilla Arts Company - Hollyhock

Violeta Ink - Online Coloring Classes

Further Reading:

The Secret to Amazing Coloring

Improve Your Copic Marker Projects: Balance Your Colors

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Elena Cazares is a Vanilla Arts student and a budding online instructor 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 news and updates. Watch her YouTube cardmaking series here.


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