A Warm Red for Copic Markers
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.
Ruby Feathers
Elena’s Advice:
Sometimes, I try too hard.
I have the proof right here on my desk… 19 different red swatches… all trying to to find some new, undiscovered red that would make world history…
But that wasn’t necessary.
B12 desaturates the R08 seamlessly. Why mess with a good thing? It’s gorgeous, so who cares if blue under red has been done before?
Sometimes, the old stuff is the good stuff for a reason.
Blue under red. It’s a good thing.
Red Workshops & Digital Stamps
Vanilla Arts Company - Red Bird
Vanilla Arts Company - Vibrant Reds
Violeta Ink - Online Coloring Classes
Looking for More Underpainting Combinations?
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.
