Vanilla Undercover: Underpaint with Copic Markers for Beautiful Realism - Summer Sky

 
Add realism to Copic Marker blends by underpainting with complementary or opposite colors. Real shade isn’t just darker, real shade is murky and desaturated. Cool gray marker adds distance and depth to blue markers. | VanillaArts.com | #copicmarker …
 
 

Sunshine on a Cloudy Day

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.

 

Summer Sky

Elena’s Advice:

I wanted to capture all the color I see in the summer sky. It’s really beautiful when you pause to pay attention to the colors of June, July, and August. I see everything from light blues, into aqua, and even deep grayish blue.

You wouldn’t think that a base of gray (C4) would keep all these blues as cool as this summer sky, but it sure does.

I know underpainting with gray is rather bland compared to some of my more complicated combinations but the cool gray here actually does something important— it makes the blue look distant. Distance is the secret to coloring convincing skies.

 
 

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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.

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Elena Cazares

Elena Cazares is a Vanilla Arts student and online instructor with a beautiful sense of color and style. She is a hurricane of positive, creative energy.

Elena runs CraftsForPaws.com, an online shop for Copic Markers and Copic supplies. C4P donates 100% of profits to rescue and care for worst-case stray dogs and cats in Dallas and Fort Worth, Texas.

Shop at Crafts for Paws here. Join Elena’s C4P Copic Coloring Club here.