Tuesday, April 1, 2014

Colouring with Pencils..No Joke ;)

It is my friend Lynne's birthday.
Actually it was last Friday, but I wasn't here.
So I altered this $1.00 kraft gift bag to put her gift in.
I stamped the butterflies on the background and then added designer paper, some flowers, butterflies and my image I coloured up with my new coloured pencils :)






















This is the first time I have tried using coloured pencils and gamsol.
If you know me, then you know that when I try something creative, I go all out.
I want to use what I make, even if it for practice.
So not knowing what I was doing, I coloured her face…it looks a bit on the yellow side for the shaded areas, but all in all, I think it is usable.






















For her hair, I used only 2 colours of brown.
I left some areas uncoloured as that would act as yet another colour or a deeper highlight.
I then blended it all with my Gamsol and blending stump.






















Then I went on to the other parts of the image.
Not to bad if I say so myself ;)
If any of you pro's out there have any tips for me, I would love to hear them :)






















Here is a close up of the finished image on the bag.






















I know most use Prismacolor pencils, but the artist at Blick's told me she preferred the Blick's brand of pencils.
I had a bit of a dilemma when choosing which brand, as I know I could find beautiful colour combinations on YouTube, where if I bought the Blicks brand I would have to figure out on my own, which colours would work good together.
So, I asked to try both brands. I found the Blicks brand to be more smooth when I coloured with them.
The price was quite a bit cheaper as well, but the deciding factor was the smoothness of them.

To help me decipher the coloured pencil colours, I am planning on making a colour chart.
I don't usually do this, I just normally wing it.
But I thought I would with these coloured pencils.
I made a grid on the type of paper that I will been using for the pencils and then I stamped this open image on the grid.
I will add the colours as I go along. This way I don't have to clean my blending stumps after each colour as I would be using them for whichever image I am colouring at the time.
I think I will be copying this chart as it took a few tries to get this perfect and without smears, lol.






















Onto My Day:
Ashley had an appointment early this morning and wanted me to come with her.
We had a storm last night, and her jeep doors and windows were frozen. She had to pour hot water on the windows for them to thaw out.
When I went to open the door, the handle (and the whole door) was so frozen, Ashley had to open it from the inside.
When I got home, I stayed in the rest of the day.
Tomorrow is suppose to be more of the same….sadly, this isn't an April fools joke :(






















I hope you all had a very creative Tuesday :)

Tracy :)

16 comments:

  1. Your colored image looks great. Don't even want to see that picture with snow! Enough, I say!!!!

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  2. Love your little bag. Aren't we all just dreaming of something other than white. I have the prismacolor

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  3. What a pretty bag. The image is great and the DP is so pretty!
    Wow...that looks cold. I used to live where we got weather like that. I don't miss the snow but i do miss the beautiful blue skies we had all winter long! somehow it made it more bearable.

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  4. That bag is great, the image is so cute and the colouring just perfect you did a great job. Sorry but that snow looks great. :)

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  5. WOW! your bag is beautiful! Great job on the coloring

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  6. Tracy, your coloring and blending looks great! I have the Prismacolors. Wishing you warmer weather soon! 🌞

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  7. That bag looks fabulous! Beautiful coloring. Glad you got to try out the pencils. Oh, I hope it warms up. It is time for spring!

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  8. I think you are a natural at the gamsol technique. Your colouring is beautiful and shading is great. I have prismacolour pencils, Koh-i-noor, and Design from bruynzeel-sakura.(these have nice browns for house mouse) Spring has finally sprung here it was 14 yesterday.

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  9. Wow, Tracy, just wow! You're gonna make me want to buy supplies and try my hand at coloring! Don't know if that's typical weather for your area, but ugh either way.

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  10. girl you can totally rock the pencils!!!!! awesome. i might have to break mine out again.
    totally awesome

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  11. Beautiful job!!! Cannot believe this was your first try :) I have the Prismacolors and my only complaint is when I go to sharpen them. The tips break so easily. I even bought the special Prismacolor sharpener. That snow picture is not fun. We're getting thunderstorms here right now and hail.

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  12. Oh no! I just left a comment and then it disappeared!

    I really love your coloring on that image. It is fabulous! And I like the idea of the color chart too - that will be really helpful.

    I hope it warms up and the snow goes away soon!

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  13. Such a pretty bag!
    And that snow! Yikes. No snow here but lots of thunderstorms today. I will take it over snow though I guess :)

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  14. Well there you go, even your pencil colouring is fantastic! Awesome colours! Snow go away!

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  15. Wow, you're very good with the colouring!! But snow??! :o Doesn't your weather know that it's spring now?? :s

    Oh, and I sent you an email about the ATC's to the address in your profile, hope you got it :)

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  16. Wah on more snow.😭wow, amazing that was with the pencils! Awesome job! Good to know about the feel of the pencils as I wonder about getting some for my middle dd who loves to draw (well, both girls do, lol).

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