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Happy Sunday everyone. I am still in experimental mood and l thought l would like to share one of my recent experiments. I am really keen to try and get more vibrancy into my work. I have seen a few other coloured pencil artists use marker pens as a first layer. Usually done with the aim of saving time, but l was just curious to see what would happen. So l shopped around, read a lot of reviews and finally decided to invest in a few Copic markers (l will do a page on those at some point). Okay, it was really scary laying down the first marker! I doubt l could properly remove any mistakes, l wasn't at all sure that l could cover it with coloured pencil ..... and wooa! How ugly it looked! See the first picture below.  Well, it was really interesting at this point. I found that my colored pencils layered very easily over the top. I could indeed achieve more vibrancy. To get the feathers to the color seen in the photo above would take a lot of layers with colored pencil and so fill the tooth of the paper quite a lot before l could add more color. Here l am starting from a good base color with no tooth filled, which meant lots more additional colors could be added on top. I was really happy with how much more l could make the work pop.  I didn't find that it made it any quicker for me (but truthfully l never think about saving time, l want to create the best art that l can and that takes however long that it takes). I think it could be a time saver if you wanted it to be. I just loved being able to work so many additional colors on top. When l was finished there was no original marker visible anywhere, it was all completely covered and the same beautiful, burnished finish was there. So this was a successful experiment and l will be doing this again in the future, particularly if l need to cover a large area with bold color. l will be back with more experiments next time, l am in that kind of mood! Have a wonderful week.
4 Comments
Carla Austen
3/7/2017 08:34:06 am
Hi Sallyann, Thanks for the info on using your Copic markers:) The colours on your parrot are certainly vibrant! I am currently working on a rose using watercolour as a base as I too have wanted to try this for awhile. I always appreciate and enjoy reading about your art experiences:)
sallyann walker
3/7/2017 09:34:42 am
l would love to know how you get on with your watercolor base. Are you using watercolor pencils or paint? l have watercolor pencils but they really don't work well used as a base (which is what l bought them for!) ?
Carla Austen
3/7/2017 10:58:43 am
I am using watercolour. I don't really like watercolour pencils either. I have Dr. PH Martins liquid watercolours, Daniel Smith and Winsor and Newton. All are gorgeous and I combine them depending on what colour I need but the PH Martins are very concentrated like an ink and If I did need a very strong base colour these would be the best choice. I have also used Jet Black Gouache for the background and it is amazing, solid black without a single streak showing. I learned this from Julia Trickey. Today I will begin using the pencils. I am using Arches HP watercolour paper.
Carla Austen
3/7/2017 05:17:00 pm
The watercolour as a base is working really well:) Like you, it is not really saving me any time but it does somehow seems easier to have a base for the colours and values beforehand. I am doing what some people would consider a finished watercolour painting for those who paint very loosely ( not me) and then applying the depth and detail with the pencil. I am using both wax and oil based pencils and I am able to erase and use OMS on the areas that need it. I like it!! Leave a Reply. |
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