This page has a collection of my beginner level colored pencil cards! You can follow the tutorials with brands other than what’s been used, no worries. Plenty to learn here! If you’re at the beginning of the beginning, there’s also a collection of BASICS that are here.
Click on any image to go to the blog post with tutorial:
Color a rainbow blend in Prismacolor pencils
Analagous coloring – Prismacolor
Color Rainbow Dinosaurus – Luminance pencils
Color Try-fold Cards – Spectrum Noir Colourblend Pencils
Rainbow Daffodils
No Line Coloring of Critters – Prismacolor
Rainbow Penguin Choir (with a bloop!)
The simplest of coloring
Magical Friends – Colored Pencil Shading for dimension
In today’s inspiration – it’s all about flowers – in colored pencils! I had SO many flower videos that I broke them into the mediums….watercolor flowers are here, and copic are coming up, so stay tuned!
Click on any photo to get to the post with video!
Soft Rainbow Daffodils
Floral Wreath in Colored Pencils (PS this stamp is on serious closeout sale right now)
Layered Colored Pencil Flowers
Black and White Pencil Peonies
How to color a Vintage Hydrangea
Coloring and Layering Succulents, Prismacolor
Colored Pencil Fuchsia with dew drops
Mask and color poppies with Prismacolor – and embace the imperfections!
Today, since it’s my birthday (go to my YT channel at 11am Pacific and join in!) I thought I’d share what I feel is “me” – my fine art! Yes I do love my crafting….but where I find myself growing is trying new things beyond that little A2 sized surface! A bunchof these have only music without voiceover. Lots of times when I’m trying new things I have zero idea how to explain it…sometimes looking is the best way to learn, too!
These are not, of course, my only or best works. They’re just the ones on YouTube! The most amazing things always seem to happen off camera. But if you’d like to explore more of my fine art works, or choose any to purchase for your own art collection, please see my Fine Art site.
You’ll find a couple sections below…..click on a picture to go see the blog post with video!
Watercolor
My Plein Air Watercolor Setup: a trip to Hylebos Park
Coastal Watercolor – on canvas with a flat brush
6 tips: Mesmerizing Yupo Watercolor Landscape
Watercolor a Tropical Paradise
Watercoloring in Sketch-a-day Sketchbook
More watercolor sketchbooks
Reef Shark Watercolor on Black
Expressive Watercolor: Painting a Cat
31 Speed Paintings
Black Capped Chickadee watercolor
Painting just one petal
Watercolor poinsettia
Watercoloring in Sketch-a-day Sketchbook
One color watercolor painting (Lunar Blue)
Winter Cardinal – with a story
Pietá in watercolor (one of my earliest paintings, eeep)
Streets of Rome Watercolor Painting (another early one!)
Ink Painting
Ink and Bleach CItyscape
Copic marker
Copic Marker Tulip
Drawing Scrat in Copic Marker
Tribute Drawing: Robin Williams
Drawing a Copic sundae
Copics on Yupo paper
Betta Fish
Drawing T-Rex
Copic Poinsettia Sketch
Beaker
Copic Spring Bokeh
Lion drawing, Copic marker
Spring Hedgehog in Copic Marker
Drawing Mannie the Cat
Neytiri from Avatar
Drawing King T’Challa in Wakanda: Chadwick Boseman Tribute
The “no line” look can be done with about any medium; you just need to have an ink that will “disappear.” I love the no-line ink from Ink on Three for all three of the mediums below; sometimes I use distress or distress oxides for watercolor if I want the lines to fully wash out.
You can also try “second generation” stamping – stamp once on scrap, then again without reinking on your main paper. That should give you a tinted look to the stamp lines. Be careful that whatever ink you use, it doesn’t bleed with the medium. Test appropriately!
Posts below are collected by medium. Click on any photo to go to the post with video tutorial.
No-line Copic coloring animals (plus a little MISTI trick)
Inks for no-line coloring (several mediums)
Copic Marker
First, let’s prove I was doing no-line coloring in January of 2016 before the craze…..lol.
Shiny Metallic Robots in Copic marker
Coloring a no-line Golf Cart Card
Coloring a realistic bee – no line copic + pencil
Draw a crate for a fuzzy little pet
No-line coloring a girl: Copic on Kraft with Colored Pencil
No Line Copic Hack: Adding Graphite Pencil Accents
