Artist's Notebook: It Doesn’t Take a Lot of Color to Create a Rainbow (Copic Marker, Colored Pencil)
I love color
You love color.
Color, color, color. It’s all about the color. The more, the better!
But I’m always a little sad when I see Copic Marker tutorials or colored pencil classes that use a mile long list of supplies. And I’m even sadder when I read online posts from people who sincerely want to start coloring but they’ve talked themselves out of it, because they don’t have enough colors yet.
Folks, you don’t need to own the whole rainbow.
In fact, it’s better if you don’t.
More is Less!
It’s been an unusually long winter here in Michigan. It’s May and it’s still snowing. My Spring Rain project was born from my desperate need to have a bit of the gorgeous color I see in Marcella’s garden photographs. I’m soooo jealous!
But to get this Copic effect on Power Poppy's Hellebores digital stamp? I didn’t use every color in the rainbow.
I used blue and green with tiny touches of pink and violet.
You can get amazing results by keeping your color palette small.
I know it’s very tempting to look at a bouquet stamp and think “Oh, I’ll color this blossom red and this flower purple and this one yellow…” In your head it sounds so pretty.
But…
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Let’s color Spring Rain together!
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