Vanilla Undercover: Underpaint with Copic Markers for Beautiful Realism - Fiddlehead
Fresh Green without the glow
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.
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Elena’s Advice:
It’s so exciting so see new colors come to life when I layer Copic markers.
When I wanted a tender green to give my project the sense of new growth I knew it would take a combination of B and YG markers. The trick here is to not use a strong (high numbered) B marker!
Simply start with a base layer of your B32 marker and then layer over all the B marker with a coat of the second marker (YG25), then top that with a layer of the third (YG23) and fourth markers (YG13).
Just like a new plant, you need enough wet ink for the blend to happen! And patience too. It is important that you remember to give the Copic ink time to blend.
Green Workshops
Vanilla Arts Company - Verdant Spring
Vanilla Arts Company - Splashy Hydrangea
Violeta Ink - Online Coloring Classes
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Elena Cazares is a Vanilla Arts student and a budding online instructor 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 news and updates. Watch her YouTube cardmaking series here.