Let’s “deepen” our color…
Add dimension and realism by underpainting with Copic Markers! Use B32 underneath your RV blending combination to deepen your pinks. 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.
Lovely Pink
Elena’s Advice:
If you want to color something pink, stop looking through your R markers for that perfect color. Instead, do what I do, use your RV markers! That’s right. The combination of the R and V families in one marker create lovely pink colors all on their own, but when you underpaint with the B marker, you now have three color families combining to create a deeper pink!
The results may scare you at first. You might even think you’ve ruined your lovely pink flower! Don’t worry, as long as you use a good coat of the second (R32) and third (RV11) markers you will be fine. Give the Copic ink time to blend.
Remember, it’s always good practice to swatch your colors. It’s a great warm up for your coloring session and builds color confidence.
Pink Workshops
Vanilla Arts Company - Pretty in Pink
Vanilla Arts Company - Sakura Blossoms
Crafts for Paws - 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 CraftsForPaws.com, a 501(c)(3) non profit animal rescue. C4P’s donates 100% of their profits to rescue and care for worst-case stray dogs and cats in Dallas and Fort Worth, Texas.
Shop to benefit Crafts for Paws at their sister site - Violeta Ink. Join Elena’s Copic Coloring Club here for online class announcements and catch her YouTube cardmaking series here.
