Vanilla Undercover: Underpaint with Copic Markers for Beautiful Realism - Silent Snow

 
Add realism to Copic Marker blends by underpainting with complementary or opposite colors. Real shade isn’t just darker, real shade is murky and desaturated. Yellow softly mellows BV markers for dreamy snow scenes. | VanillaArts.com | #copicmarker #…
 
 

A Quiet Violet with Copic Markers

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.

 

Silent Snow

Elena’s Advice:

Hmmm, Amy handed me this photo reference and challenged me to find the colors of snow.

I’m from Texas.

What do I know about snow?

Even if you never use this swatch to color snow, I think you will be amazed at the mellowing action of yellow, making the quietest of BV combinations!

None of these are strong value markers, but they blend beautiful and will work on all sorts of projects, not just those with snow.

Because some of us don’t see much snow, okay Amy? Michigan people. Humpf.

"Silent Snow", a color palette for underpainting with Copic Markers. Blending combinations designed to create realism in you next coloring project. | VanillaArts.com | Color theory for alcohol markers.
 
 

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Elena Cazares is a Vanilla Arts student 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 the latest coloring news and Copic Marker updates.

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Elena Cazares

Elena Cazares is a Vanilla Arts student and online instructor with a beautiful sense of color and style. She is a hurricane of positive, creative energy.

Elena runs CraftsForPaws.com, an online shop for Copic Markers and Copic supplies. C4P donates 100% of profits to rescue and care for worst-case stray dogs and cats in Dallas and Fort Worth, Texas.

Shop at Crafts for Paws here. Join Elena’s C4P Copic Coloring Club here.