Let’s “warm” up our color…
Add dimension and realism by underpainting with Copic Markers! Use R02 underneath your BV blending combination to add warmth to a cool blue violet. Vanilla Arts Company teaches Online Workshops using the underpainting method. Students learn to layer colors realistically rather than blend.
Underpainting creates natural colors found in everyday life.
Succulent Violet
Elena’s Advice:
Don’t be afraid to underpaint with your R marker!
It’s always good practice to swatch your colors. It’s a great warm up for your coloring session and builds color confidence.
R02 does well under BV04 even though the R marker is a lower value than the BV marker. Because the R marker has a high level of colorless blender in it, that red ink will will delicately disappear while leaving a reddish undertone to this violet combination.
Violet Workshops
Vanilla Arts Company - Flutterby
Vanilla Arts Company - Ink & Hydrangea
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.
