Mixed Colors Look Better Than Marker Blends: Video Resources
Supply list and project resources for “Heart Lollies” below
PROJECT RESOURCES FOR “HEART LOLLIES”
Learn more about my Break the Rules video plus the featured project. Supplies, resources, and video concepts.
DO YOU COLOR ON AUTOPILOT?
I hate to say it but it’s the blends!
Blending combinations make coloring almost too easy.
You can turn off your brain and color for hours. Watch a movie, listen to an audio book, do your taxes…
Pssttt… zombie coloring is a real thing!
If you’re repeating the same ol’ blends you’ve used a million times before?
Is it any wonder you’re bored enough to need Netflix?
LEARN TO USE COLOR
LIKE AN ARTIST
Blending combinations work against you in the long run.
Combos are easy because you can do them without thinking.
Which is what art and craft supplies are counting on.
Because if when you do nothing but blend, blend, blend…
You only think about creating blends, never about creating color.
And honestly, that’s the biggest difference I see between crafting style colorists and artists who use markers.
If crafters need a specific color, they buy a marker or pencil in that color.
Meanwhile the artist usually mixes that same color through layering.
If you’ve ever been astounded by how few colors are on my project lists and why I never use red colored pencil to shade red objects— this is the secret:
I color like an artist, not like a colorist.
Want to move from marker colorist to marker artist?
COLOR WONK
INTERMEDIATE-ADVANCED MARKER + PENCIL
Color Wonk is my artistic coloring school full of projects similar similar to Heart Lollies.
Every lesson is based upon fine art techniques, distilled into easily digestible lessons for colorists and shy artists.
Because we’re not coloring with ye olde blending combinations and we’re challenging popular coloring assumptions— we keep you on your toes, thinking, growing, and learning.
Coloring isn’t just something to keep your hands busy. Coloring should also engage your artistic mind.
WATCH THE VIDEO
In this episode, I share all the artistic color decisions I made along the way.
If you’re not creating unique colors, you’re not doing your best coloring.
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PROJECT RESOURCES
Full color and supply list at end of this article.
SKILL LEVEL: Intermediate/Advanced
LINE ART: “Heart Lollies” by Amy Shulke
SIZE: 10x10”
TOTAL COLORING TIME: 3 hours
MARKERS: Copic Sketch Markers (colors listed below)
PENCILS: Holbein Artist’s Colored Pencils plus a few open stock Derwent and Stabilo pencils (colors listed below)
PAPER: Strathmore 400 Bristol, Smooth finish (listed below)
PRINT DETAILS: Gray line PNG digital stamp printed onto Bristol with the Canon Pixma Pro 100
SUPPLY LIST: “HEART LOLLIES”
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