Tutorial-painting digital images
Hello digital masters!
Just thought I’d show you how I used water color pencils, and Triart/Copic markers with Twinkling H2Os to paint two of my digital images. Click any thumbnail for a larger view.
Images were printed with Epson all in one, RX620 on plain white 110# cardstock. I DO have problems with the twinks making the ink run, so I’m very careful with my painting!! I think it has something to do with the papers I’m using…we shall see what the next batch brings!
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- First verse: Supplies needed-twinks, wc pencils and a printed digital image
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- Begin by laying down a base color, when coloring a large area, I lay my pencil on it's side.
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- Dont' worry too much about direction, it will all blend in when you apply the twinks
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- See all images have a base color in wc pencil, and that's it.
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- Activate the twinkling H2O by spritzing with a bit of water
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- Carefully apply the first color of twinks. I used a light pink called Chifon Pink
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- Now apply a darker color of twinks to get a bit of shading-I used Black Cherry
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- Blend using a small craft brush/ water brush etc (I use mine wb empty, so I can control the amount of water being applied to the paper). Blend working inwards, toward the open area of the image, and AWAY from the computer ink lines.
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- Now to do the blue bird. I used Tahitian Blue first, and then shaded with this color; called Ocean Wave. Notice I do not have a lot of water in there.
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- See how on this angle, there is VERY little water ; just enough to activate the twinks.
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- Apply the same Chiffon pink and Black Cherry combo we used earlier on the smaller hearts
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- Look how pretty the twinks are!
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- Inside of finished card-stamped a phrase, and add a nice flourish to anchor the phrase.
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- Second verse-this time using Triart markers, and Copics!
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- Color with base color-I used my lightest color first
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- This time, we are going to shade BEFORE we add the twinks. Add a second, darker color
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- Now add the darkest color you are using. A good rule of thumb when working with these markers is to choose colors that are no more than 2 digits away from each other in the sequence. ie. R 3 and R 5 play very nicely together. As do R5 and R7..but R3 adn R7 do not blend very well at all.
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- Now apply ONE color of twinks. I used the chiffon pink again, for all of the hearts, and just Tahitian blue for the blue bird
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- I did not blend the copics really well, before adding the twinks, I wanted to see how it would look. I ended up adding a bit more of my base color (over the twinks) to blend the marker a bit more. Then I added a bit more twinks.
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- to finish I added one of the punch conversation words (free download!) and inked the edges. I punched this one using a 1 1/8" punch. This heart is about 3x4 "
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- the finished card using markers. To see the finished wc card (already posted) click below
Click here to see the wc finished card.
Pamela
This is so pretty Pam! I wish I had your talent at coloring, I just don’t seem to have “the knack”. Or maybe it just takes lots of practice
Great tut - I didn’t think about using coloring under the twinks I just used them to add color of course you know I have exactly 2 colors and they are darker ones so I didn’t need anything under them LOL!
oooh, that turned out so pretty!! love the new image!