Colouring

Adult colouring books are HUGE right now and yes, I've been caught up in the colouring phenomenon.  I had only coloured a couple of images, but they felt "flat" to me.  And what the heck do you do with those images once they are coloured?  These questions prompted a couple of friends and I to take a colouring class at the local high school with Marilyn Harris-Mills. 

This is one of the images that I have coloured lately.  This project was also done for my first challenge at "Use Your Stuff" - Challenge No. 214 - Flowers.

Products used:

• Flower Image: Design Originals Color Joy Coloring Book
• Colouring Pencils: Spectrum Noir
• White pen (dots): Uniball Signo
• Background Stamp: Recollections
• Clear Ink: Versa Mark
• Embossing Powder: Re-Mark-Able
• Shimmery Water Colour Paint: Michaels
• Distress Ink: Tim Holtz
• Stencil: Magenta (Bokeh)
• Blending Pen:  Winsor & Newton

Background:

• Stamped the background image with Versa Mark on to smooth watercolour paper.
• Sprinkled on clear embossing powder and heat set
• Painted on a wash using the shimmer watercolour paint – the embossed area resisted the paint
• Sponged on Tim Holtz distress ink over the bokeh stencil only on the edges and corners

Flower Image:

• Coloured the image with the coloured pencils
• Blended it all out with the blending pen
• Added dots with the white pen

Once everything was dry, I fussy-cut the flower image from the coloring book and glued it on the page. Then I took some grey shimmer watercolour paint and painted around the image to give it a bit of shadow. 

I wish you could see how shimmery the background is in real life.