I have a confession to make – I never use a color wheel. Are there rules for color choices? Absolutely, there are basic guidelines. However, the truth is I just follow my intuition. I learned about primary, secondary, tertiary colors in art and design courses. I painted color wheels as exercise. Do I ever refer…
Markers as a base for colored pencils
I am torn between using markers or pencils for coloring. Markers covers an area faster and the colors are vibrant but they are streaky. It is pretty hard to get a nice even color, blending is possible but is more tedious and does not give us as much control as colored pencils. Pencils can achieve almost all…
Coloring with Pastel Pencils
I always associate pastel with the block / stick form and the messy powder. I don’t quite like the feel of chalk on my fingers. However, I was pleasantly surprise after I had the chance to try the Stabilo Carb0thello chalk-pastel pencils. These pencils have vibrant colors. They are creamy smooth and blend well. I absolutely love how…
Coloring projects for inspirations
I ordered a few new books lately, They are all amazing and I had a blast coloring them. In this blog, I hope to provide some inspirations for you to try out some of these books and share with you a few things I learned while coloring them. Color My Sketchbook Wild by Bennett Klein and…
Coloring of memories
My son bought me a special coloring book from his recent Hong Kong visit. It has no English title so I can only show you a picture of the cover. All the illustrations are done by Hong Kong artists and portray the unique Hong Kong history and culture. This is where I was born and spent…
Coloring with Sakura Koi Brush Pens
It’s been snowing the entire Easter weekend, perfect coloring weather. Good time to try out the set of Sakura Koi watercolor brush pens that has been patiently waiting for me. I landed on this lovely page in Johanna Basford’s Secret Garden coloring book as I seriously needed some Spring inspirations. The Sakura Koi pens are…
More fun with Chameleon Pens
I am super excited to get a copy of Chameleon Pens’ poster coloring book “Lori’s Art Garden” by Lori Gardner Woods. The quality of this book is excellent, the paper is card stock quality and printer on one side only. It also has a blank sheet between each poster to protect your work so absolutely…
Coloring fur step by step
The flowery hare featured here is my first completed work of Hanna Karlzon’s coloring book Daydreams. I am especially happy with how I colored the fur of the hare and would like to share my technique with you. I decided that this hare is going to be a greyish-brown color with some orange color accents. In…
Using watercolor on coloring books
Watercolor is my favorite art medium. I especially like the beautiful effect of dropping different colors into wet paper. This is how I colored the background of this gorgeous illustration by Daria Song in the book Time Chamber. Daria Song described in her Instagram posts that she likes to apply watercolor on her background and then…
Creating bokeh effect using colored pencils
Bokeh is a special effect in photography. It is an out of focus blur. For the March coloring card that I designed for the Creative Scrapbooker magazine, I created this bokeh effect using colored pencils in the background and I would like to show you how I did it. Bokeh as background I remembered being fascinated when I…