Flower spray

Series: The Daily Marker Art Card #02

I’ve said it before and I will say it again: Power Poppy digis are gorgeous and even the simplest colouring makes a beautiful image. There is so much detail which means that any cropped section is still full of prettiness. After colouring with Copics, I added texture to the orange flowers with coloured pencil and silver highlights on the snowdrops.

The background took a while to get right. I decided to experiment with using soft pastel and applying it with a paper stump, but it didn’t go on as smoothly as I had hoped: the Neenah card is great for Copic markers but it’s not the best surface for dry mediums. I persisted and ended up with an interesting effect.

Copic markers:

orange flowers – 0, Y23, Y17, YR16, YR07, W4
white flowers – 0, YG21, YG25, C1
leaves – YG21, YG25, YG17, W4
catkins – E41, E43, E44

Polychromos pencils:

orange flowers – 108 dark cadmium yellow, 117 light cadmium red

Other colouring:

background – soft pastel – blue

Supplies:

• digital stamps:
  Power Poppy – winter pick me up
• dies:
  Marianne Design – ATC
• pens:
  Uni-ball Signo UM-153 silver, gold
• embellishments:
  Tim Holtz Idea-ology – metallic stickers – quotations
• paper and card:
  Neenah solar white 216gsm
  black card

This image was coloured for day 2 of The Daily Marker 30 Day Colouring Challenge on 16 June 2019