Series: The Daily Marker Art Card #27 This digi stamp had been sitting in the pile waiting to be coloured for absolutely ages. I liked the image of the girl sitting on the pile of books with her kitty, but for some reason it never called out to be the next one coloured and even… Continue reading Story time
Series: The Daily Marker Art Card #26 I’ve reached that point in the Daily Marker 30 Day Challenge where the colour-picking bit of my brain is starting to struggle; I am trying hard to avoid falling back on standard colour choices, especially for critters. My first instinct for this was to do a ginger kitty,… Continue reading Horace & Boo
And we were back with Anneliese Bates (Instagram) for the last week of the Wanderlust "floral" theme. I'd seen people mention using glue guns to create stencils before but the technique never made it anywhere near the top of my "things I must try" list. Although I have managed to shake off the worst of… Continue reading Textured flowers
Series: The Daily Marker Art Card #25 I took one look at this, the next digi in the pile, and immediately decided that I needed some bright colours. The last few art cards have been quite dark and I wanted to liven things up a bit. It's a scarf around her neck, not a cape,… Continue reading SuperCoffeeGirl
Series: The Daily Marker Art Card #24 As with all Power Poppy digis, all you have to do to make them look good is to follow the shading hints on the images. Adding extra highlighting along the edges with coloured pencil really helped emphasise the shaping. The trickiest part of this art card was trying… Continue reading Chinese lanterns
Series: The Daily Marker Art Card #23 I've coloured this digi once before, but that time I used my Inktense pencils. I want to like this Copic version more than I do and the really annoying thing is that I'm not quite sure what's wrong with it. Up close, I like it, but from a… Continue reading Bunnies in grass
Series: The Daily Marker Art Card #22 Another Faery Ink digi and I thought that I would have a go at making this into a nighttime scene for a change — the last third of the colouring challenge really does make me think about ways to do things a little differently, which is good for… Continue reading Night fairy
And following quickly on the heels of my brother's birthday comes an easier birthday to make for. Easier because this is one birthday — my other half's sister — where I can repeat the general theme without worrying that it won't be appreciated. Bunnies! And this is a particularly cute bunny. I did the colouring… Continue reading Cute bunny
Series: The Daily Marker Art Card #21 I do love Fluffy Gustav from Useless Trinkets, in all his variants. He is such fun to colour — as long as you enjoy colouring fur of course. I picked a yellow to purple gradient of colours, which ended up making him look like a little furry fireball… Continue reading Happy mail monster
Series: The Daily Marker Art Card #20 It's around this point in every Daily Marker 30 Day Coloring Challenge that I stare at the things I've already coloured and start wondering what colours I can use without repeating myself. Eventually, I settled on this dark pink, kind of burgundy. Backgrounds are another thing that I'm… Continue reading Gothic pinup
September brings my brother's birthday and along with it the usual problem of coming up with a design for a masculine card. And this year was worse because it was a big number birthday. I've done camper vans and sheep and bikes and even sheep and bikes in past years and I didn't want to… Continue reading Encaustic landscape II
Series: The Daily Marker Art Card #19 Yes, more Power Poppy flowers... checks... and there are two more to go before the end of the challenge. When I'm colouring flowers, I normally have a quick search to remind myself what colours they come in, but I'm now at that point where I'm picking random colour… Continue reading Peonies
Series: The Daily Marker Art Card #21 Another girl digi — quite an old one — from The East Wind and another attempt at non-Caucasian skin. Once again I started testing with a combo from Sandy Allnock's human rainbow but ended up tweaking the selection to something that seems to work better with the way… Continue reading Girl on a leaf
The guest instructor for week three of the Wanderlust "floral" theme was Mou Saha (website, Instagram, YouTube). Me and watercolour are not really the best of friends. I can use it, but unless I'm making pretty background papers for other projects, I'm rarely completely happy with the results. I know it's just a matter of… Continue reading Wanderlust: floral memories
Series: The Daily Marker Art Card #17 Because I'm working my way through digi stamps that were printed for previous challenges but never used, the mix of content is quite different to what I've chosen to colour before. Or to put it more simply: most of the cute critters have already been coloured. There are… Continue reading Balloon ride
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