Hello Friends, How are you? Did you have a good weekend? As you know I was on the road so it was fun to finish my coloring of these “Birds of Paradise” from My Favorite Things. I just discovered that Simon has them in stock if you were looking for them.
It took me a little time to color the background but, it was relaxing and I enjoyed it. I added dots very slowly with some colors to compliment the background color. I love adding the eyelash lines and dots and a few doodles to the birds with my 0.05 Copic multiliner.
I thought you might want to see the “before” and I admit I was a little nervous to color it a dark background.
That’s it for today and I hope to have a video soon. Your visit is always appreciated. Hugs, Kathy
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The dark background really makes the pretty birdies pop! Thanks for sharing!
Love how the dark background makes those pretty birds pop. Happy to see you returned home safely, Kathy.
Marianne x
Terrific! Looks like someone flashed a light in the middle of the night in the Amazon forest! : ) MUST remember to try adding eyelash lines… Fab little detail!
Beautiful coloring Kathy!! Love the birds 🙂
-Berina
Moxie Craftie
LOVE it!
The background turned out great and the lines and doodles add so much character! Thanks for the inspiration!!
lyn
Love the stripes…super fun!
So great to have met you at mama elephant!
I really love that dark background. Love the dots and dashes and all the little extras you added. Really looks so great.
I love these MFT birds too! Your color choices are just exquisite!
Looks awesome, as always! I like how you did the pale, blended body on the birds. Any special technique? Thanks Kathy!
Basically I chose soft colors and feathered colors into each other. The blending solution dots also kept things softer. Apply your colors with a light hand. Color your World. 🙂
Love and so glad to hear that you get nervous too when coloring
Love the birds, love the eyelashes, love your choices of colors, love the background. Home Run!!! I use my Copic multi-liner pens a lot, too, and since learning how you use them will get more use out of them. Love multi-functional tools. I just love everything today. (grin)
Gonna don my hazmat suit today and play with my recently received Frisket. Need to find some info about what is the best cardstock and inks to use with it or if it matters. One video I found used watercolor cardstock, but curious about others that might work, too. Any ideas? I totally trust what you say.
I have only used the Frisket on Tim Holtz watercolor paper. It works great. As for other papers I can only tell you to do a test. Frisket can pull off a layer of paper if they’re not compatible. Thanks for joining in the fun. Relax with color. 🙂
Adorable birds, cute doodles but I really like the bold background — you are fearless!
When I saw this on IG I absolutely loved it! It makes the birds stand out so much – looks fabulous. Always a fan of the eye lashes too Xx
Beautiful, the background just makes it pop! I’ve been coloring pages in a coloring book for this challenge, need to send you a few photo’s today. The lighting has always been wrong!
You are so brave… but the dark background turned out great and really works! These birds are a hoot. Thanks for inspiring us!
wonderful! love the dark background
Love that dark background – makes the images just pop! They look ready to fly right off the page!
Love the dark background! It really does make the birds pop off the page. TFS!
Wow! Kathy, you are so brave. i’m not sure I would have had the courage to take those fabulous birds and color the background in a dark color. I love love love the way it turned out. the contrast really is great. I love it! I feel like I get braver everytime I watch artists like you. thank you so much for sharing what you know and learn.
Keep getting braver! It’s only paper and we learn as we take risks. There is always going to be a learning curve but that’s what makes it fun and a challenge. Thank you for being a part of the Challenge. 🙂
LOVE the dark background!!! TFS!
Your creativity amazes me!!! You always come up with such original ideas, love it!
FREE COLORING SHEETS FROM BHG. GO to. BHG.com/coloring sheets. There are 3 beautiful pages to download for us grownup gals. There are many pages for kids. Pick and choose.
I love how this came out. The dark background really makes these birds pop and sing! 🙂
GORGEOUS!!!! Love the dark background and how you colored it! 😀
Wow Kathy,just beautiful . How uplifting this is
Ha! Startled Amazon Birds at Night. Great piece Kathy. Love it.
STUNNING!!!
Before AND after!!!
WOW – YOU really are THE QUEEN OF COLOURING Kathy!!!
I love how the dark background looks. I wasn’t sure I would like it because I never do backgrounds. Doesn’t doing a background use up a lot of color? However, I like yours and maybe I will try it but with colored pencils so I don’t have to worry about using one up like with a marker. I also love the colors. What a really good job!
Wow the dark background is wonderful those birds
Look like they r ready to jump off that card. Beautifully done and oh so brave:)
Love the dark background it pulls everything together.
Well Kathy it certainly works, the card looks great. Really brings the birds to the front, brilliant.
Wow it takes lots of patience to colour a dark background like that!! It’s stunning!
The background looks fabulous.
Brilliant! That background really makes the bids ‘pop’ – I can’t believe what you can achieve with Copics, Jo x
Love your coloring of the birds and the background is fabulous.
Love those birds!
I Love all the details you added to the birds. fabulous work !
Love your dark background and I forget to color that and end up fussy cutting or using the dies and then mounting them with more dies and such! This is a terrific idea and will lead to a more relaxing task! Lead on!
i’d love to know how you made all the little dots-are they on top of the copics? so pretty- i love the dark background and your fun doodled details!
I used the copic blender marker “0” that has blending solution in it. You just press the tip of the marker anywhere you want a dot. Practice with different pressure on the tip and you’ll see how it will make different sizes.,Also how long the marker stays in place makes a difference. You can do it once even go back. You can draw with the copic blender and add stripes, zig zags etc. Essentially the copic blender marker lifts color off. The blender can do many more things. I just named a few. You can have so much fun with the copic blender. Color your World! 🙂
Awesome background!!!!