Hello Friends, How are you? Did you watch the Olympic Opening Ceremony! Love how all these countries come together in unity and on so many other levels. Gives me hope for world peace one day.
On another note … throughout this 30 day coloring challenge I have been featuring some of these girl stamps. They are so fun to watercolor or to use markers. This is the one today and it’s from Penny Black.
In case you missed my previous posts with these fun faces you can check out Day 18, Day 5, & on Day 3 I watercolored some backgrounds.
Full disclosure … I colored her in January & decided to save her so that I could show you how easy it is to add colored pencil on top of alcohol marker to enhance your coloring. In other words my coloring needed enhancing lol. Not only that but, it’s faster and easier. I always start with E50 and use RV10 on cheeks. I use E50 on flowers or leaves too.
Here is a slower quick video to watch the process.
This is the stamp and I used the packing as my jumping board when I did my copic coloring in Jan. Many times I have admitted I don’t like to color hair so take note …. Color in some areas so that you have less hair to color. See the white arrow … that section I made a background instead hair because it’s easier and more fun!
I chose to ignore or ask myself why I colored her nose so brown or why the eye shadow just stops … or that I kinda messed up on the eyelashes. (maybe I could have erased a little to soften those lines… but, I didn’t care that much) Drawing the fishnet lace and filling in the nooks and crannies is what I chose to focus on.
I was nervous to add eyebrows and they did give her more personality. Now what to do with the background.
My pilates class was cancelled so I decided to draw some loops or scales with a sharpie to jazz up the background then I added a necklace with a little charm. Love getting that extra bonus hour!
I added a thinner line with a super fine tip marker and filled in the nooks with a purple marker. A bit more of a darker pink on her cheeks and that does it for me…. time to walk away or I might mess her up.
Thanks for your visit today and always. See you tomorrow. Big Hugs, Kathy
COLORING CHALLENGE INFO BELOW… QUESTIONS? NEWBIES? SHARING?
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There are now 3 ways to share what you are coloring. If you want to join a community of coloring enthusiasts I recommend FaceBook or Instagram. Be sure to tag me and use the hashtag #thedailymarker30day. Kids & young adults use #thedailymarker30daykids.
The 3rd way is to link up to my blog to share your coloring here.
Be Mine !
Day 11. Birds! Gina K. Designs
A Little Bird Told Me……
Wow, she is beautiful. I noticed the lace and the background and so admire your patience! I love that you add the dark circles under the eyes. We all have some. It’s almost magical how she comes to life under your pencils. Wonderful work!
Beautiful! I thought she was beautiful before you started the finishing touches wit pencils, But she is really amazing now! I can’t believe all the details you add!
This is seriously quite amazing Kathy, you blow me away with your talent!
This is gorgeous, complete with awesome added details. I could never create anything like this. Your talent and creativity are jaw dropping.
Just beautiful Kathy. My husband would call me crazy (well I guess he already does lol) to sit there and do all the detail. It’s not to much different than zentangles. As for what to do after the 30 day humm you could make it a 45 day challenge lol. Enjoy the Olympics with you hubby because that is what we are doing. It went from 70 outside yesterday to below 20 today.
Wow–lots of great details you added with colored pencil. I like the lace.
BEAUTIFUL JOB, Kathy! I You’ve made her look SO MUCH MORE INTERESTING with EVERYTHING you’ve done! 😉 SUPER JOB!!! I am keeping up with the challenge! I KNOW WHAT YOU MEAN about, not knowing WHAT to do with yourself when this is over! LOL Challenges ALWAYS make me move! 😉 (MAYBE, I’ll have time for the treadmill?) LOL
She is gorgeous and the colour of her hair is great, I love that!
When I coloured my girl image ( see post yesterday) I was very scared that I would ruin my complete image by stamping something on my background, but it turns out well. And when I look to your background drawing I can see that it makes the girl more interesting than without.
Do you trace all your lines with a black marker when you finished watercolouring?
Thanks for sharing and have a great weekend!
Such a beautifully colored image and I love how creatively you covered up the collar error!
You show that time on a project really pays off.. I don’t know that I can do that but if I want my image with more details I need to. You show that it makes a difference. Thanks for the inspiration.
WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am so impressed with your amazing talent. This is a work of art — I’m speechless!!! Amazing Kathy…absolutely amazing! The details are over the top!
Wow look at the detail on the sweater and necklace! Fabulous.
I had to keep going back to see what you added to this stamp and every time I did, I found something new.
Can I be truthful here and say I really don’t like this stamp? I’m not a fan of just faces. I am a huge fan of Penny Black stamps though and I have a bunch of their stamps.
I love what you did with her face. I might not care so much for the stamp but I can appreciate what you did with it. I like how you added more of the neck and a choker around her neck. See, I never would have done that. Once in a great while I add something that isn’t in the stamp but most of the time, I just do the stamp exactly the way it is. Maybe, like you, I need to think outside of the box and do something different with my stamps. I also like what you did with the background. I don’t usually have a plain background but if I ever do, maybe I will do something like you did. I love how you made a sweater for her.
Thanks for showing us your pretty girl. Did you name her? Thanks for giving me some ideas for my stamping.
Wow! What a great job. I don’t enjoy faces much. With just a mark you can really change the personality of the “face”. I also, can’t see to get hair right. I plan on following your blog closely. I can learn alot from you!
Thank you
Mischelle