Registered: October 21, 2007 Location: Alberta, Canada Posts: 6707
Tue, Dec 07, 2010 @ 7:09 PM
Love this scene! A beautiful card!
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Registered: November 16, 2010 Location: Alaska Posts: 576
Wed, Feb 09, 2011 @ 7:24 PM
Thank you, ladies!
I use Bienfang smooth bristol board, it is the most consistant, readily available and inexpensive paper which works with all the brand markers I have.
It is an art paper so it's in art sections of stores but I can find it even at my local Fred Meyer store and then I just cut it down to size. Probably other brands of smooth bristol will work just fine also. The bristol also didn't bleed when coloring this, which is a much larger area and took more inking and blending than any stamped images I have done. Can't beat it in my experience.
This card was colored with my ShinHan Touch alcohol markers and I didn't use anything but the markers for blending.
I didn't keep records but I think I just used 4 blues for the mountains and I know I used 3 greens for the trees. I just started coloring on the bristol board, starting from dark to light on the mountains and light to dark on the trees and took the lighter of the 2 colors next to each other and colored over the darker with the lighter, pulling a bit of the darker into the lighter. Does that make sense?
Touch markers are my very favorite, as you can see, they have beautiful, vivid yet blendable colors. I'm super happy with them. I also have Copic, Design2 and Dick Blick but Touch are my go-to markers.
Registered: November 16, 2010 Location: Alaska Posts: 576
Tue, Aug 02, 2011 @ 11:04 PM
Thank you! It's actually Pioneer Peak, a mountain in Palmer which is about an hour north of Anchorage. This mountian is what I see from my back yard. You can see the real thing by googling Pioneer Peak Palmer Alaska.