This is for Janelle's fun mixed media challenge - Royal Garden.
This is a full A4 sheet of copy paper and it will go straight into my journal along with the names of the coloured pencils used.
I only used 5 coloured pencils here, one brown, one green and 3 shades of red. I didn't use any blending solutions, just a Prisma blending pencil, to move and blend the colours a bit.
I have been tinkering away at this for ages, but when I saw it was the 300th Mixed Media challenge, I was motivated to finish it and make it mixed media and a garden head dress fit for royalty.
I added highlights of red and green using Copic pens and some walnut stain distress ink in her hair and on her shoulder. I then added a few liquid pearls spots.
At this point I took a photograph, because I wasn't sure if the next step would work, at least I would have a photo LOL.
I used my peeled paint Gellato crayon and ever so lightly added some colour to the background. It didn't look right so I very, very gently wiped the gellato with a baby wipe (I quickly blasted the baby wipe with my heat gun to get some moisture out of it, before wiping the paper).
Normally this step would be perfectly ok, actually it is the best way to move gellato 's around on your project, but this is just copy paper and won't take too much moisture.
Thankfully the paper didn't warp too much, I gave it a burst of heat with the heat gun, then sat it under some heavy books for 15 minutes, it's good as gold now.
Thanks so much for looking. I hope you have a happy, inky week.
Edit: I forgot I used 3 different coloured pencils on her face.
Date: Friday, October 26, 2018 GMT Views: 1157
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Sun, Oct 28, 2018 @ 11:42 PM
Wow Susie this is absolutely awesome (as always). Love your colouring and can't believe that you used copy paper. Thanks for sharing the tip on how to move gellatos around on a project. TFS and Happy day
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Mon, Oct 29, 2018 @ 1:38 AM
Simply EXQUISITE! An AMAZING piece of art...gorgeous coloring and style! You are the master at inventing your own coloring and mixed media applications. Those royal garden roses are luscious and eyes are so realistic...like shiny liquid pools. Really, there are no words to say how awesome this is!
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Mon, Oct 29, 2018 @ 8:36 AM
FANTASTIC and i love this 'heart and soul'. So inspiring, the mix of colors and i think it is ART for framing! First thing in the morning for me, and just filled me up with happiness. THANKS, teresa