I've had this cute bear digi for awhile (back in the day before I started keeping record of who made what digi). So I opened my pencil set and went to town. Course, my 5 year old was really excited about Mommy's new pencils & he wanted to color too. Sorry child, these are Mommy's pencils, go find your own! He lost interest really fast & went to play with his firetruck instead. I did use some baby oil to blend the colors. Not too sure about that technique. But haven't given up on it completely.
The papers are all from a huge paper pack I found on clearance at Joanne (for $4.50!!). And part of the reason it was marked down, it was missing the front cover. Well, it had a tiny corner still intact. So I have no idea who makes the paper.
The sketch is one of OWH's (#152 to be exact). I actually saw a card that was posted on SRM's flickr page and thought I really like that layout. Come to find out, it was from and OWHer. Go figure!
Very exciting to have received all those wonderful pencils! This is a very cute card. I use pencils too and find that using chalk on a q-tip blends really well and no possibility of a spill.
ReplyDeleteOff to a good start. Here is a tip. Try that odorless mineral spirits instead of the oil. Have to be the odorless. Get some blending stumps. Use a paper with some bite and not really smooth. Put down a heavy layer of pencil at the outlines and shadowed parts. Use those stumps to pull the color to the middle. I am going to see if I can find a link for all of this. I have directions I printed out way back in 2006
ReplyDeleteThank you so much for the tips Cora! I will give it a try.
DeleteCUTE!!
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