|
Buy
Polychromos pencils on Amazon
|
If your painting
techniques aren't quite up to par there's another way to
inject colour into your work using Faber-Castell Polychromos pencils. These
are a fabulous oil based pencil with very strong leads that
don't break easily allowing you to work fine detail. You have
more control with a pencil than a brush so this is an ideal
way to colour your designs. With five simple steps you can
colour most floral designs to a pleasing level. This simple
tutorial should help you on your way to injecting colour into
your parchment work.
Tip: Resist the desire to colour by dragging the pencil back
and forth as this will cause your piece to lose definition and
make blending subsequent colours difficult.
Lighting: Always try an imagine your subject
lit - decide from what angle the light is coming and
work out where the darkest and lightest shades would
appear. In my experience it is easiest to imagine a
subject lit from the front.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Step One
|
Step Two
|
Step Three
|
|
Fix your parchment over
your design using low tack tape and using Van-Dyke Brown 176
work the stamens as shown above. Make sure to sharpen the
pencil to a fine point so your lines are sharp.
|
|
| Using
Magenta 133 work the darker sections of the flower. Use short
lines all in the direction of the petals, feathering out the
colour a little way along each petal and leaving a thin line
of un-coloured parchment to represent the veining. |
|
|
Using Pink Madder Lake 129 work in the same
style as before but this time blend the lighter pink over the
feathered edges of your first colour. Oil based pencils blend well so
achieving a pleasing gradient effect can be done with a little
patience and practice. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Step Four
|
Step Five
|
Practice Image
|
| For the
third colour you will need Light Magenta 119. Blend this
colour in the same fashion as the previous one working almost
to the edge of each petal. As you work towards the edge of the
petals lighten the pressure on the pencil to soften the
colour. |
|
| Using Light
Flesh 152 apply the colour to the tips of the petals and blend
the colour down and over the darker sections. It is important
to use single lines close together for this step to avoid over
blending the colours. |
|
| You can save
and print this image to practice the technique. To save, right
click (click and hold for Mac users) and choose save image as
from the menu that appears and save it to your hard drive. |
|
