Bird with Roses

Another colouring page I found on Pinterest. Here I used my watercolour pencils together with my Stabilo68 pens which can be activitated with water as well as the watercolour pencils.

Pink Explosion

I did it today - I bought a starter set of colorex watercolour inks and painted this abstract painting with it. 

Colorex paints come in little bottles, together with three eye-droppers, These are used to get the paint out of the bottle and onto your palette. Depending on how intense you want the colours to be you add a bit of water. You can also mix the colours by taking a wee bit of ink with your brush and put it on some other paint in the palette or by directly dropping one paint on the other. 

In this case here I used magenta and cyan, different amounts of water, and mixed them one time taking more magenta and the other time taking more cyan.

It is really an adventure, but a very enjoyable one. I love experiments!

Colourful Dragonfly

I found the lines for this dragonfly on an internet website with free colouring pages. This time I inserted a sheet of drawing cardboard into my printer, being a bit anxious because I was not sure whether it would take it or not. It did! It is not a super heavy drawing cardboard but it was strong enough not to buckle during the process of activitating the watercolour pencils.

I am quite satisfied with the result, but there's one thing I find disturbing: the patch of dark blue on the back of the dragonfly. I think it is too much of a contrast. 

Green Houses

This scene is painted with watercolourpencils on acrylic paper. I just wanted to see whether this strange combination would work - and yes, it did because I applied the pencils' wet tips on the paper. Of course this method is eating up the pencils in a very quick way - which I didn't so much care about because I used the less expensive Mondeluz pencils from Koh-i-Noor, a Czech company. 

The Rose Fairies

This time I used my watercolour pencils first dry on paper and then activated them with a damp q-tip. The colours are not so strong as when I touched the water drop with my pencil, but the colouring looks smoother this way.

What I still find difficult with watercolour pencils is that you really have to do a kind of colour chart with the activated colours - there is such a difference between the colours of the dry watercolour pencils and the activated ones!

The Joy of colours

I love playing around with colours, and I also love abstract shapes. So it didn't take me long to jot down some lines on cardboard which had the size of a postcard, and to fill in the colours. The longer the winter lasts the more I long for vivid and happy colours, and because I can't get them yet in nature I create them with my paintings.

Violet flowers

As I said before I love to include doing colouring pages in my artist activity. Besides the fact that colorouring has a very relaxing side to it it simply means practising with my watercolour pencils. 

Portrait of a Bear - final version

This time I applied my watercolour pencils dry at most places and then blende-tip. d them with a wetted q-tip. I used cardstock as a support. I somehow prefer cardstock over watercolour paper because of its smoothness. I would also like to try out hot pressed watercolour paper, but this is quite difficult to get here.

Flower Egg

I found this colouring page on pinterest and I decided to colour it because it reminded me of the coming spring. The days are longer now, and on last Sunday you could almost smell spring in the air. It was quite mild, and the hazel bushes are in full bloom. Unfortunately I am allergic to hazel pollen, but in spite of that I love spring and I am looking forward to the days when we can see the first spring flowers.

This egg was done with watercolour pencils on simple copy paper. 

Work in Progress: Bear portrait

In case you're asking what the lines are for: In the beginning I intended to do a zentangle bear portrait, but the longer I put colour on the more I digressed and now I am on my way to a not very realistic but also not a zentangle bear - something between. I think you can already see the characteristics of a bear.

After all the lines will almost totally disappear with the colouring of the bear's head. I am having much fun with my watercolour pencils - I can't believe that I have neglected them for such a long time!

Carousel Horse

This is another colouring page found on pinterest which I did with watercolour pencils. I know that horses definitely are not blue, but blue is one of my favourite colours. The meaning of blue is - at least Wikipedia says so - romanticism and mystery. (No wonder the avatar people are blue!)

I painted on regular copy paper - and you can see that it crumpled a bit. However I like the texture which the crumpled paper resulted in. 

Red Tulip

 Tulip. Watercolour pencils on drawing cardboard

A short time ago I rediscovered my watercolour pencils - and I was having very much fun doing this tulip! When I went through my drawing cardboard sheets I found a linedrawing done with pencils and decided to colour my own drawing. I would like to do more colouring of my own drawings, but doing that is taking far more time than "just" colouring. So I can only do that now and then and not on a regular basis.