Week 3b: Clearly Melting with Encaustic Medium Hybrid on Acrylic

Thanks for your patience while I helped my little blondie patient. So I jumped back into the studio and decided to do something completely out of the box - because you never learn anything unless you break things along the way.  Or at least make that attempt. I'm happy to say, not only did I not break anything but barriers - I invented something NEW...and here she is: This, my loves, … [Read more...]

DLP Challenges: Week 13 – Drawn with a friend

This journal page is part of the Documented Life Project.  The challenge for Week 13 is here if you are new to this process or want to play along. March 22 Challenge (Week Thirteen) - Drawn with a friend. This week's challenge was to have a friend draw on your page as a starting point. I gave Courtney my sheet of cardstock and a .05 technical pen; and she created this lovely … [Read more...]

Week 2c: The Shadow Knows – Complex Stamped Images

The videos for this week feature a complex stamped image. Stamped and Shading: Coloring Shaded Image with Inktense Pencils: Here is a pictorial of the image, step by step in its development. And here is the overall stamped image at each finished point: Stamped: Shaded: Colored: FYI: I've created a page, which is under the Online Classes menu at the top … [Read more...]

FILE: Gray Zone chart from the video

Here is a colorable, as well as a printable chart of the Copic Grays for your reference.  Useful for our discussion of shadows and shading with Copic markers. [google-drive-embed url="https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B5iKQOR3GmfRSXJmZWpRbVFWeFE/preview?usp=drivesdk" title="GrayZone.pdf" icon="https://ssl.gstatic.com/docs/doclist/images/icon_10_pdf_list.png" width="75%" height="800" … [Read more...]

Week 2b: The Shadow Knows – Copic Grays and Inktense

This week's technique focuses on a foolproof method of coloring images that have realistic shadows and bold, intense color.  I'm breaking this post into two parts.  You are viewing the second part.  Here is a link to the first. Now that our shading work is done we can concentrate on coloring the image.  I am using a foolproof method of coloring known as Inktense pencils.  Long have I … [Read more...]