Sunday, December 6, 2009

Watercolor Tutorial

How to use the watercolor pencil crayons!!
What you need:



1.Watercolor paper: I use 140Lb Fabriano water color paper
2.Permanent Ink: I use black Staz-On
3.Blending stumps, a little dish with Odourless Mineral Spirits (OMS)

4. And of course your desired stamp-The ones I used for my image was from HUMBLE PIE of course.

Then you stamp up the image I will show you the snowman now I picked the left side to add color in because of the tree that’s at the left side that would cause the snowman to get the shade.
I then outlined the image with my pencil crayon.Then in using my blending stump I dipped it just enough into the OMS and in circular motions brought the color out .I never shade it in all the way then color JUST outline its all you need then if you feel it needs more you outline a little more.
Also when watercoloring always start with your lightest shade then go darker . If you have only one blending stump on hand and you are changing over to a new color then keep a sanding block on hand this will do two things:1) it sands off excess color before moving onto a new one and 2) it also sharpens the blending stump.


I find this is one of my favorite techniques and I am hoping that I get a 130 piece set for wcolor pencil Crayons for a gift this year however i am quite content not to get a single thing. Whether they buy it or i do it won't make a big difference.

I hope you all have a great week.
Phebe

6 comments:

Leah l'Orange said...

Phebe, thank you for the run-down! i had no idea you could use the OMS with watercolour pencils! i only ever use my blender, and i use the OMS with regular crayola or prisma pencils (not watercolour). i love the way this looks, and will TOTALLY be trying it!

Phebe Meeder said...

thanks leah...i have prisma pencils that are wcolor

My Paper Passions said...

i love the look you achieved with the pencil crayons....so far i am only working with the tombows but but these bring a different dimension!!
Awesome card!!
Amanda B

Phebe Meeder said...

thanks amanda

Melanie said...

Wonderful tutorial Phebe! Thanks so much for sharing!

(As an answer to your question on my blog...S&S carries clear stamps as well as digis!)

Melanie

JKW said...

Thank you so much for the tutorial. I use the Prisma WC pencils and did not know about OMS or to be honest, stumps. I now see what's wrong with my ACEO cards. Blessings, Janet