How To Get There

When you look at many paintings you will find that they have a certain coordinated look. An approach that many people want.

The question, how do artists manage to get there?

In art as in colouring there are always those folks who use the every colour in the box theory. The rebels who as artists created wild multi-coloured abstracts. The colouring book artist who will do it their way, thank you very much!!!

For the rest of you, lets just start with a very simple colour palette {the colours artists use to create a piece of art}. Over the next few posts I will show you a number of different palette choices. For this one I am using something called a mono-chromatic {shades of one colour} palette.

With a mono-chromatic colour scheme you just need to choose your favourite colour. You then pick one very dark version of it, a medium and a very light. Next add one or two other shades that are in between these three basic ones.

It doesn't matter if you use pencil crayons or markers, the colour choices are the same.

NOW IF THIS IS THE POINT WHERE YOU HEAD FOR THE ART STORE

LET ME TAKE HOLD OF YOUR WALLET!!!

Remember the {only what you really really need frame of mind}!

The immediate response is to go buy the huge expensive monster kit of markers or pencils.

STOP THERE!!!

First, unless you buy every colour the company makes you probably won't find the variety of shades that you need for this project.

Kits are designed to give you a wide variety of colour, they do not do an intense focus on one colour and it's variations.

Over the next few projects I will help you add colours that will give you a full spectrum palette. In the mean time start with these basics and

LETS GET COLOURING!!!

THIS IS SUPPOSED TO BE FUN?

All the beautiful books, all the great subjects, so tempting!!! The impulse is to find a favourite subject some pencil crayons and just dive right in.

STOP

HOLD THAT THOUGHT

Before you get bought by the magical book of the moment

Lets take a look at what you really, really need.

Your trying this out to relax, right.

Does that new book your holding have teeny tiny spaces that

require you to use a magnifying glass to see?

If you can't see it how are you going to relax trying to colour it?

I'm a professional artist and I couldn’t colour many of those books

THIS IS SUPPOSED TO BE

FUN!!!

SO LETS START WITH THE RIGHT ARTWORK

Look for a drawing with big open spaces. If you haven’t coloured

in years, choose something simple to start with. That amazing mind

boggling masterpiece will still be there later.

Look for something printed on one side only, on heavy card stock.

This will help to minimize frustration and add to your success.

CLICK HERE FOR A FREE DIGITAL DOWNLOAD

I will be demonstrating on this piece for the next few blog posts so feel free to download it and colour along. I use 110 lb. white card stock to print work on.

Look for my next blog post there we get to the fun part

COLOUR

MY GOAL IS YOUR SUCCESS

COME JOIN ME AND

FINDYOURSELF IN ART!!

Welcome!

FINE ART AND FUN ART

COME JOIN THE COLOURING REVOLUTION!!

 It really is relaxing, rejuvenating and restorative
Welcome to my passion! I can't wait to share it with you.

IF YOU ALWAYS WANTED TO TRY ART,

THEN THIS BLOG IS ABOUT AND FOR YOU.

 

   From the time I was eight years old I have been studying art. The house I grew up in was a haven for artists and writers. My mother and her friends filled my childhood with their  amazing images and imaginings. Art materials and instruction were abundant and freely available. There was always something creative going on. It was taken for granted that I would become an artist; and although other jobs crept in I always kept at my art.

   Persistence paid off and I have been an award winning artist and instructor for over twenty years. In that time I have taught hundreds of people to draw and paint. So many of whom lost years of artistic enjoyment because some "authority figure" told them they had no talent!!! Don't you buy that lie, anyone at any age can have fun applying color to paper. You may not become the next Picasso, but I'm betting you'll be surprised at what you can do.

   Just over a year ago I discovered doodling. I wasn't painting at the time due to a minor visual problem. I bought a book on the subject for my grand daughter and before I could give it to her I was hooked. I couldn't stop producing pages and pages of free hand drawings. Obsessed I began giving them away for people to color. They became so popular that I designed an adult coloring book.

   As  my friends colored away I discovered that many could use a few tips and artist tricks to make their work look better. These are what I want to share with you.

I am not an authority on marker or pencil crayon brands, but I can show you how to take my freehand, organic downloads and make them your own. You don't even have to do any design work I have done all the drawing for you; so lets get on to the fun part 

COLOURING!!!