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!!!