Happy Tag

I bought this lovely tomato plant at the grocery store.. look at all those cute lil tomatoes, and I love the "old fashioned tomato" pail!

Coloring

I'm trying something new... grayscale coloring! The shading is already added to the picture. These are my first attempts, and I'm experimenting with different ways of coloring it.

I used prismacolor pencils, sharpies, and white gel pen on the first one, and mostly sharpies on the second one. And I tried one of the techniques that she recommended in the book... dipping the tip of the pencil in petroleum jelly. It makes it very smooth, and brightens the colors. And I found out that very dark colors cover the shading (the top half of the fairy pic)... the background of the mermaid pic was more translucent. Also, it's hard to see, but I did color the skin of the fairy with pencils.

Anyway, this was fun and I'm sure I'll do more of them. I also have a grayscale coloring book of cute animals. :)



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