I just finished my first page in Karolina Kubikowska’s Imaginary Friends (2nd revised edition) and I could not be more excited!! I started this piece in September, mostly to see how the paper does with water soluble media (gorgeously!), and then figured I might as well color the whole thing. After laying the base layer, though, I’d let it sit for two months because I was in the mood for Halloween coloring.
This originally started as a salvage mission: the page had gotten damaged by some washi tape in the top and bottom left corner, but then became something more!
This cute page started as a try-out for my new Derwent Chromaflow colored pencils– which have since become my main colored pencil-line! I absolutely love how they lay down on the page. They blend gorgeously and layering is an absolute breeze.
So this weekend I was at my in-laws’ place and I’d brought some coloring supplies to occupy my hands and color whenever the mood struck me. I brought Small Victories and my travel artbag which contained about 10 Inktense pencils, some Distress Crayons as well as a number of gel and paint pens.
This gorgeous page comes from Halloween by Hanna Karlzon and was one of the main reasons I had to get this book the minute it came out! I followed a tutorial on neocolor II’s for the background and used my Black Widow and Castle Arts Harmonious colored pencils for the portrait.