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.
This marked my first time working with masking fluid and unfortunately- it wasn’t a huge success. The paper tore quite a bit after trying to gently remove the fluid and that made coloring way harder. Having said that: I’m positively STOKED that I managed to salvage the image and turned it into this lovely colored piece!
I had so much fun playing with my tinted watercolor pencils in this image! Honestly, the muted palette doesn’t translate to photo and the background looks way better in real life.