Coloring a Sunflower with Prismacolor Pencils (Part 1)
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- čas přidán 20. 08. 2023
- #sunflower #coloredpencils #adultcolouring
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Supplies I used for this page-sunflower pen and ink available in my Etsy shop
Grumbacher 140lb watercolor paper (back side)
Prismacolor Premier Pencils-amzn.to/3e0UBsj
Slice Tool-amzn.to/3JWJs9P
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Prismacolor Pencils:
Part One
Apple Green 912
Chartreuse 989
Olive Green 911
Grey Green Light 289
Cobalt Turquoise (I decided I didn’t like it and erased or covered most of it up)
Black Raspberry 1095
10% French Grey 1068
Black 935
White
Part Two
Canary Yellow 916
Sunburst Yellow 917
Terra Cotta 944
sand 940
Mineral Orange 1033
Goldenrod 1034
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Sunflowers are so beautiful🌻 Those hardy, thick stalks make me think of them as that raspy voiced beauty who doesn’t take any crap from anyone - a flower that is gorgeous but not fragile.
It must be so satisfying to color your own ink drawings. I think you’re amazingly fast. That’s a lot of depth and detail completed in 1.25 hrs. See you for part 2!
Thank you very much Trish! I agree they are wonderful flowers. I definitely did enjoy coloring this drawing. There will be more to come. ❤️❤️❤️
Oh your flowers are beautiful! Thanks you for doing this! I am so glad to see you doing these! Beautiful I can’t wait to see it finished!
Thank you very much much Maureen!! I really enjoyed this one! Part two will be up tomorrow. ❤️❤️❤️
Stunning! Your greens are beautifully rich and the blending is spot on! Well done!❤️🎨
Thank you Lisa!❤️❤️❤️
Lovely
Have always enjoyed your portrait work and am equally enjoying this new botanical series.
Oh thank you so much Carla! That’s wonderful to hear!!❤️❤️❤️
Absolutely beautiful ♥ thank you
Thank you Tereza!❤️❤️❤️
This is going to be beautiful and I will certainly follow part 2! Thank you for this lovely coloring.
Thank you very much Suzanne! It will be up tomorrow!!❤️❤️❤️
You are becoming my new favorite colorist. I LOVE your work
Awww. Thank you so much Billie!❤️❤️❤️
Lovely. Great to see you working with Prismas ‘again.
Thank you Phyllis! I will always return to my beloved colored pencils!😊
Karen, I will be ordering the Grumbacher watercolor paper at Walmart, especially at that price, and I will be getting a new printer, finally!
How gorgeous this is, I love all the different greens and the shading. I am looking forward to part 2. Thank you so much for sharing!❤️
Thank you Keni!! ❤️❤️❤️ That Grumbacher paper is wonderful for a cellulose paper, plus I love that the other side is smooth!! Let me know what you think!
@@ArtbyKarenValentine You’re so welcome Karen!!❤️❤️❤️ I will definitely let you know what I think about the paper!
Hi Karen! Its so good to see you back! I know you have been workng on creating journals,and why shouldnt you be, great artists branch out and test their skills on new thngs. ☺️ I have missed you, and your flower is beautiful, Your the best.❤❤❤
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Hi Pamela! Thank you sweetheart!! Yes, I am enjoying trying new things. I’m just going to carry on and show whatever I’m feeling at the moment!!❤️❤️❤️
karen you are whiz with just about anything you put that talented mind of yours too .
Awww. Thank you so much Sherry! ❤️🙏🏻❤️
Hi Karen!❤️ I feel like it’s been so long since I saw you last, I have been so busy with Bailey that I haven’t had time for anything but I have loved being with her. I did get a chance to see a couple of your watercolor pictures, you took to watercolor like you’ve been doing it forever, you’re just so talented. I am going to sit back and enjoy watching you work lol.
Hi Keni!! I’m so happy you are getting all that time with your granddaughter!! Enjoy her while you can!! I have been enjoying watercolor, but also many other things! It’s fun to switch it up!!!
@@ArtbyKarenValentine Thank you Karen, I am enjoying my time with her! It is fun to switch it up and whatever you do, will always be amazing and stunning!
So very lovely
Thank you Dannita!!❤️❤️❤️
Lovely ❤️ I like the combination of pen and ink with the coloured pencils
Thanks Kim! Me too!😄
Welcome back, Karen!
Lovely work, as usual! 💕
Thank you Fern! 😊
@@ArtbyKarenValentine You’re welcome, Karen!
@@ArtbyKarenValentine You’re welcome, Karen! ☺️
A really beautiful image
Thank you very much Sandra!❤️❤️❤️
Beautiful
Thank you Robin ❤️
After having just discovered you and your channel, and seeing that you haven’t uploaded a video in a month or more, I just wanted to drop a line and ask that you not give up on sharing your content and your expertise with the colored pencil. I am a hyper-realistic graphite pencil artist who recently decided to delve into colored pencil artwork, and frankly, it is a beast of a completely different….errrr….color. Without a doubt, it is like night and day. And I am always looking for colored pencil virtuosos to watch and to learn from. Regardless how many views your videos actually get, the fact is that SOMEONE is watching, and typically people don’t find videos like yours in their feeds unless they were exploring the subject matter of colored pencil art. So while there may not be many people seeing your videos (in comparison to other relatively inane and superficial channels), those who DO watch your videos must be people who have a genuine interest or need of your content (me for one). So please keep uploading. I also enjoy your fly by the seat of your pants approach - human, honest, not afraid to be real, making mistakes and fixing them. Your approach is natural and casual. I genuinely enjoy watching you work. And of course your voice is soothing, a nice complement to how you approach your art. Again, don’t throw in the towel. You’ll have at least one person watching you (myself). Thank you for what you do. -- DMT
D. I cannot express how much your comment meant to me. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. I have taken some time off to take care of personal stuff (longer than I expected though). It’s true that I get discouraged occasionally with the number of views. I know I shouldn’t, and I do try not to let it bother me. I have some very wonderful and loyal viewers. I will be back very soon with more videos. Again, thank you for such a wonderful and encouraging comment. ❤️❤️❤️
@@ArtbyKarenValentine well let me do you one better. I have several questions, if you would let me pick your brain, and at least - while my asking these questions isn’t entirely altruistic - still you will take comfort in the knowledge that someone is taking an active interest in your work, your approach to your work, and the manner in which you employ your techniques.
Let me explain my situation. As I’ve said before, I am very familiar with graphite artwork. I won’t elaborate too much on the kind of graphite pencil work I have done (it would kind of be like the fish-that-got-away story), but suffice it ti say that I have always enjoyed graphite work, and hyper-realism - while not genuinely regarded as “art” in the more high-browed (some would say “pompous” sense of the word) - has always been a satisfying challenge for me. I get a pleasure in the way people look in amazement at a piece.
But I am also a man who who appreciates fine art. My favorite artist is Caravaggio. I also love Rembrandt and Titian. I tried my hand at oil painting, but I just can’t get the hang of wet-on-wet. Still, I’ve always wanted to be a color artist, and I thought with colored pencil (a cousin to the graphite pencil, if you will), I’d find I’d have an easier time with the learning curve. I discovered that nothing could be further from the truth.
@@ArtbyKarenValentineII. So do you mind if I ask a few innocent questions? The first and foremost question is why is blending so difficult? Obviously my end goal is to create very realistic colored pencil work from my professional photography (I am a professional photographer). Why am I not getting the transitions from one tone to another? Even using grays, wax or oil, I simply cannot seem to accomplish an invisible transition from white to black and all shades between. The number of swatches I’ve done in an effort to learn this seemingly basic skill is innumerable. When I decided to do this, I bought every conceivable brand of colored pencil I could find, and I didn’t skimp. Polychromos, Prismacolors, Caran D’Ash, Holbein. I didn’t want to be lacking. And yes, I invested equally in paper. But for the life of me, I still fail to accomplish getting that nice clean transition.
@@ArtbyKarenValentineIII. I am familiar with the theory of tooth. So the issue isn’t the paper. It just isn’t clicking for me. I am missing something. Am I not pressing lightly enough, and I am sacrificing more layers in favor of impatient frustration? I don’t think I have tried to pursue anything as fervently as I have tried to pursue this. I know that if I can learn this medium, I will feel satisfied and delighted by my accomplishments in the pieces I will create. But it seems that the gods have decided that this is one means of expression that will continue to evade me. And this coming from a man who is a writer and a musician and an artist. I am forever cerebral and creative. It’s in my blood. But THIS form expression continues to be a mystery to me.
I wonder…
Thanks for listening.
-- DMT
Although I love your portrait work, I really, really love your florals. Do you have any thoughts on rendering more of these?
I do Billie! I just need to get up the motivation to film them for CZcams. Soon I hope. ❤️
Very pretty I can't wait to see the finished outcome. Can you tell me the printer you use please.
Thank you Maylynn! I use a HP Smart Tank Plus 551. The initial cost is steep compared to ink cartridge printers , but the savings on ink is incredible
@@ArtbyKarenValentine I've been looking into investing on a nice printer thank you. And does this printer print on 140lb watercolor paper
@@maylynncupp6653 yes it sure does. 😊 But as I said in the video, the ink is not waterproof.
@@ArtbyKarenValentine that's ok I usually spray a light coat of fixative.
What is that tool that scrapes color off? It looks really handy and would do awesome texture.
It’s called a Slice tool Patti. There is a link to it in the description box. 😊
Hi Karen, How do you choose your colors based on the reference photo? Greetings Wiesje
Hi Wiesje. My swatch charts help A LOT. They have large rectangles as opposed to the tiny ones many people use. Then it’s just by eye. Sometimes I’ll test a couple colors together on a scratch piece of paper. But as you will see in the video, sometimes I just go for it and get it wrong! 😂
The Frugal Crafter (Lindsey Weirich) suggested making swatches in strips so that you have room to punch a hole with a standard handheld hole punch right in the middle of each swatched color. Then you can place your swatch card right over the inspiration color to get the closest match. The swatches are then placed on a book ring. I did this method with my alcohol markers and it helped a lot for color matching as closely as possible. It would work for any medium as long as you keep in mind that layering will make some differences (and probably help to achieve a better match, as well.)
I tried sending you something on your wish list, but Amazon didn't send me to your account. It only put it on my wish list. Could you check to see if you have the correct info to get it to you? - or am I doing something wrong? Thanks
Hi Billie! I received your lovely gift! Thank you so much! I haven’t tried it yet, but I plan to use it in mixed media pieces. But you’ve sparked my curiosity about using it with colored pencils too! Thank you again!❤️❤️❤️