Colored Pencil: 6 Easy Tips- Improve your Grip for Better Coloring
Colored Pencil, Power Poppy, Livestream, Food Illustration, Prismacolor Pencil, Tips, Improve Your Coloring Amy Shulke Colored Pencil, Power Poppy, Livestream, Food Illustration, Prismacolor Pencil, Tips, Improve Your Coloring Amy Shulke

Colored Pencil: 6 Easy Tips- Improve your Grip for Better Coloring

Want to improve your colored pencil coloring?

Ok, so you’ve tried a few colored pencil projects and you can’t quite seem to get the hang of it. It looked so simple, it’s a pencil after all. So you buy some of that magic solvent stuff and blend the heck out of your project with a paper stumpy thing. But that just makes a slightly greasy smear and it’s paler than the original. So instead, you try…

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This Isn't Paint-by-iNumber - Change your Marker Blending Philosophy
Copic, Copic Blending, Creativity, Improve Your Coloring, Food Illustration, Prismacolor Pencil, Marker Painting Workshops, Intermediate Coloring Amy Shulke Copic, Copic Blending, Creativity, Improve Your Coloring, Food Illustration, Prismacolor Pencil, Marker Painting Workshops, Intermediate Coloring Amy Shulke

This Isn't Paint-by-iNumber - Change your Marker Blending Philosophy

Back in the 1970’s, if you did crafts, you made them from a boxed kit. We didn’t have the internet for inspiration and instruction. We crafted by the box.

I loved one kind of box more than any other- the paint by number kit. I lived for the moment when all my weird globs of paint on the canvas finally coalesced into a prancing horse or a spray of roses.

The rule in paint by number was to stick to the numbering system. Bad things happened if you went outside the lines, put the wrong color in a spot, tried to blend two sections together, or if you ran out of paint and had to start substituting.

Up close, paint by number paintings are eye-scalding but from 20 feet away? You might be mistaken for Van Gogh… or so the box claimed.

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