Berry Girl Sketch

I love colored pencils. I love all art mediums and media…lol…. Royal & Langnickel products are all over my studio and have been for years. I love their products and could barely contain my excitement when AlteredPages began carrying them. So today I am sharing a sketch of my grand-daughter in her berry picking finery. This is a simple quick sketch and will be a gift for the up and coming holiday season. I was so happy to see one of my handmade gifts finished 9 weeks before Christmas!! One down. I hope you enjoy my watercolor pencil sketch as I show you my process. I didn’t use my regular photo to rely on. This one was from my memory and I love it. 

I am no stranger to color pencils..

These are just a few of my pencil drawings. I hope you don’t mind me sharing. I do so you can see my love…and obsession.

Supply list

Royal & Langnickel Essential Watercolor Pencils

Royal & Langnickel water brushes (these are super for traveling) ( I had the Royal & Langnickel aquarelle brushes on hand)

Mixed Media Journal

Using Rubber Cement as a mask (frisket) for the eBrush!

So many times I use fine images for my projects. It is hard to cover them to retain color or prevent color from infiltrating in. Well old school methods really work! I use rubber cement put on with a very tiny brush or toothpick with tip crushed. Now make sure that you spread to the edge of your stamped image or color might bleed. Also don’t overspray near the edge or the color might wick into the paper under the cement.

Next spray your image carefully not to linger long on the edges of the rubber cement. I love using Spectrum Noir markers on my images!

 

Next comes the reveal! Using a rubber cement pick up (glue runner eraser) I remove gently the rubber cement. It doesn’t lift the paper.

 

 

Here is my “cleaned image”. Using some techniques to mask areas can really lead to fun not over complicated image working.

 

Angel's Boots

Just some  mud boots decorated for fun!