Thursday 16 February 2017

Valentine's Day Tangle


My Tangled Valentine


 

It took me a few days to get this one done. Quite a few layers of stuff going on here.  The fun part is that I used very few tools to put this piece together.

 

Of course I used my microns, but more excitedly, I used one Tombow red watercolour marker and the clear brush that comes in the set to add all of the red and pink in this piece.  I used my trusty HB Staetdler pencil to shade beyond the reds/pinks, and that’s really all I used.  Usually, my little “art table” (which is really more of a tv dinner tray on wobbly legs) is filled to the edges with all sorts of pens, markers, pencils, pencil crayons, etc. etc. ad nauseum.  Not this time though – Paper, microns, pencil, 1 marker, 1 marker blender and one blending stick.  I’m pretty proud of that, and very impressed with the lack of clean up required after.

 

Here is the finished piece:


 

 

Here is the line art



 

 

The tools I used



 

8 comments:

  1. So very pretty, Kiki! I like that you posted the before color as well. You could have added color in so many ways and it would look totally different. I love where you blended from red to pink.

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  2. Your valentangle is lovely! Very clean/brisk line art... so pretty. Your use of color to accent the shapes is beautiful.

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  3. Beautifully done! Thank you for showing your line art, it is so flowing. The color that you added with the Tombow is amazing. I may have to look to trying using this technique soon. Great piece and very inspirational technique.

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    1. Thank Lezli - I'll post a video this week of how I used the Tombow to get the different colours :)

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