I used a complementary color scheme of red and green. I used the lighter tones of pink and light green and it makes for a nice contrast. The drawing uses only color pencils, not markers this time.
This little girl squiggle has so much energy and her clothes flap in the breeze of her twirling rope.
-Lynne
I did this squiggle of the elephant using only red, blue and yellow color pencils. This was before I used black to bring out some depth and I can see how that would help. I do like the way though that not all of the color is blended. This does add some depth and lots of texture.
The mouse and the butterfly are a combination of marker and pencil. They are there because the elephant was lonely.
This is an experiment in the uses of blue and yellow to make green. I used yellow as the first layer as I have found that yellow under another color shows more than yellow over a color. I then used a light blue to make the lightest green. I used a dark green and a dark blue for the shadows and then added some black in the darkest places. I added the red tongue as a complement accent to the green.
-Lynne
This squiggle was an experiment in the use of hot press watercolor paper with markers and color pencils. The paper is so smooth the color pencil works itself into a ball under the point of the pencil until it drops off and leaves a smudge of color. The effect looks interesting, but it is not exactly what I want and I will file the information for use later. In the meantime, I will look at some other paper and save the Arches hot press for watercolor.
I like the position of the boy and the look of motion. He is definitely one of my favorites.
Lynne: I was looking at the blogs I have subscribed to and came across this new addition to Teri Partridge’s blog. I like how sure she is about placing the lines of the drawing. I’m still using scribbles to place the first lines. Anyhow, check out her video for Watercolor Whimsey part A. I can’t wait to see the rest.
I was going along gangbusters with my scribbles until Teri Partridge mentioned to me that I could be stuck in a rut. She suggested that I have others do a scribble for me and then I would turn their scribble into a squiggle. Art teachers…all teachers…can never leave you alone. Something about growth, I believe.
Here is the drawing that resulted from a scribble by Loryn. It’s funny but these are not as easy to do as my own. It’s hard to believe that a scribble is so distinctive to its owner, but I have found that the squiggle can even look like the person who drew the scribble. Go figure. Isn’t the human brain wonderful.
-Lynne
This teddy bear’s ears were the first things to pop out of the scribble for me. I added feet so he looked like he was skipping and the kite appeared from an extra mark on the paper.
I wanted to use a double split complementary color scheme as I had never tried one before. The double split consists of two pairs of complements, one apart on the color wheel. I’ve used a yellow-green and red-violet complement pair combined with a yellow-orange and blue-violet complement pair in this drawing. (I don’t see any blue-violet in the drawing. I must have substituted red-orange. I have begun to write the colors in pencil on my sketch. It helps me keep track of what colors I am actually supposed to be doing.)
Since the yellow of my markers does not show very well on top of other colors, I started with a yellow layer on all but the red-violet color. (Yellow under red-violet would give me a brownish color.) With yellow as the prominent color, I used its complement, blue, for the kite.
I wasn’t totally pleased with this teddy bear, but he seems to be happy enough.
-Lynne
This dog squiggle surprised me. All of the other squiggles were really small and this just kept getting bigger and bigger. With my drawings larger, I had to begin to learn about markers and what their strokes looked like. Filling in large spaces was especially hard, as I was always so impatient when I colored in coloring books. Now I have to tell myself to slow down because it’s very important how something is initially colored. Then you can go back in and add shading with color pencils.
-Lynne
I drew this guy while sitting in the Indy airport while waiting for Loryn’s plane to land. “How could my plane be late? The weather here is fine. I don’t care about a hurricane in Atlanta.” He’s a little provincial in his thinking but very fashion forward in his stained glass purple trench coat and a complementary yellow hat.
I used black color pencil to emphasize the blue green pattern in the coat.
-Lynne
I loved how this scribble turned into a young squiggle girl swirling her orange hooded cape while making sure we see her beaded blue shoes.
-Lynne
the crafty sisters 