Hey! Today I have just a colouring to share with you all I have to figure out what to do wit this image yet. But every month Make it Crafty has a challenge and this month the Make it Colourful challenge is feathers.  I decided that I wanted to colour up Rosella in a Gum Tree, I printed it off on Fabriano Artistico 140lbs hot press watercolour paper, and coloured it up use my polychromos pencils.

This was not a fast process and probably took me about 4 hours of colouring time, everything has 4-8 coats of colour put on it to allow it to blend nicely, that seems to be the trick to these pencils is lots of light slow layers, but I love the look I get with the harder lead.

Polychromos pencils used –

Background – Warm grey II, Sky Blue, Blue Violet, White, Prussian Blue, Middle Phthalo Blue, Cobalt Blue Greenish, Phthalo Blue, Prussian Blue, Light Phthalo Blue

Tree Branch – Brown Ocher, Burnt Sienna, Dark Sepia, Walnut Brown, Nougat, Bistre, White

Leaves – Pine Green, Olive Green, Earth Green Yellowish, May Green, Chrome Green Oxide, Light Crome Yellow, White

Bird – Light Cobalt Turquoise, Helios Turquoise, Cobalt Teal, Cobalt Green, Cold Grey I, Cold Grey II, Blueish Turquoise, Black, Phthalo Blue,

Dark Cadmium Yellow, Cadmium Yellow, Light Cadmium Yellow, Warm Grey V, Black

Dark Red, Madder, Alizeran Crimson, Pink Carmine Rose Carmine, Black

Thanks for stopping by,

Hugz

Jess