Playing with Color

This week’s journal challenge was to use color. Actually, there was more to it than that, but I just went with that.  Rendering a rainbow in watercolor was harder than I expected.

This week’s Diva challenge is to use the new official tangle Molygon. Well, I’ve used it plenty last month, even teaching  it at a beginner class. One thing I noticed is that I cannot seem to draw my shapes the same size. They tend to get larger and smaller, so I wondered would they “fit” if they were all exactly the same size.

I thought about carving a stamp, but ended up just using scissors to cut some excess self-adhesive stamp rubber into the molygon shape and mounting it on a clear block.  

Yep, moygon works if the shapes are identical!

But, it was boring, so I shaded it. Or colored, depending on your point of view. It was really fun in any case.

All done – dressed up with tipple and sepia outline.

shaded with cool gray marker and sepia watercolor pencil.

After blending with water brush.

And then white Zenstone highlights.

Then darkening the tips with black.

Making the highlights pop with a touch of white Gelly Roll pen.

I had a request for a Renaissance shading book. Would any of you be interested in such a book?