Freehand Colouring

Sometimes, just sometimes I want to throw caution to the wind and colour direct to paper, no stamped or digi outline to follower just pure colour splashed straight on top of card....joy!
I love nothing better than to design this way, no hard and fast rules, just basically making it up as I go along, designing a picture from splodges of colour.

I used the Zig Art and Graphic twin pens, as seen below and quite randomly rolled the pens around on top of a piece of water colour paper. Once I was happy with the shapes and over all look of the piece, I used a water brush to dab over the top, blend and merge the colours together to achieve that watercolour effect, very easy indeed!

I added the finer detail with the smaller end to the pens and added this FABULOUS sparkle effect with one of the Wink of Stella pens!...love love love....*TIP* There is a Clear Wink of Stella pen which look fab just scribbled over the top of your coloured images and brilliant for fairy wings!

This is me having a little play, with Valentines day in mind, changing the colour slightly, you can't beat a bit of Photoshop :)

Below are the exact ingredients I used making the card, I have to admit to having always been a double sided tape girl....but I love the 2 way glue!!! and proved a very good point to me last night having struggled to mount the painted panel straight onto the card! Once that double sided goes down, there's no turning back but with the glue you have a little time to line things up, maybe sing a few tunes....;)

Artists out there, I have used A LOT of different drawing pens on the market, you NEED one of these!!!!

All of the above products are available from Kuretake.

Hope you enjoyed a little bit of freehand colouring, go try it for yourself.

Thanks for looking and taking the time to comment :)

Sharon x