Lady in Red

Lady in Red - Colouring Page found on Pinterest

My focus for the month of January 2016 is on painting with coloured pencils (yes, I call it painting!), and my goal is to mix coloured in pages found on pinterest with coloured drawings of my own. 

This one I did as an exercise to work with my reds - mostly polychromos pencils blended with baby oil.

The round shape behind the head of the lady has been coloured with my stabilo fineliners. The design is much too detailed to do it with coloured pencils. 

Lady with Hood

I have been looking for quite some time for something which makes coloured pencils more vivid and can be used for blending. I experimented with alcohol but that disappeared quicker than I could apply it on the drawing. The method I am using now is to pour a bit of baby oil into a small container and apply it with q-tips. I find q-tips much easier to control than a brush.