The Joy of colours

I love playing around with colours, and I also love abstract shapes. So it didn't take me long to jot down some lines on cardboard which had the size of a postcard, and to fill in the colours. The longer the winter lasts the more I long for vivid and happy colours, and because I can't get them yet in nature I create them with my paintings.

Violet flowers

As I said before I love to include doing colouring pages in my artist activity. Besides the fact that colorouring has a very relaxing side to it it simply means practising with my watercolour pencils. 

Portrait of a Bear - final version

This time I applied my watercolour pencils dry at most places and then blende-tip. d them with a wetted q-tip. I used cardstock as a support. I somehow prefer cardstock over watercolour paper because of its smoothness. I would also like to try out hot pressed watercolour paper, but this is quite difficult to get here.

Flower Egg

I found this colouring page on pinterest and I decided to colour it because it reminded me of the coming spring. The days are longer now, and on last Sunday you could almost smell spring in the air. It was quite mild, and the hazel bushes are in full bloom. Unfortunately I am allergic to hazel pollen, but in spite of that I love spring and I am looking forward to the days when we can see the first spring flowers.

This egg was done with watercolour pencils on simple copy paper. 

Work in Progress: Bear portrait

In case you're asking what the lines are for: In the beginning I intended to do a zentangle bear portrait, but the longer I put colour on the more I digressed and now I am on my way to a not very realistic but also not a zentangle bear - something between. I think you can already see the characteristics of a bear.

After all the lines will almost totally disappear with the colouring of the bear's head. I am having much fun with my watercolour pencils - I can't believe that I have neglected them for such a long time!

Carousel Horse

This is another colouring page found on pinterest which I did with watercolour pencils. I know that horses definitely are not blue, but blue is one of my favourite colours. The meaning of blue is - at least Wikipedia says so - romanticism and mystery. (No wonder the avatar people are blue!)

I painted on regular copy paper - and you can see that it crumpled a bit. However I like the texture which the crumpled paper resulted in. 

Red Tulip

 Tulip. Watercolour pencils on drawing cardboard

A short time ago I rediscovered my watercolour pencils - and I was having very much fun doing this tulip! When I went through my drawing cardboard sheets I found a linedrawing done with pencils and decided to colour my own drawing. I would like to do more colouring of my own drawings, but doing that is taking far more time than "just" colouring. So I can only do that now and then and not on a regular basis.