Colouring grey animals with Promarkers

I thought I would do a quick video about colouring grey animals, there are so many animal stamps out there, it could be useful for you.

The first card is a Lili of the Valley image. Note how I left the pillow uncoloured, I just shadowed it a little with pastel blue, to give a hint of colour.

the white scallop was cut from Plantin Schoolbook cricut cartridge at 1"


and here is the little image you will see coloured in today's video. The stamp is by Kanban, available from Hobbycraft in the UK. The black and white spotty paper is by Making Memories, the tiny roses were white paper, I coloured them with promarkers to match the card.





You can see how much lighter the image looks when the ink dries completely...........


I have just watched the video, chuckling here to myself, I seem terribly focused on telling you which animals are grey....................as if you don't know that already! It is quite difficult to chat, colour, and keep everything in focus all at the same time, so I hope you will forgive me acting as though you don't know what colour a mouse is.







By request, I have done a quick list of some of the stronger colours that go well together for shading, but don't appear on my starter list. I did a quick swipe of a few of the colours available, and scribbled the names down, I hope you can all read my writing!

Look at the groups below. Imagine a leaf coloured in pine green, then on the underside of the leaf, a touch of holly. Can you see how they complement each other?

Look how royal blue below, would also tone in with true blue. Indigo would also go well with the midnight blue group. There are no rules....................

The very last colours on this page were cut off. They should read

Tulip yellow and sunflower

Canary yellow and yellow

Look at the two sets of pink on the page below. Can you see how the salmon and cocktail would be perfect for shading images, and that in the same way, cerise and rose pink belong to a totally different pink 'family'
Imagine colouring a sea with Cyan, then where the water would be deeper, between the waves, add a touch of agean...............
oops I forgot to label a green pairing. I am sure that they were meadow and grass

I hope this helps you - a whole lot of mystique seems to have grown up around alcohol markers, and it is intimidating to a lot of people. I personally much prefer using names for the colours, rather than complicated numbers - although promarkers also has a number printed on each pen as well.

I'll be back tomorrow with a video about colouring white clothes...... yes, white clothes. Should be a pretty colourless sort of video then.... see you then