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| Colored pencil on dark mat board. I worked on the eye on the right side. I need to finish the ears and lighten the entire thing and add shadows as needed. Then I need to add cream to warm the white. |
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| Colored pencil on colourfix sanded pastel paper. I worked on the fur on the head and the long fur on the body. When I do fur I make my strokes in the direction of the fur. The pencil strokes vary depending on the length of the fur. I go back and forth between dark and light as I layer. I used Dark brown, cream, white, terra cotta/sienna brown, black. I worked on the ear as well using white, true blue, pomegranate, terra cotta, dark brown, and scarlet lake. |
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| Colored pencil on Borden & Riley Denril Vellum paper (or you can use Dura-Lar matte paper). I did the majority of the work on the black and white side. I need to add some white in areas but have not yet. |
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| This is a photo of the black and white side after I applied color on the color side. |
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| This is the color side. I started work on this side by erasing the original traced pencil lines first. Then I started shading color. I used cadmium orange hue and Spanish orange for the fins. I used true blue, canary yellow, spanish orange, black grape on the white parts of the fish. I used scarlet lake, black grape and true blue on the black parts. You can use any colors you wish really. |
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| This is a photo from the color side after I placed a background behind the fish. There are still some areas of the fish that are not completed yet, but this gives you the idea on how to finish. |
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| Watercolor on Stonehenge paper. This is the background I created for the fish with Pthalo blue. I traced the fish, wet the paper outside the traces fish, dropped in color and guided it around, and then flicked water and blue paint. In addition to watercolor backgrounds, I also make backgrounds with melted colored pencil and alcohol ink on yupo. |