Weekend Workshop #17

Hello everyone, I hope you are all well and enjoying your week. We have a great tutorial from Debbi this week. If you would like to have one of your tutorials here on PFP for everyone to see or would like to do one especially for us, we are opening it up to everyone, so if you feel like you have something to share please email me :)
We also have a big thank you to  Sarah B and Caroline for being such fabulous guests. Look out on Tuesday for our next 2 guests :)

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We know how much storage for our pens is a problem, well Ida has found some fabulous storage at Camilla’s blog, Sue and myself (Gina) could not wait to have a go so here is my new storage

Here is a closer look :)

Now all you need is a

• DVD rack from Ikea @ £7.99
• 14 DVD cases
• Debbi’s new colour chart (email me if you would like one)
• Your gorgeous ProMarkers

I must say it took me a while to do it and I have to thank Sue for the super idea of using Debbi’s PDF colour chart, but it is soooooo worth it, they look fabulous and stick out just enough to make them easy to get and put back.

Hugs Gina xxx

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I think almost everyone has at least one animal stamp in their collection and so we have decided to do a series of tutorials on colouring animals with promarkers. I thought I'd start with a horse as its a popular theme, especially with little girls. I love this image; Charlotte's Horse from Whiff of Joy, designed by Alison Acton. Although its a cartoony type image it's also realistic in form and shape.
First things first, the image is stamped onto IQ Smooth 160 g/m2 with Memento Tuxedo Black ink. And I'll be using the following promarkers; Sandstone, Cinnamon, Cocoa and Umber. (I have also used Vanilla for the mane and tail which is not pictured)

The first thing I do is to imagine where the lightest bits would be, this is the bit that most people fin the most difficult to imagine. The easiest way to do it is probably to do an image search of horses on the internet. This is one that I found - it might look awfully complicated - but if you almost close your eyes, so that you are looking through your eyelashes, it is easier to see where the light and dark areas are.

So I have started with the lightest areas and very roughly coloured these areas with Sandstone

Then I take a small section at a time and colour the remaining white bits with Cinnamon. Then blended using the Sandstone in small circular movements.

Next I take the Cocoa promarker and using small strokes, colour the darker areas. Then blend with Sandstone

The I repeat the above 2 steps (with the cinnamon, then cocoa) for each of the other small sections

I took the Umber promarker and added tiny shading to the darkest areas - the furthest away hind leg, and the back of the other three legs, and the shadow behind his jaw then blended with the Sandstone again.

Then I moved onto his mane and tail. I coloured the areas that I imagined would be hit by the light source with Vanilla.

Then used Sandstone to colour the rest of the mane and tail and blended with the Vanilla

I kept adding more layers of Sandstone and blending with Vanilla until i was happy with the effect

And this is the completed image made into a card

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Hope you have enjoyed this weeks workshop, don’t forget if you want to join in and put a tutorial on, please contact me here

Hugs Gina, Denise and the DT xxx