Faux Watercoloring!

This is the mat that I put on the first card I shared with "Arranged with Love", (you can see the finished card in this post. ) Here are all the Copics I used to do it, 12 colors plus a gray for shadows. As you can see, I usually only use two of each color and am still able to build a lot of lights and dark tones and still get them blended. For an "in between" shade, touch the tip of your lighter color to the darker marker and color away! Once you see the darker color fading, touch it to your darker Copic again to reload.

Now here is the same piece, flipped over! I couldn't resist snapping a photo of this "technique": faux watercoloring, which is simply coloring as you normally would and then letting the "bleed through" side of your coloring be your focal point! I stamped it on regular white copy paper (the kind I use in my printer) so the color would bleed through easily and I didn't have to use much to really get the nice, saturated shapes of the flowers and leaves. Plus it changes up the layout by flipping! Jut a fun alternative for this set, looks so "painterly" without the lines! I will definitely come back and post a finished card using this technique! ;)

I've had several requests for the colors used on this, here they are:
Lipstick Red and Cardinal
Buttercup Yellow and Pale Yellow
Honey Golden Yellow and Cadmium Yellow
Pea green, Green gray and Lime Green
C1 Gray
Prune and Amethyst

Try this yourself, it is such a lovely surprise when you are finished with your coloring to turn it over an see an entirely new creation! :)