Pokeleaf Rainbow Shading
Continuing our exploration of colored pencils using “Rainbow Shading” techniques, I created two more pictures. The first one is a sweet simple picture using only Pokeleaf, Fife and Crescent Moon tangles, this is the exercise Art Clubbers and I will develop during our Rainbow Shading Part 3 of the series.
On the left side of this next picture you can see one sample of the exercise we completed in Part 2 of the series. On the center and right side you see the real application of those techniques into a full pictures, using tangles Pokeleaf, Fife, Crescent Moon, Bales and Arukas (all Zentangle).
In this close-up you can see how the color variation is abundant in this picture, creating a rich color that is not just coloring, but instead, shading with color.
Here's a before and after coloring:
In this other picture I used Pokeleaf, Scena (both Zentangle) and Joki (Kim Aarts), using a similar technique of color shading:
Here you can see a before and after color shading:
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This picture was made largely adapted from a fragment of Gothic architecture I found in Richard Glazier’s Manual of Historic Ornament (archive dot org). I combined three primary colors with black ink, and shaded and colored using inktense pencils.