Monday, April 17, 2017

Colouring - Lost Ocean

Another book that I picked up from a local store was Johanna Basford's 'Lost Ocean' - I was concerned about the tiny areas of some of the designs, but really, once I started colouring, I hardly noticed those. I enjoy every minute of colouring this book.

The theme is right up my street
The designs are beautiful
I like the crisp white and fairly smooth paper of the pages which takes harder pencils beautifully.




The verdict is still out if I will add backgrounds to these. I was planning to, but liked them once finished and decided to wait-and-see.





I used a silver Sharpie for the dotted details on this one




I'm having the hardest time getting good colour on the picture of this page. So many details but I enjoyed saturating every area as much as I can with lots of delicious colour.




This was the first page I coloured, feeling my way around the paper with different pencils and some gel pens.



Another longer colour project - whimsical underwater fun!






This was a quickie using Derwent Metallic water soluble pencils for the base layer and dry pencil over top.





Soft pastel colours from the Noris Club pencils by Staedler (which I do not like, simply because I like my colours bolder, BUT they sure do beautiful colour blends!) I added glitter glue details to each jelly fish.




Delightful pages that took quite  a while to colour, but I do like the double spreads.





Another Noris Club pastel one. In retrospect I think I would have liked a smaller colour palette for the seahorses...



This is one book I would really like to colour completely. And who knows, it may just happen!

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