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Circles – 10/26/08

Posted in Color Pencils, tagged , , , on October 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

For this session I focused on the bottom middle area.

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Full-size View

If you’ve been following along with this blog, you’ll know how I did most of this area so I’ll just write about new stuff.  The spotted blue/purple bullet shape that abuts the orange bullet shape, was colored using a light circular stroke with the prismacolor dioxide purple pencil.  I then went over it with a circular stroke using white.  To make it more 3D, I colored black grape along both sides, leaving it lighter in the middle area.

Close-up View

Close-up View

As an added note, to make an area look shiney, I put in a thick line of white.  With cheaper pencil brands, it’s almost impossible to add white and make it show up.  Using primsacolor’s white, the white can sit on top of the color rather then blending into the color beneath it.

Happy Coloring!

Maureen, The Mandala Lady

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Circles – 10/25/08

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For this session I focused mainly in the center area.
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Full-size View

This section looks to me like a cross between a fish’s head and a bird’s head.  What looks like a yellow eyeball was colored with prismacolor canary yellow, yellow ochre, goldenrod, and black cherry. I used a very tight circular stroke.  The black cherry was used primarily to give the eyeball its 3D shape.  The reddish sections was colored with raspberry and black grape.  The green sections were colored with canary yellow, Copenhagen blue (lighter green areas) or indigo blue (darker green areas), and black grape.

Close-up View

Close-up View

Happy Coloring!

Maureen, The Mandala Lady

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Circles – 10/23/08

Posted in Color Pencils, tagged , , , , , , on October 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I’m continuing to work in the mid-bottom section of the painting.

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Full-size View

Today, I continued with the larger arc that was created with the light gold, light blue and blue sections by adding the gold section.  To get the deep rich gold color, I use prismacolor canary yellow and black cherry color pencils.  In some of the larger sets of prismacolor pencils, a “gold” pencil is usually included.  The problem with that color is that it’s more a metallic brown, it lacks the warmth of what I know gold to have.  Years ago I was playing with yellow and brown as a way to make gold.  It was playing with complimentary colors that I found gold:  yellow and purple make a beautiful gold.  For a lighter gold, use lemon yellow.  You can also get different shade of gold by mixing canary yellow with black grape, which has more blue in it.

Close-up View

Close-up View

Happy Coloring!

Maureen, The Mandala Lady

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Circles – 10/22/08

Posted in Color Pencils, tagged , , on October 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

In keeping with the flow of the previous coloring session, I continued to color in the mid-bottom section of the painting.

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Full-size View

This area has some odd shapes in it and makes it a little more challenging to determine who is going with whom, who’s above and below, and what textures.  So I went with a lighter blue textured background that will be underneath all of the other shapes.  The donut-shaped section is the uppermost area of this section.  The gold and maroon sections are either on the same level or above/below each other.  The next-to-last layer is the light green textured section that ties in with the larger circular arc created by the darker blue textured sections on the left side of this photo.

Close-up View

Close-up View

Happy Coloring!

Maureen, The Mandala Lady

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Circles – 10/21/08

Posted in Color Pencils, tagged , , , on October 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

For today’s session, I’ve jumped back down to the mid-bottom section of the painting.

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Full-size View

I love playing with creating depth and dimension.  Mostly I do this with coloring in shadows.  Some of the shadows make sense (meaning I have a consistent shadow direction) others are put it because it feels like there should be a shadow there.  For ‘shadow’ purists, this painting may cause some agitation.

For the green, purple and light blue sections, I wanted to create a flow of one into the other.  To make that happen I burnished the colors in the same direction and added shading in the same areas of each.  Then I made the shadow follow the same flow.

Close-up View

Close-up View

Happy Coloring!

Maureen, The Mandala Lady

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Circles – 10/18/08 [Session 3]

Posted in Color Pencils, tagged , , , , on October 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I felt inspired to pop over into the right hand section of the painting.   The left side is done for now.  So when it came time to continue onto the right side, this little circular section just cried out to me, asking to be colored next.  Who am I to deny this section its coloring?

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Full-size View

This section happens to includes the colors of the rainbow in a mixed-up order.  All seven sections were color using a burnishing stroke (coloring hard).  From top to bottom, for the darker blue area, I used prismacolor indigo blue, cloud blue, and black grape.  For the lighter blue, I used prismacolor Copenhagen blue, cloud blue, and black grape (maybe a little white as well).  For the yellow/gold section, I used prismacolor canary yellow and black cherry.  For the red section, I used prismacolor crimson red and black grape with a touch of white.  For the green section, I used prismacolor canary yellow, Copenhagen blue, and black grape with a touch of white.  For the purple section, I used prismacolor crimson red, dioxide purple hue, white and black grape.  For the orange section, I used prismacolor scarlet lake, canary yellow, lemon yellow, and black cherry.

Close-up View

Close-up View

Happy Coloring!

Maureen, The Mandala Lady

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Circles – 10/18/08 [Session 2]

Posted in Color Pencils, tagged , , , , on October 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

For this session, I continued to color in the bottom mid-section of the painting.

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Full-size View

Mainly I added a blue textured background, a solid mid-blue, and a light goldish arc section.  For the blue textured background, I used a circular stroke with prismacolor indigo blue and dioxide purple hue.  The more solid mid-blue section at the bottom was colored with prismacolor true blue and cloud blue using a burnishing linear stroke.  For the light goldish section, I used prismacolor black cherry, cloud blue, and lemon yellow.  The small red section was colored with prismacolor crimson red, black grape and a dash of white.

Close-up View

Close-up View

Happy Coloring!

Maureen, The Mandala Lady

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Circles – 10/18/08 [Session 1]

Posted in Color Pencils, tagged , , , , , on October 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

During my first session of color today, I continued to color in the lower mid-section.

Full-size View

Full-size View

In this close-up view, you can see where I added the orange and another green section.  In coloring the orange section, I used prismacolor canary yellow and scarlet lake.  I also gave it a more textured and flat appearance.  The texture was created by using a circle stroke to put down the color. The shadow areas of the orange section, were created by coloring with prismacolor black cherry and then coloring over that with the yellow and scarlet lake.

In the green section, to give it a smoother appearance, I used a burnishing stroke (ie: I colored hard into the paper) and really blended the black grape, canary yellow and Copenhagen blue.

Close-up View

Close-up View

Happy Coloring!

Maureen, The Mandala Lady

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Circles – 10/16/08

Posted in Color Pencils, tagged , , , , , , on October 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I continue to focus on the mid-to-bottom section of the painting.

Full-size View

Full-size View

In this close-up view, you can see where I added the gold donut-like shape.  I wanted to create a mixed illusion of either the round blue circle being above the gold shape or that the gold shape really has a hole in it and that you’re looking through to the blue section which covers from the right of the gold shape all the way to the left of the green dented shape.

To give the green dented shape a little more depth, I colored in a shadow into the wheat-colored area.  In warmer colored sections, I use prismacolor black cherry to create the shadow and then color over it with the color(s) that were beneath it.  In this case I colored the wheat-colored section prismacolor yellow ochre, goldenrod and canary yellow.

Close-up View

Close-up View

Happy Coloring!

Maureen, The Mandala Lady

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Circles – 10/12/08

Posted in Color Pencils, tagged on October 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I continued to focus on the lower and bottom section of this painting.

Full-size View of Painting

Full-size View of Painting

The green odd-shaped section that looks like it’s dented, is an illusion created by using prismacolor black grape.  Rather than have it look flat, I colored in some black grape along the center length-wise and out to the edges.  My coloring the ‘green’ over it, the black grape becomes more of a dark green shade.  I quoted the ‘green’ because I actually used prismacolor canary yellow and Copenhagen blue to create the green.

Close-up View

Close-up View

Happy Coloring!

Maureen, The Mandala Lady

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