Forest Gnome

Hi.
Helen here today.
Today I will colour a forest scenery.

Hope you will enjoy this!

Skin:E0000 - E05 - E00 - E21 - R00
Hair: E18 - E08 - YR24
Skirt: R81 - R83 - R8 - R89
Cap: V91 - V93 - V95 - RV99 - T3
Shawl: E70 - E71 - E74
Shoes: C3 - C5 - C7
Leaf: YG25 - YG63 - Y11 - Y15 - E08 - YR07 - YR04

Background:
E08 - E23 - E31 - E33 - E35 - 37 - E41 - E42 - E43 -  E44 - E47 - E70 - E71 - E74 - E79
 G0000 - G21 - G24 - G43
N3 - N6 - N7
T1 - T3 - T5 - T7
YG0 - YG03 - YG17 - YG25 - YG63 - YG67 - YG91 - YG93
YR21 - YR23

Happy colouring
Helen

 

Winter Gnome

Hi!
I hope you had a nice Christmas.
Maybe Santa brought you some Copic markers?

I love when I stumble upon some stamps that I haven´t seen before. I found a set of four gnomes on Facebook and I fell in love at once. My first impression was that they were spring or summer images.
But I wanted them on my Christmas cards and I want to show how I made a winter scene from one of the images.



First I made a summer scene.
Skin: E000 - E11 - R02 - E50
Hair: Y32 - E31 - E35
Clothes: R81 - R83 - R85 - R89, B000, E70 - E71
Fly agaric: R05 - R08 - R46 - R89, E41 - E42 - E43
Bird: R24 - C1 - C3 - C5 - Y17
Water: BG70 - BG72 - BG11 - B0000
Greenery: YG11 - YG25 - YG17 - YG61, G43 - G24 - YG67
Tree trunks: E42 - E43, E25 - E59 - E49
Rocks: T0 - T1 - T3 - T5
Sky: B0000 - B00

As you can see she is holding a dandelion. But I masked it so she just holds the stem.

Sketched in my  scene with C0.

Moon and sparkler: Y00
Sky: B91 - B93
Birches: E40

Moon: E70
Sky: B95 - B97
Birches: C1 - C3 - C5
Snow: B41 - B45 - B0000

Skin: E000  - BV20 - E11 - R02 - Y00
Top hat and skirt: R35 - R37 - R89
Vest: YG61 - YG7
Apron: C3 - C0
Hair: E08 - E19 - E29
Fly agaric: R05 - R08 - R46 - T5,  C2 - C0, E40 - E41 - E42 - E44
Bird: C1 - C2 - C3, R35, Y17, Y00

So I imagine her laying there on the fly agaric on new years eve, celebrating with a sparkler.

Hope you enjoyed this post.

I wish you all
A SPARKLING, HAPPY NEW YEAR.
Love
Helen

Gnome in Glade

Hi there!

Today it's my, Helen, turn again to show you some colouring.
I've used "You Gnome Me" stamp set from My Favorite Thing Stamps.

I started by making some masked stamping.
As always I used Memento Ink on Perfect Coloring Paper.

I started with the background, the first layer of the sky was BG11.
The grass got: G40 - G43

The tree trunks got BG13.

The skin got: E50 - B20 - E21 - E11 - R02 - W3

 I had to lower the tree trunks by adding in tree tops used BG15 - BG18.
The hat of the mushroom got R05 - R08 - R27 - R37 - R59

Some how I decided to get the gnome a red beard, YR09 - E08 - E19
And I didn´t use one of the colours from the mushroom but it turned out the same...

I wanted him to wear a flannel shirt, and a red one...
R35 - R59 - R37

His pants got W1 - W5 - W3
The foot of the mushroom got E40 - E41 - W1 - W3
The snail got: E41 - W1 - W3 - R00, E84 - E89 - E87 - E49 - E81
The shadow from the snail is T5.

Added some more tree trunks, G12
Grass: YG13

Grass: YG17 - YG 63 - YG67
His hat got the same shades as the pants, W1 - W5 - W3

Some texture to the snail.

The buttons got Y21 - Yr23 - Y28

Added in the squares in the fabric, used B26 and Gelly Roll Dark White.
And the snail got a highlight as well.

Placed a tree in the very front of the picture used RV99.

And as I use to do, I coloured another one.

Skin: E11 - E13 - E21
Beard: B24 - C3 - C5 - C7
Hat and shirt: R35 - R59 - R37 - B26 - Jelly Roll Dark White
Pants: B41 - B45 - B97
Mushroom: R05 - R08 - R27 - R39, E41 - E42 - W3
Snail: E41 - E42 - R00 - E84 - E89 - E87
Grass: G40 - YG03 - YG61 - YG63 - YG67

Background: G40 - G43
Foreground: RV99

Happy colouring til next time!
Love
Helen

Through the Window | Making a Scene

Hi everyone! Today I'm sharing my colouring of a little scene I created using some masking to bring two stamps together. I used Fall Window and Gnome Backdrop and changed the scene outside the window. 

To change the scene was an easy process, but I didn't take any pictures of it so I will explain. 

First I covered the centre part of the Fall Window stamp with a piece of card while I inked it up. No ink got on the centre part. I stamped the window onto Perfect Colouring Paper using memento black ink. I stamped the window again onto some regular copier paper, I cut out the centre piece, leaving a hole, and placed the paper over the original stamped image. Then I stamped the gnome backdrop. As all the image was covered with the copier paper, except for the centre part, only part of the image transferred. 

Once I had the images merged I started the colouring process, beginning with the grass. 

I tried a different combination of YGs on this one, I normally use G's and finish with YG03. 

I started with YG17, which is quite dark, and I went around the edges and under the toadstools. 

I then applied YG23 dragging out some of the YG17 too. 

My lightest colour was YG13. 

For the ground I used E41, E42, and E43

When I had all the colours down I dotted the E42 and E43 to add some texture. 

On the flowers I used 2 shades of blue and 2 shades of pink. 

B91, B34. R81, R83 

For the toadstools I first coloured the underneath and the stalk using E41, E42, and E43. Then I coloured the top using R35 and R37. 

I coloured the sky using B01 and B00. 

When using red I would normally first colour around the element I'm going to colour in red as red is easily transferred onto lighter markers and gets dragged out. So when going around red, be very careful not to hit the tip of the marker off of it. 

I left the window white, I simply applied C1 and C3 for shadow. 

I coloured all around the window using R12, and applied E97 for darker areas. 

Behind the window, to give the appearance of frosted glass, I first coloured in R01. I then went over the R01 with BG10, and then went back in with R01. I applied R12 for shadow, and finally some BG11. 

Lastly, I went around the window with E93

That's it from me for today. 

Thanks for dropping by. 

Sandie