🎨Traditional Art//Summer Slumber

Hello hello lovelies! ✨ Traditional art time! 🎨 For this one, I decided to explore mixing watercolor and colored pencil. 🌈

I love colored pencils but BOY HOWDY, they are a bit tedious, especially when filling areas like the background!  So to try and alleviate some of that, I decided to lay down a watercolor base first! 💧🌿 I do love the look of messy watercolor indications of foliage behind her.

As for doing a traditional version of Summer Slumber, I can't say exactly why I felt so drawn to this piece. 🤔❤️ It isn't a hugely popular piece, but for some reason, it just kept tickling my mind.  I think maybe the vibe of it just felt like it would fit well with a traditional medium.

You may notice that a big difference between the digital version and this version is the HAIR.  Partway through trying to get the pale blond colors to work with colored pencils, I just decided to give up on it. 🙈 It wasn't working well, but the good thing is that since it was so light, it was easy to darken it into an eye-popping red.  So she is now a redhead, and I think it suits her color scheme quite well! ❤️

There's so much layering that has to happen with colored pencils that I think my wrist needs a little break after this one.  Next month, I think I'll probably give colored pencils a rest and work with all paint instead. 🎨🖌️ Maybe watercolor and/or gouache. 🌈🌟 Something that will be gentle on my poor, exhausted wrist and fingers. 🙏

Here are the tools I used for this piece: 🛠️

• Arteza A4 Cold Pressed Watercolor Sheet
• 10B Graphite Pencil (for the back of the transfer copy sheet)
• Windsor&Newton Bushpen Watercolor Set
• Prisma Colored Pencils
• Faber-Castell Brushpen (Dark Sepia)
• FineTech Metallic Watercolors

I recorded the process and have uploaded the Draw-With-Me Traditional Art Process Video for you!  If you are interested in pulling out your own pencil and paper to work with me or if you want to color the provided lineart to color the same piece, feel free!. 📹

Watch the Traditional Art Process 

Rewards for this piece (attached to bottom of post):

• Full Res Art
• Timelapse Video
• Sketch
• Lineart
• Progress Shots

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