Snowy cold.

After the last 2 pages in the Fall it was time for some winter. 

I decided I was going to take pictures from all the steps. So I set up my phone in a holder with a ring light and a cloth on the table. 

I started with the blank page

I used 3 acrylic colors from the Standard Series of Amsterdam for the background

    #385     Rose Quinacrodone cl. 

    #551    Sky Blue light 

    #519    Ultramarine Violet

for the edges I used #562 Greyisch Blue

I added some transparent white to make it more pastel and tone everything down.

ANd then.....

I forgot about the pictures :) 
Until I was done coloring the face and had added the snowflakes, so I decided to just finish it and take pictures afterwards. But I will tell you about all the steps nonetheless. 

I sketched the face in pencil and colored it in with Faber Castell Polychromos. 

Then I cut out some snowflakes from tissue paper.  (next time I would use printerpaper since the tissuepaper was barely visible after I glued it down with modgepodge. 

To make them stand out I traced the edges with blue and purple tombow markers and added some shading with pencil.  Around the Girl and over the snowflakes I stenciled some snowflakes in white.

As a finishing touch I added some white and #820 Pearl Blue (irridescent)  splatters. 

Hopefully the next pages won't take as long as the previous ones before they appear on this blog :)

Thanks for reading,