Pattern 5 - Pretty Pink Rose
Originally designed for a
birthday card for someone special, this card would equally at home as a
Mother's Day card.
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Method
I completed this rose in Faber Castell's (tm)
Polychromos pencils. I used a dry pencil method where you
need no tracing of the outlines prior to colouring.
I used several shades of pink and the white
pencil to gradually build up the shading of the petals by starting with
pattern under parchment and using the deepest pink draw a multitude of lines
following the contours of the petals ( inward to the centre) for approx 1/3 of
the petal. Then the next lighter shade, starting over a portion of
the parts already coloured so that they blend. Then the next lighter again and
so on till the middle is white ( pencil) and this white can also be used to
smooth over the entire pencilled area.
The lines you draw are varied in length.. so
that they will blend in together and not leave a start and end joining mark.
The leaves were completed in a similar
fashion.. using various shades of green.. working in lines from the outlines
in.
The rear of the parchment was embossed at the
petal edges and between leaf veins with a PCA Shader and MiniShader in smaller
areas, using a striking motion from the outline toward the centre of petals...
and from the middle vein trailing off to the edges outward in between the
leaves.
The PCA GridSquare ( I used Bold for this one)
was used in an all over pattern leaving approx 1 mm ( or one space if done in
conjunction with a grid) in between each GridSquare perforation.
I then embossed impressions between the
perforations with a Small SunTool. The 4 corners of the card were
highlighted with alternate diagonal perforations being cut out with
scissors.
As in the picture above fill in the ENTIRE
remainder of the front of the card with this pattern surrounding the rose.
A dark insert works best when doing an all over
grid pattern like this ... for more contrast.
This card is not that hard.. the pencils make
the colouring very pretty. Do give this a try!
