COLOUR BLENDING TUTORIAL - In today’s video from the inky archives (when I was pregnant with Mia!) we talk about blending colouring pencils. There’s a few ways to do this but in this video I'll show you how I blend colouring pencil with Zest It blending solution and a blending stump. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ I hope this video gives you some ideas for how to blend coloured pencils together in your colouring. The trick is to vary the pressure you put on the pencil and lay down lots of light layers of colour, as op

Lots of you have been asking about backgrounds. One technique I like, is chalk pastels. It works well around large shapes like this Elephant or the Turtle in my free book, Flourish. If you don't have chalk pastels, eye shadow works well! Just keep a damp cloth on hand to wipe those smudgy fingers and remember to give it a good spray with fixative or hairspray in a well ventilated area to 'set' the chalk before you begin to colour. Have fun! And yes, this tutorial replaces our daily live colourin

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