February 2024

Projects & Paintings

Made Progress on my Coloring Book & picked a title: Color Note

I’m steadily on my coloring book and will be completed with it by the end of March. I started this project almost a year ago in April 2023. It was something that my sister and I were talking about. She was going to do hers with her original digital art, and I wanted to do mine with original hand drawn line art. This month, I decided on the title and cover art. My book is set up with the artwork on the right side and the inspirational picture or colored artwork on left side with swatch squares and lines for notes or journaling. So my book will be called Coloring Note.

The first two pieces on the gallery will be on the cover. The inspiration for this piece was a from a picture that my friend Carmen sent me. He goes hiking around the marsh around our town and a lot of his pictures are inspiration for my coloring pages and artwork. I made sample paintings for the coloring

pages that did not have inspirational photos.

I used and practiced with alcohol markers for these paintings. I got comfortable with using them and found techniques that worked for me. I primarily use Copic with some markers from Tombow and Artist’s Loft. I also watched several artists’ videos seeing how they used their markers. In the next couple of weeks, I will be trying out the Ohuhu brand. I’m partial to the Copic or Ohuhu brands because they are refillable.

As always, I did some watercolor painting then experimented with Yupo paper samples with alcohol markers. Yupo paper is synthetic and waterproof which makes it interesting to work with. Alcohol markers are usually permanent but on this paper, they reactivate and I don’t know how to control it. The paintings turned out but it was hard not to over work the piece. I’m glad I got the samples but I don’t think I’ll be working on them too soon.

Just a reminder that I have a Patreon. I have two levels: Coffee tier $5 per month for digital art lovers, and Latte tier $10 per month for digital downloads and 2 prints. Check out my Patreon at www.Patreon.com/GemmaGeluzDesigns.com.

Here’s my link to my Etsy shop: www.gemmageluz.etsy.com

Thanks, y’all!

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