Blending with Watercolor pencils
A question I get asked often is “Can I use watercolor pencils in your books?” My initial thought based on the fact that it is 60lb paper I wouldn’t recommend it. Traditional watercolor paper is at least 90lb and most artists use 130lb paper. Still being of a curious nature I decided to give it a try. I used my favorite watercolor pencils by Lyra. They are so smooth and once the water activates them they are so vibrant and creamy looking. I used a plastic sheet under the page to prevent any bleed through onto the page below. I used a very light hand and as little water as…
Happy 4th of July-FREE coloring page
Happy 4th of July I hope you are all having a wonderful holiday. Here is one of the pages from my book Coloring Through the Seasons with God. I colored mine on my iPad with the Procreate app. As a holiday treat you can click here to download a copy of this coloring page. I would love to see how you color it. You can tag me on Instagram @s.e.foster.author or message me via my Facebook author page and I will post your images.
Supply Saturday: Prismacolor Colored Pencils
Today’s post is about my favorite colored pencils. When I first began coloring in 2015 after finding the Praying in Color book by Sybil McBeth I used what I could afford. After doing research I really wanted to try out higher quality pencils. I had come across Prismacolor Colored Pencils. When I first found out about them in 2015 they were still a bit out of my price range. In July of 2017 after I published my first book(links to purchase are in the sidebar on the right) I found a set of 24 on Amazon for $14.95. Here is one of the pages in that book colored with those…
A little bit about my process….
The most popular question I get asked is “How long did it take you to write your book?” For my first book that is an easy answer. It took me well over 300 hours to complete. This is what one particular sketching session looked like From this point once I had all the sketches inked onto tracing paper, I then scanned them and imported into Illustrator to convert them into vector images. The vector images can then be scaled up or down without becoming pixelated. I then inserted the word images and floral images into each page in Microsoft Publisher. Once that step was completed and all the pages…