Azaleas - Three Ways

I’ve completed the last of the cards that will be gifts for our friends that hosted us on Vancouver Island.  I wanted to try to do some colouring in three different ways for today’s post so you can see a comparison, so here we go!  As with the rest of the gift set I used Power Poppy’s Azaleas.  I do love all the sets in this month’s release...and I’ll get to them soon too!  :)

This card is coloured with Copics, you get a beautiful blend between colours and rich vivid depth of colour as well.  

Adding BV’s into the shadows and YG’s into the highlights really makes a difference in the realism of the colouring.  

Here’s the inside of the card...a beautiful quote from the Good Thinking: Renewal set, stamped in a deep coral ink.  

Now here is a very similar design using Prismacolor pencils for the colouring.  They have a beautiful blend, you can really work with sharp edge details, and you can decide to use a blending stump (with or without mineral spirits) to blend - or just leave it as pencil strokes.  Because of the pencils I used these have more of a rosy glow than the coral of the Copic coloured card.  

I did a little warm grey shadowing under the flowers as you can see above.  

Now I’ll show the box that I put all of the designs in.  

It’s a very simple A2 Box design that I often use from a SCS tutorial.  I kept it quite clean and added a pretty card/tag where I watercoloured the azaleas.  I could use some practise on the watercolouring to be honest.  I like more white space in my watercoloring and my brush was too full of water for the flowers.  But, it’s still a pretty and simple tag (and I do like the background wash) that helps tie the different cards together that are inside the box.  

Here’s the Copics I used for the first card:

And now that’s complete and ready to give to them.  :)  

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Azaleas - Three Ways