Coloring these beautiful Penny Black Poetic Portrait images with my copic markers takes me back to the days when I spent hours with my sweet friend, Pamela, drawing paper dolls and coloring them with crayons. We made dresses for them with tabs that bent over their shoulders to hold them in place and played with them for hours. Anybody else remember this? I also loved drawing and coloring pretty faces. I still do it sometimes. Maybe that's why I love make up so much.
I'm absolutely in love with these gorgeous Penny Black images because they are already beautifully drawn for me and all I have to do is make them come alive. I stamp them in Memento London Fog ink which softens the edges when I color them. They are simpler to color than they look, although the shading takes a little practice. On this image, to my great dismay, my copic marker dropped a big drop of blue ink onto my pretty lady's neck after I had almost finished coloring her. I know...disastrous! But it turned out to be a happy accident, as is often the case. I was able to cover it up with some pretty flowers and a beautiful butterfly. I die cut a Spellbinders frame in white to showcase my image and let my lady peak through from the back to show her flowing hair.
I love these Penny Black images so much. There are several and I have them all! They have become my favorite thing to color.
Thanks for visiting.
Go forth and be fabulous.
Nancy
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