Rainbow Shading Lesson Part 4

Last Friday members of my Art Club and I started Part 4 of the Rainbow Shading technique, creating a sampler with multiple tangles.

During this class we explore yet another method of how to select pencils for your Rainbow Shading project — there are several ways and you can choose the one that works for you.

No matter the method you choose, it's important to understand VALUE (brightness of a color) as a tool to help color shading.

During Part 4, we started what is our last project of the series. We explored tangles Jaysix and Kwazeela (Eni Oken), Joki (Kim Aarts), Tink (Carole Ohl) and Bunzo. We also covered how to make mini gems.

Here's a close-up of the final project, we'll complete it on Part 5 this coming Friday. This will conclude this wonderful colorful series!

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