Coloring with Watercolor pencils

Hi girls,
This week at Some Odd Girl we are talking about coloring and today is my turn to show you how to paint your image with watercolor pencils.

The first and very important thing is when you decide to play with watercolor pencil you have to be sure you have the proper cardstock.You can use cartridge paper or watercolour paper with your water-soluble pencils or with other words you need anything up 200gsm.
For this post today I used Faber Castell pencils but every other high quality pencils will be perfect. And here is the list of colours I used:

For the purpose of this step by step tutorial I used Some Odd Girl mermaid clear stamp set and Stazon ink.I really like it and it's the right one for your watercolor projects because it doesn't spread with water.
And let the fun begin...

I always start with background and apply the tones on layers like you do with your markers - first the lighter color and then the darker one just to be sure they are going to blend well. If you want to make a color stronger you have to apply another layer of the same tone but you need to be patient and wait the paper to completely dry up before doing it.

For the tail I did the same - colored it with the lighter tone just to be sure. I already made the lighter area and then continued with the dark one and the ones that are in shadow.

I wanted our mermaid to look more interesting and drew some husks with dried pencil :)

And it was time to start with the hair. My choice was to color it in light blond and I made the first layer with a really light warm yellow. 

I like watercolor pencils just because you can make as much shade tones as you want and this depends only on how much water you use.

 After that I finished her hair with three tints of brown and blended all with water and yellow.

 For the skin I used flesh color pencil and a little bit hot brown for the shadows.
And here is the final touch - some blings in the eyes made with a white gel pen.

I hope you enjoy this and would like to try it at home :)