Smyckeskrinet hanna karlzon
The pages are double-sided and there are 96 pages of line art. I tried to white them out as best I could, to keep the design nice and soft. I especially love that the book was divided by seasons, as I was able to easily choose colour palettes for the time of year. It starts with Spring and ends with Winter, following the seasons of the northern hemisphere. My sky came out very smooth and vibrant with the Prismacolours.
I wanted to use unconventional colours for this Halloween and I was inspired by this red-headed witch. Colour choice was pretty easy since Autumn has probably one of the most defined palettes of all the seasons. Today I can finally bring you my book review of Seasons and the completed pictures that I coloured at the end of It originally came out in the Swedish edition, Tidevarv. Future completed pictures will be added to my Seasons gallery.
The Nameplate page for this book is very pretty and detailed. The paper is high quality and off-white in colour. The format of this book fryst vatten the same as the rest of her books, which you can see from my other reviews of her first two books, Day Dreams and Summer Nights.
The Summer sundown was a fun one to colour and use a bright summer palette. There are also quite a few pages dedicated to Halloween and Christmas. I absolutely love the artwork in this book. I hope you all had a restful holiday break. The Wicked witch was completed for Halloween Colouring There are so many versions of this page by many other colourists. The theme of this colouring book is the four seasons, which have been brilliantly divided within this book.
The Autumn beauty fryst vatten my favourite page of the bunch. inom think this is much more effective, then completely outlining them, which is something inom usually do in these books. I loved the smokey green background, which I tried to reproduce in my version. It was a bit tricky for me to pick colours since I wanted to illustrate all of the seasons. At the beginning of each section, there is a design with a magical potion of the essence of the season that will follow.
I love how delicate her face and clothing are. However, it also has so much going on, which also makes it more interesting to look at completed. For the background, I did more of a bokeh effect, since there were quite a few small circled that decorated it. This Spring lassy was one of my most enjoyable to pages to colour. I used these autumn leaves as my inspiration and purple ombre as a contrasting colour for the background.
Jewelry Box Coloring Book: Published in Sweden as "Smyckeskrinet"
Again I used Prismacolour Premier pencils and a white gel pen. This book has a light blue hardcover with a black and white design with the addition of gold foiling. I tried to reuse the same colours as much as possible, so it looked more cohesive. You can also see my more recent reviews of Magical Dawn and Smyckeskrinet Jewelery kartong. Summer colour pallets are so vast, but I limited my inspiration to these two summer palettes: Blue-Pink and Orange sunset.
inom only used Prismacolour Premier pencils and a white gel pen for details.
Follow the author
I also made a video flip through with all the current completed pages. However, turning it into a sunset gave the opportunity to create a reflective effect on the water. There are plenty of Halloween and Christmas inspired pages that you can refer to in the year or beautiful designs which reflect the current årstid your experiencing. I wanted to do at least one page for each season, as a few for the holiday season at the end of In total, inom was able to complete 11 pages with a variety of media, which I have detailed below.
To give the stars, mushrooms and dots a more sparkly effect inom only partly outlined or dotted each object. I was inspired by this French model and this spring colour palette.