Secret Garden Postcard

I don't know about you, but I have loved coloring ever since I can remember, so why stop now? I came across "Secret Garden: An Inky Treasure Hunt and Coloring Book."


The book has many pages of flowers, gardens, creatures and rambling vines hand drawn by the author just waiting for you to color them in and making them your own. Space is also provided for your continue your own drawings on some of the pages.

Here are a couple of pages I have worked on using gel pens.

My initial thought was to use Copic Markers to color the pages because I love the ability to blend the colors, but I soon discovered that the paper is very porous and the ink is absorbed onto the back of page.

Next I tried gel pens.  The first set of pens I purchased were Fiskars Gel Pen, 48-Piece Value Set. They work great, but some of the neon inks seem to clog up at the tips, but the glitter and metallic pens worked great, plus they're my favorite. When I started to run low on the Fishers' pens I gave Sakura Gelly Roll Metallic Gel Pen Set a try and they were a dream to use. I wish I had purchased the larger  Sakura 64-Piece Gelly Roll Set.

In the video below, I used Crayola 50ct Colored Pencils to color a postcard from the Secret Garden Postcard book. I also used Gambol Oil to blend and shade the colors. 

Here is the finished postcard.

Supplies used in this project:

Crayola 50ct Long Colored Pencils (68-4050)	Secret Garden: 20 Postcards	Secret Garden: An Inky Treasure Hunt and Coloring Book	Enchanted Forest: An Inky Quest & Coloring Book
Fiskars Gel Pen 48-Piece Value Set	Artists' Grade Gamsol Oil Color Size: 2 oz	Stumps And Tortillions Set	Jack Richeson Blending Tortillon Stomps, Size #2, Dia 1/4
Sakura 57360 64-Piece Gelly Roll Artist's Gift Set	Sakura 57370 10-Piece Gelly Roll Blister Card Assorted Colors Metallic Gel Ink Pen Set

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