Tricia's First Attempts for the Kit and Clowder Colouring Course

My first attempt on this course was to follow the instructions for colouring the rose. I will admit that I've watched any number of videos on colouring in the past, so a lot of what they suggest wasn't new, but I've never tried using so many shades of a single colour before - most of the craft companies suggest three.
My first attempt I used coloured pencils.

As you can see, the base image is lovely, and there are lots of hints regarding shading included in the image itself. It's far from perfect, but I was fairly happy with the result.

Then I tried the same image using alcohol markers - in my case, Promarkers.

As suggested in the instructions I added a little white pencil to emphasise the highlight areas, but I must say, I was quite pleased with the result.

I, personally, think flowers are easier images than many to colour - especially when they're as well-drawn as this one. 

The logo at the bottom is a sort of watermark I've made. It's very basic and I will probably have another go later. (Since I bought my new laptop late last year, I've had to swap from using Photoshop Elements to do things like that and am now using Gimp (which is free but there's a fairly steep learning curve.) So, I'm still learning!