New Release: Colorful Backgrounds 2 for Drawing or Tangling

Yes!!!

Genevieve has a new book out

and

she has outdone herself with this one!

 This is Genevieve's second book in a series

of colorful backgrounds all ready for you

to tangle and draw on. 

And since Genevieve loves me -

she sent me a copy to preview and play with!

The book has a soft cover that opens almost perfectly flat so you can draw right up to that inside edge. It measures 8.5" x 11" and has 40 full-color backgrounds.  The pages are printed just on one side. I didn't have any trouble at all with bleed-through, but I would recommend placing a sheet of cardstock or thick paper behind your working page just in case.
Above you see a page of thumbnails showing  you what some of the pages look like, AND Genevieve even included 8 of  my backgrounds in the book! So if you are a fan of crazy color and lots of it - this is the book for you! Links for purchase will be listed at the bottom  OR if you can't wait, here is direct link to 

Genevieve's page for ordering. 

Above you see the first page I worked on. I did some basic tangling with a Sharpie fine point and a Pitt Artist Pen but wanted to add a little something different. So I grabbed a stencil, an ink dabber or pouncer, and a StazOn ink pad. Those black bricks you see were pounced on using the dabber and ink through the stencil.  NO BLEED THROUGH. I also used a gray pitt pen, a graphite pencil, and colored pencils for shading. Awesome sauce!!! Worked like a charm!

I moved on to this page next.  You can see it in its untangled form in the thumbnail shot above - second row, second picture. What drew me to this page was the divided sections. They look like bits of torn wrapping  paper tossed here and there - waiting to be tangled. I worked on a few sections and left about half of it untangled - so you could see what i did. I simply outlined a section, then filled it with a tangle. No rocket science here.

 Last page.

I must apologize right now - 

I didn't realize my lighting was bad where I was drawing.

Some of these photos show the true color

and

some are just horrible looking.

The color in the picture right above here is true.

In the thumbnail it is first row, second photo.

 I was trying to think of other art tools

we could incorporate -

 other than strictly tangling.

Of course this book was made to be tangled in -

but there are other ways to use it as well.

So I pulled out a brand new stencil I hadn't used yet

and placed it in the binding of the book.

 Here are my supplies. 

 I chose three colors of Tim Holtz' distress inks.

I began by pouncing one of the colors through

various leaves on the page . . .

 . . . then a second color . . . 

 . . . then a third. 

Looks like a big, whopping mess of ink,

doesn't it?

Hahaha!

(And here is where the bad lighting starts to show up.

Sorry, Genevieve. I didn't notice until this morning.

Too late to fix it.)

 With much apologies to Genevieve for the messed up color,

here is what I have after I lift away the stencil.

A wave of beautiful leaves across what should

be a beautiful fall colored page of orange.

 Now it is as simple as pick a leaf and tangle it.

I had no bleed through with my inks,

absolutely none at all.

I realize some will want to use alcohol markers -

those WILL bleed through.

Stay with gel pens, any pen you would usually

tangle with should be fine.

And just have fun.

 Just keep working, adding one leaf at a time.

And you will end up with a beautiful fall colored page of leaves that you can enjoy any time of year! AND this photo here is pretty true to color. I have not completed the page, so you could start getting some ideas of your own of where you could take this page from here.
Genevieve, thank you for letting me play with your new book. It is wonderful, beautiful, and fun! I had a great time trying out some  additional art supplies. I expect my black pens and my colored pencils will be my go-to's for this book but the stencils and inks were fun, too!
So, now it's your turn! Colorful Backgrounds 2 for Drawing and Tangling is available in both print and electronic formats. To purchase, check out these links: Amazon in the US and  Amazon in Canada for print copies, and ebooks here. 
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