Rachel Henderson ColouringBlog Articles
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This book jas a variety of different colouring techniques running through it. It starts with the basics, so explaining about different colouring materials and tools. It then has a section on colour and the colour wheel. There are then different techniques that you can use with different mediums such as pencils, pastels, gel pens, watercolours […]
This is a review of the tube of 48 Arteza pencils which are triangular. There are actually two tubes available as Arteza has updated them. The colours vary a bit, so I will not go into detail about these as they may be different depending on where you buy them from. The pencils themselves have […]
Each Monday I publish a video on YouTube which is from the Johanna Basford 2021 Weekly Planner. The video is for that week’s picture and the idea is that it will give those with the planner some ideas as to what to do for their picture. Sometimes I do a series of videos to include […]
I release a video tutorial each day on YouTube and thought it might be useful to give you a weekly roundup of what I have been doing so that you can catch up. This week everything has been from Worlds of Wonder as everyone (including me) is obsessed by it! The exception is Monday where […]
If you are looking to improve your colouring techniques, then Helen Elliston has produced a series of books that can help you. There are four books in the series and they all cover different things. I find that there are always some things in them which I can apply to Johanna Basford books, but I […]
I would say that these are probably my favourite brand of pencil. They were the third set that I used and I have kept using them ever since. They sharpen to a good point which I like and they have a good variety of colours in the 120 tin. They do not smoosh and blend […]
As many people are, I am completely obsessed with Johanna Basford’s new book, World’s of Wonder. I have therefore made lots of video tutorials from the book already, both because I am having such fun colouring it myself and because I think that they will be useful. I have been dotting about quite randomly doing […]
I have done lots of video tutorials which can all be found on my YouTube site. They are separated into handy playlists based on the materials I use, general themes or the book they are from. You can find them using the links below – just click the one you are interested in and it […]
World of Flowers by Johanna Basford is a colouring book full of florals to colour in. Not only are there flower wreaths and mandalas to colour in, but there are also pretty scenes with fairy houses and even rooms brewing up potions from flower petals. There is a mix of detailed pictures and larger designs, […]
Miniature Enchanted Forest by Johanna Basford is a small-sized colouring book. It has all of the pictures from the original Enchanted Forest and a few extras as well. Some of the pictures have been cropped a bit to make them easier to colour, but most are the same as the originals. However, dotted through the […]