COLOURALONG | Circle of Life – Melpomeni Chatzipanagiotou | The Butterfly | Adult Colouring

Hi guys!

One of my favourite books in the entire collection – Circle of Life by Melpomeni Chatzipanagiotou. This book was a favourite and had one of the highest votes from the Spring colouring options and I am so happy I am getting round to colouring another page in this beautiful book. I hope you all enjoy this colouralong!

For pencils, I use Faber Castell Albrecht Dürer pencils (colour range matches the Polychromos). I also used Tombow dual brush pens, white Posca paint pen and Glitter gel pens. The page was finished off with a sprinkling of Winsor & Newton white ink.

Specific materials used:
Posca 1M white paint pen
Tombow dual brush pen - 192, 131, 062, 620, 761, 451
Chromatek glitter gel pens – G20, G36
Pentel hybrid dual metallic pens – Gold, Light pink, Orange
Winsor & Newton - white ink

Pencils used for each element:
-Background:
Hookers green
Deep cobalt green
Paynes grey
Earth green
White

-Leaves 1:
Permanent green olive
Chromium green opaque
Chrome oxide green
Earth green yellowish
Mauve

-Leaves 2:
Chromium green opaque
Olive green yellowish
Chrome oxide green
Earth green yellowish
Mauve

-Leaves 3:
Juniper green
Pine green
Earth green yellowish
Mauve

-Stems/Vines:
Chromium green opaque
Olive green yellowish
Chrome oxide green
Earth green yellowish
Caput mortuum violet
Ivory
Raw umber

-Butterfly:
Paynes grey
Caput mortuum violet
Sky blue
Black
Dark chrome yellow
Burnt ochre
Terracotta
Dark cadmium orange
Light cadmium red
Cadmium yellow

-Cocoon
Sky blue
CG V
CG III
WG VI
Dark sepia

-Yellow flowers:
Naples yellow
Cream
Ivory
Dark cadmium orange

-Pink flowers:
Rose carmine
Burnt carmine

-Purple flowers:
Violet
Blue violet
Delft blue
Paynes grey

-Blue flowers:
Light phthalo blue
Prussian blue
Dark indigo


I hope you enjoyed watching (or following) the colouralong!

Until next time!

Happy colouring…

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