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Okay, so here's the deal... I don't have a Hobby Lobby near me. But I did find one in Fl. on the way to my sons college (UF). I stopped there today. I looked around hoping to find Nestabilities and maybe Copics (I don't have any). No Nestabilities, so I searched out the Copics. I picked out a few, 3 nice asst colors, and 1 warm gray. Then I checked out. I realized how stingy they are with coupons! Anyway, I left. I couldn't resist and we stopped again on the way back (since my son offered). I picked out a few more a blender, skin colored and another darker gray. As I was looking I remembered about using the letters and #'s to pick blend able shades. Well I had already bought, the ones earlier, and I couldn't afford to get more in sets of 2 to blend.
So here's my issue... Did I make a mistake by getting just random colors? I really would have preferred to buy a small set from somewhere, and now I feel like that idea is squashed, because I don't want any dulicates, since they cost so much!
I bought mine just a few at a time. I got colors which were ones not similar to the SU colors of markers which I already had. I think the peach tones and skin tones were the best to start with because they do faces well with little rosy cheeks, etc. One of the colors in my earliest ones was cool shadow because it blended with SU's soft sky (and they don't make markers for their *in* colors). I'll PM you some other thoughts on this.
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i don't think you made a mistake. you don't always have to have all the full range to shade colors with. since you can go over and over with them, layering on color, you can shade with one color as well.
Thanks so much for the replies. I think I'm feeling better about my purchase this morning. I am really happy to hear that I don't "need" to have the 2 blend able shades.
I'll just add to them when I can.Hopefully during a sale! Which translates to me visiting my son at college often. I have no problem with that, since I miss him so much.
You cannot go wrong. I use Sharpies and the permanent Bic and buy the Copic lightess colours complementing those from the sharpies and bic (as these are not as light as the colours available in the copics). I also got the E -skin colours and one cool gray, and one warm gray , and the copic blender that I use for shadowing or lightening....hope you get my understanding...:confused:
No! You didn't make a mistake. I think (just my opinion), that the best way to buy Copics is NOT to get them in a set, but to get the colors YOU will use a lot. Lets say you are an "elephant" person and want to use a lot of elephants in your stamping... you'd want some different grays. Make sense? The more you use them, the more you will have a feel for what colors you prefer to use and use often....
I agree with Cynamom....get the colours you like and will use. Have you checked out the blog www.ilovemarkers.blogspot.com ....you will find a lot of useful advice there. Enjoy!
I agree with Cynamom....get the colours you like and will use. Have you checked out the blog www.ilovemarkers.blogspot.com ....you will find a lot of useful advice there. Enjoy!
Diane
Diane,
I tried the link above and it didn't work.
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You can also get them at Sam Flax on Colonial (a little past AC moore). they have tons of colors but you can't use a coupon.. How are you doing/....just dropped Christine off at college on Thursday also.. BOO HOO!!! Now I am stuck with a house of boys!!
You can also shade by using the color opposite on the color wheel....green over red to shade, purple over orange, etc. It works well. I shaded the apples on this card using that technique because I don't have a darker red.
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The link works as put in the reply #12. This is the blog of Marianne who is the product specialist for Copic. It is an awesome blog if you are really wanting to learn to use the copic markers.
You can also shade by using the color opposite on the color wheel....green over red to shade, purple over orange, etc. It works well. I shaded the apples on this card using that technique because I don't have a darker red.
You can shade with any two colors, so don't think that you HAVE to choose colors from the same color family or group, that's more of a rule of thumb that can be broken.
When you use the opposite color on the color wheel what you are doing is creating gray, or an effective shadow. It just takes a bit more thinking and it can be kind of tricky knowing what is truly opposite since within each color family are some colors that are warm and some colors that are cool. A warm yellow would be shadowed by a cool purple.
To get a good idea of how to shade using opposites on a color wheel I really suggest watching this 10 min video by Gamblin Oil Paints- Navigating Color Space. Download the copic color wheel, and then you'll understand a little more how colors work.
HTH for now-
It will be a couple weeks before I can get around to posting about this on my blog- I already have it typed, but I have too many other things to cover before then.
I agree with Cynamom....get the colours you like and will use. Have you checked out the blog www.ilovemarkers.blogspot.com ....you will find a lot of useful advice there. Enjoy!
Did I make a Copic mistake?
