Rendering- Matching Marble with markers and watercolor

Our next project in class was to match marble with markers and watercolors. The technique and trick to it is, all the elements I lack in my personality, patience, spontaneity, letting go and minimal control.

The reason for this is when you do the lines for the marbles, you hold the high point or tip of your pencil to let it spontaneously trail off the paper. As for the watercolor portion, you use a ton of water, let it dry and flow.

My teacher is great with it, she does it so naturally with seemingly no effort and as it dries, it looks like it has depth and full of bright color. I am still an amateur who’s reluctant to give up. 🙂

Matching Wood in markers and watercolor

Another class project was to match wood with markers and watercolor. We used prismacolor markers which is a transparent but permanent marker. Marker paper is special in a way if you want to add color, you can color in the back as well. To create the wood texture, you need to use the marker vertically, layered with base color gray, additional colors as needed, and use color pencils to draw the grain. The colors were really hard to match; you would always use markers first because with watercolors, you can create infinite colors but with markers, the probabilities are somewhat limited (as per my teacher).

Top marker, bottom watercolor in three different shades.

If you have the right guidance, it is achievable-never perfect but still nice.