HOW I COLOUR: GRASS | Using coloured pencils | Adult colouring

Hi guys!
I have had a few requests for how to colour grass, once again it has taken me a while to get round to recording it, but it is here now! I show the technique I use in the book Country Charm by Teresa Goodridge.
As always, I have used Faber Castell Albrecht Dürer pencils, wet and dry - you can match up the colours exactly with the Polychromos. And I have used some paint pens to add some detailing at the end. I specifically use the Tooli-art paint pens, but you can use any paint pens you like.
Hope you enjoy the video and find it interesting!
Until next time…
Happy colouring!
Some videos you may be interested in:
How I colour - Wood texture: • HOW I COLOUR: WOOD TEX...
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[@Keni-VR]

Hi Shelly, you always make sense when you’re explaining something. Your use of color is why your work is always gorgeous or stunning. Isn’t it frustrating when you can’t think of the right word but I knew exactly what you meant lol. Shelly, you are a genius with color, that grass is gorgeous and I love the dots from the acrylic paint pens! You inspire me to get better every time I watch one of your videos. Thank you so much for sharing your talent! 🤗💖

[@shelscolouringjourney]

Hi Keni, thank you so much for always leaving me such positive comments. Really encourages me to keep sharing! Glad you enjoyed the video. Thanks for watching 🤗💗

[@juliekershaw942]

You’ve helped me to understand when I need to carry on adding additional layers. Thank you so much.

[@angelacaires8772]

Thank you for this tutorial, I’ve never seen such a clear, detailed explanation of coloring grassy areas!

[@shelscolouringjourney]

My pleasure! Thanks for taking the time to watch 🤗💗

[@julieibbotson6193]

Wonderful explanation, thank you. It looks beautiful, such a lovely effect.

[@coloringismyaddiction2635]

Thank you so much for this! I always love the way you do grass and this really helps explain it. I'll have to incorporate your technique on the page I'm currently working on. Once again, love all of your videos! Thank you!

[@shelscolouringjourney]

You're welcome, I am so glad you like my videos. Thanks for taking the time to watch them 🤗💗

[@maggiehughes4283]

Enjoy your tutorials

[@shelscolouringjourney]

So glad to hear this, thank you 🤗💗

[@lisad424]

Thanks so much for taking the time to make this video. The why helps me so much!!!! Beautiful!!!

[@shelscolouringjourney]

You are welcome, glad you enjoyed it! 🤗💗

[@alexandraemrick2799]

Thank you for this video. I've been avoiding large expanses of grass, or doing them badly, but now you have given me a different way to think about grass. Well done! 🥰💖

[@shelscolouringjourney]

Glad you found some useful ideas to try using on your pages, thanks for watching 🤗💗

[@carolestevenson1051]

So helpful! Love your ideas. Look forward to a picture of it finished.

[@shelscolouringjourney]

So glad you found it helpful, thank you for watching 🤗💗

[@tracywodonga8112]

new subscriber, I enjoy colouring along while learning techniques and I must say your accent is divine! South African, I think!

[@shelscolouringjourney]

Welcome to the channel, so glad you found me 🤗 glad you like my accent - not South African actually….its probably become a mix of a few accents, but I am originally from Kenya 🤗💗

[@Emmawilliams83]

Hi shel .. love your tutorials they are so informative and really help me .. hope your having a great bank holiday tysmfs 🥰

[@shelscolouringjourney]

Hi Emma, thank you so much! I am so glad you like my videos, makes me happy. Hope you had a lovely long weekend too 🤗💗

[@Emmawilliams83]

@@shelscolouringjourney your so welcome lovely 🥰

[@Prettypages71]

Hi Shell, seeing you colour this page makes me need to dig out my Albrecht Dürer pencils! Wonderfully coloured. ❤

[@shelscolouringjourney]

Hi Anne, thank you so much! So glad it’s made you feel like playing with your ADs!! They are my favourite pencils…love them! Hope you enjoy playing with them 🤗💗

[@vickicaire1185]

Thank you for this tutorial. It has helped me a lot!❤

[@shelscolouringjourney]

So happy to read this, thank you 🤗💗

[@norwegiancolorist]

Love those cute little flowers, that's a great idea! 🥰And thank you for talking through the whole video as I also use these videos as background noise while I color myself! Last but not least, I appreciate your good editing! 😍

[@shelscolouringjourney]

Thank you so much, so glad you like the flower idea and enjoyed watching the video. Thanks for taking the time to watch 🤗💗

[@jackiekonrad859]

Hi Shelly I love the way you color your grass ❤

[@shelscolouringjourney]

Hi Jackie! Thank you, so glad you like it 🤗💗

[@fonsieh]

A great tutorial again 👌🏻👌🏻💖!!!! I would also love to see how you finish this page …. Especially how you colour the dog and the flowers on the table! If you already have done that would you be so kind to give the link of that video 🙏🏻?? Until next time 🤗❤️

[@shelscolouringjourney]

Thank you so much! And I am so sorry....I did not manage to record the whole video. I sadly don't have enough time and I am too slow a colourist, to be able to record every page I colour. Maybe one day I will manage to do that. But for this page I do have videos on how I coloured the grass and the wood - hope this helps a little bit 🤗💗

[@fonsieh]

@@shelscolouringjourney thanks for your reply! I have indeed seen these two videos and, again, learned a lot!! 💖🤗

[@debaccetta3982]

I LOVE YOU TUTORIALS!! They are so helpful and your work is stunning! Thank you so much❤️😊

[@shelscolouringjourney]

I am so happy that you enjoy these videos! Makes it all worth it. Thanks for taking the time to watch them 🤗💗

[@soucky1]

Hi Shelly, i absolutely love to watch your work process, every steps you've createdf gave somethings Magical for the eyes & seen all of the amazing details you've created to achieved that fantastic lookinjg to your Fabulous pictures. You've say you are not an Artist but to me you really are an amazing Artyist and i love so much the way you bring to life your desiugn's, you amaed me with yojur incridible talent to created realistic pictiures and as i love doing lots of details on my coloring process it's a real treat & joy to watch your stunning tutorials so please keep going, i've learned sdo much from your brilliant tutorials, to me the fun i had it';s not to color lots of pictures in a mointh but doing so many details to gave some peps to my work and gave them the realistic looking as you do so i never found your tutorials long or bowring it's the opposite, it's by watching you coloring, painting and so much more this is for me the only way to learned on the right way, i never forget anythings when i sit and watch you created these stunning pictures so know i will try to found your woods deck because i love it & it's been long times i wait after my request for the woods how to from you Shelly so hope to found it tonight, thank you so much for this Awesome tutorials, my grass will finaly had a realistic looking after doing it couples of grass pictures, send you big hiugs from Canada xx

[@shelscolouringjourney]

Hi Sylvie, thank you so much for your lovely and positive comment as always. I am so happy that you enjoy my how I colour videos and that they give your some ideas that you can use in your own colouring. Thanks for taking the time to watch 🤗💗

[@lynnetteboulanger4487]

Loved this! Thank you!🥰

[@shelscolouringjourney]

So glad! Thanks for watching 🤗💗

[@Disneyandcoloringwithjamie]

Very Beautiful

[@shelscolouringjourney]

Thank you 🤗💗

[@hazeljenkinson1741]

LOvely Work and i will definately be trying this i have the pencils and the paint markers , thanks .

[@shelscolouringjourney]

My pleasure, glad you like how it turned out 🤗💗

[@deniseroma7759]

First of all your work utterly takes my breath away, thank you. I always use a Krylon workable spray to protect my colored pictures, can I use it on these brand of water color pencil? I'm thinking of buying the set.

[@shelscolouringjourney]

Thank you so much Denise, so glad you like my colouring! 🤗 I have never tried the Krylon spray specifically, but I do spray all my pages with workable fixative, Winsor & Newton, and it works perfectly fine. So hopefully it is the same with Krylon. Hope this helps 🤗💗

[@carolestevenson1051]

Hi Shelly, I recently acquired the full set of Albrecht Durer and wonder what you use to sharpen them? I have a fairly safe electric (Jarlink) which I am thinking I will use for the initial sharpening, pulling them before they get super sharp to preserve as much as possible, and later will use a handheld for sharpening as I color. What works for you?

[@shelscolouringjourney]

Hi Carole! I hope you are enjoying the ADs as much as I do! I use an electric sharper for them these days, to the point I can't use it anymore. Then I go on to use my Dahle 133. When they are too small to fit in that too, I use a small KUM handheld sharpener till I have almost no pencil left. Hope this helps 🤗💗

[@shawnroelke7909]

Hi Shell can you use polychromos with water or should I use Caran d' Ache water Soluble? Love the video

[@shelscolouringjourney]

Hello! Unfortunately Polychromos are not water-soluble, so you won't be able to use them with water. So you can definitely use the Caran d'ache if they are water-soluble. Glad you enjoyed the video, thank you for taking time to watch 🤗💗

[@samantharedmond77]

So just to clarify, you use your mid tone on shadows first, then your light tone on whole area, then enhance highlights again with your dark tone?

[@shelscolouringjourney]

Yes, I usually go back with my darkest tone to deepen up my shadow areas at the end 💗

[@tiffanysjustcoloring]

I have two sets of Tooli Art paint pens (earth/skin and grays) but I haven’t been able to color over them. I’ve found that my cheap matte acrylic paints can be colored over but nothing goes over the Tooli Art paint pens 😣 Any tips?

[@shelscolouringjourney]

I haven't had an issue, but I do colour over them in very small areas....I wait for them to dry very well before I try and when using the pencils over them, I am very light handed. Other than that, I don't do much else 🤗💗

[@lilmisscoloring]

Does anyone know if this same technique can be used with inktense?

[@shelscolouringjourney]

I wish I could help, but I have never tried the Intense...I feel like they should work though 🤗💗

[@silvers_ink]

Hey Shel! I have an idea for a video! I've noticed that the only pencils in my Prismas that I have never used except to swatch them are the 3 metallics and the 3 neons, so if you have any ideas for how to get some use out of them, maybe you could make a video about it! If not, I totally understand! I've just been thinking about that and thought I'd throw the idea out there!

[@waymire01]

I use the bronze quite a lot, it's a very unique brown hue, and it's not shiny enough to really be noticeable once combined with other colors. The others can be used by simply mixing them with other colors, or as accents. I recently saw a lovely dragon done with neon pink, blue and a dark purple. The pink went down first and the other colors added the shading, so in the end the pink was only in the highlight areas but it added vibrancy to the entire dragon. A stroke or two of the silver can be added to a "proper" shaded silver object just to give a bit of shine/reflected light here or there, it's also lovely on water. I recently used the AD gold to do sheet music on a page, it's not a very good color actually especially used wet, it tends to almost be washed away to a weird brownish tinge... but it gave a perfect "old paper" appearance. I bet it would also be good for those papery casings that some flowers have left over at the bottom of the blossom.

[@silvers_ink]

@@waymire01 Yea I think the neons are easier to think of ideas for how to use them. I was thinking that the neons would look cool if used as a highlight in potion bottles. I never thought to use the silver when coloring water though! I'll have to try that out next time I'm coloring water! I don't have any water soluble pencils but I'd like to get the set of Albrecht Durer pencils. Well I do have a small set of water soluble pencils but they're cheap and you can't use them by coloring on your page and then activating with water. They do alright if you take color from the tip with a water brush or color on a palette and activate them on the palette. I just started coloring in February so I don't have a lot of pencil sets...yet! I have the Prismas and the Polychromos, and then I have a couple of budget friendly sets like Castle Art and Kalour, and also both of the Black Widow skin tone sets. But anyway, thank you for sharing your ideas for the metallic and neon pencils! I bet that dragon was gorgeous!

[@waymire01]

@@silvers_ink I would encourage anyone starting out to invest in a few tried and true artist quality open stock lines that each do something different, and not collect a million different sets especially the ones you can't replace without buying a whole new box. I wound up getting rid of all my non open stock sets.. it's just annoying and much more money in the end because you will use certain colors at a much higher rate than others. Prisma and Polys are great, and they are the flagship opaque soft wax for "smooshing" and transparent smooth oil for layering workhorses. I bought the AD's because I had previous experience with them, the cost is reasonable, they work wet and dry, and they come in 120 colors. Between the three you really can do anything. I did add a Brutfuner macaron set to my Polys and really love having the pastels, but I'll replace those with the real thing (holbiens) as I use them up. The Carandache are just as good but the cost of the full sets is just too high for me. I have a few to play with (I have a few of almost every artist brand there is because I just have to try them all) but I want a nice big set for serious work. The next thing I would suggest is a nice big set of alcohol markers, a good selection of acrylic paint pens, and some high quality metallic/glitter gel pens... and of course a Dahle 133 sharpener, that thing is magic. It's very easy to get caught up in collecting and spend more time buying pencils than coloring. If you compare brands side by side in the end the colors are all so similar.. it's just more of the same over and over.

[@silvers_ink]

@@waymire01 Yes, I would agree with that! I appreciate all of your advice/suggestions! Thank you for taking the time to give your feedback! I figured out right away to get the Dahle 133! I started coloring in February when my hubby bought me the set of Prismas and I thought I'd get the Prisma round cylinder sharpener thinking that it should be the best for Prismas......wrong! So I immediately watched some videos and everyone was suggesting the Dahle 133 so I bought it that same day! I started out with a set of Castle Art pencils because I was being cheap and thought I was saving myself some money, but I quickly realized that was a mistake, so my hubby was like, here just take my credit card and get you a set of the Prismas! I was so happy! But I learned a great lesson, which is that you get what you pay for! I can buy the cheap brand of cereals, but when it comes to art supplies, you don't wanna go for the cheap stuff! I did buy the Kalour macaron set and I like using them but I don't use them very often. They're not bad for being a budget friendly set. I paid $20 for them on Amazon. Eventually I will get the Holbein's but for now I have Prismas and Polys, and once I get the set of AD then I will start saving up for the Holbein's. I also have some Wink of Stella glitter brush pens, and white, gold, and silver Signo gel pens. As far as water soluble items, I have the full set of King Art gel sticks because again, I was being cheap and didn't want to pay for the neocolor ii! Honestly, the King Art gel sticks aren't too bad, but you can't color with them and then activate them like you can with neocolor ii. I have to put them on a palette and use my water brushes. Oh I almost forgot, I have black, white, silver, and gold Poscas and Faber-Castell gelatos(metallic set of 12), both of the Black Widow skin tone sets, and one of the sets of Gelly Roll glaze gel pens. So I think I have a pretty good stash of supplies considering that I only started coloring at the end of February. After buying those Castle Art soft touch and not being happy with them, and buying a stack of coloring books that I ended up hating, I decided that I wasn't going to buy anything without watching videos, reading reviews, and getting all of the info I can find before buying! That has been working out great for me! It cost me about $100 or so down the drain, but I finally learned my lesson lol!

[@waymire01]

@@silvers_ink Try the KingArt gel crayons dry with a palette and a blending brush.. like you would use with distress ink.. they do beautiful blended backgrounds that way and will set up if you let them dry overnight.

[@dominiqueguigon8851]

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