Wow! The Bruynzeel neon pencils really pop out of their black casings and produce beautiful, bright colours on white paper. It’s impossible not to create something colourful with these. Our creative friend Gerdien has created a stunning piece and is happy to walk you through the steps she took to achieve this result: a neon seahorse. Read and see below how you too can recreate this vibrant creation.
Unpack your materials and add an HB pencil, eraser and a pencil sharpener.
Explore your materials. Create a colour chart by blending colours together. Note that, for example, yellow underneath blue remains lighter than blue underneath yellow. Make use of this when working out the final details.
Take a standard HB graphite pencil and trace the example as closely as possible; outlines are sufficient; details will be added in later steps.
Then roll the kneaded eraser over the paper to remove any excess graphite.
Start with one of the neon coloured pencils, e.g. the blue one, and trace the outlines of the areas that will be blue. Fill these areas in with a very light blue.
Continue in this way with each other colour. By doing it this way, you can keep the balance of the areas and allow the beautiful neon shades to stand out to their best advantage.
Using your colour chart, you can now work out the details. For a slightly darker yellow, mix in some orange; adding blue to red makes dark red, etc.
A small black dot with your graphite pencil completes the eye.
