As I  love to show you the products in action in the video below you can see my first coloring adventure with the Arteza Everblend Markers. 

I felt in love with this illustration and Gluiki kindly offered to send me a digital file ready to print in any size. 

 I decided to go BIG and I printed the image to fit an A4 sheet of X-Press It paper.

I used an HP 1102 LaserJet. The printed image bleed a little bit after printing on X- Press It but it wasn't that bad.

My goal was to try to get a good blend and the color even on a larger area such as the deer face.

So coloring the deer face was challenging to me as this image is 10 times the size of what I'm used to.

I also decided to add colour to the background.

I started with a light colour but then I changed my mind and I added black.

As the black colour was pretty uneven (see picture above), I applied a technique from Kathy Racossin from the Daily Marker. She applies an alcohol blending solution on a small towel offcut and then dabs it over the colored piece to create a texture.

So after quickly doing that, the background was looking better. Just as in the picture below.


Kathy's technique is awesome to camouflage color imperfections.

I didn't do the process to perfection tho but I guess you can see the change in the background texture.

My mistake was using a microfiber cloth instead of towel fabric as Kathy advise. It absorbed the solvent really quick. It felt pretty dry quickly so it didn't have the same effect on the ink. I think!


So this was a test sheet but I decided to share the process together with my main post here.

I don't really know if you prefer illustrations like this one or floral patterns.

If you like florals you defo have to see my next post here.