Funnily enough this month I just finished the elephant with balloons page and I did a similar cloud acrylic background. I only went with a white/light blue/sky blue with less layers of clouds, but I LOVE the way it looks. I've shaded over acrylics in Worlds of Wonder specially, as I find it goes faster to use them there, and it does work. You get more texture on the pencil shading because the acrylic has a rougher finish than the paper, and I can't really burnish over it, but it works! I have plenty of pages in Worlds of Wonder I do with acrylic+pencils since my hands tend to cramp when I try using just pencils and find that the paper in that book tends to soak/ghost with water based markers.
Love the backgrounds, especially the last one with the purple. Also thanks for taking the time to mention ppl with hand issues. I would love to see how you would use gel (water soluble) crayons in a background ty
Yes! I know a lot of people have hand issues so I want to make my content as inclusive as possible. And for sure, I can definitely use gel crayons in an upcoming episode. Thank you so much for taking the time to comment and watch! ❤️☺️
Kyra! You have done a magnificent job with this video! I think its the best background video I've seen yet for ME. My favorite is the first one but I honestly love them all. I'm really hoping you'll do more of these background videos. I look forward to all of your videos! Thank you so much!!!❤
Love, Love, all this wonderfull Ideas, Kyra!!!!😍🤩 You always surprise me, please continue with this theme of backgrounds🙏🏻 ... Just looking at the page with the swans, I sat there and was amazed at the absolutely beautiful end result, because I would never have thought that something so beautiful could come out of these shapes, WOW!! I love your channel!!!💫❤️💫
Thank you for another great video! So creative and fun to watch! I loved them all and am looking forward to what you come up with next…maybe Neocolor IIs? 😀
It's a tie between the water background and the twilight sky background. Definitely inspired me to give backgrounds a go. Currently I only have my pencils, I can't decide between buying alcohol markers or acrylic. I do have some gel pens but I wouldn't think they would be a good candidate for backgrounds. Can't wait for more in this series ❤
If you have a lot of single-sided colouring books I definitely recommend alcohol markers! I find them a lot more versatile and you can create some gorgeous blends. Otherwise I’d stick with acrylic if you have a majority of double-sided books ☺️
@@apicturedpurpose I only have one book that's single sided so acrylic sounds like the way to go for me. Up until now I've mostly used my glitter gel pens to do little dots and doodles in the background to at least give some depth to my finished pages. I think it's a start and when I look back at my very early pages I think I can see it looks more finished so I'm really excited to start being more brave with backgrounds 🙂
@@sjferguson It sounds like you’ve had a great start to backgrounds with your glitter gel pens. It can be scary to take the next step but I promise it’s worth it 😍💖
Gosh I love your work - your such a great person to learn from, thank you Kyra - I am gonna have a go at this background myself and if I manage to get a good result I will post you a picture- thanks for all the hints and tips x
Nice video! For the final technique, I do something similar to your finger techniquebut I use a microfiber cloth instead of my finger. Burnishes it up brightly:) happy coloring!
I love this and while I don't have the acrylic markers, the way you added the clouds is fantastic. I'm going to remember this and how you added the trees in the recent video, making them similar to the one's already on the page. I would never have thought of this and I'm fascinated. Backgrounds have me totally intimated and I've never imagined I could do more than brush on acrylic paint or neo colors. But I when I get ready to try Worlds of Wonder (untouched on my shelf), I'm going to go back to these videos. Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!
These look great! What great ideas for backgrounds. My favorite was the first one because of how simple it is to do! Also, I think the name of the technique to create the tie-dye paint effect is called "scumbling" 😊 you basically scribble your brush bristles over the page to get an irregular texture. I definitely want to try more water activated media for my coloring pages.
This is so fun and practical! Thank you for starting this series. I would love to see backgrounds with gel crayons and neocolor IIs as those are some new-to-me mediums I’d like to learn more about. ❤
I love the way all 3 look! But I think the 1st one and 3rd one are ones that I'll actually use. The water will have to wait till I build a little more confidence! Lol 💕
I think this series is a wonderful idea! Backgrounds are so daunting because if they are botched after the coloring, they ruin days and days of heartfelt work and if botched before the coloring, then they ruin a perfectly beautiful coloring page. Either way, the stakes are high so we want to KNOW what we are doing before we sign on to do a background project. Since I have done so few, I rarely do take the plunge. I just have so many questions. What mediums (of background) are applied before coloring and what mediums are applied after? What are the best tools (makeup sponges, etc) for which mediums? What pages are really best left with no background at all? I have seen super busy pages with super busy backgrounds (huh?!?!) and then very simple pages with a ton of white space with no backgrounds at all that look absolutely stunning. I know it comes down to personal taste, but perhaps some broad guidelines might be helpful? How to pick a color palette for a background? Most are rather monochromatic but some get quite busy on the color front. How can I add some bling to backgrounds in fun yet subtle ways? And finally, how to do backgrounds on only half a page without leaving the other half looking lonely and incomplete? As you can see, I am in DESPERATE need of this series so thank you so much for undertaking this effort! Hugs from Arizona! 😍
I’m so glad that this series will be helpful for you! I’ll write down these questions and try to address all of them in upcoming episodes! And you’re so right about ruining a page after spending days working on it. That’s why I avoided them for so long 😂💕
@@apicturedpurpose I haven't tried a background yet, but I used them for the umbrellas on my rainy Tokyo page in my Asien Reise book, and I was a bit worried, but I think everything turned out quite ok 😁
I’ve never tried Zest it but I definitely think it could be a great alternative to try out. Especially if you don’t want to deal with the heavy hand pressure required with the white prismacolor. ❤️❤️❤️
Funnily enough this month I just finished the elephant with balloons page and I did a similar cloud acrylic background. I only went with a white/light blue/sky blue with less layers of clouds, but I LOVE the way it looks. I've shaded over acrylics in Worlds of Wonder specially, as I find it goes faster to use them there, and it does work. You get more texture on the pencil shading because the acrylic has a rougher finish than the paper, and I can't really burnish over it, but it works! I have plenty of pages in Worlds of Wonder I do with acrylic+pencils since my hands tend to cramp when I try using just pencils and find that the paper in that book tends to soak/ghost with water based markers.
Thank you so much for sharing your experience with acrylic markers! I’ll definitely have to try using my pencils over the acrylic to see how I go 🥰✨
Wonderful ideas on all the backgrounds. I especially love the rippled water one because I always wondered to how to get that look. Thank you.
I’m so glad this video was helpful for you 🥰💕
Wow!!! I just loved the way you have coloured the backgrounds… it gives me so much inspiration 🎉
Just a big fan of your work 😊❤
I’m so glad!!!
You were so creative with these! Great ideas!
Thank you so much ☺️🌈
Love the backgrounds, especially the last one with the purple. Also thanks for taking the time to mention ppl with hand issues. I would love to see how you would use gel (water soluble) crayons in a background ty
Yes! I know a lot of people have hand issues so I want to make my content as inclusive as possible. And for sure, I can definitely use gel crayons in an upcoming episode. Thank you so much for taking the time to comment and watch! ❤️☺️
Love all three backgrounds, as you said backgrounds can be scary so please keep ideas coming🙌🏻😉
More are coming! I promise 😉💕
Kyra! You have done a magnificent job with this video! I think its the best background video I've seen yet for ME. My favorite is the first one but I honestly love them all. I'm really hoping you'll do more of these background videos. I look forward to all of your videos! Thank you so much!!!❤
People seem to be really enjoying the video so there’ll definitely be more coming in the future 💖🫶🏻
Yay!!!!!!!!!
Love, Love, all this wonderfull Ideas, Kyra!!!!😍🤩
You always surprise me, please continue with this theme of backgrounds🙏🏻 ...
Just looking at the page with the swans, I sat there and was amazed at the absolutely beautiful end result, because I would never have thought that something so beautiful could come out of these shapes, WOW!! I love your channel!!!💫❤️💫
Awww you’re too kind! Thank you for supporting my little channel 🥰✨
Thank you for another great video! So creative and fun to watch! I loved them all and am looking forward to what you come up with next…maybe Neocolor IIs? 😀
I would love to do a neocolor ii background video! I will add it to the list 😉💖
Love that idea 💡 as backgrounds still make me feel nervous 😅
I totally understand the feeling! Hopefully this series helps ☺️🌈
Fantastic video ❤ thank you so much. Excited to try these! Especially that first one. Keep this series going is my vote ❤❤❤❤❤
People seem to be enjoying the video so I’ll definitely keep going! 💖
It's a tie between the water background and the twilight sky background. Definitely inspired me to give backgrounds a go. Currently I only have my pencils, I can't decide between buying alcohol markers or acrylic. I do have some gel pens but I wouldn't think they would be a good candidate for backgrounds. Can't wait for more in this series ❤
If you have a lot of single-sided colouring books I definitely recommend alcohol markers! I find them a lot more versatile and you can create some gorgeous blends. Otherwise I’d stick with acrylic if you have a majority of double-sided books ☺️
@@apicturedpurpose I only have one book that's single sided so acrylic sounds like the way to go for me. Up until now I've mostly used my glitter gel pens to do little dots and doodles in the background to at least give some depth to my finished pages. I think it's a start and when I look back at my very early pages I think I can see it looks more finished so I'm really excited to start being more brave with backgrounds 🙂
@@sjferguson It sounds like you’ve had a great start to backgrounds with your glitter gel pens. It can be scary to take the next step but I promise it’s worth it 😍💖
Gosh I love your work - your such a great person to learn from, thank you Kyra - I am gonna have a go at this background myself and if I manage to get a good result I will post you a picture- thanks for all the hints and tips x
Yes please let me know how you go! I’d love to see your result 😍❤️✨
Great ideas. Great video. Thank you 😁
Thank you for watching! 🥰💕
Such a great video! I love the Arrtx paint markers - I have all the sets!
Aren’t they great!? The colour range is on point 🔥
Really love all of them, the last one was really good 😄🩷
Thank you so much ☺️ 💖
Great ideas, will definitely give them a try. Thank you
Let me know how you go! 😍✨
Nice video! For the final technique, I do something similar to your finger techniquebut I use a microfiber cloth instead of my finger. Burnishes it up brightly:) happy coloring!
Wow that’s such a cool trick! I’ll definitely have to give that a try 🥰😍
Awesome video and ideas, thank you ❤❤❤
Thank you for watching! 🥰🫶🏻💖
Great video Kyra great ideas 💜💜
Thank you Chelsea!! 💜💜
All are so imaginative. Would love more -- and even a black background?!
I keep trying to build up the courage to try a black background! I will do it one of these days 😅💕
I love this and while I don't have the acrylic markers, the way you added the clouds is fantastic. I'm going to remember this and how you added the trees in the recent video, making them similar to the one's already on the page. I would never have thought of this and I'm fascinated. Backgrounds have me totally intimated and I've never imagined I could do more than brush on acrylic paint or neo colors. But I when I get ready to try Worlds of Wonder (untouched on my shelf), I'm going to go back to these videos.
Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!
I’m so glad that my background videos are helping you! I’ll definitely make more in the future 🥰💕
These look great! What great ideas for backgrounds. My favorite was the first one because of how simple it is to do! Also, I think the name of the technique to create the tie-dye paint effect is called "scumbling" 😊 you basically scribble your brush bristles over the page to get an irregular texture.
I definitely want to try more water activated media for my coloring pages.
Oh yes scumbling! I’ve heard of that before, I think you’re correct! And I’m loving using water mediums in my colouring books at the moment ☺️💕
This is so fun and practical! Thank you for starting this series. I would love to see backgrounds with gel crayons and neocolor IIs as those are some new-to-me mediums I’d like to learn more about. ❤
Those are such fun mediums! I’ll definitely have to experiment with them in a future video 😍✨
I love the way all 3 look! But I think the 1st one and 3rd one are ones that I'll actually use. The water will have to wait till I build a little more confidence! Lol 💕
Thank you so much! I promise the water background isn’t as intimidating as it looks 😉💕🥰
Would you do background ideas for Amazon paper? Love your videos too ❤😊Thank you for sharing
Ohhh that’s a good one! I’ll definitely add it to my list ☺️
Awesome Video
Thank you!! 💖☺️
@@apicturedpurpose Your welcome 🤗
So adorable!
Thank you so much ☺️💖
I think this series is a wonderful idea! Backgrounds are so daunting because if they are botched after the coloring, they ruin days and days of heartfelt work and if botched before the coloring, then they ruin a perfectly beautiful coloring page. Either way, the stakes are high so we want to KNOW what we are doing before we sign on to do a background project. Since I have done so few, I rarely do take the plunge. I just have so many questions. What mediums (of background) are applied before coloring and what mediums are applied after? What are the best tools (makeup sponges, etc) for which mediums? What pages are really best left with no background at all? I have seen super busy pages with super busy backgrounds (huh?!?!) and then very simple pages with a ton of white space with no backgrounds at all that look absolutely stunning. I know it comes down to personal taste, but perhaps some broad guidelines might be helpful? How to pick a color palette for a background? Most are rather monochromatic but some get quite busy on the color front. How can I add some bling to backgrounds in fun yet subtle ways? And finally, how to do backgrounds on only half a page without leaving the other half looking lonely and incomplete? As you can see, I am in DESPERATE need of this series so thank you so much for undertaking this effort! Hugs from Arizona! 😍
I’m so glad that this series will be helpful for you! I’ll write down these questions and try to address all of them in upcoming episodes! And you’re so right about ruining a page after spending days working on it. That’s why I avoided them for so long 😂💕
@@apicturedpurpose Thank you so much! I really look forward to learning from you!
Wow makes backgrounds look less scary
Yay! I’m so glad 🥰
Beautiful backgrounds 😍 Will definitely try them out 😊🌸
Let me know how you go! 😍
@@apicturedpurpose I haven't tried a background yet, but I used them for the umbrellas on my rainy Tokyo page in my Asien Reise book, and I was a bit worried, but I think everything turned out quite ok 😁
Would using zestit create the same smooth effect as in pic 3? Fantastic video, can't wait for more ❤❤❤
I’ve never tried Zest it but I definitely think it could be a great alternative to try out. Especially if you don’t want to deal with the heavy hand pressure required with the white prismacolor. ❤️❤️❤️
I am coloring for 3,5 years and I mostly use the same materials for backgrounds 😅 I do 90% with Neocolor II and soft pastels.
Haha I love it! As they say, “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it!” 😂💕
Love it
😍❤️🫶🏻