Stencil-Art

I just love Monique Day-Wilde's new Colouring-In books - Town Daydreams and Country Daydreams.  The images are beautifully drawn with enough open spaces to add your own doodles.  
I used Koh-i-Noor Polycolor pencils (oil based) to colour this page from Town Daydreams.

Instructions:

Use colours 18 Light Blue, 52 Azure Blue & 15 Ice Blue  to colour each block.  Start with 18 (dark blue) in the corners and blend with lighter blues (52 & 15) to a white highlight.  I also used white to blend the colours.

Use 34 Blue Grey to add shading around each house - this will create depth.  It will bring the houses to the foreground.

Add 24 Pea Green over the background and blend out towards the highlight that will now change to a Turquoise colour.

Use the shading that Monique has already added to the houses to add colour from the darkerst to the lightest. (64 Burnt Ochre, 29 Light Ochre & 41 Banana Yellow).  Most of the times I use three colours - dark, medium and light and blend together with the lightest colour or sometimes white.

Now colour in the roofs (47 Scarlet Red, 30 Red Brown & 9 Apricot Orange) and the rest of the features (32 Natural Sienna, 65 Medium Terracotta &30 Red Brown).  The windows was done with 39 Silver and blended with 1 White.

I used Posca Paint pens PC1-MR in white and black to add the border around the page and other details & doodles.