I need help with this!

[Shey]

Hi everyone! This is my first attempt at doing colored pencil work on my own. I would like to use this holly for my Christmas cards this year. I did the background in a watercolor wash and scanned it but it is very light.The colors I used are cad yellow with a little violet. I also dropped in a little gold metallic watercolor. I need to know what colors to place around the holly? I'm not to good at choosing colors yet even though I have just about worn out my color wheel! This is on 140lb. cold press Arches watercolor paper. I do like the texture it gave to the colored pencil. Let me know what you all think.

[TeAnne]

The Holly looks good Shay :)
You can use any complimentry colour to red and green, just keep playing :) Or for greeting cards, leave it white. :)

[Ivyleaf]

For holiday, I would do some combo of either gold or silver in the background...are you going to do any writing on this part of the card???

The holly looks great!

[Shey]

Thanks Ivyleaf and TeAnne! I put the watercolor background around it already so i might go back in and drop a little more intense color in. I just want to make it look a little more "Christmasy". I just don't know which colors to use. I did drop in some metallic gold watercolor which is WAY COOL! so maybe I'll just add more of that??? :confused: