G29 Pine Tree Green is an organic, balanced green Copic Marker which closely resembles Hooker’s Green watercolor. This is a lovely green for trees, leaves, landscapes, and holiday images. G29 is available in Copic Ciao, Sketch, and Classic marker styles.
Every Copic Marker has unique characteristics based on its unique ink formula.
Knowing how a color behaves will help you blend effectively and make art with confidence.
G29 Pine Tree Green
Let’s take a closer look at this Copic Marker and its ink characteristics.
Temperature: A slightly blueish but otherwise balanced green.
Resemblance: Hooker’s Green watercolor.
Actual Value: N8
All Copics are measured on a Neutral Gray value scale. The last number on the cap is supposed to indicate value but we’ve found discrepancies where the actual ink value is different than cap designation.
Cap Accuracy: No. The colored plastic on the Sketch cap is closer to four coats of G29 and the plastic is more vibrant and saturated than G29 ink.
Buildup: Exercise caution! G29 looks patchy and oily with just one coat. It reaches maximum value at 5 layers.
Shattering: Shatters into green with strong golden yellow ink at the margins.
Chromatography testing shows this ink’s behavior when it comes in contact with #0 Colorless Blender (solvent). High shattering colors may leak unexpected color when you make corrections or attempt to blend with any color that has a high solvent to colorant ratio. Shattering is not bad, it’s just something to be aware of.
Staining: G29 is a staining color and left the paper with a definite blue tint.
Lift: This color is stubborn and does not lift well.
See staining swatch. Sample was given 6 stripes of #0 Colorless Blender, drying between each stripe. Results indicate how much lifting you can expect.
Lightfast: G29 was surprisingly lightfast. We saw just a faint amount of fading during the 3 week test.
Samples were swatched on X-Press It Blending Card. 1 layer of ink was exposed to windowsill sunlight for 21 days. Approximately 10 hours of sun per day based on weather conditions. Note: we do not recommend displaying original Copic art under these conditions.
Natural Ink Family: G29 sits at the dark end of the G-Twenty family. The markers in this family are all quite pretty but each one has odd characteristics and idiosyncrasies.
Family Members: G29, G28, G24, G21, G20
We include this information because many Copic users never think deeper than the letter groupings (R, BV, G, etc.). Every ink has its own temperature variations and underlying flavors. Understanding what an ink looks like in its different dilutions helps when creating your own blending combinations.
Complement: Magenta pinks like RV17
Underpaint: We suggest V06
This is simply one suggestion. Many possible colors exist. Test to find a color that pleases you.
Pushing Pencil: Prismacolor 931 Dark Purple works very well.
VanillaArts.com (our sister site) teaches a Push & Pull technique for dimensional coloring. This is simply one suggestion. Many possible colors exist. Test to find a color that pleases you.
Vanilla Arts Classes using G29:
Gray Matter: Amy explores underpainting, a technique that increases the realism in colored images. Find more info here.
Peach Rose: A lesson on drawing greater inspiration from photo references. Learn how to better see what's in the photograph and to translate that into marker and pencil coloring. Find more info here.
Ink & Hydrangea: Amy shows you the theory behind color shifting for depth and the use of temperature to indicate distance. Find more info here.
Vanilla Arts Digi Stamps using G29:
We continue to create new content and stamps and we will update here as more become available.
Visit the stamp shop page at our sister site VanillaArts.com for a wide variety of digi stamps.
Color palettes and swatches using G29:
Looking for beautiful color palettes?
We absolutely love The Color Catalog 1 & 2 from Sarah Renae Clark. It puts hundreds of Copic friendly color palettes at your fingertips.
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