Round and Round

I've seen some really bright, translucent colors on some of the ICAD cards that look especially wonderful highlighted with black line work. I thought I would try to experiment with that today so I put what I thought were some bright acrylic colors on a palette and painted stripes of colors.  They were deeper than I expected.  Then I just added some white acrylic wash over that and layered on some circles cut from patterned paper over that and outline everything with black marker.

 Nothing was happening the way I wanted.  I tried coloring over the circles but it was boring so I retraced with black pen again and still was underwhelmed.  I then colored over than with white acrylic and that was better but everything just seemed flat and uninteresting. Finally I took black and gray watercolor pencils and shaded under the circles and added some contouring to the circles. I finally got something I could live with but am disappointed that I didn't get at all what I set out to achieve. I think I'll head to Joann's to see about getting some cheap fluorescent craft paints and water colors so I can try again.