All done! Seven hours of coloring over seven days – which was a really great way to spread out all of the shadings. (I tend to lose interest if I go overboard with shading, but spreading things out in such an unhurried manner kept it fun.)
I could have left the background white at this point, but I wanted more of a warm glow. Even though I’ve been using Faber-Castell Polychromos pencils up to this point, to get exactly the gold toned shade I wanted I had to dip into my Derwent Coloursoft pencils.
This piece was really wonderful practice in being attentive to feelings of tension that I associate with shading. Everything is a whole lot more mellow when I am gently accepting of the fact that my shading is slower than much of my other coloring. Watching the number of days ticking by in my blog post titles was one of the tougher parts. It feels a lot like being the person at a party who realizes they are telling the story very, very, very slowly, lol. But with coloring – you’ve got to tell your own story your own way, and if it’s slow sometimes (or always) it’s perfectly OK. The most important thing about coloring is how it makes the colorist feel, and anyone else who feels good when they see what was colored is just a sweet bonus.
This coloring made me feel really good. 🙂 It’s from Cool (Angie’s Extreme Coloring Books – Volume 2) colored with lots of Faber-Castell Polychromos colored pencils and one Derwent Coloursoft Pencil.