On A Roll – Day 2
So far I've used 12 different marker shades in this picture, and each little shape has been colored with 3 to 4 shades. I don't like having identical colored shapes side by side. But shaded [...]
On A Roll – Day 1
I'm still rather amazed that I've added so much shading to some of my recent colorings. You should see my stack of half finished shade pieces from all of the times I pushed myself beyond [...]
Two-Tone Shading – Finishing Up
I'm finding it helpful to make a practice of disconnecting from expectations about how long it "should" take for me to color a picture - and that has done so much to increase my comfort [...]
Two-Tone Shading – Day 2
I don't really have any plan for which colors are going to go where in this piece. One things that's so nice about coloring abstract patterns is that they tend to be perfectly happy with [...]
Two-Tone Shading – Day 1
My last shaded coloring was so relaxing that I figured I'd shade another one. This time I'll be edging shapes with one shade and then lightly coloring over with a second tone. This kind of [...]
Whimsy – Finishing Up and a Pep Talk
As a fellow colorist, I understand completely how much time and thought and energy goes into coloring a detailed drawing. And I also understand how there may be a time or two that you have [...]
Whimsy – Day 2
(A few recycled thoughts from a conversation with my Facebook group yesterday.) It's always refreshing and reassuring to go back and color from one of my earliest books. So many societal influences promote the belief [...]
Whimsy – Day 1
In today's coloring, I'm back to using markers again - this time coloring from Whimsy (Angie's Patterns - Volume 2). Marker coloring is a real comfortable style of coloring for me - so this is [...]
A Bit Of Pencil Shading – Finishing Up
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 [...]