Tea And Coloring
I color to relax and to make sure that I have some deeply quiet moments during my day. For me, my coloring is rarely about the finished picture. I start with a couple of colors [...]
Just Coloring
Yesterday I talked a bit about graphite pencil shading and my post turned into a step by step demonstration showing you one of the ways I like to color. Most the time, though, my coloring is [...]
Soft Graphite Shading
Today I'd like to give you a close-up look at how I do some simple shading using a soft graphite pencil and a blending stump. I really like Mitsubishi Uni graphite pencils. They feel nice [...]
Recapturing Creative Freedom
There are so many ways to be creative, but there can also be a lot of external influences that define creativity in terms of comparison or competition. Many of us had our very first experiences [...]
Early Morning Coloring
Bad coloring can be wonderfully enlightening. Today I was morning coloring using colored pencils and that's the best way to amplify every tiny little coloring mistake that I make. This is the time of day [...]
Let’s just skip the first blog post, OK?
Well, maybe not quite. Most of the people who will be reading my very first blog post ever already know me quite well from my Facebook posts. But for those of you who aren't members [...]