I really love bright colors, but it can be a little tricky to work with them. Lots of brights, spread evenly throughout a coloring can create a confetti-like effect - nice when you want it, but not so cool if you want something more structured and harmonious. Brights like to grab your eye, and what [...]
This picture just keeps wanting even more pink. Even though my fuchsia pencil is the very shortest one in the entire box, it's going to come join in the fun. Faber-Castell Polychromos pencils can be purchased individually, and if I just have to use this shade this often I'll just stock up with half a [...]
Ha ha. History repeats itself - again! I love the look of shading in coloring pictures, and I'm comfortable with the techniques. But wow - when it comes to shading stamina it's like I always run out of steam, and then run out of interest after shading just a few spaces. I was actually prepared [...]
Sometimes it's nice to relax with a very easy coloring session. Coloring the background of a drawing using a gentle progression of related colors can start you out with a nice strong foundation - and that can help your colors play nicely together when you reach the later stages of coloring. I started out with [...]
It doesn't matter how twisty and turny the coloring path may have been. Eventually you reach a spot where the coloring is done and you step back and look at the finished picture. All of the events that took place in your life as you colored the page are in the past, and in a [...]
Since I started coloring this picture my daily life has unfolded with a refrigerator break down, helping out a stray dog, a night with way too little sleep and a day with way too much coffee (which has far less kick than usual for some strange reason!) I know this mindset very well with the [...]
Today I'm coloring a little differently than usual, using smudged soft graphite shading over markers. For this piece I decided to use just a few marker shades and to color a number of adjoining shapes the same color. Just a little dab of soft graphite pencil is plenty. I'm using a Mitsubishi Uni pencil with [...]
Calming colors and being a little tired made this coloring really relaxing to finish up. I stuck with the colors I had already used yesterday, so today it was just a matter of filling in the remaining spaces. (Well, most of them - this picture kept asking for me to leave a little white space.) [...]
It's admirable to try to be your very best at certain things, but it is wise to allow yourself to experience things without the need for achievement as well. Today was a very busy day for me, and included a long drive to stock up on goat munchies. (I needed to get Chaff-haye, a bagged [...]
I like to color every day. Not only does it let me explore my artistry on good days and bad - it gives me a chance to see how well my patterns handle energetic days, lazy days, focused days, preoccupied days, matching color days and random color days. I want my patterns to have enough [...]