After finishing a marker coloring with a planned color scheme, of course it's time to switch directions. Today I'm coloring with my smallest set of pencils again. (The Koh-I-Noor Woodless colored pencils.) I find that having only a few shades to choose from allows me to just grab any color and see what happens. Sometimes [...]
When I'm not drawing or coloring, I like to play with music - so today I thought it would be fun to show you an iPad app I've been using to make evolving generative music. Xythesizr is an app developed by Yuri Turov and it allows musical phrases to grow, develop and pass away according [...]
Working with a strong color inspiration does have the advantage that it helps keep me on track when I spend more than one day on a coloring. This picture is so full of strong cantaloupe and honeydew melon tones that I'm even able to stick to the color scheme when I start seeing strawberries in [...]
I didn't start out with any color plans and just grabbed a pretty orangey shade from my marker box. But as soon as the color hit the paper I started thinking about fresh, ripe cantaloupe. Using colors inspired by flavors can be a good way to find pleasing color palettes. Bright orange and green might [...]
I like the way that these blog posts are making it really easy for me to show you all of the steps along the way as I color. That's especially fun on a day like today when I had two big changes of direction while I colored. It all started out with a nice muted [...]
Once I wander outside of my coloring comfort zone a little bit, I often feel adventurous and continue trying new things until I eventually create a "not quite so pretty" coloring. My coloring journey tends to follow a twisty path as I bounce between comfort zone coloring and wild and free experimentation. Of course, one [...]
The other day someone asked me if I ever leave a little white space in my colorings. It's actually quite rare that I do. I love seeing how other people use white space to make their pictures all light and airy - but for some reason I just never seem to be able to do [...]
I believe that each coloring picture is like a little snapshot from your ongoing coloring journey. Every page and every shape holds the mood and feelings that you brought to the picture. Sometimes that might be deep thoughts with deep meanings, and other times perhaps light thoughts - or even no thoughts. But by working [...]
As I was finishing yesterday's coloring, I had some thoughts about colored pencils that I wanted to share with you. These are the pencils that I used to color my Fresh Clean Greens picture. As you can tell, I did branch out into a couple of different color groups. I also used both Faber-Castell Polychromos [...]
As I finished coloring this picture, I had some stray thoughts about colored pencils that I'd like to share with you. But then later, as I looked at the photos - I really wanted you to just be able to quietly enjoy how this coloring unfolded without me babbling on. So how about I save [...]