Today I'm back to coloring from the wide tipped edition of Balance. I usually jump between books much more often than it would seem from looking at my blog posts so far. But when Balance Wide Tipped came out, I wanted to join a number of our Facebook group members in coloring the entire book [...]
The last part of a coloring is always the easiest for me. All of the colors have been chosen and the page suggests which colors it would like to have where. I've made myself a little endlessly cycling melody to groove to as background music as the last of the spaces gradually transition to their [...]
The halfway coloring point in an intricate coloring picture tends to be the most difficult part of a picture for me. There is often such a mix of colored areas and remaining white spaces that it can be rather visually confusing. In the picture above, I can feel myself losing my bearings. But it's this [...]
Today I'm continuing coloring my sky colors inspired picture from Balance. The shades of blue look much more sky-like when I take the photos using natural daytime lighting, don't they? Everything was going so smoothly and then SPLAT. That's the sound of an ink drop splotching my page. I use refillable markers, and I just [...]
I like to look at sky and cloud colors and sometime take photos to use for color inspiration. Photos like this one: My camera has a setting that makes everything look a lot like a watercolor painting, and I like that because it smooths out all of the rough reality edges and makes everything extra [...]
Sometimes a drawing has a mind of its own and tells you which colors to use. I started out by picking a marker shade I haven’t used recently. How about a nice dark grayish greenish color? But a few minutes later this picture was demanding sunny yellow sunflower shades. Big, bright happy sunflower colors - [...]
I am fascinated by pattern in all kinds of different forms. From coloring to crochet to music or whatever, I just like seeing what happens when simple repeating motifs interact and form something complex. When I want to switch gears from visual work, I like to play with iPad musical loopers and sampler apps that [...]
After a coloring derail, I want to let go of my coloring expectations and just color along to a pretty endpoint. It isn't about "trying to do better", it's about basic, simple, enjoyable coloring. Time to drag out my favorite "no expectations" coloring tool. Pencils that feel comfy in the hand and come in a [...]
There is really nothing that you can do while coloring that is going to be that awful. The nature of the art form is that it exists as pages, and at any moment you can always turn the page and go on to the next. Still, you can occasionally blast yourself out of your comfortable [...]
Ok. I've got my coloring page. Got my clipboard. Camera is at the ready. Time to start coloring. Today I'm going to start with aqua and I think I'll color this big set of shapes first. And whoopsie! I'm already on to coloring my black stripes before I take my planned in-progress photo. There's really [...]