It all started with a little dab of green. It's been rainy and thoughts of green lawns and freshly watered gardens were on my mind. How about just a little more green? And just a touch more. I can always add some dramatic black if it starts to look too green. Oh dear. That's a [...]
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 that just happen to look especially pretty to me today. I used to test out each marker shade before I [...]
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 just coloring. I don't think a lot about color schemes or about various tools or techniques. Most of my coloring [...]
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 in the hand and are extremely glidey when you apply them to paper. I've got an assortment set that I [...]
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 with coloring when we were young children – at a time when we weren't even aware there were such things [...]
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 when my pencil strokes have a touch of wobble and my hand pressure is at its most uneven. I haven't [...]
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 of my Color With Angie Grace group on Facebook, welcome to my new blog. I think of my Facebook group [...]