Today's coloring progress slideshow: Note: This week I'll be posting somewhat smaller slide shows since there's a holiday shopping rush on the Internet that's slowing down a lot of people's internet connections. Today's book: Transcend For Crayons And Wide Tipped Markers (Angie's Gentle Mood Menders - Volume 4) Colored with: Copic Sketch Markers [...]
One of the side effects of really working to create stillness in your life is that words start to feel quite busy. Increasing my daily meditation at home is apparently steering me toward a bit less talking and a lot more listening. You know that you are calming and stilling your internal being when you [...]
I'm doodling on my junk mail as I type this, coloring hearts and polka dots all over the envelope for my license plate sticker renewal notice, and that reminds me that I've never told you the story of one of my more embarrassing coloring moments. Our state motor vehicle agency does periodic audits where they [...]
I'm coloring with metallic gel pens today, and it's so fun to work with this sparklie ink. A bit less fun to try to take photos, though. You can never fully capture the shimmering effect, and any little tiny spot where the ink is a little thin ends up looking like you've missed coloring a [...]
I'm always pleasantly surprised when odd color combinations end up looking pretty and intriguing when they are spread through a pattern. There actually was a little thought in my color selection for this piece. It started off with Christmas colors and somehow drifted off into frosted sugar cookies colors. I guess that's still in keeping [...]
Today's blog post is a little bit different than usual. I'm combining something that I wrote a couple of days ago as we were nursing an ill goat with something I wrote yesterday and posted on my Facebook group. The past few days have involved coloring while caretaking as well as coloring while processing the [...]
Whoopsie! Guess who accidently deleted all of my latest in progress photos? I guess we just have one photo today as I pick up with more of my rambling thoughts from yesterday. Now on to the rest of the ramblies: ---- The difference in feeling between "have to do" stuff and "just being" activities can [...]
Yesterday I was talking a bit about the difference in feeling between "have to do" and "just being" activities. I don't know if other people feel the same way or make those same distinctions, but wow - I've been doing this since I was a kid. Cleaning my desk was a "have to do" and [...]
I tend to lead a very quiet life, with the goal to make it ever quieter. I've never been a fan of conflict - which always seems like a lot of energy wasted down a path that just isn't ever going to be satisfying. I don't generally get visibly wound up about things but instead [...]
I don't draw uncolorable dots or lines into my linework, but that doesn't mean that you can't go dot crazy if you want to. Feel free to embellish your colorings however you like. Sparklies, gel pens and little drawn details can be a lot of fun. I loved the way this coloring turned out so [...]