This picture really wanted to be colored in a wild mix of colors. The bright caterpillar green tones were especially fun to use. Once again, I lost track a bit when it came to taking progress photos, but I did manage to capture a shot that shows where I changed my mind and colored over [...]
Today's coloring started with a big mistake right at the very start. I had it all figured out how I was going to shade the corners of a few of these ribbons with a dark purple - but then I lost track of where I was in the pattern and ended up with shadows in [...]
Wow, the clock change (end of Daylight Savings Time) has really thrown me for a bit of a loop. I tend to write my blog posts in the afternoon or evening, and my morning ritual is sipping tea, writing a short note to my Facebook group and then posting the blog post I prepared the [...]
One of the things that's going on in the background while I color this piece is that every time I finish coloring a set of shapes, I keep thinking that I'm going to do those little polka dots next. And then I try to pick a shade for them and start thinking that maybe I'll [...]
As I get older I get ever more comfortable with short pencils. My current sketchbook graphite drawing pencil is somewhere between stub size and ridiculous stub size right now. It gives my rough drawings on my sketch pad extra unplanned touches as lines bend every which way. Short pencils don't have the same elegant balance [...]
I tend to be a calm and rational person. I feel deeply but forgive easily. And I'm pretty good at stepping back from external fuss and finding the place of inner peace and strength that is always with me - even if some days it's kind of a challenge to find it. Sometimes there are [...]
Are you feeling a lot of fear and tension in the air too? It seems that most people I know are. It doesn't matter how much we may differ in opinions or beliefs, we are all quite united in our understanding of how it feels to be uncertain, apprehensive, fearful or overwhelmed. And if those [...]
After my recent wild coloring from Wow, it's fun to switch gears again and settle into slow coloring an Extreme Mood Mender. And if you look really closely, you might be able to spot my little coloring oops. Here's a slide show with my step by step slow coloring progress: Did you find [...]
Here is my completed coloring from Wow - and it's pretty wild! One of the things that I really enjoy about Wow is how strongly it captures my imagination when I color. I find it so easy to get lost in the strange mix of happy little shapes and I guess it's not surprising that [...]
Slow coloring is about a lot more than just taking a long time to color a picture. For me, it's about being aware of all the little feelings that could be trying to draw me away from being truly relaxed and in the moment. Many of the demands that we have on our time come [...]