Today we've got some unplanned sunset colors! This happens quite a bit when I color - especially with colored pencils. I usually don't even notice that I'm going down the sunset path again until the picture is almost finished. Cool blues just seem to call our for warm, glowing orangey coral pinky tones. Here's a [...]
Time for a marker coloring, with a rather unusual color scheme. It's kind of a mix between Autumn colors and key lime pie. See if you can spot my big "almost oops" in the step by step pictures. Here's a slide show with my step by step progress: Today's book: Quirky - A [...]
Today I'm coloring with wax based pencils. The Derwent Coloursoft pencils have quite soft leads and work nicely for coloring medium and larger spaces. They feel quite a bit like coloring with crayons - but the way you always wish your crayons would color, with lovely even color application and quick response to changes in [...]
A busy day. So many things to do and each one finished seems to open the door for more things that need to be added to the list. Whew! Thank goodness for the tiny moments where I can just hit the pause button and color a pretty little shape. It's actually quite amazing how that [...]
Coloring Journal pages are really nice for shorter coloring sessions or for busy times when you might want to sneak in little bits of coloring all day long. They are also a handy size for trying out new techniques. Here's a slide show overview of my most recent coloring progress: And here are [...]
Another late night of coloring! It's very hard to stop at a reasonable hour when there is so little left to color. Here's a slide show overview of my most recent coloring progress: And here are all of the detail photos: Thoughts: It's starting to feel perfectly normal to color [...]
I'm trying out a few more blog post layout changes today. Let's see how this works. Here's a slide show overview of my most recent coloring progress: And here are all of the detail photos: Thoughts: This is actually a pretty easy way for me to catch you up on [...]
I've got lots of minor flaws in my coloring today, but that's a good reminder of what's most important. It doesn't matter if a bit of laser printer ink flakes off my cardstock as my hand rubs on the paper surface. It doesn't matter if I've actually got two side by side shapes where the [...]
Today I'm coloring from my newest book, Breathe For Crayons And Wide Tipped Markers. It's too soon to be sure whether or not I'm now hooked on shading - but all signs point to "quite possibly". One of the things that's coming with a bit more shading experience is that it stops being a big [...]
All done - and I am so totally wowed by how this looks with the marker shading. Yes, I think I may need to keep shading for a while! It's slow, but the results are worth it. You may have noticed that this blog post is a little different. I'm trying out some fun new [...]