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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
I try to make up for slow coloring by taking a picture every time I move on to the next marker shade - but some of the photos today are really going to test your ability to spot what's changed since the previous photo. It's even worse for me when I'm organizing my photos to [...]
You can tell Halloween is close by the little touches of Jack O'Lantern orange and mysterious black that keep popping up in my recent colorings. There's still a lot of coloring ahead on this one - and perhaps even additional colors. Here's a slide show with my step by step slow coloring progress: [...]
Today I'm coloring from Wow, and Wow is a book that always seems to want to encourage me to use lots and lots of wild colors. Wow is more about surprises than about cozy, comfortable coloring rhythms and there is so much to explore in each of the drawings. Even though I know every one [...]
Today's slide show is a lot like one of those "spot the difference" games. Each picture shows a bit more progress with one of many gray shades. These colors are inspired by childhood memories of going trick or treating in brightly colored costumes when the outdoors was all dark and shadowy. Here's a slide show [...]
My coloring moods tend to jump around. One day I might really be into sophisticated and artsy coloring and then the next day it's all about recapturing a sense of childlike coloring freedom. As an adult colorist, you get to decide how you want to color and there's no pressure to be consistent in your approach. [...]