One nice thing about coloring with broad color themes like sunsets, Autumn leaves, beach colors, fireworks or Spring is that those ideas can be interpreted in so many different ways. This pale yellow shade is a rather unusual for in my sunset colorings. I would normally consider that shade much more of a daybreak color, [...]
I really thought that I was headed for an all blue coloring this time. But sure enough, along comes that moment where the first of the sunset colors sneak in. I've seen so many people color beautiful monochromatic colorings and wish that single color family picture came more easily to me. But if elegant single [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
I stayed up way too late tonight coloring, so let's just enjoy the photos. :) My comfort level with marker shading continues to grow as I slow color this piece, and I keep wondering what I might be able to do in future colorings with all of my other marker shades. It's like there's a [...]
So far I've used 12 different marker shades in this picture, and each little shape has been colored with 3 to 4 shades. I don't like having identical colored shapes side by side. But shaded shapes that are very close in color each have enough difference to them that I don't mind repeating shaded colors [...]