Coloring can be a wonderful time for letting all kinds of deep thoughts unfold. On other days, there might be no thoughts at all - just the peace feeling as you fill in shape after shape with pretty colors. I almost left white space in my picture today, but it seemed a bit too brightly [...]
Sometimes it’s nice to take a step back and notice some of your own coloring patterns or habits. Taking a little inventory of the way you do things is a lot like taking inventory of your coloring supplies. In all kinds of aspects of our lives we have some things in abundance and some things [...]
You know that you are working with a great set of colors when they still feel fresh and fun no matter how much you color with them. How about I hush up for a moment so you can page down and enjoy watching this coloring unfold. Ahh...That was nice, wasn't it? This is where I [...]
At the end of yesterday's coloring I had to make the decision on whether to let the colored parts of my design blur together or remain distinct. I like what I have so far, so I'm going to frame it a bit in yellows. Something about bright yellows make them really good for tying pictures [...]
I really love bright colors, but it can be a little tricky to work with them. Lots of brights, spread evenly throughout a coloring can create a confetti-like effect - nice when you want it, but not so cool if you want something more structured and harmonious. Brights like to grab your eye, and what [...]
It doesn't matter how twisty and turny the coloring path may have been. Eventually you reach a spot where the coloring is done and you step back and look at the finished picture. All of the events that took place in your life as you colored the page are in the past, and in a [...]
Today I'm coloring a little differently than usual, using smudged soft graphite shading over markers. For this piece I decided to use just a few marker shades and to color a number of adjoining shapes the same color. Just a little dab of soft graphite pencil is plenty. I'm using a Mitsubishi Uni pencil with [...]
Calming colors and being a little tired made this coloring really relaxing to finish up. I stuck with the colors I had already used yesterday, so today it was just a matter of filling in the remaining spaces. (Well, most of them - this picture kept asking for me to leave a little white space.) [...]
It's admirable to try to be your very best at certain things, but it is wise to allow yourself to experience things without the need for achievement as well. Today was a very busy day for me, and included a long drive to stock up on goat munchies. (I needed to get Chaff-haye, a bagged [...]
Working with a strong color inspiration does have the advantage that it helps keep me on track when I spend more than one day on a coloring. This picture is so full of strong cantaloupe and honeydew melon tones that I'm even able to stick to the color scheme when I start seeing strawberries in [...]