I like the way that these blog posts are making it really easy for me to show you all of the steps along the way as I color. That's especially fun on a day like today when I had two big changes of direction while I colored. It all started out with a nice muted [...]
The other day someone asked me if I ever leave a little white space in my colorings. It's actually quite rare that I do. I love seeing how other people use white space to make their pictures all light and airy - but for some reason I just never seem to be able to do [...]
I believe that each coloring picture is like a little snapshot from your ongoing coloring journey. Every page and every shape holds the mood and feelings that you brought to the picture. Sometimes that might be deep thoughts with deep meanings, and other times perhaps light thoughts - or even no thoughts. But by working [...]
The last part of a coloring is always the easiest for me. All of the colors have been chosen and the page suggests which colors it would like to have where. I've made myself a little endlessly cycling melody to groove to as background music as the last of the spaces gradually transition to their [...]
The halfway coloring point in an intricate coloring picture tends to be the most difficult part of a picture for me. There is often such a mix of colored areas and remaining white spaces that it can be rather visually confusing. In the picture above, I can feel myself losing my bearings. But it's this [...]
Today I'm continuing coloring my sky colors inspired picture from Balance. The shades of blue look much more sky-like when I take the photos using natural daytime lighting, don't they? Everything was going so smoothly and then SPLAT. That's the sound of an ink drop splotching my page. I use refillable markers, and I just [...]
I like to look at sky and cloud colors and sometime take photos to use for color inspiration. Photos like this one: My camera has a setting that makes everything look a lot like a watercolor painting, and I like that because it smooths out all of the rough reality edges and makes everything extra [...]
Sometimes a drawing has a mind of its own and tells you which colors to use. I started out by picking a marker shade I haven’t used recently. How about a nice dark grayish greenish color? But a few minutes later this picture was demanding sunny yellow sunflower shades. Big, bright happy sunflower colors - [...]
There is really nothing that you can do while coloring that is going to be that awful. The nature of the art form is that it exists as pages, and at any moment you can always turn the page and go on to the next. Still, you can occasionally blast yourself out of your comfortable [...]
Ok. I've got my coloring page. Got my clipboard. Camera is at the ready. Time to start coloring. Today I'm going to start with aqua and I think I'll color this big set of shapes first. And whoopsie! I'm already on to coloring my black stripes before I take my planned in-progress photo. There's really [...]