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 blog post is going to be totally backwards. First, I'd like to show you the shades that I ended up using - even though when I first started coloring the page I really had no idea what color direction I might go in. So here's the shades. What's so exciting about this picture is [...]
Every new book launch is always followed by a period of adjustment and resettling for me. I have this vision of someday having kind of a perfect balance in my creative cycle - where exploring my artistry flows naturally and fully in harmony with a prolific level of book production. A life where I draw [...]
There are so many ways to be creative, but there can also be a lot of external influences that define creativity in terms of comparison or competition. Many of us had our very first experiences with coloring when we were young children – at a time when we weren't even aware there were such things [...]