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 [...]
I'm still rather amazed that I've added so much shading to some of my recent colorings. You should see my stack of half finished shade pieces from all of the times I pushed myself beyond my interest and just had to bail out mid-picture. And then all of a sudden it seems like no big [...]
I don't really have any plan for which colors are going to go where in this piece. One things that's so nice about coloring abstract patterns is that they tend to be perfectly happy with all kinds of color schemes. I'm basically sticking with a few different color pairs right now, but there is quite [...]
My last shaded coloring was so relaxing that I figured I'd shade another one. This time I'll be edging shapes with one shade and then lightly coloring over with a second tone. This kind of shading works best for me when I make a point to enjoy how slow it can be. For me, that [...]
All done! Seven hours of coloring over seven days - which was a really great way to spread out all of the shadings. (I tend to lose interest if I go overboard with shading, but spreading things out in such an unhurried manner kept it fun.) I could have left the background white at this [...]
It's now the fifth day I've worked on this page, usually coloring about an hour each evening. Here's a little close up peek at some of the shapes I've colored tonight. All of these are done with one pencil color per shape, just edging with heavier pressure and then topping off with light pressure - [...]