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 [...]
I color to relax and to make sure that I have some deeply quiet moments during my day. For me, my coloring is rarely about the finished picture. I start with a couple of colors that just happen to look especially pretty to me today. I used to test out each marker shade before I [...]
Yesterday I talked a bit about graphite pencil shading and my post turned into a step by step demonstration showing you one of the ways I like to color. Most the time, though, my coloring is just coloring. I don't think a lot about color schemes or about various tools or techniques. Most of my coloring [...]
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 [...]
Bad coloring can be wonderfully enlightening. Today I was morning coloring using colored pencils and that's the best way to amplify every tiny little coloring mistake that I make. This is the time of day when my pencil strokes have a touch of wobble and my hand pressure is at its most uneven. I haven't [...]