adults coloring

Bought 2 coloring books today.
One I'll need colored pencils for.
Kind of excited. :-)

i love to color in. Very relaxing.

This is an interesting technique for blending colored pencil colors to get vibrant colorsusing baby oil...who would think. I used her YouTube to get learn how to use the water color pencils

I have Disney books and a mystic mandala one I LOVE. Got it on amazon

This was my first experiment with watercolor pencils.....there is a YouTube example that I followed & drew the picture similar to the Daffodil example on the tutorial.....I definitely don't have the number of watercolor pencils that I need for really doing this even though I can blend colors, it's easier to have the different colors as I found with my acrylic painting.....turned out not bad for my first try:

I have not really used water colors or paints but I do like the super fine point sharpie markers. I love coloring. In fact I think I might color right now...Thanks for the idea!!!

Wow, that's amazing!

Well, it's really not that different than artists painting, or drawing, or even doing graphic art - like for comic books and stuff.

Except that you don't have to be able to draw! I have no artistic talent whatsoever and the concentration span of a jittery 5 yr old but I love colours, so colouring is amazing for me

I'm going to go back to doing this it's pretty cool.

Holy, er, cow! Eskie, this is really good!

I'm glad I color for the feeling it gives me and not for the quality of the work. You and Starthrower put my stuff to shame.

I do ok if I have something to copy.....to generate it with my own imagination or even with nature staring me in the face...I have trouble with. I always remembered the horrible time I had painting in grade school.....LOL...I hated art...I couldn't even draw good lollypop trees. For some reason a few years ago, all of a sudden it hit me to try....started with acrylics. I actually loved this one painting magazine because it had all the pictures that you could trace from & then paint them.....that was more my style but I have sketched a lot of things copying an example that turns out ok.

I really like the way the water colors turn out. I would think they would have sort of coloring books for them (haven't looked)...you color like with colored pencils & then wash them with water...or like the background, you wash the paper with water & then with a wet brush, dab on the colored pencil & they run together...I didn't have my paper as wet as she did in the example but it blended well.

I had a huge set of colored pencils in California that I left there (I need to get them sent here).....that was why I liked that idea of the baby oil being used with the colored pencils to make the colors even more radiant. I definitely love coloring, painting or anything else...especially when I really have something more important to do..LOL...this is what I did instead of practicing piano for church as our organist was gone this weekend......I was in the mood to experiment & see what it would turn out like. YouTube has some really wonderful tutorials on lots of different painting, drawing & coloring tips.....it's definitely relaxing even when I was procrastinating.

I bought my first coloring book I wanted one, and I'm very happy. It seemed me a bit strange, so it's a relief that many people do it I quite like also drawing, but I prefer the coloring part, so I think that I'll enjoy it. But I still don't know if they are really relaxing...looking forward to discovering it.
Mine is with flowers. I'd like to try also one with mandalas...I just colored one once (for this I discovered that I could have liked a coloring book).
I think that I'll use crayons. Anyone uses other kind of colours, like markers? I don't know if they would be good for this.

I can't draw pictures to save my life. Ages ago when I was in hospital I did color in some mandalas and other pictures. I treated myself to some oil pastels and just made some very nice shapes. Today somebody gave me a Creative Therapy (anti stress) colouring book. So me thinks it might be time to check out my pencils and have some fun. Who cares if I don't color within the lines all the time.

Colouring got me through a really rough time recently. I still colour on weekends while Mr. Tea Biscuit watches sports.

I find a lot of the colouring pages aimed at adults a bit overwhelming. It can be difficult to find pages that are aimed at older children/adults - not too simple, but not too complicated either, but they're out there and I'm grateful.

I colour with Crayola super tips markers. I recently bought the 50 colours package and it suits my needs.

I just been coloring for four hours straight. Now my index finger type is numb. Need to loosen it up on this computer.

Lines were crossed but we survived.

Ha ha! I get what you mean. The joint at the base of thumb get sore I can colour for so long. It's so soothing though.

Coloring is AWESOME! anything that makes us feel Young at Heart is "cooolioolio" in my <coloring> book!

Did you see crayons when you closed your eyes to go to sleep that night?

No I did not dream of crayons when I went to sleep last night, though I would not have minded that. But it is nearly a full day later and the end of my index finger is still numb.

I do like coloring though. I need a pencil tin now.... and a decent sharpener. An added bonus was that I was able to get off facebook and be a tad more productive.

All good.

I'm enjoying my coloring book

This colouring book worked well for me:

http://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/0486...ilpage_o09_s00

Very cheery pictures, not too sophisticated and not too simple. I photo copy the pictures in the book so I can colour with markers without bleed through and use the same ones over again if I want.

I've ordered this one:

http://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/0448...ilpage_o03_s00

...but it's taking it's time getting here. I'll post my impressions of it once it arrives.

ETA: sorry, those are the Canadian Amazon links, but I'm pretty sure they can be found on Amazon.com. I know Book Depository (UK) has lots of adult colouring books - most seem a bit too detailed for me....maybe when I'm feeling better...

Oh those colouring books like wonderful to trace onto watercolor paper or even acrylic paper (LOL...My color pencils are still in California & I may never get them here).

I have always wanted to paint peacock feathers & decided to give it a try with my new watercolor pencils.....was curious to see how they would turn out. First one I did with colors I thought peacock feather would look like they I got a real one to check out the colors...the brown one is closer to the real feather just not as dark.

I really like using the watercolor pencils as it gives it a color pencil ability along with the painting ability to soften the look & blend.

I love coloring! My mom used to buy me a Christmas coloring book every holiday (well into my late 20s) and I still color often, I find it to be relaxing and fun. I bought a few coloring books from Hobby Lobby recently, thought maybe I could use some more adult designs, but I still use kid books, too!

I am 50 years old and I like to color as well,it helps me to relax and reduce my stress level. take care.