Tutorials, tips and musings about the creative process, illustrating and coloring
Category: Artist’s Life
Playing with backgrounds: giraffes
Hardly a day goes by when my coloring team (and beloved FB community admins) Lora King, Betty Hung and Paul Stone Leach and I don’t hop on WhatsApp for a few minutes to say hi and share everything from gardening pics to funny stories, colorings …
Visions of the Winged-Horse: Love (and Creativity) in the Time of Corona
Love in the time of Cholera, I mean, Corona … any other Gabriel García Márquez fans out there? My favorite book by him is still One Hundred Years of Solitude (which I hope is not the length of time we will need to be in …
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Coloring on Scrapbook Paper: A New Obsession
A few weeks ago, I started playing around with printing my coloring book line art on scrapbook paper. At the time I was running low on inspiration for a winged horse design I was working on for my Etsy shop and couldn’t come up with …
Something’s bugging me …
It is Monday, right? Is anyone else losing track of time? Are you all staying safe and healthy and practicing isolation? Strange days, indeed. I am so thankful for our coloring community, and though I have not been on social media much, please know I …
Sun Tiger
I was pretty happy to finish up a new illustration for coloring a few days ago, and since there’s not a whole lot else we can do while isolating ourselves from a virus gone wild, I spent a day coloring the illustration to use as …
A mama bear gift …
I’ve been itching to finish up this image of a bear that’s been rolling around in my head for the past month or so. It’s gone through a few different sketchy versions and I just wasn’t super happy with it. But the other day, as …
Some of my favorite coloring tools
I’ve had a few people ask about essential coloring tools recently, and since I just put together a new case of said tools, I thought I would share them with you. I have a decent mix of colored pencils (not nearly as many as some …
Creative Companion Book Binding DIY
I just received my personal copy of the 2020 Creative Companion in the mail and am pretty excited to get it ready for the new year ahead. My 2019 Creative Companion (which will disappear from Amazon at the end of the year) turned out to …
