My son bought me a special coloring book from his recent Hong Kong visit. It has no English title so I can only show you a picture of the cover. All the illustrations are done by Hong Kong artists and portray the unique Hong Kong history and culture. This is where I was born and spent…
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Coloring with Sakura Koi Brush Pens
It’s been snowing the entire Easter weekend, perfect coloring weather. Good time to try out the set of Sakura Koi watercolor brush pens that has been patiently waiting for me. I landed on this lovely page in Johanna Basford’s Secret Garden coloring book as I seriously needed some Spring inspirations. The Sakura Koi pens are…
Coloring fur step by step
The flowery hare featured here is my first completed work of Hanna Karlzon’s coloring book Daydreams. I am especially happy with how I colored the fur of the hare and would like to share my technique with you. I decided that this hare is going to be a greyish-brown color with some orange color accents. In…
Using watercolor on coloring books
Watercolor is my favorite art medium. I especially like the beautiful effect of dropping different colors into wet paper. This is how I colored the background of this gorgeous illustration by Daria Song in the book Time Chamber. Daria Song described in her Instagram posts that she likes to apply watercolor on her background and then…
Creating bokeh effect using colored pencils
Bokeh is a special effect in photography. It is an out of focus blur. For the March coloring card that I designed for the Creative Scrapbooker magazine, I created this bokeh effect using colored pencils in the background and I would like to show you how I did it. Bokeh as background I remembered being fascinated when I…
Chameleon pens
I received a set of 22 Chameleon pens, a box of 16 Chameleon coloring cards last week and I am off this week. Lucky me! What better way to spend your vacation days than trying out new coloring product? After playing with it for two days, I have to say I am finally in love…
Derwent Inktense Colored pencils
The coloring of Russia’s St. Basil’s Cathedral in Lizzie Mary Cullen’s coloring book: Magical City is my first color art using exclusively Derwent Inktense pencils. I really like the intense bright colors of the result, it is also a lot of fun to play with these pencils. There’s an element of surprise that gets me excited…
Lunar Year of the Rooster Coloring Card
Chinese Lunar New Year is January 28 this year according to the lunar calendar. This is the year of the rooster and to celebrate, I have designed this rooster coloring card for the Creative Scrapbooker Magazine blog. In Chinese astrology, the rooster symbolizes keen observation and practical thinking. Roosters also represent a need for control and perfectionism which…
Color Layering with the Creative Cats
I called “The Creative Cats” by Majorie Sarnat my coloring comfort food. I have a nice little collection of coloring books but somehow “The Creative Cats” is the one with the most completed pages and judging from the number of pins I get from Pinterest of my coloring art, the cats pages are definitely among the most…
Personalized your coloring by adding embellishments
Embellishment is a decorative detail or feature added to something to make it more attractive. Today we often see some really creative embellishments being applied to coloring pages. It can be very elaborate like adding a whole under ocean scene complete with plants, sea creatures, other fishes around the single whale illustration or simply adding bubbles…