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…
A Valentine’s Day Coloring Card
Happy Valentine’s Day! It is February and time for another one of my monthly coloring cards as featured in the Creative Scrapbooker Magazine. The theme of for my February coloring card is “love birds”. The design revolves around the word “love” drawn as ribbons with little love birds standing around it and plenty of hearts. I…
Learning from the “Painter of Light”
I received the Posh Adult Coloring Book: Thomas Kinkade Painter of Light for my Birthday. It is a very unique kind of coloring book in that it is a color along. It contains 63 of Thomas Kinkade’s most popular paintings presented in color across from the blank line art of the same image to be…
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…
Reflection of my coloring journey 2016
As I reflect on my artistic journey on this last day of 2016, I felt blessed that the last year has been very rewarding for my personal growth, I learned a lot and have great fun doing it. I started coloring a year ago with one book and a small box of colored pencils just…
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…
Use of pointillism in coloring
What is pointillism? According to wikipedia, pointillism is a technique of painting in which small, distinct dots of color are applied in patterns to form an image. The technique relies on the ability of the eye and mind of the viewer to blend the color dots into a fuller range of tones. The featured image above…
Background can make or break a beautifully colored page
I don’t usually leave any white space on my color art work nowadays. When I first started coloring, there are times when I put a lot of attention to coloring the illustration but I left the background blank. I simply don’t know what to do with that space. I was fascinated with the kind of…