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    Default Re: Coloring For Grown-ups, anyone?

    I have a couple of books but haven't had time to do much with them. I'll try to post one of the pages I finished.

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    Can't wait to see everyone's work! I haven't done any colouring for a while, but here's one where I tried using watercolour brush pens instead of my usual coloured pencils. The book is "Extreme Colouring: Amazing World". It's quite a challenging book, as there is a lot of detail on each large page. But it was fun to do

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    Amazing, as always!
    My other pen is a Montblanc.

    And my other blog is a tumblr!


    And my latest ebook, for spooky wintery reading:

    https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0CM2NGSSD

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    These are amazing! My girlfriend loves to colour these colouring books for grown ups. I don't even have the artistic capability to colour within lines, but I love watching these.

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    Pardon the poor lighting. I'll get a better picture when the page is done... But wanted to share my first attempt at colored pencils in 10+ years!


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    Beautiful coloring! I have several coloring books, but haven't had a chance to start coloring in them yet. I got on the bandwagon because I remember absolutely loving to color in books like that when I was a child. I loved how all of the different colors emerged, eventually transforming the way the original blank picture looked. I have inexpensive coloring pencils that I got from Amazon as well as Prismacolors which I use more sparingly.

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    No, I don't have a coloring book. I too adored them as a child though. I even liked those paint by numbers sets. A friend of mine has an adult coloring book. She is doing an excellent job on it too. I've seen them, but just haven't taken the plunge, yet.

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    Quote Originally Posted by KKay View Post
    No, I don't have a coloring book. I too adored them as a child though. I even liked those paint by numbers sets. A friend of mine has an adult coloring book. She is doing an excellent job on it too. I've seen them, but just haven't taken the plunge, yet.
    Oh, you totally should! It's more fun than I remembered.

    I actually put the Disney Villains adult coloring book on my amazon wish list on a lark (actually, I have an entire public wish list I call "Silliness" for such things) and my cousin-in-law bought it for me for Christmas. I just got around to getting over my anxiety about ruining the pages and colored something in! Obviously I was happy enough with it to post it

    My next step is to start fiddling with inks to see how the paper fares. If all goes well, you guys might see a weird mashup of Prismacolors and inks

    Quote Originally Posted by jamberrypie View Post
    Beautiful coloring! I have several coloring books, but haven't had a chance to start coloring in them yet. I got on the bandwagon because I remember absolutely loving to color in books like that when I was a child. I loved how all of the different colors emerged, eventually transforming the way the original blank picture looked. I have inexpensive coloring pencils that I got from Amazon as well as Prismacolors which I use more sparingly.
    All I colored with while growing up were the off brand/dollar store pencils and crayola, and I hated them. I quickly figured out why when I got my first set of Prismacolors. I couldn't blend as well with the non-Prismacolors, so now I'm kinda stuck.

    Though I found at Jo-Ann's the other day that Prismacolor makes a "Scholar" sub-brand that is about half the cost of their normal lineup. I got a set for a friend to go with the coloring book I bought her. I'm thinking of buying a set for myself just to play with.

    I think I also have a set of watercolor pencils somewhere... might see if I can find them and see if the paper will handle that as well.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Frank View Post
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    A couple of pages from my RHS Flowers colouring book:

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    WOW. It looks like a page from an Audubon book.

    In lesser news, I haven't colored in a long while, but just bought a big yet simple, unused Crayola coloring book at a yard sale for a buck. It might spur me onward.
    My other pen is a Montblanc.

    And my other blog is a tumblr!


    And my latest ebook, for spooky wintery reading:

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    OK. The box of Eight Crayola colored pencils is not up to my new Mitsui coloring book. I see the Faber Castell are favored here, but I wonder if anyone can weigh in on how large a selection I should choose. You know, the 20 pencil box vs the 100 plus kit.

    I want a nice variety but don't need 18 shades of peach...

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    Quote Originally Posted by VertOlive View Post
    OK. The box of Eight Crayola colored pencils is not up to my new Mitsui coloring book. I see the Faber Castell are favored here, but I wonder if anyone can weigh in on how large a selection I should choose. You know, the 20 pencil box vs the 100 plus kit.

    I want a nice variety but don't need 18 shades of peach...

    Opinions?
    I started with the 36 polychromos set and added the "flesh " tones and a few greens.


    Love these pencils! I have six different brands of artist quality pencils, and these are my favorites.
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    Quote Originally Posted by VertOlive View Post
    OK. The box of Eight Crayola colored pencils is not up to my new Mitsui coloring book. I see the Faber Castell are favored here, but I wonder if anyone can weigh in on how large a selection I should choose. You know, the 20 pencil box vs the 100 plus kit.

    I want a nice variety but don't need 18 shades of peach...

    Opinions?
    I'd get a set of about 40. Polychromos can easily be layered and blended to achieve mixed colours, so unless you are going to do a lot of CP drawings you don't need every colour. They're sold as open stock too, so you can add individual pencils in the future if you want to.

    In the US it is probably easier and cheaper to buy Prismacolor pencils. They're pretty good too. They mix well. The difference is that they are more waxy, so can sometimes form a surface 'bloom' when too many layers are added, or when over-burnished. Polychromos are better at keeping a fine point too.

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    Quote Originally Posted by migo984 View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by VertOlive View Post
    OK. The box of Eight Crayola colored pencils is not up to my new Mitsui coloring book. I see the Faber Castell are favored here, but I wonder if anyone can weigh in on how large a selection I should choose. You know, the 20 pencil box vs the 100 plus kit.

    I want a nice variety but don't need 18 shades of peach...

    Opinions?
    I'd get a set of about 40. Polychromos can easily be layered and blended to achieve mixed colours, so unless you are going to do a lot of CP drawings you don't need every colour. They're sold as open stock too, so you can add individual pencils in the future if you want to.

    In the US it is probably easier and cheaper to buy Prismacolor pencils. They're pretty good too. They mix well. The difference is that they are more waxy, so can sometimes form a surface 'bloom' when too many layers are added, or when over-burnished. Polychromos are better at keeping a fine point too.
    P1020556.JPG

    P1020557.JPG


    Clearing out the loft of my fathers house and found this box of pencils from the Cumberland Pencil Company, I think that he must have bought them in the 1960s and never used them.

    Sorry for the diversion, couldnt think of anywhere else to show them.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Fermata View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by migo984 View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by VertOlive View Post
    OK. The box of Eight Crayola colored pencils is not up to my new Mitsui coloring book. I see the Faber Castell are favored here, but I wonder if anyone can weigh in on how large a selection I should choose. You know, the 20 pencil box vs the 100 plus kit.

    I want a nice variety but don't need 18 shades of peach...

    Opinions?
    I'd get a set of about 40. Polychromos can easily be layered and blended to achieve mixed colours, so unless you are going to do a lot of CP drawings you don't need every colour. They're sold as open stock too, so you can add individual pencils in the future if you want to.

    In the US it is probably easier and cheaper to buy Prismacolor pencils. They're pretty good too. They mix well. The difference is that they are more waxy, so can sometimes form a surface 'bloom' when too many layers are added, or when over-burnished. Polychromos are better at keeping a fine point too.
    P1020556.JPG

    P1020557.JPG


    Clearing out the loft of my fathers house and found this box of pencils from the Cumberland Pencil Company, I think that he must have bought them in the 1960s and never used them.

    Sorry for the diversion, couldnt think of anywhere else to show them.
    Very cool! This is now the Derwent company of course. I'm a fan of their Graphitint pencils.

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    Default Re: Coloring For Grown-ups, anyone?

    I started out with a set of 24 count Prismacolor pencils and gradually increased my collection (with other brands) to well over 120 pencils. This is my grab-n-go box.

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    I got a Prismacolor 24 box a while back, then add a couple of individual pencils every so often as I want/need the colors. I use the colorless blender to mix colors. I also grabbed a 36 box of the Prismacolor watercolor pencils the last time they went on sale at the local art store.

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    Went for the Prismacolor 72. And suddenly "found" two more books: Colorful Dogs and Lost Ocean
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    Let us know if you ever do those seahorses in Lost Ocean!
    My other pen is a Montblanc.

    And my other blog is a tumblr!


    And my latest ebook, for spooky wintery reading:

    https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0CM2NGSSD

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