Fun with coloring (6)

Hi all, I wanted to show you some more colorings from my travel coloring book. Hope you like them or that you get some inspiration on using some color yourself.

Within my travel book I am making use of stabilo markers as shown in this blog. I wanted to use a nice variety of colors. So I started to build op the 'flowers'. When I was done with them I didn't want to use some extra color afraid that is would be to much. So I decided to make a contrast by using black and grey. unfortunately that did not turned out as I aspected.  So from now on I will be more careful using black and grey in my colorings.

 In the next colorings I am experimenting by using not to many colors. The nice thing about this is the serenity it brings. But you need to be careful to make it interesting.
So I choose to use the colors green, yellow and orange in this coloring. But to prevent it became dull I used some bright red to bring in some excitement in here. I am very happy with the result, when look in at it I thing of the jungle.

Before starting this coloring I looked at the lines on the white paper and thought about water. I was picturing some nice turquoise waves at a beach. Not those muddy waves here in the Netherlands but clear blue like you can find in the mediterranean. Ow how I wish I could be there right now. In my set of markers there are several colors just right for this. For the stripy lines I wanted to use some thing different but not distracting. So there it was a nice yellow and green line. When coloring patterns like these I always try to mix it just so, that there are no spaces next to each other with te same color. 

As a little girl I really hated the color pink. My favourite was (and still is) blue. I thought it was very stupid that other girls liked pink. So I am still a little scared by using pink.
I don't want to use the same colors again and again that will get pretty boring. So it was time to use some pink and purple. This was one was quite difficult there were lots and lots of different areas so to mix them good and even was quite hard. But looking back at it I am happy with the result.

Fun with coloring (5)

Hi all, It's been a long time since my last blog. I have been quite busy for the past months.
In the next weeks I will show you some of the things I made.

In the last months I've made several trips by airplane. I didn't dare to bring my pencils, afraid they might brake or cause some trouble at the airport. so I bought some nice markers. I also bought the travel edition of the coloring book. Here are the first three colorings.

So this is is the book I bought. It is pretty handy for traveling because of the ring binding. Also the paper is thicker as the other book I have. So it is quite safe to use markers.

This is the first coloring of the book. I really like the bright colors of the markers. It makes me feel realy happy just to look at it. It looks like summer and holiday. 

Here is the second coloring it is really different as the first. I wanted to use 'watery' colors but it was quite difficult to make it attractive with only blue and green. so I added some purple and pink. It was fun to do but I am not completely happy with the result.
I made this coloring close to a swimming pool so unfortunately there are some water splotches on the paper. This made some ugly marks at the other side of the paer.

When is saw this coloring I was in love with it (that was before the splotches). I like the wavy fishes and the air bubbles. I really hate the water splotches here so I didn't finish it. I am still doubting if I want to finish it. But the background is a lot of work. So I am still not sure. What do you think?

And these are the markers I use. I like my pencils better but this is is more practical for traveling. 

I love the brightness of the colors but the dark colours look a lot like each other so the color choice is limited.

Fun with coloring (4)

Last two weeks were very busy so I couldn't do much coloring. But I managed to finish two

I really really really love this one. It was really fun to. I love the symmetry and all the curves. It is also fun too see what happens when you mix similar. I am very with the result.

When I started this coloring I really liked it but the result is not what I expected. It is fun too see that the photo is better than the real one. 

Fun with coloring (3)

Hey everyone. Here is an update from the coloring I did so far.

While browsing the coloring book is saw this coloring and I just had to color this one. It was like the cherries called to me to color them. I really loved to make al different kinds of color combinations but it was also quite hard to make so many variations. I am happy with the result. 

This is a coloring I am still busy with but it is quite a large one with al those tiny spaces. So far I like the result, but I am a bit anxious I will screw it up if I go further. So hopefully I won't do that you will see it next week

Fun with coloring (2)

Last week I have been busy with some new coloring's

I started this one because I thought it was a quick and easy painting. But it was not so quick as I thought. At the start it really get me dizzy because of all the thick hexagonal lines. It also was a very fun coloring to make it. This one really brought me 15 years back when I needed to make a color circle for school. I like the mixing of the six basic colors. I left the center white because all the colors come from white light. 

So I am really happy with this result.

I started this coloring with the large orange flower then i thought it was a quick coloring but it was far more difficult then I expected because of al the layers of flowers. It was really difficult to see what were flowers and what where leaves. But the result is beautiful. I like coloring flowers.

Fun with coloring

Hello welcome on my blog. Here I will take you on my journey to creativity. I don't really think I am creative but I love being busy with all kind of things like painting, crochet, origami etc. Also baking is one of my hobbies. So you will find anything which I am busy with here on my blog :D

Two days ago I bought a coloring book for adults. I really love the diversity of subject within.

This is the first coloring which I colored. I really love this one especially the blue tiny flowers. The fun thing about coloring is that a picture comes alive and you can see that here pretty good. The only hard thing is that I only have two green pencils and there is a lot of green in this one. So I had to mix some green colors turned out nice :D

 I still had some wax crayons lying around and I was curious what it would do on a coloring. So I searched a picture with large spaces to try them but I am not really happy with it. The yellow, orange and light green didn't turned out so nice :(. So this was my first and last picture with wax crayons.

This one became a bit boring so I made the rest black. Very happy with that choice, because the colors really stand out this way.

These colorings are from the book : het enige echte kleurboek voor volwassenen