I’ve always loved coloring in… I loved colouring in as a child, I loved colouring in with my children, I love colouring in with my grandchildren, and I still love colouring in for myself… Several years ago my youngest daughter bought me two adult colouring books and a set of coloured pencils from a local pound shop (equivalent to a dollar store in the US) ‘just to see how I got on’… And all these years on I still have those two original books, filled with hours of fun and relaxation and enjoyment, and have another half a dozen or so books besides, all kept on a bookshelf and added to as the mood takes me, sometimes using the softer shades of coloured pencils and sometimes using bright gel pens. Some of my latest colouring designs are shown above… 🙂
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Colouring In Again
I had great fun colouring in again the other day – I’d had a busy few days on my feet so chose to rest by having a quiet afternoon relaxing on the sofa instead, and here is the result! 🙂
Still a Bit Flat
Tried something a bit different today, but I’m still a bit flat, and it shows 🙂
A Little Brighter
Thankfully things are looking a little brighter today… 🙂
Dark and Brooding
I tend not to feel too much like colouring in (or much of anything else, actually) when I’m feeling the heavy weight of depression dampen my soul, but today in spite of my dark and brooding mood I thought I’d push myself to make the effort… And here’s the dark and brooding result, with a far higher concentration of grey and black than I’d usually choose in this standard mandala design… Definitely different from my normal choice of multiple bright colours, but I suppose it still counts as creative nonetheless! 🙂
March Colouring In
Almost at the end of March and I’ve not done much colouring in this month – but yesterday the mood took me so I sat and completed this one, done in coloured pencil 🙂
Mermaids
A different kind of colouring in design for me yesterday – no kaleidoscopic mandala, and no clearly demarcated shapes of straightforward single colour either, just three simply drawn mermaids swimming in the sea with their long hair fanning out and floating around them.
So I used coloured pencils rather than gel pens to be able to layer and shade and blend the colours together in a more pleasing way to suit the style of the drawing. I took pics as I went along to show the different stages, and I was surprisingly happy with how they turned out 🙂
Uniquely Mine
I love the way the generic pages of colouring books can be made uniquely mine by my particular choice of colours used on each design – so here is today’s colouring in as an example 🙂
January Colouring in: Take II
And another mandala coloured in…
I find it so calming to colour in these circular designs, just beginning in the centre and slowly working outwards, deciding one colour at a time and only seeing at the end exactly what my colour choices have created. It’s not difficult to do, only time consuming, and time is something I certainly have an abundance of right now during our second national Covid lockdown. So I think colouring in as an enjoyable and engrossing creative pastime is my Weekly Smile this week…
How do other people choose to spend their leisure time while staying indoors during a winter lockdown? 🙂
January Colouring In
Something (in particular a national lockdown here in Scotland for the whole of the month of January) tells me there may be several colouring-in posts by me over the course of this month! 🙂
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