Platypus - from Millie Marotta's Curious Creatures

Well, this week has been half-term for the kids and we've had family visiting so I haven't done much colouring but I did manage to finish this platypus from Millie Marotta's Curious Creatures last night.

This was completed using Caran D'Ache Pablo pencils and a white Faber Castell Pitt big brush pen.

Millie Marotta - cowfish from Curious Creatures

I didn't have a clue what to colour next so this was chosen for me by Jess. These are the cowfish from Millie Marotta's Curious Creatures book.

I used Caran D'Ache Pablo pencils for the fish and seaweed and Marco Renoir pencils for the background:

Millie Marotta - another Tropical Wonderland page

Here's a page from Millie Marotta's Tropical Wonderland book.

This was coloured using mainly Prismacolor pencils and a few Caran D'Ache Pablo pencils:

Millie Marotta - Wild Savannah Lion

I still haven't decided what to do with the eyes of this lion so I'm posting it here now and deciding another time.

This lion from Millie Marotta's Wild Savannah nook was coloured using pencils from 2 of the Tombow Irojiten libraries - Vol 9 - dull tone and Vol 6 - light grayish tone 1.

Millie Marotta - Wild Savannah antelope

Wimbledon is over which means that I may get more colouring (and housework) done now!!  When I was working years ago I used to take 2 weeks annual holiday over the Wimbledon fortnight so I could sit at home and watch it all - of course that was pre-children!! 

Here are the antelope from Millie Marotta's Wild Savannah book - all done with Caan D'Ache Pablo pencils:

A Millie Marotta lemur

I finished this last night - the lemur from Millie Marotta's Tropical Wonderland book.

I used Caran D'Ache Pablo pencils for this one:

Millie Marotta - Toucan

Here's my toucan from Millie Marotta's Tropical Wonderland book.

I used all Caran D'Ache Pablo pencils for this one:

Millie Marotta giraffes

Here are the giraffes from Millie Marotta's Animal Kingdom using Caran D'Ache Pablo pencils:

A Millie Marotta owl

Here's my latest colouring finished today. This owl is from Millie Marotta's Animal Kingdom book using my fabulous new Caran D'Ache Pablo pencils: 

The colour inspiration came from the top tray of the pencils:

A Millie Marotta Butterfly

Well, all 3 kids are back at school now so I have a bit of time to colour. This week I've been working on the butterfly from Millie Marotta's Tropical Wonderland book.

I used all Prismacolor pencils on this - 15 in total:

Millie Marotta Ibises

It's a while since I coloured a Millie Marotta drawing so last night I sat down and completed this one of ibises from Tropical Wonderland.

I used a mix of Spectrum Noir pencils and Prismacolor pencils with 3 Polychromos green pencils thrown in for good measure.

Millie Marotta - Tropical Wonderland - 2nd page

After a busy couple of weeks (if you can call watching Wimbledon that?) I'm back with another coloured page from Millie Marotta's Tropical Wonderland book

Again I used Prismacolor pencils, Spectrum Noir pencils and a few of the only Polychromos pencils I have (greens)

Before I go, I had a comment from Diane asking why I arranged my pencils in the order that I do but I can't find any way to contact you Diane so will answer here. The Prismacolors were only arranged like that to mimic a downloadable colour chart I found online which makes it a lot easier for me to choose my colours quickly as I have it sat on my desk all the time.

Millie Marotta - Tropical Wonderland - 1st page - flowers

Not an original title for this post but I find thinking up titles so monotonous!!!

This is my first colouring from Millie Marotta's fab new book - Tropical Wonderland:

Usually it takes me a while to decide which page to colour first but this one just jumped out at me. I've used mainly Prismacolor pencils with a couple of Spectrum Noirs thrown in to the mix too:

A Millie Marotta octopus

This has taken much longer than I hoped and I'm still not sure I like the colours!!!

I threw just about everything at this octopus from Millie Marotta's Animal Kingdom - Spectrum Noir pencils, The Works metallic and glitter gel pens and Faber Castell Connector pens.

A Millie Marotta bunny

Here's the bunny from Millie Marotta's Animal Kingdom using Prismacolor pencils:

A quick bird

After the marathon that was the last colouring I did, I decided to do a quick and easy one today.

This is from Millie Marotta's Animal Kingdom book and I used Spectrum Noir pencils throughout:

Stabilo and a Millie Marotta elephant

Over on their Facebook page and blog Stabilo UK are holding an adult's colouring competition so I had to give it a go. There are a choice of 5 Millie Marotta drawings to colour so I went for the gorgeous elephant which I've coloured with Spectrum Noir pencils and Prismacolor pencils:

A Happy Hippy Hippo!!

Another colouring from the Millie Marotta book done using Spectrum Noir pencils.

Spectrums and a deer

I used my Christmas money to buy the entire set of Spectrum Noir pencils having read reviews of various pencils online and used them for the first time to colour this deer from the Millie Marotta book - Animal Kingdom:

I love, love, love these pencils!!!