Fairies in Wonderland - Tree House

It's been a long time since I last blogged - nearly 4 months! I've taken a slight colouring break for a variety of reasons but finally finished a colouring I started a while ago. 

This double spread is from Marcos Chin's "Fairies in Wonderland":

I used Caran D'Ache Pablo pencils, Prismacolor pencils and Pan Pastels.

Fairies in Wonderland - Butterflies

Here's my latest coloured pages from Marcos Chin's Fairies in Wonderland book.

I used Prismacolor pencils, Pan Pastels and a metallic bronze gel pen:

2017 already?!?!

Well, I'm finally back following the Christmas holidays, a change in laptops and therefore a change in photo-editing software.

Here's a colouring I completed just before Christmas from the Good Wives and Warriors book - Escape to Christmas Past.

This was done with Prismacolor pencils and a couple of metallic gel pens:

Magical Jungle - Purple flowers

I finally finished this one from Johanna Basford's Magical Jungle bookyesterday after it's been on my desk for a while.

The black background was done using a Stabilo 68 pen and the colouring with Prismacolor pencils:

Hustle......

Here's a simple colouring from the Paige Tate - Color Crush book.

I used Faber Castell connector pens, silver and orange gel pens and Prismacolor pencils:

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:

Enchanted Forest - Peeking Owl

Here's another coloured page from Johanna Basford's Enchanted Forest book.

I used mainly Caran D'Ache Pablo pencils along with a few Marco Raffines and Polychromos (greens).

The background was done with Conté a Paris pastel pencils which I then dampened:

Art Colouring Books

Tomorrow,  2 fab new Art Colouring Books from Katy Sue Designs with artwork by Sandra Rushton are being sold on Create and Craft at 12:00pm and again at 5:00pm.

I was lucky enough to be asked to colour some examples from one of the books, Le Shoe, and have a few examples to share now:

There is another book available - Nautical Adventures -  and both books are already available on Amazon:

Nautical Adventures

Le Shoe

Both books are spiral bound and printed on one side on lovely quality white paper. They have 70 pages of shaded and unshaded images which are fab to colour!

Art Colouring Books Facebook page is here.

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.

Another Enchanted Forest double page......

This one has been on my desk for a while and finally finished today. 

It's another one from Johanna Basford's Enchanted Forest colouring book done with a mix of Spectrum Noir and Prismacolor pencils:

Pink and blue mandala

I finally managed to sit down and do some colouring without Jess and with my Prismacolor pencils. This was from the Meditation Colouring Book:

I used mainly Prismacolors with a glitter gel pen and a pink Sakura Moonlight pen.

Relax with Art - Issue 4 - Owl

Here's my first completed colouring from Relax with Art - issue 4  ( thinking about it, I don't think I've completed any in Issue 3 yet!) and it's the gorgeous owl.

This one was done completely with Prismacolor pencils:

Another Enchanted Forest colouring....

I'm going to apologise in advance for the photos of this one - I took at least 20 trying to get a good shot but unless there's something seriously wrong with my eyes they all look terrible LOL!

Anyway, this is a double page spread from Johanna Basford's Enchanted Forest book done using mainly Prismacolor pencils with a couple of green Polychromos pencils and a couple of green Spectrum Noir pencils.

Today is the last day of school for Jess and Jamie (Matt finishes tomorrow) and Jess and I are looking forward to lots of quality colouring time together.

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.

Relax With Art - Issue 2 - Fifth page

Another one that's taken a while with just about everything thrown at it. This is from Relax With Art - Issue 2 using Prismacolor pencils, Spectrum Noir pencils, Works metallic gel pens. Works glitter gel pens and Sakura Moonlight pens:

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:

Relax with Art - Issue 2 - Fourth page

Here's another coloured page from Relax with Art (issue 2). This one has been sat on my desk for a few weeks now and I've been going little bits here and there.

Completed with Spectrum Noir pencils and Prismacolor pencils.

Relax with Art - Issue 2 - Third page

Here's another colouring from Relax with Art (Issue 2).

I used Prismacolor pencils, a gold metallic gel pen and a black glitter gel pen.

Another Enchanted Forest colouring

Here's the colouring I've been working on this week from Johanna Basford's Enchanted Forest book.

I used mainly Spectrum Noir and Prismacolor pencils with a couple of green Polychromos pencils thrown in: