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.

Enchanted Forest - Skull

Here's today's offering - I actually started it a couple of weeks ago but then put it to one side so I could play with my new pencils.

Anyway, this is the skull from Johanna Basford's Enchanted Forest book, coloured with Spectrum Noir pencils:

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:

More colouring with Jess - 4

These are both from the Meditation Colouring Book and done with Jess.

Jamie challenged me to do an "all blue" colouring. This was completed using one Works glitter gel pen and the rest are Faber Castell connector pens.

This was done using Faber Castell Connector pens, Spectrum Noir pencils and a Works glitter gel pen:

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:

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.

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 - Second page

Well this colouring has taken me ages!! I challenged myself to go out of my comfort zone with the colours and am quite pleased with how it turned out.

I used a mix of Spectrum Noir pencils and gel pens from The Works.

Relax with Art - Issue 2- First page

I bought the 2nd issue of the Relax with Art magazine/book the other day

and split the pages between Jess and myself. We took all the pages out by removing the staples then guillotined all of them before deciding who was going to colour which picture. I ended up with the more complicated and detailed pics.

I started colouring the pattern using just one tin of Spectrum Noir pencils but having just bought Jess some gel pens I "borrowed" a couple and used those too. The purple one was metallic and the gold glittery although they don't show up very well in the photo:

I quite enjoyed this one as a change from colouring leaves and flowers - now I'm off to decide what to colour next.

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:

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:

Enchanted Forest - more colouring!!

This one was a real labour of love and has been sat on my desk for a couple of weeks now with me doing bits here and there but it's finally finished and I'm quite pleased with it.

This is from Johanna Basford's Enchanted Forest book using a mix of Spectrum Noir pencils and Prismacolor pencils.

More colouring

Well, as the Bank Holiday was a bit of a washout I did a bit of colouring. We did manage to get out geocaching on Monday but it was raining and I forgot to take my camera!!

Anyway here's the latest colouring from Johanna Basford's Enchanted Forest book:

I used a mix of  Prismacolor and Spectrum Noir pencils

Pink flowers

This colouring page from Johanna Basford's Secret Garden book has been on the go for a while. It's actually part of a double page but I'm colouring the 2 sides in different colourways.  

I used Spectrum Noir and Faber Castell Polychromos pencils for this:

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:

Squirrel !!!!!!!

Another coloured page from the Enchanted Forest book by Johanna Basford - coloured mainly with Spectrum Noir pencils and a few Prismacolor pencils:

Up in the trees.......

Another coloured page - a double this time - from the Johanna Basford book Enchanted Garden:

Spectrum Noirs were the pencils of choice again.