Adult coloring books

[pinkkitten74]

  The mandala I was doing before and couldn't decide on colours to finish 

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• mservant
• Aug 27, 2015

  A cat tree completed shortly before going away on holiday for a few days last week.  In Mesdemoiselles Cats book.  Initially I wasn't going to colour the tree or leaves but couldn't sleep...

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• mservant
• Aug 27, 2015

  A little design from the Secret Garden book that I did in bed one night when I couldn't get to sleep.

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• mservant
• Aug 27, 2015

  Jelly fish that I did while I was away on holiday - I did the blue one first then the pink one.  In the Wildlife Wonderland book.

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• mservant
• Aug 27, 2015

  Another mandala done when I was away.  In the Tropical Wonderland.

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• mservant
• Aug 27, 2015

   A cat face done after I got back home.   Not quite as psychadelic as the first cat face one I did.  

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• mservant
• Aug 27, 2015

  Frogs in the Animal Kingdom book which I am still working on.  I kind of lost interest a bit as while I like the frogs, toads and the pink flower, the purple flowers didn't work out at all how I wanted.

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• mservant
• Aug 27, 2015

  A pineapple design from the Tropical Wonderland book.  I've been slowly doing bits of this one over the last 2 weeks and quite like how it's going so far.

i just ordered the mesdesmoiselle cat coloring book and i was searching and found this site i  love your mandalas -from which book are they?

 

[Draco]

I am debating on buying a set with pencils for my mom for her birthday. She has no hobbies.. so maybe something like this will help her relax.

I don't post much here, but I do like to come and admire everyone's beautiful art! Thank you all for sharing!

 

[Columbine]

That sounds like a great idea Draco Several of my friends will be getting colouring books etc this year :nod: [emoji]127912[/emoji]

I love seeing everyone's work here too. I just rarely get around to posting my own.

 

[mservant]

 
I am debating on buying a set with pencils for my mom for her birthday. She has no hobbies.. so maybe something like this will help her relax.

I don't post much here, but I do like to come and admire everyone's beautiful art! Thank you all for sharing!

I bought one of my nieces the Joanna Bansford Secret Garden same time as I bought my self a copy, and gave it to her that year for her birthday together with a little set of 12 fine tip pens.  I think it's a lovely gift even if someone doesn't then take colouring up as a regular hobby, it is something to play with a little and playing is good for the soul. 

   Even a little book and a couple of metalic gel pens is nice together - it was a silver and a gold gel pen I used with my Secret Garden book to start with and just coloured in little tiny bits of the designs.   Prismacolour pencils I learned about here completely changed how I colour in.

@pinkkitten74   The mandelas in the quote you used are from the Magnificent Mandalas adult colouring for relaxation by J Benson.    I got it from Amazon and it's the one with the blue flower on the front - I think it is the first one he did.  The designs are nice to do but the paper is very thin.

I have been doing more colouring  but hadn't got round to taking any pictures recenty.  Mostly mandelas from the book noted above plus some bits in one of the Japanese books I have.   I took some photos earlier so will post some the next time I upload stuff from my camera.

 

[LTS3]

I had today off from work and the weather was cold and rainy so I stayed inside and colored:

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• LTS3
• Nov 11, 2015

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• LTS3
• Nov 11, 2015

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• LTS3
• Nov 11, 2015

Draco, that's a great idea

I'm sure your Mom would love a coloring kit.

 

[LTS3]

AC Moore craft stores has coloring books and cloring pencils on sale this week

The Creative Haven books are 2 for $10. The pencils are a band called Fantasia. I don't remember how much the sets cost

The Black Friday flyer has coloring books, including Creative Haven, on sale 3 for $10.

 

[Freedom]

 
The Black Friday flyer has coloring books, including Creative Haven, on sale 3 for $10.

Well, that's my first thing on my Black Friday list!  Had not seen anything tempting, up till now.  Thanks for sharing this!

 

[stewball]

I had today off from work and the weather was cold and rainy so I stayed inside and colored:

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• LTS3
• Nov 11, 2015

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• LTS3
• Nov 11, 2015

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• LTS3
• Nov 11, 2015

Draco, that's a great idea :nod: I'm sure your Mom would love a coloring kit.

You do lovely work.

 

[LTS3]

Thanks, Stewball

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• LTS3
• Nov 16, 2015

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• LTS3
• Nov 16, 2015

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• LTS3
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• LTS3
• Nov 16, 2015

 

[mservant]

I love the toadstools and grapes work @LTS3  .

Finally got round to taking some photos of recent colouring that have been doing.  Here are some of my favourites.

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• mservant
• Nov 17, 2015

  

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• mservant
• Nov 17, 2015

  

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• mservant
• Nov 17, 2015

I've been going between the Japanese book and the mandalas one but with the Japanese designs I seem to be doing a little on a few different designs and not finishing them.  I will do though.

 

[artiemom]

I have not been coloring for a long while. I seem to be out of the habit....I know I will get back into it. I have a lot of things pressing on my mind lately. Once I have a plan, go through al the things I have to, I will then get back to the coloring. It does relax me. I do think of some good things once I am into coloring; so I know I will be back to it in a couple of weeks; maybe after T-day and after I redecorate the apartment for Christmas..

It really seems to be the 'craze' right now!  

I was at Michael's store a few weeks ago. They had a huge bin of coloring books! The area where the colored pencils are, was demolished!

At the Paper Store that same day~~~ there was a very nice display of books. I was there again a couple days ago. The display grew larger! Lots of nice books in various sizes. They even decided to make a gift ensemble of a coloring book and a small pack of colored pencils. 

I was at Staples a couple weeks ago and they had a bunch of coloring books also..not much of a variety of pencils, though..

I am tempted to order some good gel pens to try..Maybe a Christmas gift for me...

I also wanted to tell all the artists', that I completely enjoy looked at their creations! They are all so beautiful~ This is indeed a talented group of people..

 

[mservant]

Confession time:   I stupidly went on Amazon today and ended up ordering a whole pile of pencils.  

    It's not like I have loads of money, I just couldn't help myself.  I've been thinking about it for ages, and even tried out a few different ones at a local WH Smith stationary store to see which ones I preferred.    Then today they were nice prices and the order got sent.  

    Very soon I will be testing out Derwent Artist pencils, same make of metalic pencils, and Inktensive which was more of a spontaneous buy as I had seen ages ago that there were pencils you could use on fabric and then when I was reading about the various different ones on the site today I noticed it was the Inktensive ones.  

Just as well I don't have to get Christmas presents for very many people this year and the ones I do need have already been bought!

 

[Columbine]

hno: That must've hit your bank balance a bit Which size tins did you get?

I bet you'll enjoy using them though I have a set of the Inktense - they're a new generation of watercolour pencil. If you use them dry you need to be aware that the colour transfer is shocking - I'd keep them for books that have single sided pics Having said that, the colours are amazing!

 

[mservant]

That must've hit your bank balance a bit

Which size tins did you get?

I bet you'll enjoy using them though

I have a set of the Inktense - they're a new generation of watercolour pencil. If you use them dry you need to be aware that the colour transfer is shocking - I'd keep them for books that have single sided pics

Having said that, the colours are amazing!

I really want to try the inktense ones on fabric.  

    Good to know about the colour transfer though.   It's a set of 24 inktense, 12 metalic and 

  72 Artist - they were on a very nice offer (I think) and cheeper than I'd seen them before.  It was the Artist ones I tried in WH Smith and really liked them.  I had been thinking about the Coloursoft ones but funnily enough when I tried them they felt sticky and I didn't like them nearly as much as the Artist ones - which are quite a bit cheaper.  

Yep, I am now broke,  

  but at least I should have endless resources for colouring when I can't afford to go out anywhere.   (I wonder if you can eat pencils when you run out of other food?) 

 

[Columbine]

I'm surprised you went for the Artist range in the end - you've been so sold on the Coloursoft for so long. Definitely proves how important it is to try before buying these things :nod:

Inktense feel 'sticky' to me too. I got them in a local craft shop, and the owner did say they were amazing for silk painting. FYI - the brightest cat head of mine (2nd one)was done entirely with dry Inktense..and I think I used all 24 of my set in it

 

[Columbine]

This is the one I mean

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• Columbine
• Aug 31, 2015

 

[mservant]

...... FYI - the brightest cat head of mine (2nd one)was done entirely with dry Inktense..and I think I used all 24 of my set in it

   Nothing like testing out the full pallet!    I do like that design though, and the bright green is a lovely central focal point.

 

[Columbine]

I'd just got the pencils and was all fired up and excited about them :lol3:

The great thing is they use a different pallete to the Artists range, so there should be few to no doubles of colours...with the exception of black and white of course

 

[Freedom]

Wow, I need to take some time, scroll back and read all the newest postings.  For now,  I wanted to let you know about a few 'deals' I just found on Amazon.

Creative Cats.  Yes, A C Moore will have the Creative Haven books by Dover Publications on sale 3 for $10 on Black Friday.  But will you get there?  Will this one be in stock?  You can order it now on Amazon for $3.71 -- it is temporarily out of stock, will ship once they get more in. 
Daily Calendar.  This is a calendar with a page to color daily; Sat and Sun share one page.  Says it is over 300 pages.  The pics are not too detailed; and not related to the season (read the reviews). The first review states the pictures repeat.  Later reviews say each is different; so who knows!  But since many of us have started copying our pages to do in different colors, maybe the repeats won't matter.  Still it seemed a good price at $12.31.  There is another similar calendar which is $31!!! 
There is also a monthly calendar -- just 12 pictures -- but that one includes very detailed drawings per the reviews. 

You can currently 'pre order' the new Cat Stickers book coming out June of next year.  I bought a few of these 'little activity books' by Dover, in the stained glass versions.  I'm not really sure WHAT these 'stickers' will be.  It is $1.99. 
Finally, seeing as how we are on The Cat Site, the moment I spotted this, I KNEW I had to share it with all of you:  Minka's Journey: A Coloring Story Book (Coloring Journeys) (Volume 1)    $9.99  I did not order it at this time, though I was VERY tempted! 
Keep coloring and sharing, I love seeing all your works!

 

[artiemom]

Freedom, are you an Amazon supporter of Melrose Humane?

I got my guy from them!