HAPPY BIRTHDAY, PHEEBS!

The only times I color is when I am doing a little boutique-festival-fair-show-sale – whatever those events are called. Coloring is more fitting than knitting and certainly more approachable than reading a book in between customers. (If I am attending a festival and a vendor is reading a book, I just keep walking past that booth because that vendor clearly does not want to be interrupted.)

I think it might be fun for people to see how the artist of a coloring book fills in those blank pages, and it gives us something to talk about, especially if they are also colorers. (colorists? people who color?)

The only coloring book I’ve worked on so far is Heart of Agriculture. Ag is a colorful subject, and I enjoy the challenge of blending new colors with my limited Blackwing set of colored pencils.

Having several recent shows, I’ve made some progress in the coloring book. I sort of like it with unfinished leaves.

I’ve probably already shown you these, but in case I have new blog followers, here is a rerun. Although the olives are my favorite drawing in the coloring book, I got tired of working with only greens and browns, so I abandoned this one for awhile.

It takes some reining in to keep from spending 400 hours per page. Good enough is good enough in a coloring book, dontcha think?? And at this current pace, this one coloring book alone could provide show time-filler for at least another decade.

TODAY’S FEATURED PAINTING AT ANNE LANG’S EMPORIUM: