Hello friends! Hope you are all well! I'm happy to be able to post here for the first time.
I am not much of a drawer, but colouring, that I LOVE!!! I studied graphic design, specializing in 3D design. Since then I have gotten too busy with work, but miss the creative flow. This made me buy an adult colouring book and by a VERY happy accident, great colouring pencils!
Raffine watercolour pencils
I started out with 12, and when they started to near their end, I came across a great deal on a 36 piece tin set. This made me buy 2, cause stationary is life and then I knew I was stocked for a while 😁
Colouring book I chose from this time
I saw this book one day and it was a nice change from the Christmas edition I had. Some of the images I might not be too fond of, but the reason I bought it was the fact that it is not the normal straight lines or mandalas.
I felt a close connection to the image when I saw it. I remembered the day I had to go choose flowers for my other half's funeral. Standing in this flower shop thinking, this is the last thing I am ever going to pick out for him. After that, I didn't want to let go. Even when the flowers have long since died, I kept them, cause it's the last thing I "gave" him.
I started off with the colours of the last flowers I actually did get for the funeral, Niobe Protea
I searched for the original image for some inspiration to colour the rest and found the watercolours really work nicely with the image.
Original Source
How mine turned out
Colouring this picture was therapeutic and a way of dealing with my grief at the same time.
Credits
Image sources mentioned above
Photos of the colouring process taken by myself
Snapcial helped me make the photos uploadable to the app. Lol
very talented, nice art..so detailed
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Nice! You really have some wonderful colouring skills! I am starting to wonder if we should do a collaboration sometime. I'll do the line art, we get it printed out, and then you have at it with colour? What do you say?
OMW that sounds like an epic deal!! New Halloween shirt for the group? 🎃😉😁
Ooooo, that's a cool idea! Though I am still rather fond of Boo Bees 😂
Boo bees?
Hahaha, a joke with the female anatomy, bees and halloween ghosties 😂
@clairemobey loves halloween and... will probably make that T-shirt work...
Oh, she could rock that shirt for sure!
Oh I love it too!! But I would lobe another design 😁
Do you have anything in mind?
Very nice ! Are those Aquarelle pencils the ones you can use to colour with and then over-brush with a little water to dissolve the pigment and turn them into watercolour paints ?
They are indeed! Best pencils I ever found and have never been happier with any other. I still need to practice a bit to het the watercolour effect right.
Cool ! Post those practice pieces - you're talented, and the more you practice, the better you get. Putting them on Hive means you can see some crypto rewards for them, and gives us the chance to admire your work 😀
what a wonderful color scheme very well done🤯
is there any chance the coloring book is still available and where can I try look for it🤩