Yay Coloring!

[livius drusus]

As was determined in the vagina clown car thread, coloring is objectively awesome. I was a magic markers kind of girl myself, and I preferred coloring abstract geometric patterns to figures.

I must have had a dozen of these books. I would color in them all evening well into my teens. Shit, I still color in them once in a while. In fact, it's been too long. Weekend mission: get some coloring done.

I might have to get markers to inspire me. I still get weak at the knees at a set of 30 Caran d'Ache markers in the metal box. Such fine points, such rich color, no bleeding or splattering. LOVE THEM.

Share your coloring love here, or if you must front, ascribe your passion for the art to some non-existent niece.

[Ensign Steve]

I'm still a crayon fan. And they are so cheap!

[Watser?]

This one seems pretty much like Colouring for Muslims: Amazon.com: Decorative Tile Designs Coloring Book (9780486451954): Marty Noble: Books

[Crumb]

I am traditionally a colored pencil guy, but the power of Crayons cannot be denied. I never was a big marker fan. I find them too inconsistent.

[livius drusus]

Originally Posted by Ensign Steve

Oh yeah. It's a total trip. You find new patterns all the time. Then you get to choose how to fill in your pattern. Like, do you do one largish section at a time, or do you do it one little wedge at a time, color by color?

I'm still a crayon fan. And they are so cheap!

Crayons don't do thin lines well enough for my preferred coloring books. (See above.) I do love them for their many greatnesses, though, including smell, ability to sharpen, textural variety on the page, that ultra-smooth saturated texture when you've been laying it on for like an hour, all that stuff.

[Watser?]

Originally Posted by livius drusus

I still get weak at the knees at a set of 30 Caran d'Ache markers in the metal box.

Yeah, we had those too. The metal box made them extra kewl.

[livius drusus]

Originally Posted by Watser?

This one seems pretty much like Colouring for Muslims: Amazon.com: Decorative Tile Designs Coloring Book (9780486451954): Marty Noble: Books

That's the shit too. Now that I've looked, I'm finding all kinds of decorative arts coloring books, and it's giving me a fever.

Stained Glass Designs for Coloring, Designs for Coloring: Ancient Egypt, Medieval Tapestries Coloring Book.

[Adam]

Now I'm craving some good markers.

[Ensign Steve]

I think Crumb's on the right track with the colored pencils. Precise enough for tight spaces, but lacking the inconsistency of wet markers.

[livius drusus]

They also offer a more restrained version of that crayon high-gloss texture. They just can't match the color brilliance of a marker.

[Anastasia Beaverhausen]

I still have my box of 96 Crayolas. I would love a set of nice colored pencils (my preference). I would color anything, but I eventually did prefer the geometric shapes like liv.

[Watser?]

Oh hey, those are Caran D'Ache markers. I meant we had the coloured pencils in a metal box.

[BrotherMan]

OMG, I'm not as old skool as some of you. I'm learning how to color in the fancy new hi-tech digital age. Behold, Ms. Marvel as drawn by Bruce Timm and colorated by me.

[livius drusus]

Wow fanceh! She looks awesome. I love the red scarf.

[Pyrrho]

Getcher crop circle coloring book sample pages here:

Welcome to Dover Publications

[Kael]

Y'all are making me want to color, something I haven't done in years...

Also, did Pyrrho's avatar just use his flashything at me?!

[BrotherMan]

I dunno. But I suddenly have a hankering for cheese.

[Anastasia Beaverhausen]

Anyone remember those velvet coloring boards?



I never found one this cool, they were mostly unicorns an' shit.

[Kael]

OMG YES! We used to get those all the time growing up. Apparently the selection has fallen off dramatically since then, however. I was sorely disappointed the last time I looked through a bin of them. Mostly Disney and other big names. There used to be really good, original work out there, a hell of a lot of fun to color. Of the ones we did the best on, I remember one that was a knight on a hill outside a castle, one that was this weird sci-fi/fantasy... thing... with someone on a strange animal with a strange sword and a strange pistol and moons and planetary ice rings in the background, and I remember one that was a stained-glass window kinda thing. Oh, and one with some spaceships that my dad did. Very cool.

[freemonkey]

Originally Posted by Pyrrho

Getcher crop circle coloring book sample pages here:

Welcome to Dover Publications

WANT!!!1!


They didn't have nuthin' fancy like that when I was a kid. Barbie and Disney and some generic shit was pretty much it, I think. But boy, I could color all night.

[livius drusus]

Prismacolor Double-Ended Markers The set of 156 is a steal at $308. Srsly if I had it, I'd spend it. I really, really would. And just to color, too, none of that fancy graphic artist stuff.

[Pinecone]

Originally Posted by livius drusus

Prismacolor Double-Ended Markers The set of 156 is a steal at $308. Srsly if I had it, I'd spend it. I really, really would. And just to color, too, none of that fancy graphic artist stuff.

You can hate me a lot! I got that set for my B-Day for myself last year!!

[livius drusus]

SO. MUCH. HATE.

[Deadlokd]

I use Derwent Artists for my colouring. I only have the 72 pencil set. I want the full 120.

[livius drusus]

Okay, which one of you guys is going to buy me this insanely awesome and insanely expensive colored pencil set? Five hundred colors, people. 5-0-0. You get a subscription (33 bucks a month) and they send you twenty five colors each month over 20 months.



WANT SO BADLY