Yay Coloring!

[BrotherMan]

[curses]

Print it and show us your work, bort.

[BrotherMan]

lol@print.scan

[Crumb]

[JoeP]

Today Miisa & I went to Keats House in Hampstead Heath, where Keats lived from 1818 to 1820.

Along with some coloured pencils they had this:



A line version of Keats Listening to a Nightingale on Hampstead Heath by John Severn.

[mickthinks]

I'ma just leave this here ...

Adult Colouring Books: Is This The Apocalypse?...

[livius drusus]

Brand's slaughtering of the Fox News segment was genius. (Why were kids doing all the coloring anyway?) Create a problem then sell a solution that has the ancillary benefit of encouraging withdrawal from harsh reality.

Also, as a coloring book hipster (I WAS DOING IT BEFORE IT WAS COOL), I find the notion of "adult" coloring books as vacuous and ugly a marketing ploy as gendered toys. It seems to me that every book we've posted itt can be enjoyed by anyone who likes to color.

[Ensign Steve]

Seriously, if I find myself in the "adult" coloring book section of Amazon or Barnes and Noble or wherever, it better damn well be porno. Kids these days.

[Ensign Steve]

I found it! Yay!



http://www.imgur.com/a/apqc7

OK it's not porno but it totally works.

[livius drusus]

OMG autoerotic asphyxiation purple

[Ensign Steve]

I got this app called Colorfy, and it's on the phone so it's not like real coloring, but it is a thing in itself. It tries to be like real coloring, so there aren't any tools like copy/paste, bucket fill, color-picker, etc. There is an "undo" which is nice, but unnecessary anyway because you could always just re-paint it in white or whatever color was there before.

But anyway, I think the lack of edit tools is what makes it special. It's not about coming up with an end result easily or quickly, but about the coloring process itself, which is the point. Sometimes I feel like it's tedious, but then suddenly it's 8 hours later and I still can't put it down.

I had an older version, which has albums like Floral, Mandala, and Animals. Most of them had Volume I unlocked and you could pay to unlock other volumes. Then I had to reset my phone, so I downloaded the latest version which adds more colors (most of which have to be unlocked) and more albums incluing Patterns, which is like graph paper and various tessellations.



It was hard at first graduating to the tessellations. It took me a few tries to figure out that you can't just arbitrarily color patterns that fine or they look all muddy. So you have to figure out something to do with the pattern first, which is challenging but ended up being way more fun than regular coloring. God help you if you want to change something, though. Fucking tedious.

[Ensign Steve]

Oops I forgot to include this one and here's a mandala because why not.

[Ari]

After looking at this thread, there's clearly some books I need to buy.

My first attempt at joining the fad of adult coloring books which are in no way adult oriented, (Colored Pencil).

[livius drusus]

Oh wow, she's beeyootiful.

[mickthinks]

Cunt Coloring Book (Vagina Colouring) by Tee Corinne ( 2003 ): Amazon.co.uk: Books

[livius drusus]

Finally an actual adult coloring book!

[Janet]

The creator of the Bea a Day art project is having a Kickstarter for a coloring book based on it. I suspect that is relevant to the interests of some of you.

[Janet]

Free coloring pages from the collections of the world's great art museums and libraries. Do I need to say more?

[livius drusus]

My cousin Karl has designed a Faber-Castell coloring set. It will only set you back $2,850.

Implements are lined up in removable drawers and sorted by shade — all personally selected by Lagerfeld.

His favorite product line is the Albrecht Dürer range of pencils, and all 120 colors are included in the box. According to Faber-Castell, on the right paper, the pigments can be completely dissolved, and will then behave in the same way as classic watercolor paints. The box set also includes Polychromos color pencils, Pitt ink pens and Castell 9000 graphite pencils along with brushes, a foldable cup, erasers and sharpeners.

The Stages of the Karlbox:

Closed
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Opening
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Open
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[BrotherMan]

[Ari]

Does coloring count if I drew the knot too?

[ceptimus]

Collatz Conjecture in Color - Numberphile -...

Numerically derived coloring! The Collatz conjecture is a famous unsolved maths problem - easy to state but no one can solve it.

Pick any whole number. If it's even, halve it; if it's odd, multiply by 3 and add 1. Then take the resulting number and continue. The conjecture says that all starting numbers will eventually reach the number one.

In this video it's explained how if you draw out the solutions up to some number, say ten thousand, using natural rules, the incredibly simply stated problem results in some complicated organic looking shapes.

[Ari]

I found an actual chick tract on the bus today so I decided to color in a panel with Jesus the proper color.