THOUGHTS by Anonymous: Adult Coloring: Bringing Back Your Inner Child

Hello everyone! After almost two years I'm back in the blogging community! I hope I could update this blog regularly now since finally I already have my own laptop! Yey!

So my blog entry today is about adult coloring. Have you ever heard of it? Adult coloring is a hobby mostly done by young adults where we color pages with different adult designs like flowers, nature scapes, patterns of nature, abstract and many more. Some say it is just a fad that will die down in a couple of months. I started coloring August 2015 and here I am still passionate about this new found hobby. Like any other hobbies, I also had to shell out money since art materials ain't cheap!

My favorite coloring books are the Creative Haven coloring books by Dover Publications. I love their designs, the quality of paper they used, the detachable pages and most of all the affordability of these coloring books. You guys might ask why I love this childish hobby. Haha! Coloring gives me that calmness or zen like feeling. Whenever I'm stressed at work or bothered and worried about things, I just think about my WIP at home (work in progress - the coloring work that is still in progress and is left at home for me to finish) and positivity just comes through in. The good thing about coloring is you focus your attention on the image, colors you use and the coloring inside the lines makes you forget things that has bothered your life at the moment. It serves as a temporary escape or some may view it as therapy. I feel so accomplished whenever I finish colouring a piece especially if I coloured it well. Another positive thing coloring has brought me is I do the household chores early on the weekend so I can have much time to color new pages! Haha!

To date, I have ten coloring books. Yeah, ten. Adult coloring is kind of addictive. Lol! You just buy and buy coloring books even if you haven't finished coloring your other books yet. Since I started to colour, I always visit National Bookstore and Fullybooked whenever I go to the malls. By just looking at the colouring books on display makes me happy. As of the moment, I promised myself not to buy coloring books ----- until the end of the year. =D

These are my Creative Haven coloring books. It costs PHP 219.00 in National Bookstore.

Here are some of my colouring works from  Creative Haven coloring books:

         Creative Haven: In Full Bloom

              Chrysanthemum flower

        Creative Haven: NatureScapes    Eastern Bluebirds with Hibiscus flowers

      Creative Haven: Midnight Garden

Another line of colouring books are the Design Originals series. 

These costs Php 315.00 in National Bookstore. I love the variety of designs in these books and the different techniques the authors used in drawing the designs.

My colouring works from Design Originals books:

    These are from the book Inspirations by Valentina Harper.

          From Groovy Abstract by Thaneeya McArdle. I was thrilled because Thaneeya liked this Instagram post. =D Follow me @darlingsanity on Instagram.

At the back of each page in the Design Originals CBs are inspiring words that you can reflect on while you colour or even after you colour. The pages from the book Inspirations are also great gift ideas.  Personalized gifts requires hard work and much time to put out a presentable colouring work so make sure the receiver appreciates it. 😄

My latest colouring book ---( hopefully my last until the year ends) given by a friend as an advanced Christmas gift is Chef Ink volume 1 by Ivan Buñag a Filipino adult coloring book artist.

There yah go my very first entry for the year 2015. I will try my best to update my  blog from now on. I also encourage you to try colouring and tell me about your first  colouring experience in the comments section. Happy colouring! ❤️

Follow me on Instagram @darlingsanity I usually post most of my colouring works in my Instagram account. 😊

I also created a group on Facebook Coloring Book For Adults Cebu. We are a small group with a hundred plus members. This group is not exclusive to Cebuanos only. All are welcome. 

Lovelots,

Jen