After a series of travel posts, let me take you back to my other love, adult coloring. I am going to share my new color combinations using Prismacolor Scholars and a few Colleen and Faber Castell color pencils which you could use in coloring flowers. I am not an art graduate. I was hooked into coloring August of 2015 and I only owned these lots of pencils when I started adult coloring. If you are still contemplating whether to buy the Prisma Scholars or not, well you should especially those who cannot afford the Prisma Premier pencils. They blend so easily unlike the Classic Faber Castell pencils. Colleen pencils also blend easily but Prisma Scholars are more vibrant in my opinion.

Bought this from Crafters & Scrappers. They have a Facebook page

This coloring work is from the book Obra Botanica. Obra Botanica is one of the coloring books in the Obra Coloring Books series drawn by Filipino artists. Before we start, you might want to read my first entry about Prismacolor Scholars: Color Combinations with Flowers since this is a related post.

Let's start coloring!

Blue Flower (Prisma Scholar)

    - Copenhagen Blue

    - Permanent Blue

    - Sky Blue

Red Flower (Colleen)

    - Carmine

    - Red

    - Rose Red

Violet Flower (Prisma Scholar)

- Purple

- Violet

-Light Violet

*I didn't color the white part of the flower but I used white pencil to have that shiny effect. So technically I still colored it just with white pencil. LOL!

Violet Pinkish Flower (Prisma Scholar)

- Orchid

-Fuchsia

- Pink

*I already posted this combination in my previous Prisma Scholar blog post. I used this combination again because this is one of my favorites. =)

Yellow Flower (Prisma Scholar)

- Deep Orange

- Orange Ochre

- Orange Yellow

Flower beside the shoes (Classic Faber Castell)

- 325

-316

-314

*When I bought my Colleen pencils, I never used my Classic FCs again. I missed using my FCs so I tried using it in this coloring work. It already has molds because I didn't use it for a long time but Classic FCs were so hard to blend that the paper got a little bit wavy due to the pressure when I colored it.

Small Pink Flower (Colleen)

- Carmine

- Rose Red

- Pink

For the masquerade mask and shoes, I used soft pastels, gold gel pen and gold color pencil. 

I used Daiso soft pastels. The one on the left I used on the masquerade mask while the one on the right I mixed both colors and used on the shoes.

The finished product. 

I hope this blog entry helped you with your color dilemmas. If you happen to like my work, just give me a beep on my Facebook page Thoughts by Anonymous. All you have to do is pay for the FRAME and FREIGHT if you are from outside Cebu. You can also browse my Instagram account @darlingsanity since I post most of my coloring work there.

Till then! Happy Coloring!


-Jen

***This is NOT a sponsored post. Coloring works in this blog are all mine unless stated otherwise.

ADULT COLORING COLORING BOOK FOR ADULTS LOVE and LIFE PRISMACOLOR PRISMACOLOR SCHOLARS RANTS and PRAISES

2/23/2016 11:22:00 PM

Hello everyone! I just finished coloring a page from the Obra coloring book series, Obra Botanica. Last December 27, 2015, Cebu adult coloring enthusiasts had a mini gathering. I tried to apply what I've learned that day into this piece.

I never thought black pencil could make your coloring work more beautiful as long as you know how to really use it. As to coloring flowers, flicking is a great technique to make your flowers look beautiful. Color your flower into an upward direction or flicking the pencil upwards. It also creates a gradient effect on your flower. Disclaimer: I did not discover the flicking technique. =D 

In this coloring work entitled Gatsby Girl, I mostly used my Prismacolor Scholars pencil. I only used my Colleen for outlines. So now I share to you my color combination recipe using Prismacolor Scholars.

I used my Scholars on all the flowers. The colors that I'm going to post is according to color from dark to light.

1. Kinda orange flower

    - Crimson Lake

    - Scarlet Red

    - Orange Ochre

** Outline: Magenta and Black (Colleen)

2. Violet flower

     - Orchid

     - Fuchsia

     - Pink

** Outline: Violet and Black (Colleen)

3. Pink flower

     - Scarlet Red

     - Pink

     - Neon Pink

4. Blue flower

      - Copenhagen Blue

      - Aquamarine

      - Peacock Green

** Outline: Ultramarine and Black (Colleen)

5. Flower on top of the blue flower

       - Fuchsia

       - Scarlet Red

       - Neon Orange

** Outlibe: Vermillion and Black (Colleen)

6. Leaves

        - Dark Green

        - Grass Green

** Outlibe: Deep Green ( Colleen)

7. Yellow flower

        - Orange Yellow

        - Yellow Ochre

        - Neon Yellow

** Outline: Chrome Yellow (Colleen)

Follow me on Instagram. I mostly post all my coloring works (WIP and finished works) @darlingsanity

Happy Coloring!

-Jen

ADULT COLORING COLORING BOOK FOR ADULTS HOBBIES LOVE and LIFE PRISMACOLOR PRISMACOLOR SCHOLARS RANTS and PRAISES

1/07/2016 08:09:00 AM

Some promises are really made to be broken. If you have read my previous post, I promised until the end of the year I will NOT buy any coloring books. Yes, you guessed it right.

Our annual physical exam was due today. I had to bring my lacking specimen to the laboratory early in the morning. While waiting for the optometrist which was my last physical exam, I decided to go to Robinson's to kill the time. I was planning to buy a black ball pen since I needed it for my online Mandarin classes. Yeah, I don't have any decent black ball pen at home that I really needed to buy a new one. I went inside Expressions (a school supplies store) and looked for a good ballpoint pen for writing Chinese characters. Beside the ball pen section, I saw some adult coloring books.....and it was the Filipino adult coloring book series OBRA!! I was like...

And then this happened....

         Inside OBRA: Botanica

I also bought Disney princesses coloring sheets. Hahaha! I felt like I went back to grade 1 when I bought this. 😂😂 Inside are 24 Disney princesses colouring sheets with stencils (which I don't how to use ). 

      Only for Php 99.75! You get to colour your favourite Disney Princess. 

    Disney princesses colouring sheets.

I can't wait to colour these! This is soooo hard! I really should stay away from any stores that sells school supplies especially BOOKS!!!

Black ball pen?? This is your fault! =D

This will be the LAST!! This MUST BE! Waaaaa!!!

Does this experience sound familiar to you too? =D


Lovelots,
Jen

ADULT COLORING COLORING BOOK FOR ADULTS HOBBIES LOVE and LIFE RANTS and PRAISES

11/30/2015 07:10:00 PM

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

ADULT COLORING COLORING BOOK FOR ADULTS LOVE and LIFE RANTS and PRAISES

11/27/2015 10:51:00 PM