Even Pink Elephants Love A Good Chai Tea...Coloring Pages!

Hello Saturday!  We have a rainy morning going on here, so it's really the perfect day to break out the colors and play with new coloring pages.  (I've also been informed that they also would make great stitching patterns for any embroidery enthusiasts out there).  Here's a very special Morning and Night rendition of Color Your Saturday for you today, featuring some pretty pretty and FREE background papers made by my very talented friend Kristin Dudish.  She offers free collage papers every Friday for anyone to grab and play with, and it was super fun adding her textures and designs to my digitally colored version of the coloring pages for this week.  See how they adds extra cuteness to the elephant's bow, spots, and toenails and  created a soft mosaic feel to the sky in the background.

I like to think that these two meet for a Saturday morning brunch each week to catch up on all the jungle gossip.

 

In the second one, I used a star pattern from Kristin's stash and created a sweet nighttime scene my little koala bears.  I think its obvious the little one doesnt want to go to bed and is trying to hide from Mama.  It wont work little guy,  Mama always wins in the end.

So those are my versions, and it's time for you to create your own! Just click on the images below to view it in a larger size and save to your desktop.  Then you can either color digitally, or print out the images to color with whatever medium suits your fancy today.  Dont forget to pop by Kristin's page and grab a few fun papers to play with as well.  Remember these are only for your own personal use, you are welcome to share them online, just please link back to my site.

I'd love to see what you created with these latest pages! Share links on this thread, if you post them up somewhere, and if you missed any of the past pages, check out the PRINT tab at the top of this page.   Happy Coloring Everyone!

XO, HARMONY

The Nearsighted Fox and The Fashion Forward Turtle.

Happy Saturday!  Time for a new coloring book challenge!  I hope you have your favorite coloring tools ready to play today, because I have two new coloring book pages to share with you.  The idea behind this activity is to just play.  Have fun and remember how much you loved coloring when you were a child.   Let your imagination go wild, color outside the lines, make a pink sky, color the trees purple! Create stories for the characters as you go along, and make them come alive.  Just click on the image and then save to your computer.  You can color digitally, like I did here in my examples, or print off to paint, draw, scribble all over.  Please keep to the honor code of using my images and not reproduce, alter, or use in anyway other than your own personal use.  Have Fun!

 Coloring Page #3

Coloring Book Page #4

If you missed the first 2 pages in the series, you can find them under my PRINT Tab at the top!  So here are my versions of this weeks color challenge.

 This is Sally the Fox.  She is a shy little gal, and a bit nearsighted.  She needs to update her prescription on her spectacles, but keeps forgetting, and so will often bump into the trees as she takes her morning walks through the forest.  BUMP! Here come the leaves tumbling down on top of her.

This is Mortimer the turtle and his best friend Pickles.  Mortimer has a flair for fashion, and is a typical turtle, slowly taking his time to enjoy the sweet flowers along his path.  Pickles the song bird doesnt mind.  He loves his slow Saturday walks with Mortimer, just gives him lots of time to practice his singing along the way.

I'd love to hear your imaginative versions of the stories this week, feel free to post in the comments here and share links your colored pages here too!

Dont forget that I am having a big Sale in my Etsy Shop through Monday in celebration of the 3 day weekend and Back to School redecorating time.  Stop by HERE and check out my SALE section with lots of reduced prices on original works and artsy jewelry.  Then use code LABORDAY to get an additional 15% off everything.

I hope you have a wonderful colorful day!

XO, HARMONY

Inside My Art Journal: Exploring My Yellow Self

 I am taking a fabric surface design ecourse right now and have been giving a lot of thought to patterns and colors that I want to experiment with in a textile.  It's really hard sometimes to sketch out ideas and it feel totally original to me. There are so many iconic background creators out there right now, sometimes I feel at a loss for what is truly me and what is inspired by the images that I have seen.  I believe that it is truly ok for an artist to use other people's work as inspiration.  In fact it's how a lot of really famous artists got their ideas, by working alongside and being influenced by there artisan counterparts of their day.  But sometimes when I use a technique frequently used by another much more famous artist, I feel inauthentic, and in-authenticity is a total killer of creative energy.  So today's journal pages truly reflect me wrestling with myself to find a unique creative voice that is totally me.  I also really wanted to experiment with pattern making on yellow backgrounds ever since I saw these! Yes, you can get inspiration from anywhere, even socks.  The trick is how to take that inspiration and help it grow something new and unique that could only come from you. 

So here are my 2 pages for today.  I also used a lot of the artsy tape that I made with you yesterday.  Can you spot all the different ones?  If you'd like to create your own tape for a project, check out my DIY here.  Thanks for stopping by today.  I'd love to hear what you are journaling about (on paper or on your blog) today.

XO, HARMONY

A Sketchy Moment

Today has been a busy day of playground visits, swimming lessons (not for me, thank you), bike rides, crafty errands, and then hours upon hours of computer work editing, listing, and writing all in the name of being a good momma and trying to promote my art world a bit.  So as I was scanning things, I popped in my ideas sketchbook and scanned the last page I was writing in.  Mostly filled with doodle fun, inspirational word ideas for the embroidery hoops, changes I want to make to my blog (in the process as you can see), and for some reason the phone numbers to the local city pools (setting up those aforementioned lessons).  It is a truly funny compilation of ideas, brainless moments, and work stuff, so for some reason I thought I would share it.

What sorts of stuff do you fill your ideas sketch pad with?

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XO, Harmony