rolanni | Art for the artless

I mentioned that today I bought a coloring book. In particular, I bought Urban Anna's From Paris With Love, featuring 21 shopfronts to color in. What attracted me to this is that the complete artwork is on the page facing the page to be colored, where the colorist is free to either ignore or emulate. For my first attempt, I have decided to emulate, and I've spent the last, oh, hour? going through the . . . hundreds of colored pencils in this house in order to arrive at the closest approximation I can manage of the colors used by the artist.

Yes, this is fun; I have a Weird Brain. I believe I may be learning something about color, though I don't really have a clue what that might be -- my brain rarely shares stuff with me. But as of this moment I have a key listing 20 colors, that ends with the following note: "color list incomplete." Because, yanno, I have enough colors to get started coloring, and I can get back to matching later.

Ah. And my brain has just now informed me that no, I never AM going to match the color of the stucco wall because the original work was done on pebbly art paper and the book is printed on smooth paper. Well, there.

Anyhow, tonight, I intend to serve up Coon Cat Happy Hour, pour a glass of wine, and color. I've never done such a thing, but maybe I'll put on a movie down low, so there will be voices in the background. That seems like a Thing that ought to be tried.

Tomorrow! I will do my very best to get the Fae Duology uploaded, formatted, and tagged with a preorder date.

Everybody have a good evening. Stay safe. I'll check in tomorrow.

Below is my coloring project: