Well I knew colouring books would be different, and there is certainly a learning curve that I fully expected. How the talented create such beautiful pages is amazing, and when I went back to give it another go I found it challenging once again.

I chose this image from Johanna Bamford’s ‘Rooms of Wonder’ and set to work. This time I wanted to fill the background as well, but how to do that on paper that is not really designed for it? Not easy, at least for me.

I started at the top and worked my way down, then down, and down some more. As I went I worked on the background adding gesso and Inktense pencils as I went. The main images are worked with Polychromos and my favourite white pencil -Luminance from Caron D’Ache.

Oh well, onward and upward. Time to find something a little quicker and within my skill set 😂.

Enjoy your time creating.

Smiles,

Annabelle