Adult Coloring Books

[Yvonne Smith]

Adult coloring books have become really popular, and they come in regular books that people can color with, using colored pencils, crayons, pastels, and whatever other ways they like to color.
There are also a lot of online coloring apps now, and the best one that I have found is an app called Pigment. My avatar right now is a castle picture that I colored using the pigment app, but they have hundreds of pictures of all types for people to color. There are also blank pages and many artists just use the Pigment app to paint their own pictures, and there are some amazing artists that use this app.

I like it because it is relaxing, and you can choose just about any kind of picture that you can think of to color, easy or complicated. You can also upload your own pictures to Pigment and color those. I colored an old black and white photo that was taken back in the early 1940’s of the old ranch house my folks lived in when I was born, and it turned about amazing.

 

[Hedi M.]

I love to color but hard on my neck. I need new books. I like actual scenes vs scribble art and Itty bitty lines.

 

[Yvonne Smith]

One of the things I love about online coloring, is the versatility, not only of pictures to color, but also the different types of coloring methods. Instead of just using regular crayons or pencils, there is the choice of using paints, with effects that come out like oil paint, airbrush, or water color brushes, and you can paint the exact same picture and have it come out totally different by using a different coloring style.

I usually try to color for a while before bed at night because it relaxes me, and when I go to bed, sometimes I am still coloring the picture in my head, trying out different colors and effects mentally.
I have discovered that sometimes, I even paint in my dreams now, and I like that .

When I was growing up, I was always drawing and painting and coloring. As an adult, I had an Artex paint set, that was like paint with a ball point tip on the container, so you could actually draw and paint with it, sort of like using a colored pen. I used to decorate the kids clothes and put their names or pictures on them.
Eventually, I just stopped doing it, and now it is enjoyable to be finding that artistic part of me again.