Your saga with Small Victories was hilarious, but I don’t mean it in a bad way. I enjoyed hearing you figure out how to solve the problem with the backgrounds.
Lovely video, I enjoyed it so much! Wonderful pages this month! About the contrast, Shelly has a good tip: when you think you finished your page, take a picture of it and edit it in black and white. You will see right away if you have enough contrast on that page. For me, this was one of the most important colouring tips I have ever had. Try it and see if it works for you. ❤
I love the chain reaction to your first page in small victories, they all turned out so lovely! I really like your pattern page you did in Rita Berman it’s very cohesive and beautifully done. Your Maria trolle page really pops I think you did a lovely job on it! I really adore your flower you recreated in Momro the bear! It so pretty, and you made it unique to you! Thank you so much for sharing ❤️🇨🇦
I love the Small Victories saga! I love how the dragon page and its facing page turned out! I also loved your owl page. I def would watch a planning video from you. I recently watched HappyCatastrophe plan out her pages for Spacetember and that was a very fun video. I also would love videos of you just coloring, not even a tutorial just you chatting and working on a WIP. 😊
Loved seeing all your completed pages! The Small Victory pages all turned out so well- the coloured images really pop against the bright shiny backgrounds! Loved all the Magic Jar pages as well 😍😍😍
Hi Connie beautiful colouring pages.. my colouring collection is the same as yours I don’t plan I only colour what I feel like.. thank you for sharing your beautiful pages ❤❤❤😊😊😊xxxx
All of your completed pages are beautiful. I especially love the autumn leaves and owl page!!! But I do also like all of the pages in Small Victories. I’m going to have to get the neo 1’s to try that technique.
Your Small Victories journey is kind of like the song that never ends. Lol. Thank you for sharing. Your pages look great. I really love how your owl page came out. The glow really caught my attention. It would be great to see a video where you plan your September pages. I hope we get to see it. ;)
What an absolute pleasure accompanying you on your colouring journey. Your pages are such fun and so appealing. I love them all, and draw lots of inspiration from what you've done in the folk-art books! I hope you have enough crayons left to complete more of the Small Victories backgrounds cos your pages are just wonderful, including the odd man out with the black background. You've had fun, it's obvious. Xxxxxx
OMG!!! I am so much like you!! I cannot picture what a page is going to look like either...I wish I could. And I am not a math person at all. I love to color...but also need an idea else I just put whatever comes to mind and it rarely ends well. I love your owl!!! thank you as usual. Sorry about your bugs! California has been hot, hot, hot....ugh. Never have I remember 100' on a regular basis...it is the new normal and I am not liking it. Hang in there....your pages are beautiful!!!
Your Rita B page does indeed look like material with 3D ribbon on top. I love listening to you - your chemist background is really interesting. ❤ From Edinburgh Scotland
Thank you. I love it. We have leaves falling here in PA USA as of the first week of August. Not sure I am ready for snow. We have mostly rain in Winter. We are sick of Lantern bugs and flies. Last year it was all about wasps and bees😮.
OMG! Your page in Maria Trolle, Timmons, is absolutely stunning. Do not doubt your choices with this one. I'm editing this to say that I have taken a screen shot so I can emulate with chalk background and pencils. That after I organize my polys, hopefully with additional pencils, like you have! My first of your videos. 😅
I think your orange flower page is lovely. I typically always color the entire page, so I can see it as a whole image...then go back in and add dark and light for contrast. It's much easier than trying to get all your values perfect as you color. I think the reason you didn't like it is pencil choice.. the prisma black is very flat and opaque. If you want to try supplementary shading try a poly payne's grey.. first it has a bit of blue in it so it's more natural and soft than black, second it's transparent so blends much easier. I like to do this before I add color, but it can be done after. I would also suggest one of the lighter pitt markers in grey (warm or cool depending on the color of your object). You can basically greyscale your page yourself (grisaille underpainting to get fancy), with the pitt marker. The lighter colors work best level 1 or 2 when starting, you can layer it for a darker shadow and be less likely to go too hard too fast. I did this a LOT when I painted in watercolor, since the pitt's are waterproof when dry they don't move. You can also do this with a pale grey alcohol marker if working with those. Just lay it down first then color right over the top of it. I know covering lines is trendy but I'm not really a fan, I like the line art.. I greatly enjoyed line and wash as well when I painted.. and I feel like taking them all out makes a page look mushy.. personal preference. I typically do very little of it, perhaps a flower, reflection, cloud outline, or a waterline.
Excellent suggestions as always. :) I've done shading with the Pitt Pen greys before - I have no idea what possessed me to grab the Prisma black this time. :) I've never tried the Poly Payne's Grey, though - I've grabbed mine and put it out on my desk to remind me to try it next time. :) And yeah - I take out line work selectively, too. Water, clouds, smoke - places where it would make sense. I think to make taking out all the line work look really good, one needs to REALLY pay attention to correct positioning of shadows and highlights and not be afraid to really use contrast. I'm not great at either of those things :) so I'd rather let the line work do lots of that for me. :)
Sure! This is the link to the round mandala book on Amazon Germany: www.amazon.de/-/en/gp/product/9463549625/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1 If you'd like links to any of the other books, just let me know. :)
Your pages look amazing. For the one you think is flat looking, when I do that, I find that adding white gel pen in areas of the flowers and leaves it seems to work. I will sometimes also outline some of the darker elements in white.
Since I haven't yet done so on the neo 1 mirror video (been a bit busy with health issues these past three weeks) I want to thank you now. It inspired me to get the metallic set and see if they could fix up a WIP I've been stuck with. In Worlds of Flower there is this planted pots page that I (as did many others) saw as an opportunity to turn into a window sill outlooking at a scene. My idea had been - it's high up in city looking out on skyscrapers. Shiny reflective skyscrapers and I did with metallic watercolour and I hated it. I could not get it to work, the reflective sun effect I tried only made it worse. However, those neo 1 metallics covered the mess right up, I used different tones for different buildings and now I've finished the page after like 4 years. So thank you very much for demonstrating them. Also I loved that pattern page in the Rita Berman book, it made this simple page look so stunning.
How interesting, do those round coloring books feel comfortable to color in? Wonder if they'd be nice to travel with. I love that you add metallic in the backgrounds. I haven't had the courage to use my metallic watercolors in a Johanna Basford page yet.
I haven't found the round books any less comfortable to colour in. :) And I find that if I'm afraid to try something, I just go for it. :) How bad could it get? ;) :)
I have the biggest of the round mandala books and didn’t know about the other one so that’s a pleasant surprise. I also have the Angela Harding book and have yet to color it because it feels like coloring in an art book so there’s that😂😂 enjoyed your video as always.
Beautiful coloured pages. I wonder for the page in Maria trolle’ s book, have you thought about adding corners either by using metallic acrylic pens to draw up some various size circles on the corners or an ornate kinda border or darken the colour of the background at the edges!!. It might make the image pop up a bit!. But it is still beautiful as it is by the way.
All good ideas! :) I may come back to that page at a later date and try to improve it somehow - right now, I just feel "done" with it. :) But thank you! :)
The round mandala book is Dutch. I see them fairly regularly in my local bookstore. So I''m not sure whether you actually bought it from Amazon Germany or Amazon Holland.
You're right - it's definitely a Dutch book.. :) I bought it from Amazon Germany, though, as I've tried to purchase things from Amazon NL in the past and they won't ship to Canada. :(
If you use an alcohol marker, it will always bleed through almost any paper - it's just the nature of the ink. :) You can try pre-treating your paper with something like Satin Glazing Liquid or a clear watercolour ground first - that can stop the bleed-through. Depending on the thinness of the paper, some water-based markers can also bleed through. I've been using the Zig Art & Graphic Twin black marker for backgrounds and it doesn't bleed through on thicker, better quality paper but it still will bleed through on thinner paper. If you want a black background that doesn't bleed through, acrylic craft paint might be your best bet. :) Hope that helps!
Ooooooo....could you put a link to the round Mandala book from Germany? I want to get that so bad--it is so beautiful! I saw you flip it last month or whenever that was, but I completely spaced asking then for the link. Thank you so much for your videos, because you literally bring a new and fresh perspective to how you approach art, and I can only wonder if it is because you are a chemistry teacher, so a different side of your brain engages, bringing both hemispheres into action. It does make a difference in art -- really, anything -- if both left and right brain are engaged. And you engage both. Thank you. Edit: My right pointer finger has trigger finger for the past 2 o 3 years, and it locks to it's own whim, but I refuse to stop using it. I do have a finger brace for nights, and it helps a little, but not that much. I have a multitude of health issues which are bad on my bones, tendons, muscles and nerves. My doctor told me very sternly to keep coloring because it helps the brain and takes my mind off what hurts, and he is right. I have pain no matter what, so I do what I enjoy since the pain will be there even if I don't color. And I am a pencil lady :-D Don't give up your art, pleasepleaseplease. You inspire me. Edit 2: O_O Why did so much of that first part get lines through it? No clue. Please yes for chatty video picking out September pages. One at a time, rather than sticking you to the stress of knowing you MUST DO THAT PAGE? I love the cascade of this-got-on-the-back so you had to color the one behind. I love those shiny backgrounds, and the matte backgrounds. The blue one is a bit streaky, but eh. I love your art.
Thank you so much for your input! :) And I have no idea why UA-cam put a line through some of your comment - UA-cam does weird things sometimes. :) The link to the mandala book on Amazon Germany is here: www.amazon.de/-/en/gp/product/9463549625/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1 Hope that helps! :)
I had to laugh regarding your background fiasco. Just a continuous chain of misadventure. I bet you were wondering if you were going to have to color the whole book at some point. Two thumbs up for all those rescues though. The metallic neo is gorgeous once you get it on there. I wonder if a vacuum would help... they make those fancy little ones for drawing but your standard household vacuum hose could be used as a test. If you don't mind a white edge to your page you could also try taping the edges, wrapping around the entire half of the book to the cover.. I've done that with paper pads and sketchbooks before to prevent paint from oozing over the edges. Basically making a temporary block pad.
After the 4th page of "mishap fixing", I did start to wonder how long this comedy of errors would go on... ;) I did buy a little hand-held vacuum for quick desk clean up but the crayon crumbs got created so quickly that I was trying to wait a bit between vaccums - otherwise, it felt like I was vacuuming every few seconds. :) It's kind of a pain-in-the-butt technique but it does give a very cool effect. :) And yeah - taping the page might have helped. It does look cool when it goes right to the edge, though - I'll try it with taping in the future to see which look I like better. Thank you, as always, for your thoughtful comments! :)
The thicker, limited edition book is no longer available :( but I bought both books from Amazon Germany. Here's a link for the book with the blue cover: www.amazon.de/gp/product/9463549625/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o04_s01?ie=UTF8&psc=1 Hope that helps!
It's a Pentel Slicci Metallic gel pen in Bronze. :) You can buy them in a pack of 12: www.amazon.com/Pentel-Slicci-Metallic-Needle-BG208-ME/dp/B003XQFW9M/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1E07QMUTHJV9M&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.zsZwz9tX17cNKMDqAxvw8UyQDWkl747P8XEc7VhZ5K4UHQ1RXbeGDHyZ0G9arpDfb3BMKPqlxDe8L0WcVXhprXwjqprTX0JQHu6xG8HsD2P9Ogb9GOC3TdXJJf47wVkh7rurMzg6lRiUwjHpeEKf62-da_DjYmiEXILORIj4ida_ICUVJKUxj07BD85Yl2gnhiaIyHTuYgSIYr8NlBALeg.d-x0Jvpo2kLk8h0S9FfS1jQi9yRChMw4WrR7gI6fIzc&dib_tag=se&keywords=pentel%2Bslicci%2Bbronze&qid=1725161268&sprefix=pentel%2Bslicci%2Bbronz%2Caps%2C171&sr=8-1&th=1 Or you can buy a mixed colour pack of metallic pens (you should see that option on that same Amazon listing). Hope that helps! :)
I'd love to get the round mandala books but I'm not sure what to type in the search bar, can you tell me what the title is please? I know it says mandala but when I look up mandala coloring books there's just so many that it's like looking for a needle in a haystack lol! Also, thank you for sharing your beautiful finished pages with us!😊❤
@@annamarielewis7078 I found one copy of it on Amazon a while back when I first heard about it but I didn't get it because they were selling it overpriced and I guess someone bought it because it's gone now. Hopefully these are still available on another site though! I'm just not sure what the titles are
@@asyrotk7604 Oh I didn't hear that part! Thank you for letting me know! I'm hoping that I can find them on another site though because I don't have an account for Amazon Germany because when I tried to make an account on Amazon Japan I was having trouble figuring it out so I gave up 😆 but I have a 21 year old son that might be able to help me!
This is the link to the longer (100 mandalas) book on Amazon Germany: www.amazon.de/-/en/gp/product/946188561X/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1 And this is the link to the slightly shorter one: www.amazon.de/-/en/gp/product/9463549625/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1 This is a link to the longer one on Amazon US: www.amazon.com/100-Creaties-Mandala/dp/946188561X/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2BW7NSQZ16HDB&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.cguj_-SdR1FEszVLfa2md5xHHSMasHGFrMPVzw3TaVbZLGjS80922yQjRwXeHmhMul12c667caN4nq3R58AXR7F2Wn9CRgwWoq51-uGwCU_QdVWw4_Bq7HF_7kjoSFlW3cUGq5N7MNFXPvjf6konkH-uw2rTTBFpSTeuul309JCOQH9WKfGT9Zja6o0DC4NSAP0E5dhIZsqAhNZ2rM4gQlZqZAVUSRMmSAlzwG0e8iQ.OkbZx46VT6kel_IjqgSIRBjd53vBDESEiiNCnhOfQ_Y&dib_tag=se&keywords=100+Creaties+Mandala&qid=1725158931&sprefix=100+creaties+mandala%2Caps%2C249&sr=8-1 Hope that helps! :)
Your saga with Small Victories was hilarious, but I don’t mean it in a bad way. I enjoyed hearing you figure out how to solve the problem with the backgrounds.
Glad you liked it! :) I tend to always laugh at my mistakes so I never mind when I can entertain other folks with my tales of messes. :)
Lovely video, I enjoyed it so much! Wonderful pages this month! About the contrast, Shelly has a good tip: when you think you finished your page, take a picture of it and edit it in black and white. You will see right away if you have enough contrast on that page. For me, this was one of the most important colouring tips I have ever had. Try it and see if it works for you. ❤
So glad you liked it! And thank you for the tip! :)
LOVE LOVE your owl 🦉!! Gorgeous Connie!
Thank you! :)
I love the chain reaction to your first page in small victories, they all turned out so lovely! I really like your pattern page you did in Rita Berman it’s very cohesive and beautifully done. Your Maria trolle page really pops I think you did a lovely job on it! I really adore your flower you recreated in Momro the bear! It so pretty, and you made it unique to you! Thank you so much for sharing ❤️🇨🇦
Thank you so much! :)
Hi Connie! I love your owl page and would be more than happy to see an autumn colouring plans/pages video.
Thank you! And thanks for the feedback! :)
I love the Small Victories saga! I love how the dragon page and its facing page turned out! I also loved your owl page. I def would watch a planning video from you. I recently watched HappyCatastrophe plan out her pages for Spacetember and that was a very fun video. I also would love videos of you just coloring, not even a tutorial just you chatting and working on a WIP. 😊
Thanks so much for your input - we'll see what I come up with! :)
Hi Connie! For all the little accidents you did a great job!!
Thank you! :)
Loved seeing all your completed pages! The Small Victory pages all turned out so well- the coloured images really pop against the bright shiny backgrounds! Loved all the Magic Jar pages as well 😍😍😍
Thank you! :)
Your enthusiasm is infectious, so yes I would love watching a video of you combing through books to decide on pages to color.
Thanks so much for the input! :)
Hi Connie beautiful colouring pages.. my colouring collection is the same as yours I don’t plan I only colour what I feel like.. thank you for sharing your beautiful pages ❤❤❤😊😊😊xxxx
You're welcome! Glad you liked it! :)
Lots of shiny goodness Connie ❤ Jackie
Shiny-ness leads to more shiny-ness! (Literally - because I had to keep covering up messes. ;) :)) Glad you enjoyed it!
All of your completed pages are beautiful. I especially love the autumn leaves and owl page!!! But I do also like all of the pages in Small Victories. I’m going to have to get the neo 1’s to try that technique.
So glad you liked them! Thank you! :)
Your background Saga made me laugh! Very funny. Love your videos and your comments. Great work.
Thanks so much - glad you liked it! :)
Your Small Victories journey is kind of like the song that never ends. Lol. Thank you for sharing. Your pages look great. I really love how your owl page came out. The glow really caught my attention. It would be great to see a video where you plan your September pages. I hope we get to see it. ;)
Thank you for the input! And so glad you liked the pages! :)
What an absolute pleasure accompanying you on your colouring journey. Your pages are such fun and so appealing. I love them all, and draw lots of inspiration from what you've done in the folk-art books! I hope you have enough crayons left to complete more of the Small Victories backgrounds cos your pages are just wonderful, including the odd man out with the black background. You've had fun, it's obvious. Xxxxxx
Awww... Thank you so much for the kind words! :)
Your owl page with autumn leaves turned out great 🍁🍂
I agree with @jicolourist. Your owl is awesome.
Thank you both so much! :)
Your fall owl picture is STUNNING 😍
Thank you!! 😊
Beautiful pages Connie. 😊
Thanks so much! :)
I love seeing plans videos, as I like seeing what people are going to color.
Thanks for the input! :)
OMG!!! I am so much like you!! I cannot picture what a page is going to look like either...I wish I could. And I am not a math person at all. I love to color...but also need an idea else I just put whatever comes to mind and it rarely ends well. I love your owl!!! thank you as usual. Sorry about your bugs! California has been hot, hot, hot....ugh. Never have I remember 100' on a regular basis...it is the new normal and I am not liking it. Hang in there....your pages are beautiful!!!
Thank you so much for chiming in, Beth! Ugh - I can't handle even one day of 100F!!
Your Rita B page does indeed look like material with 3D ribbon on top. I love listening to you - your chemist background is really interesting. ❤ From Edinburgh Scotland
Awww... Thank you! Glad you enjoy it! :) Hello back from Canada!
Thank you. I love it. We have leaves falling here in PA USA as of the first week of August. Not sure I am ready for snow. We have mostly rain in Winter. We are sick of Lantern bugs and flies. Last year it was all about wasps and bees😮.
I hear you - I'm so done with bugs! Looking forward to fall and winter! (We mostly get snow here. :))
OMG! Your page in Maria Trolle, Timmons, is absolutely stunning. Do not doubt your choices with this one. I'm editing this to say that I have taken a screen shot so I can emulate with chalk background and pencils. That after I organize my polys, hopefully with additional pencils, like you have! My first of your videos. 😅
So glad you liked it! :)
Love the owl page! Would love to see your page choices for autumn🍁
Thanks! And thanks for the input! :)
I love the dark outlines on that page that you think is a mistake lol- it's gorgeous!
Thank you! :) I'm still not sure how I feel about it - but thank you for the kind words! :)
I think your orange flower page is lovely. I typically always color the entire page, so I can see it as a whole image...then go back in and add dark and light for contrast. It's much easier than trying to get all your values perfect as you color. I think the reason you didn't like it is pencil choice.. the prisma black is very flat and opaque. If you want to try supplementary shading try a poly payne's grey.. first it has a bit of blue in it so it's more natural and soft than black, second it's transparent so blends much easier. I like to do this before I add color, but it can be done after. I would also suggest one of the lighter pitt markers in grey (warm or cool depending on the color of your object). You can basically greyscale your page yourself (grisaille underpainting to get fancy), with the pitt marker. The lighter colors work best level 1 or 2 when starting, you can layer it for a darker shadow and be less likely to go too hard too fast. I did this a LOT when I painted in watercolor, since the pitt's are waterproof when dry they don't move. You can also do this with a pale grey alcohol marker if working with those. Just lay it down first then color right over the top of it. I know covering lines is trendy but I'm not really a fan, I like the line art.. I greatly enjoyed line and wash as well when I painted.. and I feel like taking them all out makes a page look mushy.. personal preference. I typically do very little of it, perhaps a flower, reflection, cloud outline, or a waterline.
Excellent suggestions as always. :) I've done shading with the Pitt Pen greys before - I have no idea what possessed me to grab the Prisma black this time. :) I've never tried the Poly Payne's Grey, though - I've grabbed mine and put it out on my desk to remind me to try it next time. :)
And yeah - I take out line work selectively, too. Water, clouds, smoke - places where it would make sense. I think to make taking out all the line work look really good, one needs to REALLY pay attention to correct positioning of shadows and highlights and not be afraid to really use contrast. I'm not great at either of those things :) so I'd rather let the line work do lots of that for me. :)
Bring on the chatty fall videos. We love listening to you!
Thanks for the input! :)
The picture @ 18:43 looks 3D really cool
Thanks - glad you like it! :)
Amazing. Do you have links for the books, especially the round one?
Sure! This is the link to the round mandala book on Amazon Germany:
www.amazon.de/-/en/gp/product/9463549625/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1
If you'd like links to any of the other books, just let me know. :)
Love the owl picture you colored! It’s gorgeous!
Thank you! :)
Your pages look amazing. For the one you think is flat looking, when I do that, I find that adding white gel pen in areas of the flowers and leaves it seems to work. I will sometimes also outline some of the darker elements in white.
Ah - excellent tips! Thank you! :)
Since I haven't yet done so on the neo 1 mirror video (been a bit busy with health issues these past three weeks) I want to thank you now. It inspired me to get the metallic set and see if they could fix up a WIP I've been stuck with. In Worlds of Flower there is this planted pots page that I (as did many others) saw as an opportunity to turn into a window sill outlooking at a scene. My idea had been - it's high up in city looking out on skyscrapers. Shiny reflective skyscrapers and I did with metallic watercolour and I hated it. I could not get it to work, the reflective sun effect I tried only made it worse. However, those neo 1 metallics covered the mess right up, I used different tones for different buildings and now I've finished the page after like 4 years. So thank you very much for demonstrating them.
Also I loved that pattern page in the Rita Berman book, it made this simple page look so stunning.
I'm so, so happy that the Neo I metallic technique helped to rescue a page for you! :)
And thank you! :)
That Angela Harding book is a piece of art ! This book screams watercolors.
It's such a beautiful, beautiful book! :)
How interesting, do those round coloring books feel comfortable to color in? Wonder if they'd be nice to travel with. I love that you add metallic in the backgrounds. I haven't had the courage to use my metallic watercolors in a Johanna Basford page yet.
I haven't found the round books any less comfortable to colour in. :) And I find that if I'm afraid to try something, I just go for it. :) How bad could it get? ;) :)
@@colouringchemist haha, I love that.
Love the owl!
Thank you! :)
I have the biggest of the round mandala books and didn’t know about the other one so that’s a pleasant surprise. I also have the Angela Harding book and have yet to color it because it feels like coloring in an art book so there’s that😂😂 enjoyed your video as always.
I hear you! :) And glad you enjoyed the video!
Beautiful coloured pages. I wonder for the page in Maria trolle’ s book, have you thought about adding corners either by using metallic acrylic pens to draw up some various size circles on the corners or an ornate kinda border or darken the colour of the background at the edges!!. It might make the image pop up a bit!. But it is still beautiful as it is by the way.
All good ideas! :) I may come back to that page at a later date and try to improve it somehow - right now, I just feel "done" with it. :) But thank you! :)
The round mandala book is Dutch. I see them fairly regularly in my local bookstore. So I''m not sure whether you actually bought it from Amazon Germany or Amazon Holland.
You're right - it's definitely a Dutch book.. :) I bought it from Amazon Germany, though, as I've tried to purchase things from Amazon NL in the past and they won't ship to Canada. :(
I would love to see you rambling for a couple of hours while looking at books 😂
Thanks for the input! (You may come to regret it - I can ramble for a loooooong time. ;) :))
I would love to use marker for black background but i am so afraid of bleed thru and ghosting! Any way to avoid this?
If you use an alcohol marker, it will always bleed through almost any paper - it's just the nature of the ink. :) You can try pre-treating your paper with something like Satin Glazing Liquid or a clear watercolour ground first - that can stop the bleed-through. Depending on the thinness of the paper, some water-based markers can also bleed through. I've been using the Zig Art & Graphic Twin black marker for backgrounds and it doesn't bleed through on thicker, better quality paper but it still will bleed through on thinner paper. If you want a black background that doesn't bleed through, acrylic craft paint might be your best bet. :) Hope that helps!
Ooooooo....could you put a link to the round Mandala book from Germany? I want to get that so bad--it is so beautiful! I saw you flip it last month or whenever that was, but I completely spaced asking then for the link. Thank you so much for your videos, because you literally bring a new and fresh perspective to how you approach art, and I can only wonder if it is because you are a chemistry teacher, so a different side of your brain engages, bringing both hemispheres into action. It does make a difference in art -- really, anything -- if both left and right brain are engaged. And you engage both. Thank you. Edit: My right pointer finger has trigger finger for the past 2 o 3 years, and it locks to it's own whim, but I refuse to stop using it. I do have a finger brace for nights, and it helps a little, but not that much. I have a multitude of health issues which are bad on my bones, tendons, muscles and nerves. My doctor told me very sternly to keep coloring because it helps the brain and takes my mind off what hurts, and he is right. I have pain no matter what, so I do what I enjoy since the pain will be there even if I don't color. And I am a pencil lady :-D Don't give up your art, pleasepleaseplease. You inspire me. Edit 2: O_O Why did so much of that first part get lines through it? No clue. Please yes for chatty video picking out September pages. One at a time, rather than sticking you to the stress of knowing you MUST DO THAT PAGE? I love the cascade of this-got-on-the-back so you had to color the one behind. I love those shiny backgrounds, and the matte backgrounds. The blue one is a bit streaky, but eh. I love your art.
Thank you so much for your input! :) And I have no idea why UA-cam put a line through some of your comment - UA-cam does weird things sometimes. :)
The link to the mandala book on Amazon Germany is here:
www.amazon.de/-/en/gp/product/9463549625/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Hope that helps! :)
@@colouringchemist Thank you so very much! :D
@@jeanblythe1595 You're welcome! :)
I had to laugh regarding your background fiasco. Just a continuous chain of misadventure. I bet you were wondering if you were going to have to color the whole book at some point. Two thumbs up for all those rescues though. The metallic neo is gorgeous once you get it on there. I wonder if a vacuum would help... they make those fancy little ones for drawing but your standard household vacuum hose could be used as a test. If you don't mind a white edge to your page you could also try taping the edges, wrapping around the entire half of the book to the cover.. I've done that with paper pads and sketchbooks before to prevent paint from oozing over the edges. Basically making a temporary block pad.
After the 4th page of "mishap fixing", I did start to wonder how long this comedy of errors would go on... ;)
I did buy a little hand-held vacuum for quick desk clean up but the crayon
crumbs got created so quickly that I was trying to wait a bit between vaccums - otherwise, it felt like I was vacuuming every few seconds. :) It's kind of a pain-in-the-butt technique but it does give a very cool effect. :)
And yeah - taping the page might have helped. It does look cool when it goes right to the edge, though - I'll try it with taping in the future to see which look I like better.
Thank you, as always, for your thoughtful comments! :)
Can you drop the link for the round Mandalas..thx
The thicker, limited edition book is no longer available :( but I bought both books from Amazon Germany. Here's a link for the book with the blue cover: www.amazon.de/gp/product/9463549625/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o04_s01?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Hope that helps!
@@colouringchemist Thank you 💕
@@EasyBreezy222 You're welcome! :)
What is the bronze metallic gel pen?
It's a Pentel Slicci Metallic gel pen in Bronze. :) You can buy them in a pack of 12:
www.amazon.com/Pentel-Slicci-Metallic-Needle-BG208-ME/dp/B003XQFW9M/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1E07QMUTHJV9M&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.zsZwz9tX17cNKMDqAxvw8UyQDWkl747P8XEc7VhZ5K4UHQ1RXbeGDHyZ0G9arpDfb3BMKPqlxDe8L0WcVXhprXwjqprTX0JQHu6xG8HsD2P9Ogb9GOC3TdXJJf47wVkh7rurMzg6lRiUwjHpeEKf62-da_DjYmiEXILORIj4ida_ICUVJKUxj07BD85Yl2gnhiaIyHTuYgSIYr8NlBALeg.d-x0Jvpo2kLk8h0S9FfS1jQi9yRChMw4WrR7gI6fIzc&dib_tag=se&keywords=pentel%2Bslicci%2Bbronze&qid=1725161268&sprefix=pentel%2Bslicci%2Bbronz%2Caps%2C171&sr=8-1&th=1
Or you can buy a mixed colour pack of metallic pens (you should see that option on that same Amazon listing).
Hope that helps! :)
I'd love to get the round mandala books but I'm not sure what to type in the search bar, can you tell me what the title is please? I know it says mandala but when I look up mandala coloring books there's just so many that it's like looking for a needle in a haystack lol! Also, thank you for sharing your beautiful finished pages with us!😊❤
Me too. Amazon doesn’t seem to have it.
@@annamarielewis7078 I found one copy of it on Amazon a while back when I first heard about it but I didn't get it because they were selling it overpriced and I guess someone bought it because it's gone now. Hopefully these are still available on another site though! I'm just not sure what the titles are
Colouring Chemist did say that she got the round mandala books from Amazon Germany.
@@asyrotk7604 Oh I didn't hear that part! Thank you for letting me know! I'm hoping that I can find them on another site though because I don't have an account for Amazon Germany because when I tried to make an account on Amazon Japan I was having trouble figuring it out so I gave up 😆 but I have a 21 year old son that might be able to help me!
This is the link to the longer (100 mandalas) book on Amazon Germany:
www.amazon.de/-/en/gp/product/946188561X/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1
And this is the link to the slightly shorter one:
www.amazon.de/-/en/gp/product/9463549625/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1
This is a link to the longer one on Amazon US:
www.amazon.com/100-Creaties-Mandala/dp/946188561X/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2BW7NSQZ16HDB&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.cguj_-SdR1FEszVLfa2md5xHHSMasHGFrMPVzw3TaVbZLGjS80922yQjRwXeHmhMul12c667caN4nq3R58AXR7F2Wn9CRgwWoq51-uGwCU_QdVWw4_Bq7HF_7kjoSFlW3cUGq5N7MNFXPvjf6konkH-uw2rTTBFpSTeuul309JCOQH9WKfGT9Zja6o0DC4NSAP0E5dhIZsqAhNZ2rM4gQlZqZAVUSRMmSAlzwG0e8iQ.OkbZx46VT6kel_IjqgSIRBjd53vBDESEiiNCnhOfQ_Y&dib_tag=se&keywords=100+Creaties+Mandala&qid=1725158931&sprefix=100+creaties+mandala%2Caps%2C249&sr=8-1
Hope that helps! :)