Do You Color?

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, PHEEBS! The only times I color is when I am doing a little boutique-festival-fair-show-sale – whatever those events are called. Coloring is more fitting than knitting and certainly more approachable than reading a book in between customers. (If I am attending a festival and a vendor is reading a book, I just keep […]

Testing a Coloring Book

Designing coloring books involves drawing, my favorite thing. Coloring the pages is for other people to do. But, I got curious. So, I gave it a try in the ag coloring book, Heart of Agriculture: Celebrating Tulare County Farm Bureau’s First 100 years. This is as far as I got on the title page. I filled […]

Heart of Agriculture

That is an apt title for today – a nod to both Valentine’s Day and the World Ag Expo’s opening day in the title of my latest coloring book. This coloring book was published in partnership with the Tulare County Farm Bureau, a delightful group of people to work with (in spite of their rejection of […]

New Coloring Book in Progress

A few weeks back I told you that I am working on a new coloring book for grownups. (I use the childish sounding word “grownups” instead of “adult” because of the negative connotations on the internet with the “a” word. We wouldn’t want anyone to jump to conclusions about the appropriateness of my coloring books, would we?) […]

Speaking of Coloring Books

Who was speaking of coloring books? I was. Yesterday. I said that I thought about skipping a calendar this year because I was so busy with coloring books. I am at work on #5 now. I haven’t cleared it with the customer to reveal their identity (yikes, I just used a plural pronoun. . . […]

HEART OF THE PARKS is HERE!

Please excuse me for shouting, and for publishing an extra blog post off schedule. The latest coloring book has arrived, and boy is it a good one, if I do say so myself. I did say so myself. This has Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Park designs, including Mineral King (of course – did you […]

Gathering Visual Information

Visual information is necessary to an artist. In the olden days, artist did sketches. Cameras came along and made things easier. Digital cameras showed up, and now the visual information is quick, easy and abundant. I am working on a coloring book for Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks, to be titled Heart of the Park. Those of […]

Why I Am Not Painting the Oak Grove Bridge

Because I am painting 5 little paintings of Farewell Gap/Mineral King. Because I am working on a new coloring book!! Anyone want to guess the subject? It is time for me to reorder Heart of the Hills, my original coloring book, AGAIN. It is time for me to reorder Heart of Mineral King. WHAT?? I’ve only had it […]