I can't remember who has talked about the soothing properties of coloring in a coloring book (and/or mandalas, which are more sophisticated than an Avengers coloring book). But I was at Target the other day and bought an Avengers coloring book and a box of crayons, and it is awesome.

Plus, the way a box of new crayons smells is FANTASTIC. Oh my god.

Coloring is totally fun. I think that kids who grow up to not really like it anymore were only doing it because it was more fun than, say, arithmetic, anyway. Those of us who actively liked coloring, probably still like it as grown-ups. And yes, there are ways to make it look more sophisticated and age-appropriate such as colored pencils or official art-supply pastels or whatever and designs like mandalas but... we are grown ups. If we wanna color in Avengers, or Muppets, or something else fun, we can. And then we can have ice cream for supper if we want.

I can't remember who has talked about the soothing properties of coloring in a coloring book (and/or mandalas, which are more sophisticated than an Avengers coloring book). But I was at Target the other day and bought an Avengers coloring book and a box of crayons, and it is awesome.

Bonny colors mandalas, I have vampire-themed coloring books. Coloring is relaxing!

I have coloring books, and colored pencils is what I prefer. I have started looking at Zentangles - which is doodling/meditation. I started it because the kind of doodles i do - fit in the idea. Some people do it as art, but some people doodle for the meditative purposes

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I have coloring books! And colored pencils and crayons. I like crayons better. Avengers coloring book, you say?

Coloring is the best thing ever. I have inherited Sara's unused coloring books, and I have my *own* crayons and colored pencils that none of the children get to touch.

I always like sorting buttons. We had a big can of old buttons, and I'd get out the cupcake pans and just sort the buttons into the cups. Imposing order out of chaos, then dumping it all into chaos again. I rearrange the storage of my beads, now.

I can't remember what Bonny said when I showed her zentangles here, but I do remember a thumbs up.

I love them, because I have a weird fear of filling up the page, and those go on and on, and I don't colour them, because I am lame like that (my fear of putting the right colour down is epic), but now I'm thinking...I can totally zentangle on my tablet with the stylus...

I should give you guys my colouring book. It's called "Dean loves Castiel very much (and a couple others have sex)" Some of it is even in the requisite drawing book style of no shading.

I am TOTALLY into zentangles and their various off-shoots.

My facebook photo files are more coloring/tangles than Cagney pics by a mile.

I have masses of coloring books and zentangle how-tos, having just recently added a couple purely for inspiration. The Beauty of Zentangle and THIS ONE with photos of the shapes in mandalas found in nature. It's riveting.

In fact, my plan is to do some coloring this evening. Love, love love.

So far, I've accumulated a couple hundred crayons, 400 colored pencils and a bunch of colored pens.

I prefer the Prismacolor pencils and Sakura pens. The gelly roll pens are fun, but I need more control.

ita, I finally gave up on the zentangle prohibition against erasers. I LOVE my eraser because screwy lines make me physically uncomfortable.

So, I get you not wanting to apply color. On the other hand, shading color is one of the most satisfying parts of the art.

Given how gifted you are with shading in b/w, I can only imagine how good you'd be blending colors.