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.

Three-peat...

I'm massively frustrated by this book... Secret Garden: An Inky Treasure Hunt. I love it SO much, but the pages are too big to fit on my scanner, so I can't copy them.

I hate coloring in an actual book because pressure on one page transfers colors on subsequent pages and I HATE finishing a page I love and then getting it messed up.

That happened in my vampire coloring book and I vowed to only use copied pages from them on.

You could put a sheet of paper between the finished pages.

Now I want a coloring book.