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.

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

That's a good idea, Connie. And would definitely work for the vampire book...but, in some cases, the shading is so intricate, even rubbing a clean sheet of paper might distort it.

It is entirely possible, as well, that I take this stuff entirely too seriously!

Still. I do love it.

Now that I've watched a favorite tv show from the luxury of my bath tub, I'm settling in to do some coloring.

I am _lovin'_ my life right now.

I just bought a new box of crayons today! Of course, I bought them for witchy/magic purposes, because when you need wax in different colors to make seals, crayons are the way to go.

I wouldn't have thought crayons would melt as cleanly as sealing wax.

Not as cleanly, no, but they work just fine for what I need.

Plus, how else would you get some cool colors, of course.