Very nice!  Lovely choice of colors you've got going on there.  

It's so pretty, the colours all go so well together.

I like your color choices. And yay, the 300th colorist blog entry!

8 minutes ago, OnceUponATime said:

I like your color choices. And yay, the 300th colorist blog entry!

Oh, I forgot about that!  So many really beautiful pictures!

As for mine here, thanks everyone, but I wish I'd retaken the photo.  It looks substantially better in real life.  For example, those dark brown leaf and flower things at the bottom do not stand out as much. I tried to balance the darks and lights throughout, and, until I posted this, I thought I'd done a good job.

Moving on, I've started a large peacock.  It will take some time and I'm pretty stressed because I want to make it beautiful. We shall see...

I shy away from those colors, however, I like this and now want to play with that combo myself!

This reminds me of autumn. Great colors! 

This is so beautiful. I'm sure I would've done this in shades of pink and purple because I'm boring like that, and I love seeing what different color choices my fellow minions make. Great job!

very pretty.  I see everyone has discovered this color combo before I did    It's a butterfly so you can't really go wrong.  Don't those markers bleed through and ruin the back side of the page or do you just pick one side and give up the other one?  I know some people do that with the 2 sided pages.

4 minutes ago, Curious said:

very pretty.  I see everyone has discovered this color combo before I did    It's a butterfly so you can't really go wrong.  Don't those markers bleed through and ruin the back side of the page or do you just pick one side and give up the other one?  I know some people do that with the 2 sided pages.

Yep. I make sure I am not desperate to do the flip side first, but, yes, basically half the pages are ruined!

1 minute ago, Fascinated said:

Yep. I make sure I am not desperate to do the flip side first, but, yes, basically half the pages are ruined!

Thanks.  I saw that there are hardback, one sided versions of the joanna basford ones or maybe it was the millie marrota ones.  I don't feel like I can justify getting those though...at least right now.    I also don't know how I feel about hardback versions because I like to pull the pages out and put them on my clipboard vs trying to color in the books.  It just works better for me since I'm often coloring while laying on my side right now.

Yes, I think it's Millie Marrota.  I have the Animal Kingdom hardcover. The pages still bleed through so I stick some paper towel in between the pages. The best are Basford's Artist's Edition books. There aren't as many pages but they are beautifully thick stock and easily removed from the book, as they are designed to be framed. They're expensive but worth it, I think. 

10 minutes ago, Fascinated said:

Yes, I think it's Millie Marrota.  I have the Animal Kingdom hardcover. The pages still bleed through so I stick some paper towel in between the pages. The best are Basford's Artist's Edition books. There aren't as many pages but they are beautifully thick stock and easily removed from the book, as they are designed to be framed. They're expensive but worth it, I think. 

I have the secret garden one on my wishlist, but tbh it's not my favorite of her books.   I would consider magical jungle though.  I think that is my favorite one of her's.  I am missing one of the millie ones, tropic wonderland I think.  The hardcover ones looks gorgeous, but I think it would be too hard for me to color in a hardback book like that. 

I know some of the artists suggest coloring it and giving it as a gift, which I think is a great idea...if you are an actual working for a living type artist.   I can't think of anyone that would be thrilled to get a book of my already colored pages