Wow, @Tikobaby.  What a gorgeous picture!  I love the colours and the way you always bring such life to your little creature friends and their surroundings.  Beautiful!

And that is an amazing editing job!  We would never know you'd had these ink splatters!  Great job on that.  Here's one instance where I wish your real life one looks as good (in those areas).

Thanks so much, @Fascinated! I know...the original is fatally flawed by the unfixable ink splats, but the digital version is all pretty and shiny!  Am so glad I could fix it by editing after all the effort I put into the page.  Glad you like it!   

As far as I'm concerned, it's perfect!  I know how much time and effort most of these take, but it was definitely worth it!

12 minutes ago, Fascinated said:

As far as I'm concerned, it's perfect!  I know how much time and effort most of these take, but it was definitely worth it!

Thanks so much, @Fascinated!   

It's gorgeous, as always.

Thank you,  @AmazonGrace...glad you like it!    

Beautifully done, and a great job on editing.

16 minutes ago, caszandra said:

Beautifully done, and a great job on editing.

Thank you, @caszandra!   Really glad you like it.  Glad I'm used to editing my photos because it makes it easier to fix coloring SPLATS like the ones on the original page. Hope I don't have more ink splats to edit in the future, though,   

Ok, how do you manage to colour so smoothly, especially the background? My pictures always look 'streaky', meaning you can see the pen strokes no matter how careful I am. Do you have a special technique, is it the quality of the markers, or a really good camera? Oh, and this picture is amazing.

3 hours ago, Playagirl said:

Ok, how do you manage to colour so smoothly, especially the background? My pictures always look 'streaky', meaning you can see the pen strokes no matter how careful I am. Do you have a special technique, is it the quality of the markers, or a really good camera? Oh, and this picture is amazing.

Thank you, @Playagirl!  I use markers only and have found that the higher quality ones work better for me.  (Except for splats caused by malfunctions!) Try to choose background colors that don't lend themselves to showing streaks. Yellow is good and some lighter oranges...experiment. Coloring quickly, in more curving lines and then filling in works better for me than straighter lines one on top of each other. Keeping the edge wet and not going back over the coloring edge if it's dried is good. If you're coloring in a big area and need to stop, if there's any way, try to stop the line in a narrow area so it won't be so obvious when you start back up and have a "seam".  No matter what you do, there will be streaks at some point so if I end up with an unsightly streak I can't stand looking at, that's when photo editing comes in. The clone tool is your friend!  

3 hours ago, Tikobaby said:

that's when photo editing comes in

cheat!!! All this time I was thinking you were the coloring master, and now I find out you're the editing master?!

I'm very nearly convinced that I need markers. My wallet isn't convinced yet though.

6 hours ago, OnceUponATime said:

cheat!!! All this time I was thinking you were the coloring master, and now I find out you're the editing master?!

I'm very nearly convinced that I need markers. My wallet isn't convinced yet though.

If you'd like to compare a before and after editing page, I posted the Pampered Pets pre-edit on my profile. As I've said in numerous past posts , I edit all photos, (wildlife, coloring pages, and original art),  for color/contrast/exposure/temp due to the fact that the original camera photo just never matches the real life vividness and look of the page.  Once in awhile, if I end up with a noticeable streak in a background, I do edit it, which I've described in earlier posts in an  effort to be helpful to other colorists.  

9 minutes ago, Tikobaby said:

If you'd like to compare a before and after editing page, I posted the Pampered Pets pre-edit on my profile.

You can hold two master titles, it's fine. I had seen it; it took me ages to see the splotches because I was looking for a blood splatter pattern taking up a big portion of the page in bright bright red.

I also just noticed that you gave the dog nail polish! poor thing. I do think it looks very cool though. (I also just noticed that i forgot to mention that I love the pic, especially the spinning top)

That is beautiful.  I am so not at that point yet!

25 minutes ago, SoSoNosy said:

That is beautiful.  I am so not at that point yet!

Thank you, @SoSoNosy!   Very glad you  like the page.  

You are killing me with that pink today!   Did I tell you I finally managed to get hold of an orchid?  that was a happy day here    I love this one, as always.  I really like the little goose, as well as the pink elephant

Glad you got an Orchid!   My favorite thing in this page is the top in the lower left corner...it reminds me of a favorite toy I had.  Glad you like the page!  

1 minute ago, Tikobaby said:

Glad you got an Orchid!   My favorite thing in this page is the top in the lower left corner...it reminds me of a favorite toy I had.  Glad you like the page!  

Oh I didn't even notice the top the first time.  I remember those.  I don't think I had one, but my babysitter did.  It made a music sound when you pushed down the plunger, IIRC.   I feel old now lol

I AM old.  

4 minutes ago, Tikobaby said:

I AM old.  

I am too, but like to pretend I'm not

I had one of those, too!  Can I just say here that, @Curious, you are doing yeoman's work slogging through the colouring blog. And reviewing all of these gorgeous pictures is getting me really excited to get colouring again!

1 minute ago, Fascinated said:

I had one of those, too!  Can I just say here that, @Curious, you are doing yeoman's work slogging through the colouring blog. And reviewing all of these gorgeous pictures is getting me really excited to get colouring again!

I really wanted to catch up on the blog when I was in the SNF, but it was harder than I expected to be on my right side the entire time and I really didn't feel as well as I thought I would after my lung decided to go belly up, so blah.  I'm determined to get through all the entries though!  I am really enjoying seeing everyone's pages.   I have a ton of pages for my husband to scan so I can get back to posting my own pages again.  Toward the end of my stay, when I was starting to feel better, I did manage to actually get some coloring done. 

I confess that I spend more time watching coloring related/drawing videos on youtube right now than I do coloring.

1 minute ago, Curious said:

I really wanted to catch up on the blog when I was in the SNF, but it was harder than I expected to be on my right side the entire time and I really didn't feel as well as I thought I would after my lung decided to go belly up, so blah.  I'm determined to get through all the entries though!  I am really enjoying seeing everyone's pages.   I have a ton of pages for my husband to scan so I can get back to posting my own pages again.  Toward the end of my stay, when I was starting to feel better, I did manage to actually get some coloring done. 

I confess that I spend more time watching coloring related/drawing videos on youtube right now than I do coloring.

Well, I think I can speak for all of the minions when I say that we are so happy you are feeling better and that we definitely missed you in (on?) this blog. All is right in the colouring world again!  And I look forward to seeing your pictures when Mr. Curious gets around to scanning them!