I know reds don't translate well online, but it's my favorite color so I use it a lot! 

Oh, man, it's beautiful!  Is the horse black or brown?  I absolutely love the way you put colours together!!!

Thank you very much!  The horse is black. I don't like the way the photo turned out, though. The original page colors are richer and more vivid. My outdoor photos have been turning out better, but it was raining today so I had to take this one indoors. I'm glad that you like it, even though the pic doesn't do the colors justice.  Am now working on two pages at once;  almost done with the page from the insect book and am about half finished with my first page from Curious Creatures.   

I thought it was black but wasn't sure. Is it hard to colour large areas in black?  I haven't done that yet. Ever since I posted the whale picture I've been working on a very detailed page from Lost Ocean, which is the only book I have here. It is all tiny detail and I can't believe how long it's taking. I'm almost finished though!  

So far, I've only colored two cats and the horse in black and the areas weren't really all that big. I think I'd get tired of looking at black if it was a large area, though.  Can't wait to see your Lost Ocean page...are you using regular lights to color by this time?  

Haha.  I have been using daylight!!  I have abandoned the whole colouring in the dark scenario. Mainly so I can prove to myself that I'm able to walk away from the colouring!  When I get up in the morning I swear I will finish that page!

I really love the horse in black. You are so, so talented. I never would have thought one could have a talent for COLOURING, but this blog has shown me otherwise. 

I really appreciate your very kind and encouraging words about my coloring, thank you!  I think it takes artistic talent to color, to choose colors that work together in some way or another. It takes patience and a fairly steady hand too. All of us on this blog have a talent for coloring in our own unique way and I find it very interesting to see the different coloring styles here. Some of us even color whales in the dark...which I think is a quite unusual style!   

I can't imagine who would do that .  I agree, though. And I also love seeing everyone's different styles. I'm very excited that our daughter-in-law is colouring when she gets a chance, which isn't often with two tiny boys. This is my influence!  It makes me so happy. 

(Have you and Mrs. Baby had a problem with little bugs in the last few days?  We've never had them before. They swarm just before dusk and seem to like my markers!  Super annoying!!)

So your DIL is becoming a coloring minion, eh?  Good for you!   

No, we haven't noticed any swarming bugs.  Are they gnats? 

Just finished my page from the insect book and I think it looks good. Have finished about 2/3 of the page from Curious Creatures at this point. 

Yaass, our DIL is becoming a colorist minion!  I could not be more proud!  She tells me that she's aborted a few attempts but is doing one she likes now.  (Utterly beside the point but this girl is incredible.  We love her as if she were our own. But happy she isn't our daughter because then she wouldn't have married our son!  Huge digression there, with apologies.)

i don't know if these are gnats. But, I will tell you that they are extremely low on the intelligence scale as they are remarkably easy to kill (I hope you guys aren't PETA members ). However, I really could live without them invading my bra and other similarly private areas. (My hands are quite sore from slapping at the little buggers.)  We are in SW Florida - I don't know where you are but maybe they are local to here. 

Gorgeous as always.   I almost pulled this page out in the last bunch, but ended up picking a different one (the one with the cat and dog).

This is not how I envisioned doing this page at all, so it's very cool to see another take on it.

I like that a few of us are starting to get the same books.   I see another color off in our future  

I went back over the horse with my new Special Black Copic marker to get that deep jet black I wanted to begin with so the original page looks better now.   Thank you!  How would you have done this page?

44 minutes ago, Tikobaby said:

I went back over the horse with my new Special Black Copic marker to get that deep jet black I wanted to begin with so the original page looks better now.   Thank you!  How would you have done this page?

Can you show us the page now?  It would be neat to see the difference. 

I'm not sure the difference I see on the original page would be as obvious in a photo, but when I have some time I can try to get another photo of the page as it is now. Will probably post it on my profile page so as not to boggle up the coloring blog with a second pony photo!  I already feel like a blog hog as it is.  

3 hours ago, Tikobaby said:

I'm not sure the difference I see on the original page would be as obvious in a photo, but when I have some time I can try to get another photo of the page as it is now. Will probably post it on my profile page so as not to boggle up the coloring blog with a second pony photo!  I already feel like a blog hog as it is.  

Me, too. And I know you have some in the works, as do I. Oh, dear. But you could post it here if you get a good photo!

I will post it if the darker color shows up in the pic!   

On 1/11/2016 at 2:25 PM, Tikobaby said:

I went back over the horse with my new Special Black Copic marker to get that deep jet black I wanted to begin with so the original page looks better now.   Thank you!  How would you have done this page?

Was how would you have done the page directed at me or @Fascinated?

It was directed to you because you posted that my version was not how you had envisioned it and I was curious   to know how you would have done it. 

On 1/13/2016 at 0:49 PM, Tikobaby said:

It was directed to you because you posted that my version was not how you had envisioned it and I was curious   to know how you would have done it. 

You know me.  I'm boring and realistic a lot of the time.  I was thinking a dark brown horse with a lighter mane, blue for the background.