Coloring Just got Lots Better!

Wow, the joys of retirement! Finally will get back to spending some time posting about my coloring book adventures and more children’s books.

One of my retirement gifts was an iPad pro and Apple Pencil, and am I thrilled. It’s made coloring fun!

Wendydoodle colored art
Colored Wendydoodle via iPad!

This is one of my new doodles for one of my next coloring books — Floradoodles or maybe Doodleblooms.  Using ProCreate app, which has tons of great features, but for me I just love the gel pen option.

I’m almost ready to publish my fantasy bird doodles, will be full of odd bird-like doodles.

Cockadoodle fantasy bird
Here’s a cockadoodle from my upcoming coloring book.

I’ll be posting more as I enjoy life as an old retired babyboomer!!

Coloring is harder than it looks!

I’ve discovered that I LOVE doodling. But working in black and white is quite a bit different than in color. At least in this instance.

So far, I had just colored my title (cover) doodles with colored pencils and tried one full doodle (see below). I’ve long been in love with pencils.  I  like how they can be fine point, broad point and can be shaded easily. But I decided I wanted some deeper, more intense colors — which only comes with markers.

A quick stop at Target for a beginners’ set of washable markers began my adventure in coloring. I chose one of my favorite doodles. I’ll be coloring more but definitely need a lot more colors!

Here’s my first go with markers:

WendyDoodle
WendyDoodle colored with washable markers
WendyDoodle Colored doodle
WendyDoodle using colored pencil