Colouring-in…. for adults?

I know that when we think of colouring we usually picture a 5 year old with big wax crayons sitting with a fairly simple picture of farm animals and happy pictures of flowers and fairies.

When I first heard of “colouring for adults” I imagined that we too, would be expected to colour fairly simple pictures – which didn’t go down too badly… I mean I love colouring with my little girl – it’s awesome, especially if you have gems and really cool colours.

And then I found a “grown up” colouring book – and wow… the patterns and designs for adults are wow-some (a new word – I should start a mini dictionary page)! So I bought my first colouring in book – which initially was exciting especially the part where I got my own pencil case, and crayons and koki’s. (hehehehehe – girls will be girls!) I started my first page – it was exciting until my eyes started squinting and the picture and detail was so great I hadn’t even coloured in a quarter page after like an hour – an hour?????? I mean that’s precious valuable sleep time, time to pack some cupboards.. time for something other than stressing about which colour to use for what. It quickly also became a little boring (don’t tell anyone I said that – because well my attention span for new things seems quite short lived).

Last week the hubster went away for work and brought me back a new colouring book – similar patterns etc. the only difference being that this was a little one – one that he mentioned I could carry around in my bag and just pull out when I had some spare time or just needed to get my mind off things. I wasn’t too keen because the one I had bought – was value for money – A4 pages lots of pages and cheaper than the one he had gotten…wasn’t! Plus I wasn’t really engaging with the one I had already.

I tried the first page – just to show him I appreciated the thought… and…

THIS IS WHAT HAS BEEN KEEPING ME BUSY!

I know right – I think I am a little obsessed – a picture takes me roughly 1-2 sessions (night time when I have time whilst chatting to hubster..), I used 24 colour pencil crayons and 12 koki’s right now – but we will be going this weekend, to go check out some new stuff that we can use to make the pictures pop.

It is super duper relaxing – kinda like watching mindless drama series – it just takes your mind away from all the bustle, it really is super duper cool.

AND – I get to do it with my 9 year old who also now owns a “Colouring book for Grown-Ups” she loves it too….

We get to spend time talking and enjoying creative time together doing something we both enjoy and when we are done with a specific picture, you get this feeling of accomplishment! I think its amaze-balls because everyone will colour things in differently and although the pictures are the same its all an interpretation of your own creativity.

Very cool. Just my 5 cents!

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