All 8 are absolutely beautiful 😍😍 I think my favourite is either the potion bottles or the small circular designs from small victories - I just really loved the colour palettes of them both!
First of all gorgeous pages and secondly that cardigan Love it I actually love the flower page in small victories it's my favourite of all of them but I also love the Rita Berman too 😁😁💜💜💜💜
You’re completely right about taste - your least favorite page was my favorite of your pages 😂 well done with the coloring overall! I love the bright spring color palettes you seem to choose ❤
Ah who needs sleep when you can colour! Ha ha! Beautiful pages! Just gorgeous. Well done on stepping out of your comfort zone! It’s fun to do sometimes! I’m it great with pastels either.
I love the bright colours you use in your pages. I actually like the flowers page and I think the reason it might be different for you is that it’s a more muted colour palette than your usual work. It’s always fun to step out of your comfort zone every once in a while 😊
I LOVE your style! I have all these beautiful art tools e.g. gel pen, acrylic paint, watercolour paint, sparkles etc and I want to use them - it's so exciting and refreshing to have an artist jump in there and just have fun! The resultant art is beautiful too ❤️❤️❤️
@@apicturedpurpose Almost forgot, 90% of my coloring book are amazon one. I use prisma color pencil since they are pretty cheap in USA. However, since prime day is almost here, Amazon Basics - Premium Colored Pencils, Soft Core, 48 Count (Pack of 1), Multicolor are a good dupe of the prisma. Not as good but they are way cheaper and similar. They usually go on sale too so you can get them even cheaper.
You are soooo Lovely Kira, you make me smile with all what you say 😊 and all of your colored Pages are wonderfull!😍 ...I always love how you color all this Pictures, I feel and I see your Passion in there❤️🔥 Greetings from Germany to you, dear Kira🥰
I just discovered your channel - beautiful pages! I loved them alll - very hard to pick a favourite but I did think the one in Inky Wonderlands was gorgeous ❤
I think the tiny castles page is my favorite, too, but they are all really beautiful. I have a soft spot for the Adorable Town book, so I also adore the milk carton page. I have the Ohuhu Acrylic paint pens and besides being a great price, the tips are the perfect size and hardness for coloring book lines; I love them. After some time, as long as I knew what to expect going into it, the Amazon paper began to bother me less and less. Don't let it stop you from buying cute books (l think you'd like Coco Wyo books too) just adjust your toolset accordingly. There's also the option of priming the pages with a satin glazing medium (I use Golden) which gives the paper a little more tooth allowing you to use softer pencils, water based markers, and other water soluable mediums. 😊 Anyway, I am obsessed with your style and channel. Though you may be new to the game & may not have built up the confidence yet, I believe you have a brilliant skill for coloring and could teach others a LOT! I'm hoping you'll post more color alongs so I can borrow some of your talent for blends and color choices 😉.
Thank you so much for those recommendations Nicole! And also for your kind words about my channel. I definitely want to start doing some more tutorials in the near future 💕
Beautiful pages!! My favorite budget friendly pencil set is the Arrtx Colored Pencils. I usually always base my Amazon paper coloring books in alcohol markers and shade with my Arrtx Colored Pencils. Thanks for sharing!! 😊
i think u did a really good job on all the pages!! and the backgrounds honestly look good and some of em u can barely even seen em on camera. i love how bright and happy the illustrations look
Beautiful completed pages! I think my favorite page is the clock from Rooms of Wonder. I love the color palette you used. A close second is the mini castles in Small Victories. I love the clouds!
I loved the clock house from rooms of wonder, really inspired me to have a go at that page 😄🩷 I have how to draw inky wonderlands too, and I find it so hard to draw in that one. Have drawn many things inspired from that book in my sketchbook, but hardly anything in the actual book 😅
All of your pages are amazing i do not see any as a fail. The flower page is beautiful and I think the background is amazing. Do you use the brutfuner square or the round ones. I want to try to get a page that is like your colors.
I loved the flower page. Call me a 70s child! (Really 60's but who's counting) And just a suggestion: On your coloring pages you could do a before and after. Because then we can see the extras you do for background or draw ins. Just a thought. Good job though
Elmcolors does lots of backgrounds with pastels. Maybe scope out her videos. I believe she uses soft pastel sticks. I had chalk pastels and they seemed to get more dry and brittle with time but the pigment wasn't there for my liking so I went for soft pastel sticks from Arrtx (not terribly expensive) but honestly have barely used them. I have used pastels in pans (Jane Davenport & the super bougie $$$ pan pastels but you have to budget for those so only have a few gotten on sale).
I look forward to your completed pages videos so much!! As always, your pages turned out stunning and beautiful! I love hearing and seeing how you approach each page and I like how you share the things that surprise you and also the “fails”. Honestly, everything looked so amazing to me! But we are our worst critics, aren’t we? 😂 Thanks so much for sharing your pages! I hope we will get another tutorial in July - but I am grateful for anything you share! Much love from Seattle!❤❤
Oh nooo! My comment has been deleted (by accident, by me, silly old me). I really love your "How to draw ... " page. You nailed the draw part of it: if you haven't pointed out what you add i would never guessed. The second best page is the potion cabinet, especially the doors and the gap between them. Although I find that I have to wear sunglasses to look at it: the (almost fluorescent) green is a bit too bright for me (not a critic, only my opinion and taste of colours): I would've preferred a more muted tone. But all your pages tourned out beautiful. Cheers from Italy. Dan 🧡
Ok, strap in for an essay about paper! I dont know what you know, so I'm not going to assume anything and just tell you everything I know! Fun! The reason your coloring pencils work so well on your coloring books is because the paper was designed for that medium. The tricky part about working with mixed media is that even on mixed media paper, your materials will never work as good as they do on their intended paper. This all boils down to what the paper is made of and what kind of tooth the paper has. Those artfully messy watercolor paintings you spoke about were probably done on cotton paper. Its more absorbant, with a wet on wet technique (meaning they got the paper really wet and then put the paint on the wet paper and let it bloom). Coloring book paper is not made of cotton, so it's not absorbant enough to be able to load the paper up with a lot of water required for the technique. The water just pools on top of the paper, and you'll likely end up with dark rings of color around where the puddle sat on the paper. But the coloring book paper works fine for flat washes of color that use very little water, what you have been doing for your backgrounds. It's essentially a marker at that point. As for pastels, it all boils down to how rough or smooth the paper is. This is the tooth of the paper, the microscopic hills and valleys in the paper. Chalk pastels come in different hardnessess too and behave differently depending on what you're trying to do. If you look at pastel mat, the paper typically used for soft pastel paintings it feels almost like sandpaper. It has a very exaggerated tooth. When you run the pastel over it, the little valleys in the paper are filled with the pigments. Softer pastels (expensive, usually handshaped) fill this tooth very fast. Resulting in thick opaque marks. Harder pastels don't break down into the tooth as easily and are used for underpainting (because they dont fill the tooth, once the tooth is full, it won't accept anymore color) and details. I suspect the reason you're struggling with the pan pastels is because the coloring books dont have enough tooth for the pigment to stick to. There are ways to alter coloring book paper so watercolors and pastels can behave more naturally on them. It just takes a bit of planning. Watercolor ground can be painted over a coloring page, and after a few layers, it behaves a lot more like cotton paper. Not a 1 to 1, but it's a lot better than coloring book paper. And for chalk pastel, you can paint a layer of clear gesso, and it adds a sandpapery tooth that the pastels stick to. My only warning about shopping for cheap chalk pastels is that they are cheap because they have more binder and less pigment than expensive chalk pastels, which makes them behave more like hard pastels; even if they're being marketed as soft pastels, they're most likely hard pastels. As for ranking your pictures, personally, I liked the milk carton shop the most! So cute! Maybe instead of ranking, you could reflect on what you learned as you experiment with different mediums. A fail isn't a fail. It's learning how not to do it, getting you one step closer to how to do it right! That's how artists learn. Sketchbooks that are full of "how not to do its" and the occasional glorious finished peice. You got this!
Oh my goodness, this was so helpful! Thank you so much for taking the time to write out all that info. I definitely didn't know 99% of that 😅 This will definitely help me make more informed decisions in the future. And yes, you're definitely right. It's never a "fail," it's simply learning what not to do next time 💕
@@apicturedpurposeif you wish to prepare Amazon paper I find the best medium to use is Golden satin glazing liquid. You paint over the entire page once, wait until dry then do a second layer and more water mediums can be used. You get a huge bottle and it has a smoother lay down so it doesn’t eat your pencils like Daniel Smith watercolour medium which makes the treated page rougher and per volume is much more expensive. I know because I have both and I only used the Daniel Smith watercolour medium once after seeing colouring with K use the Golden satin glazing liquid I haven’t looked back. ❤❤❤
The small houses are soooo cute; and the little 6 vignettes as well. Love the brightness of your colors. Here in Spain the Amz paper has different quality, depending on where it comes from. If the print is from Poland (like JR Hampson books) EVERYTHING works nicely. But if the print is Italian (for example, H. Lynn) the paper is meh. However Brufuner black barrel work well, same as Markart pencils and, surprisingly, the Artezas. I'd say that the Bruts are the winners for all kind of tricky paper. Have a nice month and I'm looking forward for more videos. Cheers.
Your finished pages are beautiful. If you hadn't said anything, I'd have thought you've been coloring much longer. They're so vibrant.
Thank you so much!! ❤️✨
You need todo more!! Your style is lovely! Your color selections are wonderful!
Aww thank you so much! If only there were enough hours in the day for all the colouring!
Of course. 😊
All 8 are absolutely beautiful 😍😍 I think my favourite is either the potion bottles or the small circular designs from small victories - I just really loved the colour palettes of them both!
Aww thank you so much ☺
Love your pages, you lantern came out so well. Looking forward to more videos :)
Thank you so much 🥰
First of all gorgeous pages and secondly that cardigan Love it I actually love the flower page in small victories it's my favourite of all of them but I also love the Rita Berman too 😁😁💜💜💜💜
Thanks Chelsea! Yes I'm also a massive fan of the cardigan 😅
ah love this pages🔥
Aww tysm! 🫶🏻
The Tooli Art pastel paint pens are great. Love all your pages. I really like your flower page!
Yes! I have seen a few people using Tooli Art, I'll definitely have a look into them.
All your pages are gorgeous. I love the bright colours. They make me smile. Thank you for sharing.
I'm such a fan of using bright colours on my pages 🥰 Thank you for watching!
Faber Castel Black Edition are a great budget friendly harder pencil. I absolutely love them! Beautiful pictures also! I love the milk bottle one!
Thanks for the recommendation Sarah! I'll definitely have to try them out 🥰
Your color palettes are beautiful. Really nice job on all of your pictures. Great job on all of them.
Aww thank you ☺️
You’re completely right about taste - your least favorite page was my favorite of your pages 😂 well done with the coloring overall! I love the bright spring color palettes you seem to choose ❤
It's so fun to see everyone's favourites and how much they differ! And yes, I also seem to gravitate toward bright colours 🌈😅
They’re all beautiful but favourite has to be castle page Thanks for sharing 😊😊
Tysm! 💕✨
Ah who needs sleep when you can colour! Ha ha! Beautiful pages! Just gorgeous. Well done on stepping out of your comfort zone! It’s fun to do sometimes! I’m it great with pastels either.
Colouring over sleeping is sometimes better for my mental health 😅
I love the bright colours you use in your pages. I actually like the flowers page and I think the reason it might be different for you is that it’s a more muted colour palette than your usual work. It’s always fun to step out of your comfort zone every once in a while 😊
I totally agree! Stepping outside of your comfort zone is a great way to mix things up and also learn new things!
I LOVE your style! I have all these beautiful art tools e.g. gel pen, acrylic paint, watercolour paint, sparkles etc and I want to use them - it's so exciting and refreshing to have an artist jump in there and just have fun! The resultant art is beautiful too ❤️❤️❤️
Aww thank you so much! Having fun is always my top priority!!
Beautiful pages…..hope to see color alongs in the future! 😊
For sure!
@@apicturedpurpose YAY!!!!! 😁 Thank you! ☺️
I really like the adoptable town one and of course your top 2 are just so beautiful
Thank you! 🤩
@@apicturedpurpose Almost forgot, 90% of my coloring book are amazon one. I use prisma color pencil since they are pretty cheap in USA. However, since prime day is almost here, Amazon Basics - Premium Colored Pencils, Soft Core, 48 Count (Pack of 1), Multicolor are a good dupe of the prisma. Not as good but they are way cheaper and similar. They usually go on sale too so you can get them even cheaper.
You are soooo Lovely Kira, you make me smile with all what you say 😊 and all of your colored Pages are wonderfull!😍 ...I always love how you color all this Pictures, I feel and I see your Passion in there❤️🔥
Greetings from Germany to you, dear Kira🥰
Thank you for all the colouring love from Germany!!
I love how you did the clouds in the Asia Book. I think that was my favorite
Thanks so much Meg. I'm glad you love them as much as I do 🥰
I just discovered your channel - beautiful pages! I loved them alll - very hard to pick a favourite but I did think the one in Inky Wonderlands was gorgeous ❤
Welcome! I’m so glad you enjoyed my pages 🥰😍
I think the tiny castles page is my favorite, too, but they are all really beautiful. I have a soft spot for the Adorable Town book, so I also adore the milk carton page. I have the Ohuhu Acrylic paint pens and besides being a great price, the tips are the perfect size and hardness for coloring book lines; I love them. After some time, as long as I knew what to expect going into it, the Amazon paper began to bother me less and less. Don't let it stop you from buying cute books (l think you'd like Coco Wyo books too) just adjust your toolset accordingly. There's also the option of priming the pages with a satin glazing medium (I use Golden) which gives the paper a little more tooth allowing you to use softer pencils, water based markers, and other water soluable mediums. 😊
Anyway, I am obsessed with your style and channel. Though you may be new to the game & may not have built up the confidence yet, I believe you have a brilliant skill for coloring and could teach others a LOT! I'm hoping you'll post more color alongs so I can borrow some of your talent for blends and color choices 😉.
Thank you so much for those recommendations Nicole! And also for your kind words about my channel. I definitely want to start doing some more tutorials in the near future 💕
Beautiful pages!! My favorite budget friendly pencil set is the Arrtx Colored Pencils. I usually always base my Amazon paper coloring books in alcohol markers and shade with my Arrtx Colored Pencils. Thanks for sharing!! 😊
Amazing! I'll definitely check those pencils out 🥰
i think u did a really good job on all the pages!! and the backgrounds honestly look good and some of em u can barely even seen em on camera. i love how bright and happy the illustrations look
Thank you so much! I'm definitely my harshest critic 😅
Beautiful colouring pages hun thank you for sharing ❤❤❤
Thank you for watching! 🥰
I really like your bright and happy colors! I love them all, but my fav was the Rita Berman page 🥰
Thank you so much! I also just watched your June completed pages video, your pages are gorgeous also 🫶🏻💕
Great pages! Looks like you had a lot of coloring fun this month🤗💕
I always do 🥰🙌🏻
Beautiful pastel colours they look amazing 😊 x
Thank you so much 💖
I use water based markers and prismacolors on top. They give kind of a rusty feeling to that Amazon paper and I like it
Amazing! Thank you for the recommendation ✨
Beautiful completed pages! I think my favorite page is the clock from Rooms of Wonder. I love the color palette you used. A close second is the mini castles in Small Victories. I love the clouds!
I'm glad you enjoyed my pages! ✨💕
I also love your little castles page 😍
I'm so glad 🫶
I love the colour palette of the Vignette page in Small Victories. Also loved the cuckoo clock (maybe because I‘m from Germany 🤔😄)
Haha! I think I'm the same. I love seeing people colour Koalas because it feels like a little part of my country is with them :)
I loved the clock house from rooms of wonder, really inspired me to have a go at that page 😄🩷 I have how to draw inky wonderlands too, and I find it so hard to draw in that one. Have drawn many things inspired from that book in my sketchbook, but hardly anything in the actual book 😅
It's so daunting to draw in that book! But I just kept reminding myself that I can erase it if I hate it 😅
Very Pretty Coloring Pages
All of your pages are amazing i do not see any as a fail. The flower page is beautiful and I think the background is amazing. Do you use the brutfuner square or the round ones. I want to try to get a page that is like your colors.
Thank you so much! I use the 160 set of the Round Brutfuners!
Thank you I would love to see a video on how you color and especially the colors you use I just love how bright your pages are
@@tanyah9716 I can definitely do that! My next video will be all about colour selection!
I loved the flower page. Call me a 70s child! (Really 60's but who's counting) And just a suggestion: On your coloring pages you could do a before and after. Because then we can see the extras you do for background or draw ins. Just a thought. Good job though
That’s a great idea! Thank you for watching 😍🥰
Try Munguyo soft pastels. They are great. I loooooove your sweater.🎉
I have seen those around! I'll definitely look into them 🤩
Elmcolors does lots of backgrounds with pastels. Maybe scope out her videos. I believe she uses soft pastel sticks. I had chalk pastels and they seemed to get more dry and brittle with time but the pigment wasn't there for my liking so I went for soft pastel sticks from Arrtx (not terribly expensive) but honestly have barely used them. I have used pastels in pans (Jane Davenport & the super bougie $$$ pan pastels but you have to budget for those so only have a few gotten on sale).
Ohhh interesting! I’ll check out Erin’s videos as well as the Arrtx pastels. Thank you for the suggestions 💖
Would love to see which colors you use
I'll definitely be doing some more tutorials now that I have a little more free time on my hands 😊
I look forward to your completed pages videos so much!! As always, your pages turned out stunning and beautiful!
I love hearing and seeing how you approach each page and I like how you share the things that surprise you and also the “fails”.
Honestly, everything looked so amazing to me! But we are our worst critics, aren’t we? 😂
Thanks so much for sharing your pages! I hope we will get another tutorial in July - but I am grateful for anything you share! Much love from Seattle!❤❤
Aww thank you very much! And yes, I definitely have some more tutorials in the works for July!
Oh nooo! My comment has been deleted (by accident, by me, silly old me).
I really love your "How to draw ... " page. You nailed the draw part of it: if you haven't pointed out what you add i would never guessed.
The second best page is the potion cabinet, especially the doors and the gap between them. Although I find that I have to wear sunglasses to look at it: the (almost fluorescent) green is a bit too bright for me (not a critic, only my opinion and taste of colours): I would've preferred a more muted tone.
But all your pages tourned out beautiful.
Cheers from Italy.
Dan 🧡
I'm glad you enjoyed my pages! It's awesome to see how everyone's tastes differ 🥰
Faber Castell Black Edition pencils work well on Amazon paper
Thank you for the recommendation!!
Ok, strap in for an essay about paper! I dont know what you know, so I'm not going to assume anything and just tell you everything I know! Fun!
The reason your coloring pencils work so well on your coloring books is because the paper was designed for that medium. The tricky part about working with mixed media is that even on mixed media paper, your materials will never work as good as they do on their intended paper.
This all boils down to what the paper is made of and what kind of tooth the paper has. Those artfully messy watercolor paintings you spoke about were probably done on cotton paper. Its more absorbant, with a wet on wet technique (meaning they got the paper really wet and then put the paint on the wet paper and let it bloom). Coloring book paper is not made of cotton, so it's not absorbant enough to be able to load the paper up with a lot of water required for the technique. The water just pools on top of the paper, and you'll likely end up with dark rings of color around where the puddle sat on the paper. But the coloring book paper works fine for flat washes of color that use very little water, what you have been doing for your backgrounds. It's essentially a marker at that point.
As for pastels, it all boils down to how rough or smooth the paper is. This is the tooth of the paper, the microscopic hills and valleys in the paper. Chalk pastels come in different hardnessess too and behave differently depending on what you're trying to do. If you look at pastel mat, the paper typically used for soft pastel paintings it feels almost like sandpaper. It has a very exaggerated tooth. When you run the pastel over it, the little valleys in the paper are filled with the pigments. Softer pastels (expensive, usually handshaped) fill this tooth very fast. Resulting in thick opaque marks. Harder pastels don't break down into the tooth as easily and are used for underpainting (because they dont fill the tooth, once the tooth is full, it won't accept anymore color) and details. I suspect the reason you're struggling with the pan pastels is because the coloring books dont have enough tooth for the pigment to stick to.
There are ways to alter coloring book paper so watercolors and pastels can behave more naturally on them. It just takes a bit of planning. Watercolor ground can be painted over a coloring page, and after a few layers, it behaves a lot more like cotton paper. Not a 1 to 1, but it's a lot better than coloring book paper. And for chalk pastel, you can paint a layer of clear gesso, and it adds a sandpapery tooth that the pastels stick to.
My only warning about shopping for cheap chalk pastels is that they are cheap because they have more binder and less pigment than expensive chalk pastels, which makes them behave more like hard pastels; even if they're being marketed as soft pastels, they're most likely hard pastels.
As for ranking your pictures, personally, I liked the milk carton shop the most! So cute! Maybe instead of ranking, you could reflect on what you learned as you experiment with different mediums. A fail isn't a fail. It's learning how not to do it, getting you one step closer to how to do it right! That's how artists learn. Sketchbooks that are full of "how not to do its" and the occasional glorious finished peice. You got this!
Oh my goodness, this was so helpful! Thank you so much for taking the time to write out all that info. I definitely didn't know 99% of that 😅 This will definitely help me make more informed decisions in the future. And yes, you're definitely right. It's never a "fail," it's simply learning what not to do next time 💕
@@apicturedpurposeif you wish to prepare Amazon paper I find the best medium to use is Golden satin glazing liquid. You paint over the entire page once, wait until dry then do a second layer and more water mediums can be used. You get a huge bottle and it has a smoother lay down so it doesn’t eat your pencils like Daniel Smith watercolour medium which makes the treated page rougher and per volume is much more expensive. I know because I have both and I only used the Daniel Smith watercolour medium once after seeing colouring with K use the Golden satin glazing liquid I haven’t looked back. ❤❤❤
I like the learn to draw page.
forgot to add your pages are beautiful
Something you might consider, is buying clear gesso for those thin pages. I'll give you a different experience.
Yes! I've been meaning to try this but then I chicken out haha. I'll definitely try it out sometime :)
@@apicturedpurpose Have a paper towel at hand, when going over different colours- that way if it does smear, it won't be an absolute disaster 👍🏻
P.S.: sleeping ? Definitively overrated. Better spend time colouring.
(i couldn't modify my previous comment)
The small houses are soooo cute; and the little 6 vignettes as well. Love the brightness of your colors. Here in Spain the Amz paper has different quality, depending on where it comes from. If the print is from Poland (like JR Hampson books) EVERYTHING works nicely. But if the print is Italian (for example, H. Lynn) the paper is meh. However Brufuner black barrel work well, same as Markart pencils and, surprisingly, the Artezas. I'd say that the Bruts are the winners for all kind of tricky paper. Have a nice month and I'm looking forward for more videos. Cheers.
Thank you so much for the recommendations! That's so helpful 🤩