Crafty Tuesday: When did this Coloring Crazy start?

Apparently I missed a memo where we went from the Zentangle craze to the Coloring craze.

Funny thing is that Ariel always bought a couple of coloring books and crayons at the beginning of the school year when she was in college and used them as mindless fun to clear her head. And that was a number of years ago.

Right now you can’t swing a stuffed lion without hitting a coloring book in Barnes and Noble. They are in the magazine section. They are on stands all over the floor and on the bargain tables.

And these are not little kids coloring books. These are the more complicated versions that Dover published for years and now everyone else is jumping on. The lines are fine and the drawing elaborate. Some seem to start simple and get more complex as one goes on.

I thought that Zentangles would last longer but apparently repetitive drawing is no longer in vogue.

I like coloring. I find it very mind clearing. A box of colored pencils and a good coloring book will keep me happy as long as the pencils work.

I have always enjoyed the Dover coloring books and am glad to see that I have a much greater selection to choose from. I tend to photocopy the drawings from the books so I can use them more than once and play around with color as I go.

Also this month I am participating in Drawlloween, which is a drawing prompt per day. It’s fun seeing what others have come up with. Why I am I doing it? Since I have no drawing talent or very little, I did this to encourage others to participate and put their work out there as well. It’s just a fun activity to do for the month.

I am also participating in a Halloween card exchange with a bunch of Holmes fans. For that I think I am going to be using puppets and photography to my advantage. More on that as I get it done.

So creative projects galore now I just need to sort them out in order of priority.

I am grateful for a plethora of different kinds of projects.