Children's Hospital Mother's Day Donations - Thank you so much!

As many of you know, I am an adult coloring book illustrator and owner of Coffee and Coloring.  I started Coffee and Coloring when I discovered how much coloring helped me manager my anxiety.  I wanted to help others find way to deal with stress, anxiety, or just life in general. 

My child was a patient at Monroe Carroll Jr. Vanderbilt Children’s Hospital many times when he was an infant toddler due to a seizure disorder and other ailments.  I knew how stressful sitting in a hospital room day in and day out worrying over your child could be.  I decided to raise donations for adult coloring books to give to the mother’s of the children at the hospital for Mother’s day.  I wanted to bring a little joy, if only for a brief moment to the mothers who were dealing with the stress of their children during this holiday.  I reached out to colorists and other illustrators around the world and asked for donations for this cause.

I was amazed at the amount of donations.  Colorists from around the world donated over 100 coloring sheets, and 900 crayons.  I donated over 100 copies of her adult coloring books, including Inspired by Nature and her newest coloring book, Whimsical Patterns, Vol. 1, the bags to hold the goodies in, over 500 colored pencils, and 50 pencil sharpeners. Between illustrators Anne Manera, Andrea Schmitz, Sue Chastain, Heidi Berthiaume, Alice Jackson, Tamera Cameron, Melanie Topp Steeves, and Maria Castro over 250 coloring books, 100 colorable post cards, 50 clip boards, and other coloring related items were donated.

Due to the large number of donations from everyone, I was able to not only raise the amount of Adult Coloring Mother’s Day packets that Vanderbilt requested, but also had enough left over to donate packets to the post partum floor of St. Thomas of Rutherford. 

Because of these donations mothers at both hospitals were able to get a special package to enjoy while caring for their child for their child during an extremely stressful time in their lives.

To learn more please visit:

Erica Henry (Coffee & Coloring)

Website: www.coffeeandcoloring.com

Amazon: www.amazon.com/author/ericahenry

Facebook: www.facebook.com/coffeeandcoloring  

Anne Manera

Website: http://www.annemanera.com/

Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/artbyannemaneracoloringbooks

  

Andrea Schmitz

Website: http://inkovator.com/

Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/Inkovator

Sue Chastain

Website: http://www.suziqcreations.com

Heidi Berthiaume

Website: http://www.vintagecoloring.com    

Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/vintagecoloring

Alice Jackson

Website: http://www.imageryfrombeyond.com  

Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/imageryfrombeyond  

  

Tamara Cameron

Website: https://colorbinge.com/   

Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/824809224278211    

Melanie Topp Steeves

Facebook: www.facebook.com/topplinedesignphotography & www.facebook.com/melanie.t.steeves

Etsy: www.etsy.com/shop/topplinedesign

Maria Castro

Website: www.ScriboCreative.com

Enews (sign up for a free sample pack): www.scribocreative.com/enews

Instagram: www.instragram.com/ScriboCreative

Twitter: www.twitter.com/scribo_creative

Pinterest: www.pinterest.com/ScriboCreative

YouTube: www.youtube.com/c/ScrioCreativeBooks

Facebook: www.facebook.com/ScriboCreative

Amazon:www.amazon.com/author/mariacastro

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You don't want to miss this event

I know you love freebies and interacting with the creators of coloring books as well as colorists, so I have some big news for you! Myself and 9 other coloring book creators have pooled together to create a HUGE Facebook event for you.  There will be tons of prizes and freebies so don't miss it.  Watch the video below to learn more.  Also, don't forget to scurry over to Facebook - via the link below - to grab your seat for this event happening this week.

You don't want to miss this huge Facebook Event!  We've pooled together 10 top selling adult coloring book authors to help me spread some good cheer! You don't want to miss this - everyone wins! Join us here---- http://inkov.at/easterbonanza

P. S. There are already freebies posted in the event and it hasn't even officially started yet!

Ever thought about coloring grayscale images?

I have been seeing colorist post the absolutely realistic images that they've colored all over Facebook.  Well, you know me, I had to find out how they did it.  I started chatting with one of the members of a Facebook group that had posted this type of image.  It turns out, she had colored a grayscale coloring book.

I started researching this type of coloring, and tried my hands at a few, and I was hooked.  So hook actually that I have a whole series of this type of coloring book planned for 2016.

Coloring a grayscale image can be intimidating at first, but just let your creativity flow by following the natural highlights and shadows.  The image has done all of the hard work of figuring out where the lights and darks should be; use it as a guide to bring the image to life.

If this peaks your interest take a look at the tutorial below that shows how to color in a grayscale image.  As a bonus, I've included a copy of the kitten from this video so you can color along side me and try out these techniques!

Get your copy of the kitten I'm coloring in the tutorial here.

Take a look at the video tutorial above.