{"id":1020,"date":"2020-06-12T16:16:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-12T20:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.metasilk.com\/wd\/coloring-goodness-for-may-2020-mouse-brella\/"},"modified":"2020-06-12T16:16:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-12T20:16:00","slug":"coloring-goodness-for-may-2020-mouse-brella","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metasilk.com\/wd\/coloring-goodness-for-may-2020-mouse-brella\/","title":{"rendered":"Coloring Goodness for May 2020 \/\/ Mouse-Brella"},"content":{"rendered":"

[** Update: downloads are archived after two months\u2014or more\u2014so patrons have plenty of time to access them. Sometimes it’s much longer! I removed these over a year after posting… \u00a0I’m making the post public when I archive the downloads, so more of you can see the idea and the process. Feedback welcome! \u2014Kir, February 2021 **]<\/em><\/p>\n

Happy Friday! Apparently I like mice and umbrellas. (You may have seen this drawing, or the rubber stamp, or various other drawings…). Well anyway,\u00a0<\/p>\n

I’ve been super busy at work\u2014the Museum one\u2014trying to get an art show hung<\/a>. One of the things I noticed in this year’s selection (which we did in April) is perhaps more mixed media and prints of digital collages. So when I was prepping the files and previews for this month’s coloring page download, I did a digital underlay of color and printed that, then began adding colored pencil for shadows and textures. Here’s the WIP… I might finish it I might not, but it was a helpful stretch for how I think about coloring.\u00a0<\/p>\n

How do you color things?\u00a0<\/p>\n

A note: the digital files for you to download are a little different than the one above! When I went through my process of transforming the original Tiny Tin Series drawing to a coloring sheet, I took out most of the dots in the gills of the mushroom, the darkening in the ear, and most of the ticky marks of fur. I just though you should know. And let me know if that’s a good thing or not!<\/p>\n

Note 2: June’s sheet is almost ready too! Look for it at the end of the month and then I will be caught up with that! Huzzah!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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