[Gemme]

Originally Posted by GeorgiaMa'am

Thanks for the feedback! Lately it seems like the most crafty thing I want to do is color. The autumn leaves have really inspired me. I was thinking that we could have a coloring exchange with two parts. First, find something you want to color, whether it's something you find in a book or something you draw yourself. Next, before coloring it, make a copy/copies of it - so you can send a blank one along with your colored picture to each person. The goal is to exchange not only pictures we have colored with each other, but also to send uncolored versions so that we can all have new things to color in our own way.

A couple of guidelines:
1. Color a picture of anything you want. If you want to make something out of your colored picture, that is fine too, but the primary object is to color the paper.

2. Any medium is fine - color pencils, crayons, markers, but if you use some of of the messier tools, like pastels, then please spray with a fixative before sending. If you want to use some other method of decoration, like stamping, that is fine too, but it must also involve some coloring.

3. I'm willing to go up to anything 8-1/2 x 11, but please keep it flat, unless you don't mind folding it.

4. This is a guideline that some may object to, and I'm willing to discuss it. However, I'd like to say that, for this project, photocopying is okay. I often color large pictures with a lot of detail - it can take me a couple of weeks to color one picture. I'd prefer to color something large and detailed and make copies of it to send to every participant. The alternative would be coloring several small, not-as-detailed pieces, which doesn't excite me as much.

Does this sound like a project that any of you would be interested in?

I'm not a 'colorer' per say but I did purchase an adult coloring book a while back to use some of the pages in my background for mixed media so I have something to work with in this project and it would give me a chance to use up some of my pencils and markers.

This would be new for me so I'd absolutely love to give it a shot. I'll keep my eyes open for the sign up for it!

I would like a tiny bit of clarification re: the blank copies. Is it required that it be the same picture or can we send additional, similar pictures?

It's no sweat either way; I'm just splitting hairs.