Hi, my name is Teresa Roberts Logan
and I'm the author of such books
as The Older I Get the Less I Care,
Posh Coloring Paisley's and Posh Coloring Mandala's.
And I'm here to make videos
because I wanna show you some tips on coloring
and color schemes and how to have more fun
just in general with your coloring.
You can probably see on my table,
I have tons of art supplies.
I'm a professional artist,
I've been doing this for forever.
I'm obsessed with art supplies
and I've taught a lot of classes.
So I have a whole ton of samples of different supplies.
You don't need all this stuff.
I brought this stuff to the table
to start showing you how much fun you can have
with different things.
So let's just flip through this a sec.
I've got all sorts of designs in here that I did
and we'll just pick one and start coloring on it
with whatever colors we like.
Let me see, let's just pick.
How about this one?
I don't like this kind of funky, swirly one.
And I'm gonna pull right now,
I'm gonna show you some watercolor pencils.
They make all kinds of brands of watercolor pencils
and the way you can tell if they're watercolor pencils
is on the box that will say water soluble
or it'll say watercolor pencils.
And also, if you've got your stuff piled up
on your table like this, like I do a lot
and you get them mixed in,
you can always tell your watercolor pencils
because they're gonna have a little emblem on them.
Can you see that?
That's like a little drawing of a water brush
or they're gonna have a drawing of a paint brush
or a little water drop or something that will tell you
this is a watercolor brush.
One of the reasons I like using these
is because they're devised for watercolor,
they are thicker and juicier and more pigmented.
And by that I mean they're more full of color
because they want you to be able to dip a brush in water
and it turns into watercolor.
That's why they call them watercolor pencils.
And so they're kind of awesome
because so you can use them to do this watercolor
in your brush and these pages that most coloring books
are made of are not made of watercolor paper.
But if you don't use tons of water,
you can use watercolors in your brush
and continually like use all kinds of different colors
from your watercolor pencils right next to that.
And you don't have to use the paint brush though
with them, of course, you can just color in
and start kind of shading out things.
Another cool thing you can do
is you can use chalks or pastel pencils.
Now I just have some Conti crayons here
and they are basically chalk, you know.
And so if you have kids chalk at home
or whatever, try that too.
Maybe you do this, you can do this
and smear that around.
You can also take q-tips.
This is my cool Pinterest thing I got.
This is a Parmesan cheese dispenser with q-tips in it.
And you can use that and smear that around.
And if you're worried about it smearing more
than you want it to, you can just fix it
with hairspray that you get.
I always get hairspray, get these little cans,
travel cans that you get at your local drug store.
And you can use that as a spray fix
on any sort of pastels or anything like that.
You can also, of course, use pens.
I'm not gonna get to pens today
and I'm not gonna get in depth
on many of these things I'm introducing you to.
But I wanted to show you those really basic quick things.
And also that you can, of course,
buy your normal little watercolors
that you buy in the store.
You can buy kids sets of watercolors for a dollar
at the dollar store.
Or you can go and pay for nicer sets
of watercolors at the art store.
And it just depends on if you're getting the colors
that you want.
Are you getting the kind of variety of colors
that you want to use in your coloring book?
Now, as you see, the way that I get this lighter
is I just kind of add more water
and spread it out to the tip.
Then I always have a rag handy and come back
and lift up some of it and see what I have left.
That's what I'm gonna do for today for y'all.
And I will keep making videos
and keep introducing more things to you
as well as going in depth on more of these things.
Maybe someday I'll show my face, not today.
I'm kind of scary looking right now.
And I don't know if you're ready for that today.
Thanks a lot, y'all.
Bye-bye.
