Journal 52, Week 10: Coloring book inspiration and more

For Week 10 of Journal 52, we were asked to grab a coloring book, or draw our own images and color them.

So, this evening, after my friend Scott fixed my scanner, I give you my "Color"ful birds and step you through how I created them.

Since I don't have little ones (except those with four legs), I have no coloring books.  And I was not about to try to draw anything.  So I went to the internet and found coloring pages I could work with.  I was going to fussy cut these, then decided I preferred to cut around them because I didn't want to accidentally cut one of the black lines.

I painted the dirty, used file folder white, then, before the paint was dry, I added the images.  I didn't have to worry about cutting part of the black outlines, because I accidentally painted over them instead!

I needed the paint to dry, so showered, went grocery shopping, then grabbed this very, very old set of crayons from my basement studio.  

Imagine how shocked I was when I returned with the crayons to find this mess I had caused by not using a fixative on my printer inked images.   And even though the file folder and images were not dry, it was too late to turn back now, though.

I thought I would take a photo of these very old crayons, that have barely been used.  I bet we all wish they were that price now!  48 crayons for less than $1.00 (USD)

I tried to color these using these old crayons, and I also tried to cover the mess I had created as best I could.  I hope the mess isn't too distracting.

And because these birds also qualify for the challenge prompt "Things With Wings" at Art Journal Journey, I'm entering this journal page there, too.

Thanks as always for visiting and for your generous and kind comments.