• Coloring practice

    More background studies

    April 13, 2026

    I’ve been having so much fun creating backgrounds that I decided to continue the party!! I just received my beautiful Paul Rubens oil pastels in the mail and played around with those in the first two images- I absolutely love how pretty these turned out– both in a completely different way! They’re both soft and dreamy but the first is shadowy and melancholic where the other feels ethereal. It’s a whole vibe!

    The bottom two pages are me laying the base for oil pastel work over top. I wanted to take these Hanna Karlzon and Maria Trolle illustrations and weather them a bit using my Distress Inks before applying oil pastels tomorrow! I’m super excited to continue adding color to these beautiful pages! 🤩

    Tools used: Paul Rubens Oil Pastels and Tim Holtz Distress Ink

    Art: Imaginary Friends by Karolina Kubikowska, Seasons by Hanna Karlzon and Moon valley by Maria Trolle

  • Coloring projects

    Midwinter night

    December 28, 2025

    So three I realized it’s almost Christmas and therefore high time to do some holiday coloring! I picked a couple of pages from Karolina Kubikowska’s compilation coloring cards book, Memories and then promptly forgot all about them until approximately a week ago.

  • Coloring projects

    Latte Kitty

    December 12, 2025

    When I was flipping through Imaginary Friends by Karolina Kubikowska, my eye kept being drawn to this adorable scene, even though I’m positively TERRIFIED of coloring people- I’ve never successfully colored hair or skin before. But as it kept calling to me, I impulsively decided to bite the bullet and tear this page out so I could color it!

  • Coloring projects

    Icy bird and castle

    December 2, 2025

    I just finished my first page in Karolina Kubikowska’s Imaginary Friends (2nd revised edition) and I could not be more excited!! I started this piece in September, mostly to see how the paper does with water soluble media (gorgeously!), and then figured I might as well color the whole thing. After laying the base layer, though, I’d let it sit for two months because I was in the mood for Halloween coloring.