I’m not the most patient person in the world. In fact, impatient is probably one of the top 10 words some would use to describe me.
I was also never a child who liked using a colouring book. I liked dot-to-dot, and activity pads like word search and crossword puzzles, but colouring always seemed rather pointless.
So I really don’t get this colouring-in business for adults. All those fiddly lines…. How would you colour properly with standard pencil crayons (colouring pencils)?!
I posted a pic on Instagram – the one below – and a few of you weighed in and told me it’s quite soothing and such.
I do agree because I actually finished colouring this picture on the day I was meant to be studying for exams so yes, it is a great procrastination tool 🙂
One of my twins, Connor, likes colouring so I printed out some of the pages from Leonie Dawson’s colouring book and he and I will do those pages together.
There’s a difference though – Leonie’s pages are not fiddly, and so I can colour with pastels, crayons and colouring pencils.
So then I realised two things… I don’t like to strain my eyes on a so-called enjoyable activity so the designs have to be easy on my eyes, and I really like to use stationery that will bring me joy, not frustrate me.
Now I can enjoy a bit of colouring with Connor (and it helps – he’s a quality time child!) while sneaking kisses, and I can play with lovely stationery!
Well I think you know exactly how I feel about this? And funny enough -= I like the very tiny fiddly ones.
This is definitely your thing 😁😁😁
I LOVE colouring in. It IS relaxing. Always have. That said, my preference is always text (like graffiti-style images)and non-fiddly images.
Text would be my preference too!
I actually find it pretty relaxing. I have several fiddly books at home, and an app on my phone (colorfy)that I use most days. I think it’s a way for me to play with colors and relax, kind of a wind-down for my brain.
The Colorfy app has a 9-shade color palette each day (voted on by users), and each evening I pick a random picture and use that day’s color palette. And then add filters to make it fun (for example, you can make it look like your picture is painted on a wooden fence. That’s one of my favorites)
Melanie, that app sounds like such fun. Thanks for sharing – I will have a look!
I love it too, but recently have not been getting enough time to indulge in it. I also like the fiddly ones because with the bigger images/spaces you can see the lines the colour pencils leave when you are colouring in (that’s my OCD coming in). Now if I could just get a bit more time to enjoy this hobby.
Not my thing and I doubt I would ever like it. I’ve never liked it. Like you I would rather do dot to dot and word searches. Talking about I saw an intricate dot to dot the other day in exclusive books