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[Poodlepet2]

@gacat123,many of us expressed ideas of where to buy, pencils and materials etc

...I honestly don't remember asking anybody about what they thought about this craft or hobby.

.....yet, people have to diss....and this is not aimed at you at all.....

....but many have forgotten about the role that coloring by hand, cell by cell,was an important job skill, and those skills were employed in so many posters and films during WW II-and beyond.....

What is the need to try to take our simple pleasure from us? We know we are not doing anything original, and I really don't remember asking about anybody's opinions......

Would you ever ask who practises yoga and what kind of clothes they wear, the environment they practice in etc?

Yoga seeks for inner peace and calm, as we do out of coloring

For those who do this, enjoy playing...whatever you want! "Shading, gradients, shading, cross-hatching: "They who criticize don't matter, and we don't need to make ourselves legit.

We enjoy what we do and that's what matters

Poodlepet2!

[chiclets]

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@TenderMercies wrote:

Coloring books for adults is so 2015.  I'm sure this idea will be featured in one of those "I Love the 20 Teens" type of VH1 shows where celebrities discuss the embarassing trends of the years gone by.  It will be featured shortly before the embarassment known as the Fidget Spinner from 2017.  

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Your comment made me chuckle.

Some said Woodstock was an embarrassment but I still feel the love.

The psychedelic has changed to a multicolored, mind-expanding kaleidoscopic trip....coloring.

Just sharing.

[Kachina624]

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@x Hedge wrote:

Good call @Kachina624.

My own mother supplied me with blank paper of every type & crayons, paints, pencils; colored construction paper & scissors, glue, tape;  modeling clay (no play doh for me).

The only coloring books I used were at friend's and I was amazed at the degree of effort they devoted to staying inside the lines. And, Boy! Did they take pride in their superior ability to do so. There was a lot of compliance, but creativity was almost nil.

I didn't like coloring books. First I couldn't make my own picture. Then there were limitations on how I was "supposed to" color it. Friend's trees were always black or brown. I remember them sneering at my deep red tree, to which I'd added extra branches. 

In coloring books I'd draw in my own background features on the blank part of the page, put hats on hatless heads, add markings to blank dogs, turn shirt & shorts into suits with ties, etc. I'd just obliterate those lines!

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@x Hedge  You obviously had creative, well-informed parents.  I was lucky in that department too.  I love your calling staying in the lines "compliance".