And we are finally here! My most favorite cemetery in the United States. St. Louis Cemetery #1 in New Orleans, LA. Today we will finish up the cemetery background, focusing on the lampposts and brick pillar to the gate. And hold on to your hats! Next weekend we will be coloring in the ghosts.
My two most favorite cemeteries must be in my most favorite city in the country, New Orleans. A couple of blocks from where we stay in the Garden District is Lafayette Cemetery #1. Come take a tour with me.
This weekend will be wrapping up the rest of the cemetery. Today we will be working on some of the smaller items on the right-hand side; like the branch and gate and wrapping up today’s coloring with the grass on the hill.
I love a pleasant stroll through any old cemetery; the further back in time the headstones go, the better. The artwork is beautiful, and I find some of the messages inscribed very interesting. Whenever I go out of town, I try to find a day-time historical tour of that city’s most haunted cemetery and then after the sun goes down, out for a good old fashioned ghost hunt. Talking about cemeteries, today we are starting on the cemetery beginning with the mausoleums and headstones.
This has got to be my favorite color-along so far! Anything to do with Halloween, ghosts, the paranormal, I am ready and eager to participate. Let’s kick-off this ghostly graveyard with the moon and the clouds.
We finally get to all the pretty blue colors of the parrot and practice more of our feather technique. Sadly, this is our last day of this color-along. I had so much fun coloring this picture with you. I really hope you enjoyed yourself too!!
We have been waiting for a whole week to start on this beautiful blue and yellow parrot. Although this is a coloring page, we will be referring to an actual picture to make it as realistic as possible. We will be starting on the front half of the bird today and finishing up the blue feathers and the tail tomorrow.
Are you ready for the big reveal today? Also today, we will begin to use our colored pencils for the leaves and the trees in the background.
It’s another Happy FunDay! I hope you all had a good week. We are finally back down at our beach home. This all puts me in a tropical, island mood; and what is more fitting to color than a tropical blue and yellow parrot flying through the jungle? The only issue is that backgrounds frighten and intimidate me. I have never really completed a good background successfully. This picture however, needs a background, so we are going to give this one a try and see how it turns out.
Down to the last piece of this picture! We will be working on the pomegranate. It is fairly easy, the technique is similar to the apples, but instead of the pink highlight, we will be using purple. The only difficult part of this is the teeny tiny little seeds. They were a major pain, but don’t worry I will show you how I did those.
Happy FunDay! I hope your week was a good one with not too many problems. Did you get to finish the apples and basket? Did you have any problems? We will be wrapping up this page this weekend. Today I will be showing you how to color the honey jar to look like bright, shiny, thick ooey, gooey honey.
How did your apples turn out? Did you get some good quiet and relaxing time? I sure hope so! Coloring always helps me clear my mind, forget about my troubles, and relax. Today we will be working on the basket. It may look a little complicated, but it is so easy once you learn the technique. You just need to repeat the process on each small section.
When I was thinking about what to color for this week, I thought about “In the Beginning” and what is the most well known “In the Beginning” story? Yep, Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden and a forbidden fruit, which traditionally was an apple. So, that is what I went with; but, instead of coloring just one apple, I found this cute basket of apples with a pomegranate and honey jar.