[** Update: downloads are archived after two months—or more—so patrons have plenty of time to access them. Sometimes it’s much longer! I removed these over a year after posting…  I’m making the post public when I archive the downloads, so more of you can see the idea and the process. Feedback welcome! —Kir, February 2021 **]

Happy Friday! Apparently I like mice and umbrellas. (You may have seen this drawing, or the rubber stamp, or various other drawings…). Well anyway, 

I’ve been super busy at work—the Museum one—trying to get an art show hung. One of the things I noticed in this year’s selection (which we did in April) is perhaps more mixed media and prints of digital collages. So when I was prepping the files and previews for this month’s coloring page download, I did a digital underlay of color and printed that, then began adding colored pencil for shadows and textures. Here’s the WIP… I might finish it I might not, but it was a helpful stretch for how I think about coloring. 

How do you color things? 

A note: the digital files for you to download are a little different than the one above! When I went through my process of transforming the original Tiny Tin Series drawing to a coloring sheet, I took out most of the dots in the gills of the mushroom, the darkening in the ear, and most of the ticky marks of fur. I just though you should know. And let me know if that’s a good thing or not!

Note 2: June’s sheet is almost ready too! Look for it at the end of the month and then I will be caught up with that! Huzzah!