I have wondered what I would do with all those pages I would have colored. Turning the smaller ones into cards would be a great idea.
Ha ha...a couple years ago it was Paw Patrol for Liam...by the time I left their house I knew the name of all the dogs and the boy. They were just rolling out a new pup when I left, it was a girl is all I remember. He also liked Doc McStuffins and The Bubble Guppies.
To get this post back on track (my fault as usual) I only color when I'm at my son's house and only because I love my grandsons...coloring...not so much.
I could never stay inside the lines as a kid, and I'm sure I haven't gotten any better with age. So, no thank you. Hoot the Poodle
My wife suffers with Alzheimer's and in a nursing home. I keep her supplied with adult color book. Her favorite is some of the Disney characters. It seems to relieve some of the stress.
My wife's Alzheimer's was slow in developing. She got started coloring through her doctor. The coloring moved to fabric painting and then she thought she'd like to embroidery. I really thought it was a long shot, but tooling up was affordable. She began turning out some stuff. So I began searching for some way to display it and decided on quilting. I learned how to sew from You Tube and then bought a sewing machine. She embroidered 68 blocks and I sewed them up using quilting-as-I-went method. It could have been larger, but we worked nearly a year and we were out of gas. It was one of the last things she was able to accomplish.
Once I went to the library reference room to do some research on local history where you are supposed to be able to do you work undisturbed, and there sat a half dozen old biddies coloring and talking about their soaps. Yak yak yak.
Good for you for getting on board with it. Sewing is one of those things I always wish I had learned to do, especially when buying window treatments. I used to do a ton of needlepoint, and even got to the point where I would buy some large 1/4" mesh and knitting yarn, and churn out freehand Christmas ornaments while watching TV. So sorry about your wife. My mother had Alzheimer's which went to dementia (was in her 80s at the time.)
I started using adult coloring books about three years ago. I accumulated the supplies, did a few colorings but stopped doing it for about 14 months. I'm back in the books now but I also use digital coloring apps. I have one in which I choose the colors and Happy Color, a color by number that I downloaded a couple of months ago. While I feel I need to be more focused and creative using the books, both methods are very relaxing
Since i got the Pigment online coloring app, I have been really enjoying coloring and “painting” with the app. they have a free version for the iPad, and a premium version, which has more color palettes, and different type of printing styles and tools. It does oil, chalk, watercolor, and special techniques also. I am working on learning how to take our old photos and I put them into the app and then color them, and I like doing that. I have posted on here in another thread, the picture I did of the old ranch house where my folks lived when i was born, and it is awesome to see it in color like I remember it from when I was a kid. Some pictures are just for having fun, and you do not have to be an artist to enjoy coloring with this app. Anyone who colored when they were a kid can do it, and they have hundreds of pictures, or you can import your own and color those. Here is one especially for my friends here that have been writing about their visiting raccoons…..
It has been a long-time habit of mine to read in the evenings, before bed. Now, I read for a while , and when Bobby says it is time for melatonin (a half hour before he starts turning lights out for bedtime), I switch over to my Pigment Coloring App and color until we go to bed. My first objective was to color because it is easier to just stop at bedtime, whereas with a book, there is that “need” to finish the chapter before going to bed. However, I have discovered that the coloring seems to put my mind into a really relaxed place, and also a creative one. Sometimes, I lie in bed and think about what I want to change on th picture that I was coloring before I went to bed. I really like the variety of choices to color, too, because sometimes, I want something more complicated (like a landscape painting), and sometimes just a simple line drawing that does not take much time and effort. I noticed that there are a lot of different allowing apps , some of them are just a coloring book, and some are more like a paint-by-number . I din’t expect to enjoy it as much as I actually do, and I am glad that I took up this simple hobby. Pigment has daily pictures for people to color, as well as a lot of books, and you can search for whatever you want to paint. This is one of the daily pictures , and it was fun and easy to do. They have a special brush that makes the little background swirls.