Passionistacolorista

Johanna Basford is back with a new book: 30 days of creativity, a book you can use to kick-start your creativity - with cute things to color, small drawing projects and doodling pages. It all begun during a tough time in Johanna´s life, when "10-minutes-a-day" drawing "meditations" helped her a lot, and now she wants to spread the concept. We also talk about why she loves the cute robots in the new book so much, the benefits, and disadvantages, with internet and social media, and how to stay positive and not compare yourself with others all the time. And if you find a coloring book somewhere - already colored in by someone - it can actually be Johanna´s lost book! This - and a lot more - in this chatt with Johanna Basford.

The illustrator Millie Marotta is back with a new adult coloring book - Secrets of the ocean - a book filled with sea creatures - something Millie´s fans have asked about for a long time. As Millie lives by the sea, and walks on the beach every day, it´s also a book very close to her heart. In this episode she talks about her new book and how it feels to see it out in the world. We also talk about how she has been during the pandemic and why she loves to draw animals and nature so much. And since the last time I spoke with her she has started to color herself - which I of course had to ask about!

Meet the talented colorist Karen Valentine, from US. Or artist really, because she thinks that all of us coloring in coloring books are artists, and something we should be proud of doing. In this episode you´ll get a lot of inspiration and great tips and tricks, (and if you´re like me, you´re going to be very tempted to buy some of Karen´s favorite products when you hear her talk about them....) Some of the things we talk about in this episode: How it all started, why she loves the black Schpirrer Farben so much, how she uses gel crayons for backgrounds and how she did amazing pet portraits without being good at drawing. This interview was made in June 2021, and is the first episode of two, with Karen Valentine.

Welcome to this episode with mixed media artist Jane Davenport. She has done five best-selling books - and two of them are coloring books (Whimsical girls and Whimsical and wild). She does a lot of art videos and tutorials on Youtube and Facebook and she even have her own brand with art supplies. In this episode she explains how everything started and gives a lot of great tips for coloring and art journaling. She also talks about why it´s so important to follow your heart and not compare yourself with others. And of course: How - and why - you always must trust the mess!

In this episode you´ll meet Katerina Bobarykina, skilled colorist, and illustrator of two own coloring books: Ethno Spirit and Spirits of the past. As colorist Katerina loves the books by Hanna Karlzon, Maria Trolle and Kanoko Egusa, but she always wants to change the pictures to make them look more realistic. In this episode she gives her best tips for how to cover the black lines in the books with white Posca pen, and use colored pencils on top. She also talks about how she learned to draw, and how important it is to experiment and follow your inspiration.

In this episode you´ll learn more about how the popular Colouring Heaven magazines are made, and get to know the person behind it - Jenny Cook, from Bristol in UK. She has worked with several other creative magazines before, but this time it´s more emotional for her. She has a close connection with the coloring community, to be able to see what people like to color. AND she´s also a great colorist herself. We are talking about the magazine, Jenny´s own coloring, her creative background, how she comes up with ideas for the issues, and the big Masterclass held last year, where colorists from UK met up in Bath to color, chat and meet Jasmine Becket Griffith. Welcome to listen! / Isabell (Passionistacolorista)

If you love fairytales AND to color in adult coloring books, this is the perfect podcast episode for you! I have invited back the dutch illustrator Masja van den Berg, to talk about her latest coloring book, Masja´s fairytales. A book filled with beautiful illustrations from fairytales you probably remember from your own childhood, or have been reading for your kids or grandchildren.

She makes fantastic, creative and artistic backgrounds, with Neocolor II, pastels, acrylic paint, and lately, even oil paint. In this episode you´ll meat Irini Malliora (@irini.arts on Instagram), from Greece, who love to experiment with backgrounds in the coloring books. We talk about how it started, how she have become so good, what "Stars coloring team" is, how she change the pictures from the books before she´s starting a new page and a lot more! Happy listening! / Isabell

I can now send LIVE on Podbean, which I might test some time. This was my first test today, and if you missed it you can listen to the upload, and maybe you will be able to join live next time!

Johanna Basford is back with a new book, and a new mission: To make more people dare to draw their own pictures. In this episode we talk about her new book, "How to draw inky wonderlands", her upcoming drawing school, her 6 month social media sabbatical, her favourite podcasts and a story about how a teacher almost destroyed her drawing hapiness ones upon a time.

Meet the multi-talented, and extremely creative, colorist Karen Zaback, maybe more known under the name Zucchinikitty. She is a master of using Distress Ink, and other kind of inks, in the coloring books, and in this episode she gives us a lot of great tips if we also want to try to use ink in our books.

She loves to color faces and hair, and to help illustrators to promote their new books. In this episode you´ll meet Selina (@coloured_by_me), and get to know more about her and her fantastic coloring-teqniques. We are talking about pencil pressure, toned paper versus the books, bokeh backgrounds, gold, fur and hair. And why she doesn´t have a Youtube-channel. She also talks about her new project: A coloring book, with portraits, where some of the money will go to charity.