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.     

Meet the passionate - and skilled - colourist Barbara, from Belgium. She loves Johanna Basford, Prismacolor pencils and to follow along with colouring videos on Youtube. We also talk about  how she learned to colour on her own, how long it takes her to finish a page and why she loves her older, not as skilled, pages so much. Barbara is also one of few (the only?) who makes videos, and livestreams, in both french and english. (As I can´t speakfrench, this interview is made in english!)

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!  

In episode 64 I talked to Karen Valentine about her coloring journey and how she started to draw pet portraits earlier this year. Since we did that chatt, in June this year, much have changed in Karen´s art life, so we did a new chatt, this October, that you can listen to here.    This is episode 2/2 with Karen Valentine.