Wow! 🎈✨I was so surprised and thrilled to see your RUclips video featuring my pet coloring book! Your work is truly beautiful, and I’m incredibly impressed by your talent. Thank you so much for your wonderful comments about the quality of the illustrations, and for your valuable feedback on areas for improvement 🙌 Your insights are greatly appreciated. I can't wait to see the images you choose to color next! ✨😃🖍️
Hi Beck - never thought of a colouring book as a "painting" or that it's a way to learn shading.... These are very nice and you did a great job. Thx for showing us.
I love watching you colour it's so fascinating to me! I'm 100% a dog person but do find kitty's cute! I loved both pictures but think the cat one just edged it for me, lovely colours, and your other colourings were great too! :D
A lovely relaxing video to end my Saturday. Becky, that cat is *STUNNING* . Soo beautiful. When I was youger, I seriously couldn't cope with cats, but we had a dog as a pet. He wasn't a good pet, but I've always loved dogs, and dogs know it, coming up to me with great confidence, much to some of their human's amazement. One couple got really worried when their smallish dog briskly came right up to me, tail curling over his back, tongue hanging out, as apparently usually, he was really aggressive. That dog and I had a lovely few minutes together before they had to move on. Those interludes with animals and children are very, very special to me!!! My habit with animals and chlildren is to stand still , hands by my side, (a smile for the children) and a gently "Hello." as they approach, and just keeping relaxed, even when the animal looks a little / a lot aggressive, and though I've had some rapid heartbeat moments, so far, it's always worked. A silver-tip reef shark swam close to me one time. I was in shallow water, very still, as I'd been fish watching by a large-ish coral teeming with a fish nursery, small children of the bigger fish on the reef further out. That was a joyous encounter - I was thrilled to bits to see such a beautiful creature so close!!! It took no notice of me, but just swam quietly passed. When I married, my husband, who'd never had a pet, wanted a cat, but I'd told him how I felt (couldn't cope!). He dropped the subject, but a little while later, I brought home a little brown bundle of fur, and so our cat dynasty of five evolved over 30 years (the single, then when he was killed, two, then as in time, each of those died, we got another to keep the lonely one company). The last one died just before I left my husband. My cat-loving husband turned out not to be unduly bothered about their care, and very soon, each in turn became far more 'my' cats - not just cupboard love because i fed and cared for them but because we, the cats and I, simply enjoyed each other's company. My habit with animals and chlildren is to stand still , hands by my side, (a smile for the children) and a gently "Hello." as they approach, and just keeping relaxed, even when the animal looks a little / a lot aggressive, and though I've had some rapid heartbeat moments, so far, it's always worked. A silver-tip reef shark swam close to me one time. I was in shallow water, face down,, one hand on the bottom to steady me, keeping very still, as I was fish watching by a large-ish coral teeming with a fish nursery, small children of the bigger fish on the reef further out. That was a joyous encounter - I was thrilled to bits to see such a beautiful creature so close!!! It took no notice of me, but just swam quietly passed. I'm guessing you're heading to warmer, Northern climes for your road trip? I don't remember seeing colouring books or (even more surprising) any coloured pencils in your art bags video, though. Just a lot of markers. Did I miss them? Anyway, bon voyage, Becky and Nick!!! 🤗 Safe journeying, and happy times vibes waftng your way, wherever that is!
@@MrsBarnabas I like dogs too, but haven't really had a lot of experience with them (caring for them etc). We just end up with cats that think they're dogs! 🤣 We're heading west this time, hopefully all the way to Perth! It's an ambitious road trip, and we did our first main day of driving, to Adelaide. I actually didn't pack a colouring book! I nearly did but decided I was overloaded already, and then I'd want pencils etc....the car is so full it's ridiculous! 🫣
@@BeckyTregear _".the car is so full it's ridiculous!"_ Maybe for a standard week or two, but for a full month, I fully get why you're taking so much!!! And if you do miss the colouring, I guess there'll be places en route where you'll find something. I've just looked at Google maps (and discovered that for some reason in my mind, I'd put Adelaide _ East_ of Melbourne - no idea why, as I at least know where all the main Australian cities are - normally, anyway). That's a looong way!!! The map says 3,421 kilometres! The furthest south I've travelled, and by air, is 1,666 km, East, 8,141.55 km, and the furthest west, 6057 kms, but all by air. I can't quite imagine 3,421 kilometres by road. It's funny to think that if things had turned out differently when I was seventeen, I might have been living "Somewhere" in Australia via a £10 ship ticket, at a time when Australia was begging for qualified nurses. I'd had an Aussie penfriend for several years, but the idea to move was fairly short-lived. By the time I'd done my first year of training, I knew for sure that the destination was to be France. 🙂
The cat is definitively from another world. Stunning. I'd love to see more pictures coloured from this book. That German Shepard is quite the contender for sure. Cheers from Italy. Dan 🧡
I love how realistic the pet subjects of the coloring book is. I know what you mean about sometimes not wanting to use realistic colors, haha the blue and purple cat turned out super cute! I used to have so many of those parakeets/budgies as pets when I was a kid! Lovely winter gallery display😍
@@AlexisCassandraArt Thank you! Budgies are so cute and I love seeing them in the wild occasionally, though we tend to get bigger parrots in our area of Melbourne. Maybe I'll see some more as we travel across Australia. 😊
Cat person here, through and through, but I like also dogs, horses, Guinea pigs, dolphins. Eh, who am I kidding? I love’m all! So, I might be a little biased when I’ll say: my god, that cat is g o r g e o u s!!! Thank you, Becky ❤
I love some of the art in the Amazon printed books, but I wish the paper was better. It is terrible for markers. Not the bleed through you mentioned, but it also bleeds on the page and it will go across all your lines so it's hard to get detail and you have to try and avoid edges. If you colour a larger area and need to circle back to a spot to finish the colour, they will not blend and the original part will look darker and it will be streaky. You actually have to then use pencil over the top to fix and smooth out. I kind of imagine the paper itself is absorbing a lot more ink than a nicer paper, which will kill the markers really quickly too. I've bought and colour a few of the Amazon books and won't buy them anymore for those reasons. I do still use markers, but I'm frustrated by the the issues. I've never actually been to the FTG library, but in early 2020 before covid, I started a weekly bike ride and I would finish at the park and ovals there (10k from home). I remember the very last time I did it, and I arrived and the Knox festival was on. It was a surprise to me and such a lovely morning. It was beautiful. That day everything changed. It was 1st March 2020 and I never did the ride again as that month changed our lives. I actually haven't used my bike at all since.
@@lozantoninocreations Yes, the paper drinks up markers quickly! Pencils only for this book, I'd say. 😬 A lot of things fell by the wayside thanks to Covid. Also me with bikeriding, lol.
@@BeckyTregear As soon as you mentioned "budgerigar" I thought "yeah, 'budgie smugglers'" 🤣 Your colouring turned out great. The colours of the bird are beautiful. My grandma had some, in a tiny cage - that was the "fashion", poor birds; at least they had some toys and each day she let them fly in the living room. The cat colouring is gorgeous; I like the green eyes and the light yellow background, that cat looks royal 🙂
I am 100 dog person .I cant stand cats . I want a chihuahua puppy .....love your coloring and the book. thank you for sharing . Hope you are having a super fun and wonderful holiday xxxxxx
@@awatercolourist I've left the boom at home so I can't do anything for a few weeks anyway. Maybe when I see it again I'll be able to make a decision! 😂
Wow! 🎈✨I was so surprised and thrilled to see your RUclips video featuring my pet coloring book! Your work is truly beautiful, and I’m incredibly impressed by your talent. Thank you so much for your wonderful comments about the quality of the illustrations, and for your valuable feedback on areas for improvement 🙌 Your insights are greatly appreciated. I can't wait to see the images you choose to color next! ✨😃🖍️
@@christinabolander Your illustrations are really lovely; I think I'll colour some dogs next...that german shepard in particular! ❤️
@@BeckyTregear Yes 🙌 Is it okay if I share the link to your video on my Instagram? 😃
@@christinabolander You sure can! 😊❤️
Wow, Christina, your book is great!
@@MirandaWatsonArt Ooo, thank you! That’s so nice to hear-you just made my day 😃✨🙌
I’m not great at coloring books but going to a library to color with a group sounds fun. 🎉
It's a great group, and everyone has different levels of experience and ability, so it's fun to learn from each other. Mostly we just chat, haha!
This is such a great coloring book! I love how some of the shading is already done in the greyscale. Your coloring was top-notch!
Thank you! Greyscale always helps so much with shading.
Cats! 🎉 both me and my dative are super impressed!
Hi Beck - never thought of a colouring book as a "painting" or that it's a way to learn shading.... These are very nice and you did a great job. Thx for showing us.
I love watching you colour it's so fascinating to me! I'm 100% a dog person but do find kitty's cute! I loved both pictures but think the cat one just edged it for me, lovely colours, and your other colourings were great too! :D
Thank you! I like dogs too but I'm more experienced with having cats as pets so they always win for me. Their aloofness is part of that too, lol.
A lovely relaxing video to end my Saturday. Becky, that cat is *STUNNING* . Soo beautiful.
When I was youger, I seriously couldn't cope with cats, but we had a dog as a pet. He wasn't a good pet, but I've always loved dogs, and dogs know it, coming up to me with great confidence, much to some of their human's amazement.
One couple got really worried when their smallish dog briskly came right up to me, tail curling over his back, tongue hanging out, as apparently usually, he was really aggressive. That dog and I had a lovely few minutes together before they had to move on. Those interludes with animals and children are very, very special to me!!!
My habit with animals and chlildren is to stand still , hands by my side, (a smile for the children) and a gently "Hello." as they approach, and just keeping relaxed, even when the animal looks a little / a lot aggressive, and though I've had some rapid heartbeat moments, so far, it's always worked.
A silver-tip reef shark swam close to me one time. I was in shallow water, very still, as I'd been fish watching by a large-ish coral teeming with a fish nursery, small children of the bigger fish on the reef further out. That was a joyous encounter - I was thrilled to bits to see such a beautiful creature so close!!! It took no notice of me, but just swam quietly passed.
When I married, my husband, who'd never had a pet, wanted a cat, but I'd told him how I felt (couldn't cope!). He dropped the subject, but a little while later, I brought home a little brown bundle of fur, and so our cat dynasty of five evolved over 30 years (the single, then when he was killed, two, then as in time, each of those died, we got another to keep the lonely one company). The last one died just before I left my husband.
My cat-loving husband turned out not to be unduly bothered about their care, and very soon, each in turn became far more 'my' cats - not just cupboard love because i fed and cared for them but because we, the cats and I, simply enjoyed each other's company.
My habit with animals and chlildren is to stand still , hands by my side, (a smile for the children) and a gently "Hello." as they approach, and just keeping relaxed, even when the animal looks a little / a lot aggressive, and though I've had some rapid heartbeat moments, so far, it's always worked.
A silver-tip reef shark swam close to me one time. I was in shallow water, face down,, one hand on the bottom to steady me, keeping very still, as I was fish watching by a large-ish coral teeming with a fish nursery, small children of the bigger fish on the reef further out. That was a joyous encounter - I was thrilled to bits to see such a beautiful creature so close!!! It took no notice of me, but just swam quietly passed.
I'm guessing you're heading to warmer, Northern climes for your road trip? I don't remember seeing colouring books or (even more surprising) any coloured pencils in your art bags video, though. Just a lot of markers. Did I miss them?
Anyway, bon voyage, Becky and Nick!!! 🤗 Safe journeying, and happy times vibes waftng your way, wherever that is!
@@MrsBarnabas I like dogs too, but haven't really had a lot of experience with them (caring for them etc). We just end up with cats that think they're dogs! 🤣
We're heading west this time, hopefully all the way to Perth! It's an ambitious road trip, and we did our first main day of driving, to Adelaide. I actually didn't pack a colouring book! I nearly did but decided I was overloaded already, and then I'd want pencils etc....the car is so full it's ridiculous! 🫣
@@BeckyTregear _".the car is so full it's ridiculous!"_
Maybe for a standard week or two, but for a full month, I fully get why you're taking so much!!! And if you do miss the colouring, I guess there'll be places en route where you'll find something.
I've just looked at Google maps (and discovered that for some reason in my mind, I'd put Adelaide _ East_ of Melbourne - no idea why, as I at least know where all the main Australian cities are - normally, anyway). That's a looong way!!! The map says 3,421 kilometres!
The furthest south I've travelled, and by air, is 1,666 km, East, 8,141.55 km, and the furthest west, 6057 kms, but all by air. I can't quite imagine 3,421 kilometres by road.
It's funny to think that if things had turned out differently when I was seventeen, I might have been living "Somewhere" in Australia via a £10 ship ticket, at a time when Australia was begging for qualified nurses. I'd had an Aussie penfriend for several years, but the idea to move was fairly short-lived. By the time I'd done my first year of training, I knew for sure that the destination was to be France. 🙂
These look so good, what a fun book ☺☺
Thank you, and it's a great book! 😊
The cat is definitively from another world. Stunning.
I'd love to see more pictures coloured from this book. That German Shepard is quite the contender for sure.
Cheers from Italy.
Dan 🧡
Thank you! I love some of those dog pictures; maybe I'll colour in a couple next time, including the German Shepard.
The cat is fabulous Becky! ❤ I can totally believe that it took you a few more hours to do. 😊
You are a wild and wonderful colored pencil artist! Your cat is delightful. Fun library display
I'm exactly like you, Becky. Cat mad but don't dislike dogs. I love Guinea pigs too. Yes indeed a darker yellow circle would look even more lovely.
Thank you, I definitely need to darken that yellow. Guinea pigs are cute! 😄
I love how realistic the pet subjects of the coloring book is. I know what you mean about sometimes not wanting to use realistic colors, haha the blue and purple cat turned out super cute! I used to have so many of those parakeets/budgies as pets when I was a kid! Lovely winter gallery display😍
@@AlexisCassandraArt Thank you! Budgies are so cute and I love seeing them in the wild occasionally, though we tend to get bigger parrots in our area of Melbourne. Maybe I'll see some more as we travel across Australia. 😊
I bought a copy 🎉😅
@@KarenKhen94 I hope you enjoy your book! 😊
Very nice!
I'd love to see you do some time lapse videos coloring some of these adorable animals!
I'd like to colour in some of the dogs next, I think!
The both turned out beautifully, that cat is especially stunning 😍
@@kayleighshaw21 Thank you! 😊
Cat person here, through and through, but I like also dogs, horses, Guinea pigs, dolphins. Eh, who am I kidding? I love’m all! So, I might be a little biased when I’ll say: my god, that cat is
g o r g e o u s!!! Thank you, Becky ❤
Thank you so much! I love animals in general; they make life so much better.
A bit more yellow would be more beautiful....I think...🤗
Cats are my favorite too😊
Yay, cats are the best! 😆
I love some of the art in the Amazon printed books, but I wish the paper was better. It is terrible for markers. Not the bleed through you mentioned, but it also bleeds on the page and it will go across all your lines so it's hard to get detail and you have to try and avoid edges. If you colour a larger area and need to circle back to a spot to finish the colour, they will not blend and the original part will look darker and it will be streaky. You actually have to then use pencil over the top to fix and smooth out. I kind of imagine the paper itself is absorbing a lot more ink than a nicer paper, which will kill the markers really quickly too.
I've bought and colour a few of the Amazon books and won't buy them anymore for those reasons. I do still use markers, but I'm frustrated by the the issues.
I've never actually been to the FTG library, but in early 2020 before covid, I started a weekly bike ride and I would finish at the park and ovals there (10k from home). I remember the very last time I did it, and I arrived and the Knox festival was on. It was a surprise to me and such a lovely morning. It was beautiful. That day everything changed. It was 1st March 2020 and I never did the ride again as that month changed our lives. I actually haven't used my bike at all since.
@@lozantoninocreations Yes, the paper drinks up markers quickly! Pencils only for this book, I'd say. 😬
A lot of things fell by the wayside thanks to Covid. Also me with bikeriding, lol.
I am a dog person, I like cats but I am allergic to them. In Canada we call that bird a budgie.
@@suzannehulton2571 Budgies here too! And budgie smugglers for men's speedos 😂
@@BeckyTregear As soon as you mentioned "budgerigar" I thought "yeah, 'budgie smugglers'" 🤣
Your colouring turned out great. The colours of the bird are beautiful. My grandma had some, in a tiny cage - that was the "fashion", poor birds; at least they had some toys and each day she let them fly in the living room. The cat colouring is gorgeous; I like the green eyes and the light yellow background, that cat looks royal 🙂
Lovely book and that budgie is gorgeous but I don’t colour 😢
Oooh a new hobby is on the horizon for you now, haha! 😂
@@BeckyTregear can't afford another hobby I'm broke already 🤣
I am 100 dog person .I cant stand cats . I want a chihuahua puppy .....love your coloring and the book. thank you for sharing . Hope you are having a super fun and wonderful holiday xxxxxx
@@bethmegansmith4642 Thank you so much, we are having fun! 😊 Our neighbours have a tiny chihuahua, she is a bundle of furious energy! 😂
@@BeckyTregear 🥰
I’m not sure about darkening the yellow circle behind the cat. It might create less contrast in the painting.
@@awatercolourist I've left the boom at home so I can't do anything for a few weeks anyway. Maybe when I see it again I'll be able to make a decision! 😂
@@BeckyTregear Good idea!
I think these are AI, beautiful none the less 👍
@@marcofranse3554 You'll have to ask the author but I am pretty sure they are her drawings. 🙂