Passionistacolorista

Meet the colorful pop surrealism painter, Camilla d'Errico, the illustrator of the three Pop Manga coloring books. In this episode we talk about how it all started, her long love for manga, her passion for colorful painting and why Pop Manga Cute and Creepy is her favorite of her own coloring books. We also talk about her next coloring book - filled with dragons!

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.

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.

Are your fineliners - like mine- collecting dust? If so, this is the perfect episode for you! Bex Harris does amazing, colourful and happy coloring pages, using colored pencils and fineliners - or just fineliners. Bex is known under the name Colour Bright Bex, on Instagram and Youtube, and she has a lot of great tips for how to use markers and fineliners in the books.

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!

Meet Olivier Odorant (as she calls herself on Instagram and Youtube) - a colorist, who´s work always put a smile on my face. She likes to draw and colour cute pictures, and finds inspiration from anime and Disney movies - much like myself. She´s also a great tutor and I have learned a lot from watching her videos. In this episode we´ll talk about how she started to draw and color, why she loves coloring books so much, how she likes to cover black lines with white gouche, why it´s important for her to feel happy when she´s colouring, and the importance of not comparing yourself to others. And why she´s not told her family back in Vietnam about her big passion.

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.

Meet the amazing colorist, Morena Vajak! In this episode you will learn how her coloring passion started, what she uses for highlights and shades, what her favorite papers are and why she likes Posca for black backgrounds. And a lot more!

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)

The situation in the world, with the coronavirus pandemic, is scary for most of us. We are dealing with this in different ways, but lucky for the coloring community, Johanna Basford´s way of coping is helping us aswell! In this episode we are talking about how creativity have helped Johanna to feel better during these times, and why she has choosed to do livestreams on Facebook almost every day during the lock-down. We are also talking about her free coloring book Flourish, and her next book, that will be released next year. She is also giving her best reading/listening/watching-tips for the summer.

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 has a passion for coloring, journaling and drawing mandalas, and also a passion for spreading the joy of creativity to others. Meet Naty Arbeláez, known under the name @atonofcolors, and hear her best tips for how do draw mandalas, do beautiful galaxies and for finding hapiness in the creative process itself - regardless of the result. (If you wonder why we don´t mention Corona / Covid-19 it´s because we did this interview months ago - before the virus started to spread... ) / Isabell

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

Meet the illustrator behind the coloring books "The Buns", Penelope´s Garden" and "Everyday magic". She once was a editorial make up artist, but wanted to do something else, so she could be home more with her family, and she has always loved to draw.

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!

The art helped her through a depression, some years ago, and today she makes coloring pages for other people, mainly for her club members in Creative Happy Life Club. In this episode you´ll meet Kim White, from Bristol in UK. We talk about why drawing is so important to her, how she uses her I-pad when she creates, how important it is with self care, the "comparison trap", the Creepy Colouring Collaboration and a lot more!

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.