Whether you are new to coloring or have been coloring for a while you may have heard of grayscale, but may find yourself a bit unsure about what it is, and that's ok! Grayscale coloring has started becoming more and more popular within the coloring community but has not really had the same mainstream appeal that normal coloring has. In this post we will try to explain what grayscale coloring is, share some tips on coloring grayscale, and hopefully convince you to give it a try yourself. What is Grayscale...

Have you ever seen a coloring design colored by two different people and even though the design is exactly the same, the finished coloring can look completely different? Well the truth is that some colorists take things to a whole different level and use professional artistic strategies to create some pretty amazing effects. Here are some the techniques that professionals use to create those amazing pieces. Use a spare piece of paper behind coloring design Coloring from Instagram by @mtalbac This is a good tip especially if you are coloring a...

Here at Creatively Calm Studios we love adult coloring books and since we know you do as well we wanted to provide you with a way to celebrate all matter of holidays with your favorite hobby. We have researched for hours and hours looking for the best coloring books with which to celebrate some of the most popular holidays. So this year when a holiday rolls around come back to this blog and get yourself the appropriate coloring book. The Best Saint Patrick’s Day Adult Coloring Books In this post you...

We are all emotional creatures, whether you feel angry, afraid, happy, or sad what you surround yourself with and the activities you do can have a huge impact on how you feel. Thankfully today there are so many different coloring book designs out there that they can match just about any emotion. Feeling Angry? How Mandala Coloring Pages Can Help We can all get angry sometimes, it’s totally normal. It is important however to be able to control your anger because if it gets out of hand it can begin...

Johanna Basford is a Scottish artist best known as one of the pioneers of the adult coloring book movement and her illustrations have been featured in brand campaigns by companies like Sony, Nike, and Starbucks. We decided to do the hard work for you and come up with a list comprising of what we think are her 3 best coloring books so that you can spend more time relaxing and coloring than researching on the internet. 3. Lost Ocean: An Inky Adventure and Coloring Book for Adults This coloring book...

When we are working on our coloring books for adults, we strive to perfect our masterpiece. We aim to get the most beautiful color scheme and the perfect stroke when coloring.  There are actually a lot of things that can affect the quality of our color design. One of them, believe it or not, is how we display our gel pens. It may not be very popular many but displaying your gel pens can affect the quality of your coloring. However, you need not worry because we have already done...

One of the things we love about coloring is choosing your coloring materials. There are a lot of super fun choices.  You can go from color pencils to gel pens to wax crayons. You name it! What is even more fun is that you can even try to mix them up but do they really work? Well, we have got mixed reviews on this one. Some say yes while some say no but before we judge this concern ourselves; let us first go through the pros and cons of each...

If we all go back in time and take a look at society from a different perspective, no one would be able to predict that adult coloring books would be the next biggest trend. Furthermore, nobody would be able to foresee that it would be such an enduring fad. But now that it’s there, and everyone seems to be enjoying its relaxing benefits, we might as well learn how to do it properly. After all, it does exercise the creative parts of our minds. We are so much more skilled...