The beauty of having the Coloring Pages is that you can take them out of their book and give them as a gift.
Then there is the case of my wonderful daughter, who took the book I gave her as a gift and had her friends color pages to relieve the stress of their midterms (as well as to create a wonderful Birthday Gift for her Mom!).
Today I want to take you on the journey of the creative process that evolved into The Doors of Marfa, TX: Coloring Pages.
Joseph and I were in Marfa, TX.
We began to sketch the door across the street from our rental home. On returning home, I saw a series in these sketches, inked them in and began to create finished drawings such as this one.
This is one of the abstracted sketches of the door we loved. It is taken directly from the sketchbook.
Now I am immersed into the possibilities for this series so I begin to enlarge some of them for a series of works on canvas.
This is one of the works on canvas shown tacked to my drawing board as it rests on my easel.
After finishing the works on paper and I was starting the painting series, Joseph and I thought that these images would make a great coloring book. So we began to curate a selection and vectorize the drawings.
Door #33 in the series of 52, vectorized and ready to color.
The wonderful surprise I received for my birthday was the coloring of the entire book by Veronica and her friends. They told me what a great stress relief it was to take time out during midterms to put color to paper. I was so touched that they went to such trouble to be so creative. I am just loving the results. Thanks wonderful young people.
Here are 2 examples of the same door #33……I am always blown away by the myriad interpretations…..
Above: This door was finished with some gorgeous cool shades of watercolor. Thanks Rachel Below: Finished by Veronica. Thanks for everything wonderful daughter.
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