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edenfalling) wrote2015-09-12 03:20 am
edenfalling) wrote2015-09-12 03:20 am
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fun with coloring books, part three
I finished off my stained glass coloring book listening to three podcasts of varying length, and have started in on my weird geometric pattern paper coloring book. That one is vicious and evil on my wrist, because the shapes are so small and fiddly and colored pencils have much smaller tips than big Crayola markers so they fill space at a much slower rate. I think I may toss that book out after I finish the one pattern I started and print out some mandalas or something instead.
But anyway, pictures!
The first pattern has no particular significance, but the second and third are, respectively, the associated color sets for Nesta of the Waves and the Serpent: two of the Estarian Trinity from my Firsthome stories. (The Star is not represented because his/its colors are white, black, and occasionally gray, which struck me as defeating the basic purpose of stained glass.) Nesta gets blue-purple-gray because she's a sea/water goddess, and red because her other main symbolic association is blood. The Serpent gets green-brown for the earth, and yellow-orange for fire. (Dreams and lies do not have colors and are therefore not represented.)
The fourth pattern is a weird color scheme that I am somewhat ambivalent about, but hey, if experiments all worked out flawlessly they wouldn't be experiments. And the last one is just a classic four-color combo that I knew was going to be excellent, because I wanted to finish this series on a high note. :D
(You can find the previous seven stained glass coloring pages in this post with five patterns and this post with two patterns, or you can look at all fourteen pages at once here on imgur.)
But anyway, pictures!
The first pattern has no particular significance, but the second and third are, respectively, the associated color sets for Nesta of the Waves and the Serpent: two of the Estarian Trinity from my Firsthome stories. (The Star is not represented because his/its colors are white, black, and occasionally gray, which struck me as defeating the basic purpose of stained glass.) Nesta gets blue-purple-gray because she's a sea/water goddess, and red because her other main symbolic association is blood. The Serpent gets green-brown for the earth, and yellow-orange for fire. (Dreams and lies do not have colors and are therefore not represented.)
The fourth pattern is a weird color scheme that I am somewhat ambivalent about, but hey, if experiments all worked out flawlessly they wouldn't be experiments. And the last one is just a classic four-color combo that I knew was going to be excellent, because I wanted to finish this series on a high note. :D
(You can find the previous seven stained glass coloring pages in this post with five patterns and this post with two patterns, or you can look at all fourteen pages at once here on imgur.)
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I was at a big - very big - book fair, with all manner of publishers present, each with a booth. (It was held in a park). I spent two-three hours going from booth to booth excitedly buying books at discount prices (not everything I saw! - there was one beautiful atlas (sigh) that I reluctantly turned down - huge, with wonderfully detailed maps) - but just on the way out, I saw colouring books - not patterns, though - gorgeously intricate pictures of gardens and traditional costumes from around the region - and thought of you. :)
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Yes, I am still alive
Re: Yes, I am still alive
(I do all this because I need something to keep my hands occupied and thus eat spare brainpower while I listen to audio-only things; I cannot otherwise maintain focus for more than a couple minutes. Sewing works -- I have hemmed a fair number of pants and made a bunch of repairs while listening to podcasts -- as does something as trivial and pointless as arranging loose popsicle sticks into geometric patterns. Coloring books were just what I had on hand most recently, when I got tired of needles and thread.)