The end of Color Our Collections Week

I have had such fun with the coloring pages distributed by those participating in the Color Our Collections worldwide event- over 50 libraries, museums, and universities released coloring pages from their collections: book illuminations, illustrations paintings. I played all week, and in playing, my coloring skills improved. Exponentially. I tried all of the media I had on hand: crayons, markers, and colored pencils (sometimes combining all of them). The books and pages are still online and available for downloading. You can find them here, and here, and if you follow those links, you'll probably find more. The event was so popular that many libraries, including my local branch, have instituted Coloring Nights.

Here are the rest of the pictures I colored this week:

I posted all of the pages to Instagram, and the museum who released this page said they were the most gorgeous intestines they'd ever seen. I will treasure that compliment forever...

I do not know who this giant cow-stealing child is.

This one is my favorite of the whole week. I call him Roygbivoceros

I made a GIF of the progression of this one. I've seen this painting in person, at The Getty. I started with markers, and then used colored pencils to deepen and shade the page.

Here's a still of the end product. Note that hands are not my forte... heh...

I did one more official page, but I'll save that for tomorrow, with an explanation of how I got from printed page to finished dragon.

The Getty- Paintings

We visited The Getty in LA last month. I was mesmerized by the paintings. Photography is allowed, but no flash, so some of these aren't as sharp as I'd like (plus you have to snap very quickly in the rare moments when no one is standing directly in front of a painting), but man... it was amazing.

 Well, some photography wasn't allowed. It wasn't allowed in the Canterbury Psalter traveling exhibit- something I didn't know until after I snapped this one.

 Louis XIV

Still Life

Tapestry closeup

Perseus

shoot, I can't remember the title or artist of this one

Degas ballerina

Van Gogh- weaver

 I can't find a link for this one. Added later: Good grief, how could I forget... Renoir

 Van Gogh Irises

Rabbit from early 1500s

Studio of DaVinci

This guy has a meme

Monet Cathedral

Monet

Rembrandt- I stood and gazed at this one for as long as my family allowed me to. It spoke to me in a way no other painting has. The light in his sad eyes, the brushwork on the metal mantle, the sparkle of the hat band, the softness of the feather, the fine stubble hairs. This man actually existed, he lived. And he still lives in this painting.