i pretty much
spent the whole day
sleeping
and now it's like six o'clock and here i
am wide awake and i kind of just want to
chill
and make some art for the fun of it and
when i say chill and make some art i
mean like
let's
do a coloring book you know like i
haven't done that in a long time this
isn't something i would normally film
either but you know i kind of just want
to show you guys
fun stuff that i just like do sometimes
coloring books are more of a rare
occasion for me but i
felt like doing this so i found this
thomas kincaid disney coloring book on
amazon i got it on sale when it was
seven dollars the price in the back says
12.99 i believe this is the same
coloring book chloe used in one of her
videos
so if you want to see like more disney
coloring
check out her channel so yeah i'm just
in the mood to color and oh my goodness
i just realized something this is so
cool look at this
they have a colored version and a not
colored
for all of them this is
this is precious i love this let's pick
out a page to do together
look at how cute this book is this is a
good feeling book i really
enjoy
the way it feels it also smells good in
case you're wondering
okay
i am actually not a fan of mickey mouse
so i'm not doing that
oh this one
oh my goodness
i love beauty and the beast hmm
okay keeping this in mind this one would
be kind of fun
but also like no
okay
[Laughter]
we're off to a great start
i like this one a lot
oh this is so cute
oh my goodness
okay i might keep this one in mine too
oh this is so cute too
[Music]
i like tangled okay it's between this
one and the beauty and the beast one how
stinking cute okay so we're either gonna
do a cottage
the tangled scene
or
this beauty and the beast theme
i think i might start with this because
this is one of my favorite disney movies
i just got out my pencil sharpener and i
realized it was full
so if you guys want to see all the
shavings i just think that's really
satisfying
i use
this little mitsubishi pencil sharpener
a lot of you folks ask about it so i'm
just going to show it to you
this thing is amazing
pulls out nice and steady lead never
breaks
it does eat your pencils quite a bit
though but you get like the best point
in the world and i love it
so it is worth
my pencils being eaten a little faster
for the point that it gives anyway i
will link it below if you
are interested
not sponsored all right folks we're
getting cozy we're gonna make some art
i do have my ipad at the ready
just in case i decide to
watch a movie
but
i kind of feel like talking to you folks
for now
here's the page
look at this painting
i do like that there are the paintings
like right next to this so
you sort of have a reference for like
what colors to use
but also
i don't like being influenced
so i don't know we'll see how i feel
when i'm like done with this page
i feel so
nice this is a really high quality
coloring book
all right let's open up the pencils
i just got this set
and
i'm pretty excited to use these which is
kind of funny because i always said i
would never go back to prismacolor and
then here i am enjoying prismacolor
again but
yeah really helps if you have a good
pencil sharpener
goodness gracious this thing
comes with so many pencils i haven't
even like sharpened them all to my
liking yet but hey
this is cool feels like christmas it's
like a giant rainbow vomited on my desk
i love it
first i think i will block in her gown
[Music]
ah now that i'm doing this i kind of
want to watch a disney movie while i
color
so i think i'm gonna voice over for a
little bit
i don't think i'm gonna finish this
tonight so
we'll probably be back tomorrow
so i am going to start this coloring
page by blocking in everything so i know
where i'm at
and then later we will do layers
we will start shading
and just see where
i don't know the session takes us
i know this type of video is not
something that i would typically make
and i know there are probably people out
there thinking
wow you are an artist or an art channel
and you're seriously just coloring a
coloring page like that's not original
come on do something more
[Music]
i just want to i guess talk about why i
am doing this and
i hope that when you hear my thoughts on
this
it
is encouraging for you to especially if
you are a creative person
so
i have been kind of
thinking about the concept of rest a lot
lately
and how
vital it is for
the human experience i mean
if we
constantly just work and try to
create or
do our side hustles or whatever it is
it gets really exhausting and it leads
to burnout and i feel like i don't know
just backing away and looking at
the way
our society has elevated hustle culture
i want to
really elevate rest
and that's something that's been really
important to me
especially the last couple months um as
some of you know i am pregnant with
twins right now
and i have really been enjoying resting
there's been a lot of peace in it
it's allowed me to process a lot of my
own life and be more present
and
i guess doing art like this
like a coloring page
it's really nice because
for somebody like me i'm not the best
with words especially
speaking candidly and i don't have time
to process things i'm probably not going
to say exactly what i'm thinking that's
just the type of person i am
i need time to back away
and just process my life
so i typically do that with art art
allows me to like hash out my thoughts
regroup them come back to people talk
about what i think
and
doing coloring pages
and just really simple stuff like this
kind of takes the pressure off of me
having to create something that's
amazing like a masterpiece or some new
painting or
constantly trying to do the next biggest
best art thing that i've ever done
i enjoy these little moments where
yes i'm an artist but let me enjoy
somebody else's art i will color in
their line work very gladly
and it is restful for me because i'm not
planning out the art i'm just
existing and
resting and
not really stressing about
how it's gonna look
i mean honestly at the beginning of this
whole thing i think i mentioned
there's this reference painting that
thomas kincaid did on the other page
and maybe i'll like it and maybe i won't
and i found that once i started coloring
i realized you know
my mind is tired and i want to
zone out watch a movie
process some things in my own life and
not
stress too much about the artistic
process
so i used that page as a reference
and i'm sharing this with you not to
i don't know
not to come off as like
i'm not trying or i'm lazy or something
but to
remind you folks that
our worth is not
measured in our productivity
and you are allowed to do stuff like
this
if you're an artist like seriously
you don't have to create some
masterpiece all the time or keep
constantly pushing yourself and wearing
yourself thin and
brainstorming what's next you know
sometimes
one of the most recharging things is
something as trivial as a coloring page
and i'm really really really glad i did
this because
it was a nice reminder not to take art
so seriously
it was a nice reminder that again rest
is very important
and
i think it also just helped me
remember that
art is
and can be a very playful thing and
i think sometimes as artists we get so
caught up in taking things so seriously
and i don't know just a coloring page
like this it made me feel like a kid
again and
i
i'm really thankful i bought this this
was a really good seven dollars
like well spent
i'm really happy about it
so i hope this is inspirational for you
i know this is again not my usual type
of content but i just wanted to talk
about what was on my mind and
color this page
[Music]
all right folks i finished this off
camera because there are like some
little details
that
i just kept adding
but
this is how it looks
it is not much different from this page
honestly i used it as a reference but
i enjoyed this process
and i guess if there's anything
that i want to share with this video
at the end here
is that
artists don't need to
measure their worth in productivity
like we do not need to be cranking out
new pieces all the time
and
a lesson that i've really been
soaking in lately and i've already
mentioned it earlier in the video is
rest it is so important and doing stuff
like this a coloring book
that another artist has already planned
out and i'm just
going with the flow it is so therapeutic
and it kind of
gives my mind a chance to relax
and
recalibrate my own
artistic goals or just think about life
i highly recommend this coloring book
though it is the thomas kincaid disney
dreams collection coloring book
this is not sponsored i paid for it with
my own money so yeah thank you for
watching i hope you enjoyed this
i know this isn't my usual content but
i just kind of needed to chill and do
something different and this sounded
really fun have a fantastic day i will
see you when i see you and that's it
bye