Passionistacolorista

Meet the colorful pop surrealism painter, Camilla d'Errico, the illustrator of the three Pop Manga coloring books.    In this episode we talk about how it all started, her long love for manga, her passion for colorful painting and why Pop Manga Cute and Creepy is her favorite of her own coloring books. We also talk about her next coloring book - filled with dragons!  

Johanna Basford is back with a new book: 30 days of creativity, a book you can use to kick-start your creativity - with cute things to color, small drawing projects and doodling pages. It all begun during a tough time in Johanna´s life, when "10-minutes-a-day" drawing "meditations" helped her a lot, and now she wants to spread the concept.   We also talk about why she loves the cute robots in the new book so much, the benefits, and disadvantages,  with internet and social media, and how to stay positive and not compare yourself with others all the time.    And if you find a coloring book somewhere - already colored in by someone - it can actually be Johanna´s lost book! This - and a lot more - in this chatt with Johanna Basford.     

Meet the passionate - and skilled - colourist Barbara, from Belgium. She loves Johanna Basford, Prismacolor pencils and to follow along with colouring videos on Youtube. We also talk about  how she learned to colour on her own, how long it takes her to finish a page and why she loves her older, not as skilled, pages so much. Barbara is also one of few (the only?) who makes videos, and livestreams, in both french and english. (As I can´t speakfrench, this interview is made in english!)

The illustrator Millie Marotta is back with a new adult coloring book - Secrets of the ocean - a book filled with sea creatures - something Millie´s fans have asked about for a long time. As Millie lives by the sea, and walks on the beach every day, it´s also a book very close to her heart. In this episode she talks about her new book and how it feels to see it out in the world. We also talk about how she has been during the pandemic and why she loves to draw animals and nature so much.  And since the last time I spoke with her she has started to color herself - which I of course had to ask about!  

In episode 64 I talked to Karen Valentine about her coloring journey and how she started to draw pet portraits earlier this year. Since we did that chatt, in June this year, much have changed in Karen´s art life, so we did a new chatt, this October, that you can listen to here.    This is episode 2/2 with Karen Valentine. 

Meet the talented colorist Karen Valentine, from US. Or artist really, because she thinks that all of us coloring in coloring books are artists, and something we should be proud of doing.    In this episode you´ll get a lot of inspiration and great tips and tricks, (and if you´re like me, you´re going to be very tempted to buy some of Karen´s favorite products when you hear her talk about them....)   Some of the things we talk about in this episode: How it all started, why she loves the black Schpirrer Farben so much, how she uses gel crayons for backgrounds and how she did amazing pet portraits without being good at drawing. This interview was made in June 2021, and is the first episode of two, with Karen Valentine.

Are your fineliners - like mine- collecting dust? If so, this is the perfect episode for you! Bex Harris does amazing, colourful and happy coloring pages, using colored pencils and fineliners - or just fineliners.  Bex is known under the name Colour Bright Bex, on Instagram and Youtube, and she has a lot of great tips for how to use markers and fineliners in the books. 

Welcome to this episode with mixed media artist Jane Davenport. She has done five best-selling books -  and two of them are coloring books (Whimsical girls and Whimsical and wild). She does a lot of art videos and tutorials on Youtube and Facebook and she even have her own brand with art supplies. In this episode she explains how everything started and gives a lot of great tips for coloring and art journaling. She also talks about why it´s so important to follow your heart and not compare yourself with others. And of course: How - and why - you always must trust the mess!

Meet Olivier Odorant (as she calls herself on Instagram and Youtube) - a colorist, who´s work always put a smile on my face. She likes to draw and colour cute pictures, and finds inspiration from anime and Disney movies - much like myself.  She´s also a great tutor and I have learned a lot from watching her videos. In this episode we´ll talk about how she started to draw and color, why she loves coloring books so much, how she likes to cover black lines with white gouche, why it´s important for her to feel happy when she´s colouring,  and the importance of not comparing yourself to others. And why she´s not told her family back in Vietnam about her big passion.  

In this episode you´ll meet Katerina Bobarykina, skilled colorist, and illustrator of two own coloring books: Ethno Spirit and Spirits of the past.   As colorist Katerina loves the books by Hanna Karlzon, Maria Trolle and Kanoko Egusa, but she always wants to change the pictures to make them look more realistic.  In this episode she gives her best tips for how to cover the black lines in the books with white Posca pen, and use colored pencils on top.  She also talks about how she learned to draw, and how important it is to experiment and follow your inspiration.

Meet the amazing colorist, Morena Vajak!    In this episode you will learn how her coloring passion started, what she uses for highlights and shades, what her favorite papers are and why she likes Posca for black backgrounds. And a lot more! 

In this episode you´ll learn more about how the popular Colouring Heaven magazines are made, and get to know the person behind it - Jenny Cook, from Bristol in UK.  She has worked with several other creative magazines before, but this time it´s more emotional for her. She has a close connection with the coloring community, to be able to see what people like to color. AND she´s also a great colorist herself.  We are talking about the magazine, Jenny´s own coloring, her creative background, how she comes up with ideas for the issues, and the big Masterclass held last year, where colorists from UK met up in Bath to color, chat and meet Jasmine Becket Griffith. Welcome to listen! / Isabell (Passionistacolorista)

The situation in the world, with the coronavirus pandemic, is scary for most of us. We are dealing with this in different ways, but lucky for the coloring community, Johanna Basford´s way of coping is helping us aswell! In this episode we are talking about how creativity have helped Johanna to feel better during these times, and why she has choosed to do livestreams on Facebook almost every day during the lock-down.  We are also talking about her free coloring book Flourish, and her next book, that will be released next year. She is also giving her best reading/listening/watching-tips for the summer. 

  If you love fairytales AND to color in adult coloring books, this is the perfect podcast episode for you!  I have invited back the dutch illustrator Masja van den Berg, to talk about her latest coloring book, Masja´s fairytales. A book filled with beautiful illustrations from fairytales you probably remember from your own childhood, or have been reading for your kids or grandchildren.   

She has a passion for coloring, journaling and drawing mandalas, and also a passion for spreading the joy of creativity to others. Meet Naty Arbeláez, known under the name @atonofcolors, and hear her best tips for how do draw mandalas, do beautiful galaxies and for finding hapiness in the creative process itself - regardless of the result. (If you wonder why we don´t mention Corona / Covid-19 it´s because we did this interview months ago - before the virus started to spread... ) / Isabell

She makes fantastic, creative and artistic backgrounds, with Neocolor II, pastels, acrylic paint, and lately, even oil paint.  In this episode you´ll meat Irini Malliora (@irini.arts on Instagram), from Greece, who love to experiment with backgrounds in the coloring books. We talk about how it started, how she have become so good, what "Stars coloring team" is, how she change the pictures from the books before she´s starting a new page and a lot more! Happy listening! / Isabell

Meet the illustrator behind the coloring books "The Buns", Penelope´s Garden" and "Everyday magic". She once was a editorial make up artist, but wanted to do something else, so she could be home more with her family, and she has always loved to draw.        

I can now send LIVE on Podbean, which I might test some time. This was my first test today, and if you missed it you can listen to the upload, and maybe you will be able to join live next time! 

The art helped her through a depression, some years ago, and today she makes coloring pages for other people, mainly for her club members in Creative Happy Life Club.  In this episode you´ll meet Kim White, from Bristol in UK. We talk about why drawing is so important to her, how she uses her I-pad when she creates, how important it is with self care, the "comparison trap", the Creepy Colouring Collaboration and a lot more!  

Johanna Basford is back with a new book, and a new mission: To make more people dare to draw their own pictures.  In this episode we talk about her new book, "How to draw inky wonderlands", her upcoming drawing school, her 6 month social media sabbatical, her favourite podcasts and a story about how a teacher almost destroyed her drawing hapiness ones upon a time. 

She lives in Melbourn, Australia, works as a graphic designer, and have a big passion for coloring books.  In this episode you´ll meet Kristen Lambert-Bedelis, and get to know some of the techniques she is using, when she creates her beautiful colorings in Johanna Basford´s books.  We are talking about shading, pointalism, who she gets inspired by, and a lot more!    

Meet the multi-talented, and extremely creative, colorist Karen Zaback, maybe more known under the name Zucchinikitty.  She is a master of using Distress Ink, and other kind of inks, in the coloring books, and in this episode she gives us a lot of great tips if we also want to try to use ink in our books.    

Meet the professional artist, and educator, Jennifer Zimmerman (@moderncoloring), known for her coloring and tuturial-books.  Hear about her art background, how she first got in contact with the coloring community, and get a lot of great tips and tricks for how to evolve as colorist (for example why it´s so good to use markers as a base layer, before adding colored pencils on top, what you can learn from a color wheel, and why toned papers are so good).  We also talk about her coloring books, Bella Futura and Glamourista, and her two tuturial-books: The secrets of coloring 1 & 2.      

She loves to color faces and hair, and to help illustrators to promote their new books. In this episode you´ll meet Selina (@coloured_by_me), and get to know more about her and her fantastic coloring-teqniques. We are talking about pencil pressure, toned paper versus the books, bokeh backgrounds, gold, fur and hair. And why she doesn´t have a Youtube-channel. She also talks about her new project: A coloring book, with portraits, where some of the money will go to charity.  

Meet the skilled colorista, Betty Hung (@colorartbybettyhung), from Canada, and learn her best tips when it comes to fur, cats eyes , bokeh backgrounds and blending.  We also talk about how she choose colors, why she didn´t become a professional artist and how she ended up in Susan Carlson´s coloring team.  

She is FILLED with ideas, all the time, and she loves to come up with ideas that brings the coloring community together. Meet Becci, known under the name Becci´z Color Escape, on Youtube and Instagram, and hear about how it all started, why she has such big cup of coffee# and how she color skin.  And of course we talk a lot about her latest idea - the BIG community project: #theHK5project - with the goal to finish five of Hanna Karlzon´s books, together, in june and july. (A project I´m also involved in!)      

In this episode I welcome back Maria Trolle, to talk about her latest coloring book, Flora. In this book we can find the girl Flora, and her sister, and a lot of plants and flowers, but also magical and mythological figures, like fairies and trolls and Näcken (a Swedish mythological lake-man) We also talk about her garden and her cat, Lotus, who you can find on many pages in this new book.  You also get to know if she's planning more coloring books in the future.     

Meet Sofie (@coloringsofie) from Sweden, who makes magical things in Hanna Karlzon´s coloring books, with just a few pencils on every page. Prismacolor is the brand she uses and you can follow her process on her new Youtubechannel, where she uploads speed-coloring-videos.  We are talking a lot about two of her favourite pages so far: The lynx-page and the chameleon-page in Hanna Karlzon´s latest coloring book, Själsfränder. She explaines how she picks colors for a page, how she creates light and contrasts and harmony. And you will get some of her favourite color-combos with Prismacolor. And a lot more!

Meet the illustrator behind"A million cats", "A million dogs", "A million bears"and "A million owls" coloring books. Lulu Mayo lives in London, and have made six coloring books (A million sloths and A million unicorns are finished, but not released yet).  In this episode she talks about how it started, why she like chubby animals, especially cats, and what she is working on right now.   

Meet Susan Carlson, the creator of coloring books, art journals and other things, under the name Ruby Charm Colors.  She did a lot of different things in her life before she decided to do her first coloring book. She finds inspiration in the nature, and are working on a coloring book with bugs, that soon will be released. She also recently did two art journals and a planner,  that is a bit different from a regular coloring book.  In this episode she talks about her books, her background, her coloring team and gives her best coloring tips (for example how she likes to use the Irojiten pencils on the pages).   

Meet Belinda, more known as Color with faithfulgirl1978. She has a big youtubechannel, and a popular Facebook-Group, and are actually coloring for a living.  In this episode you get to know more about her, and how it all started some years ago. She also gives her best tips on how to use alcohol markers, how to color hair and how to approach a greyscale picture. And a lot more of course!'

Meet the amazing colorista Anja (@anja.netzkatze on Instagram), who was creative already as a kid, but thought children´s coloring books were to childish. So when the adult coloring books became a thing, she bought her first book, and felt in love immediately.  In this episode we talk about her passion for the coloring, how she does her georgeous pages, why she calls herself a "lazy colorista", and why Polychromos and Neocolor 2 are her favourites. 

Masja van den Berg is the illustrator of "From Holland with love" and "Masja´s mandalas" and is doing adult coloring books for a living.  In this episode we talk about how it started, where she find inspiration, what the mandalas means to her, and a lot more.

She is very romantic, and creative, and is known for her Fairytales and Sagor och sägner coloring books. Especially the last, became very popular, and was reprinted in december 2018.  In this episode you get to know the illustrator Emelie Lidehäll Öberg, from Söråker in Sweden. She is talking about why she started to do coloring books, why 2018 was a really tough year for her, what she is doing right now and if there´s gonna be another coloring book in the future. And a lot more if course! Happy listening!

This CHRISTMAS SPECIAL is filled with beautiful messages to the Coloring community! Merry christmas everyone! 

Jen, from @readingwithpugs is a coloring book reiewer, and knows a lot about what books we can expect in 2019! I this episode we talk about favourites from 2018, and about exciting news for next year! Happy New Year!

  She lives in Norway, have a house full of kids, animals, and coloring supplies. In this episode you get to know May Brox (also known as "May mei") a bit more, and hear her best coloring tips: Like how you can create a glitter-effect, without using actual glitter, and what to think about when you use water mediums in the books that don´t have water color paper. And why she likes the Misfits coloring books so much. And of course the story about how one of her colorings will be the cover for a new coloring book, that soon will be released. 

Matilda Furness convinced me that it was a good idea to make an episode about ME. So here it is, our talk about me and my coloring story. And about this podcast, of course.     

Peta Hewitt has one of the biggest coloring-book-channels on Youtube, and we are a lot of people that have learned a LOT from watching her videos.  In this episode you get to know Peta Hewitt a bit more: Why she started to color, and making videos on Youtube, what her husband does with the videos, why Cream is her shortest pencil and why she has not been able to color, and make videos, as much as before.

Episode 32: PETA HEWITT Peta Hewitt has one of the biggest coloring-book-channels on Youtube, and we are a lot of people that have learned a LOT from watching her videos. In this episode you get to know Peta Hewitt a bit more: Why she started to color, and making videos on Youtube, what her husband does with the videos, why Cream is her shortest pencil and why she has not been able to color, and make videos, as much as before.

  At their first anniversery as couple, Matheus bought a coloring book to Michel. They both realized that they loved to color together, and now they have over 500 coloring books and a huge collection of coloring supplies. In this episode you get to know Matheus and Michel, more known as @math_michel on Instagram, from Brasil.  We talk about some of their beautiful colorings, and where they find inspiration for them. Like the lama, they met on a trip to Machu Pichu, that they named Joseff, and then colored in a book when they came home.  Every day they color two hours together, while talking and listening to music. And they are never afraid of making mistakes in the books, because the experimenting is the thing they like most, no matter what the result will be.

Caroline (@wik_coloring on Instagram), has colored in Hanna Karlzon´s books since 2015, and actually finished Daydreams some time ago. Her dream is to finish all of Hanna´s books someday, and she likes to color the pages in order.  In this episode we talk about Polychromos, Neocolor and black Posca, and Caroline talks about some of her experiments in the books. And why she likes to color gold so much.  (TO MY PATRONS: Just for information, this episode doesn´t have any extra-material!)

Emily Laughlin is a illustrator, and colorista, known for her delicate and beautiful versions of Johanna Basford´s art.  In this episode you get to know her, and what it is about Johanna´s books, fineliners and Ergosoft pencils, that she likes so much.  We also talk about her "rule of three", and how she achieves balance in her pictures.  And of course, what she, and Johanna Basford, talked about, when they met in person, earlier this year!

She has a big youtubechannel, and a popular Facebookgroup, and love to color, her pugs, and reading.  In this episode you get to know Jen, more known as "Reading with pugs", and hear her coloring story. We talk about how it started, why she loves to color Halloween- and Christmas-pictures, why the coloring helps her with her pain, and why she loves glitter so much! 

She works as tattooer, in Warsaw, Poland, and has made three coloring books: Po Drugiej Stronie Snu, Ticket to dreams, and Imaginary friends, that just was released.  In this episode you get to know Karolina Kubikowska, and find out more about her coloring books, and why they are a bit darker than most other coloring books. 

She´s coloring all the time, and make fantastic additions, and transformations, of pictures in coloring books. Her latest coloring is a Halloween-picture, where she completely changed a beautiful woman in Hanna Karlzon´s Magical Dawn, into a scary, angel of death. In this episode we talk about how she did this masterpiece, and how she did some of her other beautiful colorings. We also talk about how her coloring book passion started, in 2015, when her daughter was really, really sick. And how it´s possible that she made one of her best colorings, while she actually was sleeping!

Meet Millie Marotta, the popular illustrator behind the Animal Kingdom, Wild Savannah, Tropical Wonderland, Curious Creatures and Beautiful Birds coloring books.  In this episode you get to know her a bit more, hear about her creative process, and how the coloring book-success has changed her life.  And of course we also talk about her brand new coloring book; Wildlife wonders.

Twice a year there is a big coloring book-meetup in Västervik, Sweden, and it´s so much fun to meet some of your coloring friends IRL!  In this episode I interview five of my friends: persons you maybe already met on Instagram, because they are all active in the community.  You will hear: Marie (@ladynorwega88), Réka (@rekacolour), Anna (@putsomecolortoit), Elin (@elinwallgren83) and Marie (mjaurimakes)

Meet the wonderful illustrator Johanna Basford, the creator of Secret garden, Enchanted forest, Lost ocean, Magical jungle, Johanna´s christmas and Ivy and the inky butterfly. In this episode we talk about her upcoming coloring book; World of flowers and why she loves flowers and leaves so much. We also talk about how her passion for drawing and coloring started once upon a time, and why she thought that coloring books for adults could be a thing, back then, when it didn´t exist and no one else believed in the idea. 

Katrine, @alwayscoloring, inspired so many people in the coloring community, with her art, her livestreams, her laughter and her friendship. After she passed away, very sudden, earlier this summer, a whole community has been in chock. In this episode I talk to two of her close coloring friends, Sarah in Australia, and Angel in US. 

She was such wonderful, talented, kind and popular person in the coloring community, and passed away way to soon, just 23 years old. In this episode I talk to her much loved boyfriend, Alexander.