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Reminds me of something I had written once... One true colour
rest are shades
dip the brush and
paint your way :)
posted by
shamasehar
on May 4, 2016 at 9:15 PM
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interesting study, maybe sil is very good artist and he had a painting he did while locked away in prision which is very similar to the ones you were talking about.
posted by
Lanetay
on May 1, 2016 at 8:32 AM
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I just saw on an NBC show that a guy recycles used crayons and gives them to kids in hospitals. One kid more or less said it was a great escape. With the world is, I know what you and the child mean.
posted by
FormerStudentIntern
on May 1, 2016 at 6:42 AM
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Well in a way it is sad Taps. isn't it similar to doing puzzles?
What would be nice would for folk to paint there own designs or action.
Don't look at me I came last at art in school ,but I was cocky I tried to draw a market scene and my cows looked like rabbits, to copy the vase of flowers should have been my choice.
posted by
C_C_T
on May 1, 2016 at 1:14 AM
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I loved to color as a kid, and also I loved to paint, so I hate to say this, but I think it would make me have feelings of nervousness, though I would try it! I'd rather take a paint brush (and paint) and just go wild with it! 
posted by
Sea_Gypsy
on April 30, 2016 at 7:04 PM
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As you wrote so well, coloring or painting is relaxing for folks like you and me with anxiety issues. Right now I am painting a bird house and it is very relaxing.
posted by
WileyJohn
on April 30, 2016 at 3:31 PM
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Very interesting! I must coinfess that I have disliked coloring since my days in Grade 1, though I have tried my hand at painting, with very limited success, and I have long since given up. Probably because I've always been fascinated with the works of real painters...For me, meditation is a good escape, but also many kinds of books (e.g. Physics!) and also chess...And Trump? Someone needs to take him by the hand and enrol him in a Swiss Finishing School, LOL...
posted by
Nautikos
on April 30, 2016 at 10:23 AM
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I bought a couple of books to color for Wiley when he was really depressed back in the Winter but it isn't his thing. Maybe one day it will be mine altho. I prefer my rocks.
posted by
Kabu
on April 30, 2016 at 10:21 AM
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I can see the fascination in this hobby. It's a bit like a jigsaw puzzle in
the way it holds your surface attention while your inner mind wanders where it will. I get this same meditative vibe from crocheting.
posted by
Pat_B
on April 30, 2016 at 9:59 AM
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