Passionistacolorista

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. 

You don´t need to buy expensive pencils, to make magical colorings! Meet the talented Peni, from Indonesia, who creates amazing, pop-out leaves in Johanna Basfords "Magical Jungle", with just cheap, local, pencils. 

In this episode she tells us how she is doing these colorful jungle-pages, and what it is about the jungle that she loves so much. And why she´s not using green on her leaves. 

Other topics: Harry Potter, Alice in Wonderland and Indonesian comedy tv!

In this episode you get to know Raphaela (@colouringwithlove), from Germany, a little bit more, and hear about her coloring story, which started when she was a kid, and colored with her family. We also talks a lot about our shared love for color alongs on Instagram, and if you still don´t know what that is, you will know for sure, after you´ve been listening to this!

Raphaela is also talking about why she wants to go back to her oldest coloring books again, and why she thinks that the forgotten WIP:s (work in progress-pictures) are worth some extra love this summer. 

Jenny Ågren (@jennychromos on Instagram) is making amazing colorings, and in this episode she shares some of her best tips with us. 

We are talking about how she layers with Polychromos, what pencils she uses for faces, how she´s coloring chrystals and gems, and how the coloring helps her with her depression and anxiety. 

And of course she explains why her motto is "practice makes perfect"!

Krystyna, from Poland, is an amazing colorista, who also draws beautiful coloring pages, with female faces. 

Her colorings have great contrasts between light and dark, which makes the pictures really pop!. In this episode she shares her best coloring tips, and tries to give us all more confidence to use our black pencils when we are coloring! 

Sarah, from Sidney, is a well-known person in the coloring book community, under the name @sarah_colors_offical. She has helped a lot of people improve their coloring skills, through her blog, her Facebook-page, her Youtube-channel and on Instagram. She is also known for her amazing coloring charts, like her famous coloring-doughnuts! 

In this episode you learn more about Sarah, and her coloring history, and how her HUGE love for colored pencils started, a long time ago. And what helps her when she´s losing her coloring MOJO. 

She also tells us about what has kept her busy since christmas, and why she has not been so active in the community during this period (a hint is that it´s something with a nose and tail, with the name Mario! ;-) 

Pernilla (@anpethcolor on Instagram) from Sweden, loves glitter! In this episode she gives us her best tips about what to use for sparkle, and how to use it, in the coloring books. We also talk about why she likes Polychromos, Hanna Karlzon's new coloring book Jewelry box, why she colors one picture at the time and which coloring book helps her getting the coloring MOJO back, when it´s gone. And a lot more!

Laura Rafferty has been doing art her whole life, and are doing amazing things with pages in coloring books. In this episode she talks about how it started once upon a time, about her love for acrylics, mixed media and why she is making up stories when she colors in coloring books. And of course we talk about her own coloring books and a lot more!

Maria Pain, is well-known for her great skill in coloring skin and faces. In this episode you learn more about who she is, how she became this good, what pencils she uses, why she always colors on toned paper and why her "girls" often have fixed noses and Maria´s own lips. 

She is known for her popular color alongs on Instagram, and her amazing, vibrant colorings of mythological creatures, dragons and beasts of all kind. Meet Maja, from Sweden, and learn how she makes her colorful backgrounds with Neocolor, why she started to color once upon a time, why she loves Holbein pencils, and why she uses black so much in her pictures. And of course why she don´t like to color cute pictures. 

Meet the colourista Samantha, known as "Colour and chat with Sammie", on Instagram, Facebook and Youtube. She has always loved to colour, but started to use it as an escape from chronic pain some years ago. In this episode we talk about how it started, what it is about colouring that is so great for people with pain, why she loves the colouring community, colour alongs and to colour faces, but not fur. And why she had to move to another room when we were talking!

Meet Hannah Lynn, the illustrator behind the popular coloring books with whimsy, enchanted girls, princesses and mermaids. In this episode she tells about how it started seven years ago, and why her books are loved by people in all ages. And where her own love for fairy tale princesses and mermaids comes from.

And of course she talks about her two new coloring books; Fairy tale princesses and Mau Mermaids & Island whimsy girls. (The last one was inspired by a family vacation on Maui, and the only of her nine books that she gave out together with a publisher, all the others is self-published). 

Meet one of the admins behind the big Johanna Basford Your Pages-colouring group on Facebook, Claire Holoway. She also has a popular youtubechannel with tuturials, where she shows how she uses her Prismacolor pencils, which are her favourites. In this episode we talk about why she started to colour four years ago, why it´s so relaxing, why she loves Johanna Basfords books, and why she thinks Ivy and the Inky Butterfly is so special. She also explains how she´s blending and how she's colours droplets, and a lot more. 

Katrine is more known as @alwayscoloring, from Instagram and Youtube. In this episode we talk about her coloring skills, about her favourite pencils, favourite coloring books and must have tools. She also talkes about her big love for the coloring book community and why she likes color alongs so much. And a lot more!

Meet the talented colorista Réka Kaptens, known as rekacolour, on Instagram. We talk about her big love for Ivy and the Inky butterfly, her coloring book collection, favourite pencils, how she colour gold and how she loves a tidy desk.

She also is a great photographer, and share her best tips on how to take pictures of your finished coloring pages, before posting them on internet. 

And of course we talk about the picture she posted last year, that got thousand of likes and a lot of comments: A picture of her husband, colouring a fish in Lost Ocean, on their honeymoon.

And you get to know how she plans to celebrate when she gets 5000 followers!

Tina Wallin is both a great colorista, and has created an own coloring book, Bland ugglor och förätmigej. In this episode you meet her (and her dog ;-) - and get to know why she started to color, what it is that she loves about the coloring, what her favourite pencils are, and of course how she found the courage to make a coloring book on her own, without being an illustrator or having a publishing house behind her. 

Meet Emma Farrarons, illustrator and children´s book graphic designer, who also made four coloring books. All of them are inspired of mindfulness, something that Emma has been practicing for a long time. We are talking about her mindfulness coloring books, and about what mindfulness meens to her. And what observational drawings are, and why she is doing those every day. 

Meet the art therapist, Lacy Mucklow, who became famous, when she started to make coloring books, together with the illustrator Angela Porter. They have made six coloring books: Color me calm, Color me happy, Color me stress-free, Color me grateful, Color me to sleep, and Color me happy. We are talking about how it started, why mandala´s are so calming, what Lacy does when she wants to relax, what her favourite pencils are, how different colours effect us and a lot more!

Meet the talented, and super-creative, colorista Matilda Furness (@matildasysteryster on Instagram), who loves fantasy and fairytales, and has two different coloring-groups on Facebook, "Colouring Fantasy and Fairytales", and "Blomstermandala Colouring Club". 

We are talking about godesses, dragons, unicorns, witches, mermaids and a lot more. As she says in her colouring-group: "Anything that is magical are ok". 

We are also talking about why she started the group for Maria Trolles pictures, what her favourite pencils and colouring-books are. And she helps me understand how to colour wings more delicate!

And in the end, you get to know what her secret talent is, and I promise it will make you smile! :-)

In this episode I talk to Maria Trolle, the illustrator of coloring books for adults, for example the popular Twilight garden (Blomstermandala). We talk about who she is, why Japan was important when she made her first full-length coloring book, what the foxes in her garden likes to steal, what she does for relaxation, and a little bit about her next coloring book. 

This first episode is about who I am, why I´m starting this podcast, why I started to color once upon a time and what I color right now.