Passionistacolorista

#11. The best escape from chronic pain, with @colourandchatwithsammie

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!

#10. Princesses and fairy tales, with Hannah Lynn

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). 

 

 

#9. Droplets, Prismacolor and Johanna Basford, with Claire Holoway.

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. 

#8. The joy of coloring, with @alwayscoloring.

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!

#7. Analogue relaxation, with Réka Kaptens.

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!

 

#6. Tina Wallin, about her coloring, and Bland ugglor och förgätmigej.

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. 

#5. Mindfulness and coloring books, with Emma Farrarons.

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. 

#4. Lacy Mucklow, about Color me calm and her other coloring books.

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!

#3. Fantasy and colouring, with Matilda Furness

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! :-)

#2 Maria Trolle

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.