Adult coloring books anyone? I've got one, and use colored pencils instead of crayons.

[a kennedy]

Can only color for about a half an hour as my thumbs are pretty arthritic. But love doing it.

[lame54]

1. I'd say a half hour is pretty good

[pinboy3niner]

8. Ha! I can do it MUCH faster than that!

But they always dock me for going outside the lines. What's up with THAT?

[PoliticAverse]

2. Is the 'adult' in 'adult coloring books' like the 'adult' in 'adult movies'?... n/t

[a kennedy]

3. Could be.....but no mine coloring books are like these......

http://store.doverpublications.com/by-subject-coloring-books.html

http://time.com/money/3941973/adult-coloring-books/

http://www.clipartandcrafts.com/coloring/adultcoloring/abstract-designs-coloring.html

[Number9Dream]

4. Used to love the Venus Paradise color-by-number pencil sets when I was a kid

Some of them came out looking terrific. Guess they went out of business a long time ago.

http://www.ebay.com/gds/Paradise-Venus-Color-by-Number-Pencil-Sets-1960s-/10000000009185233/g.html

[PasadenaTrudy]

15. Remember

the paint by numbers sets, with real oil paints? I loved all of these.

[Lilyhoney]

5. I love to color.

I have a few Hello Kitty coloring books. I also use good colored pencils.

I have seen the adult ones but have not tried them.

[Solly Mack]

6. I still color. I print out sheets from the internet.

Never stopped coloring. It's fun and relaxing.

I'll check out the coloring books.

[bravenak]

7. I do it all the time.

I like the watercolor pencils, just in case I feel fancy and want to dip my brush in water and give it a watercolor look.

[pinboy3niner]

9. I'm still working on copying the matchbook

I just know that one of these days they'll send it back without that big REJECTED stamp.

[madamesilverspurs]

10. Easy, meditative, therapeutic.

It's always provided a moment of quiet peace. Nowadays, when it's sometimes hard to grip a crayon or pencil for any length of time, I can lose myself in other "coloring" ways, such as:

http://weavesilk.com/

[a kennedy]

11. OMGosh.....I love this.....thank you. eom

[irisblue]

14. owowwowow

this is so cool thanks!

[GoCubsGo]

18. And, along those lines....

The electronic version of one of my childhood favorites: http://nathanfriend.io/inspirograph/

[dembotoz]

12. Never liked to color as a kid...vision issues made hand eye coordination an issue

Curious
Maybe I should have colored more as practice

Ahhh the joys of hindsight

[a kennedy]

13. Found his interesting about coloring.......

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/coloring-benefits-meditation_55b7c9c1e4b0074ba5a6724f?

[Jamaal510]

16. If it wasn't for my Nintendo DS,

I'd probably pick up a paint brush every now and then.

[csziggy]

17. Have you seen Secret Garden and Enchanted Forest

By Joanna Basford? Or Millie Marotta's wonderful series of coloring books?

I'm not using them to color but to get ideas for embroidery. A blogger I follow, Mary Corbet, did the most wonderful embroidery of a hummingbird pattern from Secret Garden: http://www.needlenthread.com/2014/01/secret-garden-hummingbirds-project-index.html

I've got several of the pictures selected to use for my own projects. I need to do as much embroidery as I can while my hand hold out. But my hand surgeon said it was good therapy after my carpal tunnel surgeries so I do as much as I can every day.

[lastlib]

19. Nope. Flunked first-grade coloring and never improved.

Partially color-blind, too, so not a good idea. But (according to my first-grade teacher, who gave me the fail) I was "reading with my age group." (I was reading newspapers and my sister's high-school science book, fer f*ck's sake!) It's been a standing joke in my family for years--the kid who couldn't color but who could solve quadratic equations and did crossword puzzles with a pen before he got to junior high.............