Sherri Shepard Zimmerman

I colored this page as part of a Christmas in July buddy color along with several other Pictured Peers from @apicturedpurpose 's Discord group. It was my first time coloring a page without following a color-along, which was a little scary! So instead, I tried to recreate the beautiful page by @jens_colouring that I found on IG when looking for inspiration. When I first saw her page, I was drawn to the many green combinations, the green snow, and the gorgeous pink to orange combo.

Jenny very kindly answered my question about which pencils she had used and helped me with a green combo that I just couldn't figure out. That was enough to get me going and after that I just did my best to figure out the other color combinations, which was actually fun. The only thing I decided to color differently was the sky. I'm happy with how the page turned out!

While I was looking for inspiration I happened upon a couple other colored versions of this illustration that I would love to try to recreate as well. But there's always so much more to color!

By the way, if you're looking at the line work and think you're seeing double, you're not wrong. I copied this page into my own paper so that I'd have the option of starting over if necessary (which I did). Unfortunately my printer is printing double lines and so far nothing we've tried has worked to fix it. Hopefully I'll have a new printer soon!

📖 Die Welt unter der Lupe - zu Lande
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🖍️ Faber-Castell Polychromos