August 2024 colouring supplies and book haul | Adult Colouring

[@bethbrady8146]

You are amazing!!!! Yippee!! Love them all. Hey...color the way it brings you joy!!! that is the reason we all do this! and you share your experience. It brings joy to others!!!🥰💗😻

[@colouringchemist]

So glad you enjoy the channel! :)

[@lauren_read_color]

Thank you for sharing. Please don't worry about pleasing any of us. Coloring is for relaxing and joy not pressure. 💗

[@colouringchemist]

Thank you! ❤️

[@anjavanderbeken5960]

Am just the same...a collector, but after few years, i am proud off my buying issue worste moments...lol

[@colouringchemist]

I hear you! :)

[@jengolo7]

Connie, CCC (coloring chemist Connie), you color how you want to color. “ITS YOUR BOOK!!!” I completely get what you’re saying though. We seem to have some sort of idea of a “coloring level” that is “worthy” of sharing or what is expected of us. Now, I’m no fantastic KZbinr like yourself, but I feel the same. My instagram is secret from everyone I personally know for that very reason in so many words. 😅 the way I see it is: we want to be good at our hobbies. It is an ART after all. I tend to be an overachiever (I learned other people thought this of me TODAY! lol) and I always want to improve. I feel like this is sooo natural. We want to learn. We want to improve. But, sometimes we just need to have a release and most importantly, have fun. ❤ sending my love and I hope you have an excellent and stress free start of the school year!!

[@colouringchemist]

Awwww... Thank you! Yup - life-long overachiever here, too. :) I'm definitely trying to let go more - but it can be so hard to break a lifetime of habit! :)

[@jengolo7]

@@colouringchemist preach!

[@TrulyScrumptiousColors]

I'd love to see the Gullivers Travels book! I've never seen that one and remember my Opa reading it to me when I was little.

[@donnamartinez6201]

I really enjoyed your video. I love that you love mandalas. Honestly, they're the only things I color I don't color very well and "realistic" things are not for me. I can't color people, animals or natural things, so I stick to madalas. I love that they can be any color; it doesn't matter. LOL. I was able to buy the one mandala book. Oddly enough, I was able to find the limited edition one, but not the other. Cannot wait to get it. The majority of my coloring books are mandalas. I made the mistake of buying all sorts of coloring books before realizing that I can't color the majority of the pictures in the other books. Live and learn. Color the way that makes you happy. I wish I could color the way you and other creators do, I can't seem to get past basic coloring. I use markers to color because they cover the page. I've tried, (many times), to color with color pencils, but I can't get the vibrant colors I love. My husband says I need patience and practice. He's not wrong. LOL. I've subscribed to your channel & cannot wait to see your videos.

[@colouringchemist]

So glad that you're enjoying my content - and thank you for subscribing! :)

[@kristinasartcorner]

Great Haul! I believe with the Olo Markers, if you spend $100, you get 6 FREE Karin Deco Gel Pens! Enjoy your new books & supplies 😊

[@colouringchemist]

Ah - thanks for the info, Kristina! :) I probably should have noted that somewhere when I was ordering - but apparently, my brain wasn't focusing on small details. ;) :) Thank you!

[@kristinasartcorner]

@@colouringchemist Understandable! Can't wait to see what you think about them after using ☺️ Have a great rest of your weekend! ✨️

[@colouringchemist]

@@kristinasartcorner You, too! :)

[@Mahoniaincolour]

I love your videos! One eye on my colouring page and the other on the screen 😅 I've coloured so many pages with your videos. It's better than a podcast! Thank you! 🤗

[@colouringchemist]

Awww.. So glad you're liking the channel! :)

[@barmar4740]

Your videos are dangerous! You always have such interesting supplies & books. BTW a group of crows is called a murder. A group of ravens is just a flock. How fun - I got to teach the teacher something!

[@colouringchemist]

Ah - thank you for the clarification! :)

[@kyliescolouringindownunder3098]

Hi Connie loved your haul hun in July during prime I did a big shop to help me with stress too.. I know what it’s like.. thank u for sharing ❤❤❤😊😊😊xxxx

[@colouringchemist]

So glad you liked it! :)

[@louisepeers782]

Great haul Connie , so many lovely goodies , will be adding some to my wish list 😊

[@colouringchemist]

Glad you liked it! :)

[@cinqcolours]

FOMO - I totally get that. I feel the same about the Fabiana Attanasio fairy tale colouring books that are out of print but I’m not willing to spend as much as third party sellers are asking for these books, especially if I don’t know if the used copy is actually “like new”. Yes - a murder of crows! 😁

[@colouringchemist]

I hear you! And thanks for the "crow clarification"! :)

[@trishkivi6369]

Awesome haul! Look forward to seeing how you use the pan pastels.

[@colouringchemist]

So glad you liked it! :)

[@mrsfrench847]

I see you have several comments that cover this well so am not sure that you need mine....I just wanted to let you know that I don't come to your channel to watch for perfect or even great coloring. That's not to say that your coloring is not great - it is lovely. I come to see what you're up to, like a coloring friend. What has Connie done? A haul?- cool - I stress spend too and art supplies are fun! Maybe an experiment blew up, or worked out great, maybe she figured out the new colors from Staedtler, it's all great stuff. Please just keep being you. I love to see the coloring pages, but I'll watch no matter what they look like - I'm here for your varied, interesting and honest content. Your genuine, kind and curious nature shine through strongly on your videos. Keep it up, please. I hope this makes sense.

[@colouringchemist]

Thank you for your support! :)

[@carolynpicken6949]

Urban Anna just posted a video on coloring the bricks…she is an amazing artist

[@colouringchemist]

Ah - thanks for the heads-up! I haven't seen that but I'll have to go and check it out! :)

[@oneeyeopen5044]

A lot of fabulous stuff you purchased. Lotta people are trying to get that coloring book. Maybe you would have some luck contacting the author about reprint.

[@colouringchemist]

Glad you liked the video! Did you mean the Mouse Guard book? Or the Socieres book by Aurelie Castex? I've tried contacting Aurelie but didn't get a response. I understand - she's a very talented and busy illustrator. :)

[@evekay00]

I love your videos, always informative, relatable, thanks for sharing! I'd love to do a prompt buddy with you because I'm not sure if we have the same books but I'm not on insta. ❤

[@colouringchemist]

So glad that you're enjoying the videos! :) Now that my school year has started back up again, I'd rather not commit to any buddy colouring (except for the one that I already have set up for September :)) in case I don't have time to finish. I would never want to disappoint any buddy-colour partners! You can try reaching out to me next summer - I might have more time then. :)

[@tezm4744]

Do what makes you happy. Coloring is supposed to be about relaxing.

[@colouringchemist]

Excellent advice - thank you! :)

[@jackiehoward7300]

Hello Connie, I love Angela Porters books too. I thought the book from South America was stunning. FOMO is real.

[@colouringchemist]

So glad you enjoyed the peek at my purchases! :)

[@jackiehoward7300]

@@colouringchemist now, I have to update my massive Amazon coloring wishlist

[@jeuls59]

Hi Connie - I tend to get that same feeling of missing out. So I've bought a ton of books used but I love looking through them. I'm going to try and slow down or my house will be full to the rafters by this time next year! I enjoy your channel and your honesty. Also... If you want to buddy sometime I would greatly appreciate and enjoy it.

[@colouringchemist]

I hear ya. :) And I'm so glad that you're enjoying the channel! Now that my school year has started back up again, I'd rather not commit to any buddy colouring (except for the one that I already have set up for September :)) in case I don't have time to finish. I would never want to disappoint any buddy-colour partners! You can try reaching out to me next summer - I might have more time then. :)

[@louisescherbain312]

Hi. Thank you for sharing your haul. That second book from Amazon Japan , I have that one. It is nice. I have Mouse Guard. One of my favorites. I entered the KZbin world of the coloring community in the fall of 2019. I had only JB”s books and Crayola, Staedtler pencils. Karen from Zucchini Kitty was coloring in Mouse Guard with Distress Inks and pencil on top. She may still have some of those older videos up. So I had to have that book. And yes I have used my distress inks and also Intense pencils in it. Works good. The next book I purchased was The Ink House by Rory Dobner. It was not intended to be a coloring book but the coloring community grabbed hold of it and this is my number one favorite book. I truly hope to finish at least this one book in my lifetime. Again distress inks and Inktense pencils work great. Not sure if you can still get that one. What you said about style and learning and paper being different is so true. Enjoy your supplies, books and “ You do you.” As Tim Holtz would say. Have fun, enjoy 💖🐞🇨🇦

[@colouringchemist]

I purchased The Ink House after seeing some of those older videos from Karen - I absolutely adore her style and her colour choices. :) And I definitely need to remember that advice from Tim Holtz! :)

[@louisescherbain312]

@@colouringchemist Oh wonderful, I’m so glad you bought the book.

[@Victoriacolouringquest]

I'm really enjoying straight colouring and completely understand the stress we put on ourselves to create art and I don't even have a channel so I feel for you. But isn't the point of a colouring book that they've done the hard part for us of creating something beautiful??? Also I put my hands up I'm a member of FOMO. 😅

[@colouringchemist]

So very true! :)

[@debaccetta3982]

Hi Connie! Wonderful haul and thank you for sharing!! Can you let me know who the artist was in your PDFs? I would really appreciate it 😊

[@anikrossignol8809]

I just had to get some of them! 😊

[@colouringchemist]

Ack! I said I would link her Etsy store and totally forgot, didn't I? Bad, Connie! This is the link to her Etsy store - it's called EdsonForest: www.etsy.com/ca/shop/EdsonForest?ref=profile_header Hope that helps!

[@mizzy_chiara]

I have the dutch version of the book from Urban Anna, and it's not watercolor paper. It's thick and smooth, and it peeled when I passed over the same spot a couple of times with watercolors. A bit disappointed about it :(

[@colouringchemist]

Ah - interesting to know that it's the same kind of "paper dilemma" in other country's books. It is disappointing when a book is marketed to have "watercolour paper" but, in reality, just has thick "normal" paper. I suppose we can treat it ourselves with some kind of watercolour ground or gesso but it kind of defeats the purpose of buying books that are supposed to have "watercolour paper", doesn't it?

[@janetjackson2157]

Nice haul xx

[@colouringchemist]

Thanks! :)

[@susanmcleod4329]

Connie I enjoy watching your videos, your colouring pages are great. I love the metallic background you did on Small Victories, I have the ordered the neocolour 1 metallic colours. Question I want to order from UK Amazon the Staedtler 24 Pigment Pens, did Amazon UK deliver to you by mail?. I live in Canada, I don't want to pay extra feas for FedEx or other carriers. ? 🇨🇦 Thank you

[@colouringchemist]

I think you pay import fees through Amazon when you place the order so there shouldn't be any extra fees. It's hard to say which carrier Amazon UK will use to ship - I've had things shipped through the Royal Mail but I've also had them use other carriers. I'm afraid there's probably no way to know until it's been shipped. Sorry I couldn't be of more help!

[@susanmcleod4329]

Thank you.

[@barbarahowell2549]

I also have the Colouring Heaven edition of Konoko Eguso pages. I snagged it before it went out of print because I don't think those images are in any of her other books. I have only the Japanese versions of her three books. I'm curious if the images match 100% with the American versions. I hope you include that when you compare the paper in the two versions.

[@colouringchemist]

I'll definitely try to remember to include that when I do a comparison! :) (If I forget, don't hesitate to remind me in the comments for that video. :))

[@barbarahowell2549]

@@colouringchemist Thank you. I'll try to remember that too. 😅

[@colouringchemist]

@@barbarahowell2549 You're welcome! :)

[@nicole_silvers]

Honestly, I think buying new books and supplies is a hobby itself! I love coloring but I love collecting books and supplies just as much! I'm a sucker for the Mythographic books so I have every single one that's been released so far and I have the next several that haven't been released yet already pre-ordered! I don't collect all the different sets of pencils but I do have a problem with buying too many books! I have more books than I could color in a lifetime, yet I still want more!.....wow that sounds so greedy! 😆 But you know what, this is our hobby, our passion, and we should be able to do this for ourselves! I don't buy myself a bunch of clothes or purses or anything else so I feel like I deserve to splurge on this one hobby! I don't get my nails done anymore or do anything else for me so I feel like this is my thing that I do for myself! I'm a homeschool mom and I don't get out much. I walk my dog but other than that I only leave my house once a month for my monthly dr appointment. I stay home due to severe back pain from an injury when I was little and because I have bad anxiety about going in stores and driving. I have an ESA dog but there are places I can't take her. But anyway, my coloring hobby is like my therapy so when I buy books and supplies I think that can be considered investing in my mental health!😁 Whatever the reason, if it makes you happy then I say go for it! ❤️😊

[@colouringchemist]

Awww... Some great advice there! Thank you! :)

[@NoDontLikeIt]

@@nicole_silvers i look at collecting coloring books similarly, but I also think that one of these days the adult coloring craze/fad/whatever you wanna call it will end and there may be a few books, but they won’t be put out as they are now. So I figure I can color in my collected books somewhere down the road if I don’t do so in the immediate future.

[@nicole_silvers]

@@NoDontLikeIt I don't see it ending any time soon but you never know! But if it does end, we'll be prepared!😊

[@nicole_silvers]

@@colouringchemist You're welcome love!😊

[@Victoriacolouringquest]

I think Dromreis by Maria trolle was illustrations from a book she wrote called vivvie finds a friend. Also I love staedler fineliners could you use staedler multi ink blender on this. If you could do a vid that would be great, maybe some other pens too

[@colouringchemist]

Ah - thanks for the info on Droomreis! I'm not sure if the blending solution would work well for other water-based, dye-based pens/markers. Most other water-based pens/markers/fineliners are dye-based (not pigment-based like Pitt Pens and the Staedtler Pigment Brush pens) and the dye-based inks have a different consistency. A dye colourant, by its very nature, is meant to immediately soak into the paper whereas pigment colourants are meant to remain on top of the paper - that means it's much more difficult to get dye-based inks to "move" once you've got them down on paper. I can try to do a video testing that but I'm pretty sure that pens other than the Pitt Pens and the Staedtler Pigment pens aren't going to blend with no matter what blending solution you use. :) Hope that helps!

[@Victoriacolouringquest]

Thank you that's really helpful. I remember now you mentioning the difference

[@colouringchemist]

@@Victoriacolouringquest You're welcome! :)

[@susanneevensen9054]

Jewellery box (juewelenkistje) colouring book by Hanna Karlzon is not a compilation book. There has only been one compilation book from Hanna - Grains of gold- and it was published after Soulmates, the last book published in that original style. So the compilation book has pictures from Daydreams to (and including) Soulmates. Then came Midnight masquerade, the first in her Tales from …series, latest book so far has been tales from Atlantis. She just published a great Christmas book, a true scandinavian Christmas book, I love it ❤️

[@colouringchemist]

@@susanneevensen9054 Ah - my mistake - thank you so much for the clarification! :) I just received my copy of God jul in the mail today but I haven't had a chance to look at it yet - I'm very excited! :) My mother's family is from Sweden (although I'm NOT a fan of the lutefisk at Christmas :)) - I love the Swedish traditions. :)

[@NoDontLikeIt]

Please can you give the name of-or a link to-the first barrel container of 15 brushes you showed (with the blending brushes, the 10/0, 5/0, and so on). Thank you!

[@colouringchemist]

Sure! This is the link on Amazon Canada: www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B0C8M85DVR/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&th=1 If you search for "Detail Paint Brushes Dry Brushes for 18PC Model Paint Brushes Drybrush Set with 15 Mini Liner Detail Paint Brushes" on other Amazon sites, you should be able to find something similar. :) Hope that helps!

[@NoDontLikeIt]

@@colouringchemist thanks so much

[@colouringchemist]

@@NoDontLikeIt You're welcome! :)

[@halsartlife7173]

Ugh i got those same brushes and are very disappointed. They shed like crazy--thought theyd make great blenders for pan pastels--nope! More hair was on the paper than anything else 😅

[@colouringchemist]

Oh no! And I was so hoping that they would work out! :( Bummer - I'll continue looking for something else. Thank you for the heads-up!

[@halsartlife7173]

​@@colouringchemist also, I should clarify to say the 3 pack yellow set, because I left my comment in the heat of the moment before I realized there were also other brushes in the haul. 😅😅 anyway, thanks for sharing, I finally subscribed because I've been lurking around your channel for some time.

[@colouringchemist]

@@halsartlife7173 Ah - gotcha. :) Thanks for the clarification - and for subscribing! :)

[@hollydickerson5785]

Hello! Would you be so kind and spell type out the name of the two Japanese coloring books also the author?? I would greatly appreciate it. Thank you very much 😊

[@colouringchemist]

Typing out the names would be complicated (as they're in Japanese :)) but I can give you the links on Amazon Japan which should allow you to get the ISBN numbers which you can then use to search for the books on other sites. This is the first book (the one that's longer than it is tall): www.amazon.co.jp/gp/product/4309718523/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 And this is the second book (that's more square): www.amazon.co.jp/gp/product/4529056112/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 Hope that helps! :)

[@CathysouthwesternColors]

​@@colouringchemist did you order it from Amazon JP? I can't find them using the ISBN on Amazon for the states.

[@colouringchemist]

@@CathysouthwesternColors I did order from Amazon Japan - I don't think you can get those books on Amazon US. :)

[@CathysouthwesternColors]

@@colouringchemist ah, okay! I followed the link and when I tried to order it I was unable to use my US account. Do you happen to have a separate account for Japan Amazon? Thank you!!

[@colouringchemist]

@@CathysouthwesternColors I think you need to "create" a new account on Amazon Japan but use the same login details (user name and password) as you have set up for your Amazon US account. I think that's what I did, if I remember correctly. :)

[@Taralovescoloring]

Lovely haul! When you ordered from Amazon Japan did they put everything in a box? I got my order this past week and everything was just bouncing around in a paper bag 🤦🏻‍♀️ I’m hoping that’s not the norm 😬

[@anikrossignol8809]

Oh no! I just ordered for my first time yesterday! Hope it comes well packaged, I’m in Canada! 😬

[@colouringchemist]

Hmmm... I think that all my orders from Amazon Japan have come in boxes, if I'm remembering correctly. The boxes were a bit beat up, though. Definitely put in a query if your order was damaged!

[@colouringchemist]

And hoping that everyone's orders show up in ok shape!

[@JoyOfStayingIn]

Did I miss the link to the forest lady pdfs?

[@colouringchemist]

Ack! I had said that I was going to include it in the description box and then totally forgot - bad, Connie! If you check the description box for the video, it should be there now. :) So sorry about that!

[@JoyOfStayingIn]

@@colouringchemist no worries. Thank you! 😊

[@colouringchemist]

@@JoyOfStayingIn You're welcome! :)

[@randomstuffaustralia4074]

Do you have the link for the dome holder the 50 of them

[@colouringchemist]

This is the link on Amazon Canada: www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B0C16QQGL7/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1 I think if you search for "50 Pieces Mini Ink Blending Domed Foams and 50pcs Round Stackable Jars Set" on Amazon US (or the country that you're in), you should be able to find something similar (if not the same). Hope that helps! :)

[@debrapeterson3686]

Connie, I think you are putting too much pressure on yourself to color a certain way or to question if your work is worthy of posting. In my humble opinion, you work is fantastic. Thanks for sharing.

[@colouringchemist]

Awww... Thank you so much for the kind words! :)