A round-up of the suggestions
First Karyn suggested a page she found called “How to Make Coloring Pages Out of Your Photos”. I’m not sure I found the one she found, but here’s one for PhotoShop and here’s one for Paint Shop Pro. This is very handy, because, for instance, Krys found a picture of Princess Kasune Zulu which I could use for practicing with.
GrannyJ suggested looking for exotic models and tracing them. I modified that into searching for various ethnic beauty pageants, and found Miss Kenya USA 2006 who is quite a pretty girl with a big smile and is wearing a few flowing dresses in the pictures.
Lizard suggested a really cool website, called It’s A Black Thang. I spent quite a bit of time there, being sidetracked from the ethnic princess thing by lots of way cool art. I really liked things by Bernard Hoyes in particular; but that’s because I like vivid strong colors, have some artwork in strong colors, and am thinking of doing our new living room colorfully (white walls, plain wood laminate floors, and lots of splashes of color, eh?). But back to the princess thing–they have wallpaper borders with angels and ballerinas, and I’m sure I can figure something out from those.
Sara suggested taking a look at RainbowKids’ kids activities page.
Lisa said to put together a coloring page portfolio, put it online, and donate some of the proceeds to an African-American charity–nice idea!
SingingBird said she’d buy some.
(And wannallamanow said I was kewl. Of course, he’s supposed to say that, seeing as how we’re married and all that. I assure you, he can carry on an intelligent conversation, but I guess he was just overwhelmed by reading a week’s worth of my posts at once. ;-) Part of the problem is that he is required to carry a Blackberry at all times now…and he has discovered that he can surf the web with it. I hesitate to mention it to him (but perhaps I should) but there may be problems with that when the monthly bill shows up. Anyways, goodness knows why he reads my blog more now that he has the Blackberry, when there have always been perfectly good computers hooked up to the intertubes at home. Ahem.)
Anyway, I played around with some pics using the Paint Shop Pro tutorial above, one pic of Miss Kenya USA and one of Princess Kasune. Miss Kenya turned out better (though not very AA looking); I think there was far too much contrasty stuff with PK’s original picture to make the technique work well. Printing out and tracing might do better. Herewith samples:
Hm. I’ll play with the picture idea some more and let you see the results.
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