Review – Colorfy

Very rarely do I ever decide to do a review on an app, but this has kept me amused for a good few days. This is Colorfy its a colouring in app where you can share what you have coloured onto social media.
The pros of this app is that you can colour designs anywhere you are. There is a mixed selection and you can make your own ones providing it has text in it.  It is also really easy to use and if you fuck up there is an undo function. You can also look at other peoples design ideas and like them.

There are also cons and some pretty big cons. You cannot save the pictures unless you either screen cap or share them to instagram and use the auto save features.
There also is limited choice of colours and colouring in pages unless you buy them and even then its not a one off payment, its a monthly subscription.
Also its not cheep if you were to pay for the subscription. Its about £25 for the year and for a mobile app I think personally that’s a bit much for something I would just casually play with.

However I really do like the app. I personally wouldn’t pay for the full subscription but I feel like others may do. It has brought me several hours of entertainment and I am probably going to keep using it until all the free patterns are coloured in and there are quite a few free ones, and for that reason alone I would recommend you trying the app out.

Artists Block

I have been battling with artists block for quite a while now. When I say quite a while, its been 3 years of not being able to either start or complete something.

From a very early age I had always enjoyed painting. I originally started off on natural work and mainly painted and drew flowers but it progressed more on a natural yet totally unnatural setting. A lot of my work I based it on death.
I suppose that now I am starting to work through recovery from all of my demons (though still highly unwell at times) it has been difficult to do this. And what time I could find, I have spent now writing a blog.

I think its about time now that I went back to the drawing board. I just want to grab a large canvas and see where it takes me. I don’t know where my brain will, and I think that is possibly the reason why I  struggling to start a piece now.
So I have decided that next year I want to start painting again, properly. Get some work out there, aim to get at least 3 pieces out there that I am happy with and possibly one sold. I know it seems like a lot of work, but I’m hoping that it will pay off for me. Not as in a monetary way, but more of an emotional one. And maybe not destroy my work after a period of time either. Because that’s a really bad habit of mine.