"We're off to See the Wizard"

My mom said that when I was little I could sit for hours and watch "The Wizard of Oz" over and over and over again. But a funny little tradition we took from this movie, is that when my mom took us kids grocery shopping... sometimes we would start at the car and lock arms and skip to the front of the store singing, "Weeee'rrrreeee off to see the Wizard, the Wonderful Wizard of Oz. We hear he is a whiz of a whiz if ever a whiz there was....." yeah, people must have thought we were crazy, but we always loved it!

"Cowardly"

Yep, Dorothy has a kiss on her forehead.... I told you it was a weird version... it was suppose to be a kind of protection from the Good Witch. She kind of looks like a Hindu Dorothy to me :)

"If I Only Had a Brain"

I don't know what kind of trippy version of the story of the "Wizard of Oz" was told in my coloring book, but in this one, the scarecrow meets a magic fairy.... I don't know, but I loved coloring her wings!

"Glinda"

I thought it funny how much this coloring book page reminded me of John Singer Sargent's "Miss Elsie Palmer", check it out here . It's one of my favorite Sargent's.

"Welcome to the Emerald City"

Wow I just love coloring! I've always loved it. But now that I'm a 'real' artist and I've obtained an education, I can take coloring to a whole new level. Whenever I start a new coloring page, in my mind I set up a light source and create all the colors and values accordingly.