I giggled as I walked through the local Rite-aid and looked through the selection of Crayolas. When I asked the clerk where the coloring books were she pointed me to the children's aisle and it was quite the flash-back to look through the selection of Care Bears and Sesame Street coloring books. I finally settled on a Marvel's Super-Heroes one.
It's fucking sweet. It not only has pictures to color in and activities to do. It's also got a bunch of stickers, a growth chart and a poster I am going to put on my wall. I already gave a sticker away to a friend of mine. It said "Bruisers!" and had The Incredible Hulk, Colossus, The Thing and The Mighty Thor. He wanted the Silver Surfer one but, he is one of my patron dieties so, I politely told him he couldn't have it and that I was sorry.
I did the 'cross patch' very quickly. I've gotten a lot better at such things in the last 30 years or so.
I am amazing.
The secret is to color OVER the lines first and then fill in the blanks. I already drew in the Incredible Hulk with red skin and yellow pants. He is hoisting an orange car and throwing it out of the page. The metal is crumpled underneath his massive hands. I made the sky purple and the ground blue.
At first I was carefully replacing each crayon back in the box as I finished with it, but then after awhile I took them all out and laid them on the table. I thought I had lost the green one but it had just fallen on the floor. Do you remember when you were a kid and it always seemed like one got lost when you used them? --kinda like a preview of socks and dryers or girls and time.
I'm at a coffee shop and I am surrounded by people studying for mid-terms or going over their business plans. One person stopped, looked at me and said,"I'm not even going to ask.", right before he walked away. I know that, secretly, they are jealous.
My hands smell like wax right now and are very smooth. Tomorrow when I do the next couple of pages I will color outside of the lines on purpose.
I don't care if everyone thinks I am bat-shit crazy for doing this.
When I am finished I will probably give it to my mom as a gift.
Saturday, November 3, 2007
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I came across your blog as I was searching for superhero coloring pages for my 6-year-old son. Hold your head up high--my son and husband adore coloring in those books. You're right, the others are jealous =)
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