My Secret Garden colouring book, part 5

Yesterday, my husband and I came back from a wonderful weekend in the woods. We hiked, enjoyed the sunny weather, saw a lot of wildlife and of course, I had Johanna Basford's colouring book My Secret Garden with me!
I've been working on my favourite page in the book which I call 'The Secret Door'.
I still needed to work a little on the background and the leaves.

While colouring the last few days, I noticed the paper beginning to deteriorate.
Because I put so many layers of colour on top of each other, the paper started to disintegrate.
Small peaces of paper come off when I put some extra colour on the paper.
It was a clear sign that this drawing was about to be finished!

In these final stages I worked on the leaves. I layered the large brownish leaves with a little green to push them a little more to the background. I added some extra detail to some smaller leaves and decided the colours for the leaves I hadn't coloured yet.

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I also added some more colour to the background so the door would pop out a little bit more.

I started this drawing in december 2014, and I ended it now, the end of march 2015. So it took me more than three months of very happy colouring to get to this point.Instead of watching stupid tv programs and taking my tablet to my bedroom and not be able to sleep after using the bloody thing, I now had my colouring book and pencils, even in bed! A little colouring before sleeping works very well for me. From now on, there will always be a colouring book on my nightstand!

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I wanted to bring this page to life, I was wondering what was behind this beautiful door, and it reminded me of the book 'The Secret Garden'. For me, behind this door is a secret garden,
with a well in it...my next project to finish.

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