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Christmas to Color Advent Time! Finale

December 28, 2015 by groovity

Do you follow me on Instagram? If not, you can click HERE to go to my page. I’ve been posting colored pictures from my newest book, Christmas to Color, every day since the beginning of December. Here are the last few days of Advent time…Better late than never! This is one of my fave pages! Here is the ENTIRE advent collection… You can buy Christmas to Color at AMAZON or Barnes and Noble, and many other fine book sellers. To […]

Categories: Coloring Book, Instagram, New Design • Tags: adult coloring book, adult colouring book, advent, amazon, barnes and noble, book, christmas coloring book, festive artwork, folk, folk art, folky, groovity, harper collins, holiday coloring book, illustrate, mary tanana, surface pattern design

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Christmas to Color Advent Time! Part 3

December 27, 2015 by groovity

Do you follow me on Instagram? If not, you can click HERE to go to my page. I’ve been posting colored pictures from my newest book, Christmas to Color, every day since the beginning of December. I was just a tad busy this Christmas, I’m playing a bit of catch up, and I wanted to finish off the entire advent challenge. Sorry this is a little bit late. Here are the next seven days… Check back tomorrow for the last post! You […]

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Christmas to Color Advent Time! Part 2

December 16, 2015 by groovity

Do you follow me on Instagram? If not, you can click HERE to go to my page. I’ve been posting colored pictures from my newest book, Christmas to Color, every day since the beginning of December. I did this last year as well, it was great fun and also a great challenge for me to post something daily. Here are the next seven days… I love, love peacocks! This was so much fun to draw. Blue bunnies! Fun! Tree Star I […]

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Christmas to Color Advent Time!

December 13, 2015 by groovity

Do you follow me on Instagram? If not, you can click HERE to go to my page. I’ve been posting colored pictures from my newest book, Christmas to Color, every day since the beginning of December. I did this last year as well, it was great fun and also a great challenge for me to post something daily. Here are the first seven days… I am posting some of my favorite pages from my book. This book really has a […]

Categories: Coloring Book, Coloring Book, Instagram, New Design • Tags: adult coloring book, adult colouring book, Christmas to color, Cintiq, color, coloring trend, dala horse, folk, folky, gingerbread house, groovity, harper collins, holiday, illustrate, illustrator, ink, inking, mary tanana, partride, snowflakes, wacom

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Discount Coupon Code for my Etsy shop

November 28, 2015 by groovity

Hi there! All of you have given me such wonderful support this past year, I wanted to do something and give back to YOU. So from now until Dec. 6th, Sunday, I’m giving you 15% off of everything in my Etsy shop! Please use the coupon code SHOPHANDMADE2015 Click HERE to go directly to my Etsy shop. I have loads of prints and notecards. I’ve finally managed to finish the entire alphabet, each letter is available in 7 different colorways. […]

Categories: Etsy, New Design, Sale/Promotion • Tags: art print, coupon code, discount code, etsy discount, folky, initial art print, monogram art print, personalized art prints, Polish folk art, wycinanki art prints

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Christmas to color-Mary Tanana-Groovity Designs

Christmas to Color…by ME!

November 17, 2015 by groovity

A funny thing happened to me this past Summer. I received an email from someone at Harper Collins publishing, asking me if I would like to work with them to illustrate a coloring book. Say what? I get a lot of inquiries asking me to submit work, but they usually are for new print-on-demand sites, contests, or spec work. I am not interested in doing those anymore. I didn’t want to get too excited about it, I’ve had so many things […]

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Giveaway this Tuesday!

June 22, 2015 by groovity

Hey there! I finally got my proofs for my first coloring book, Color like Crazy! Kaleidoscope Mandala Designs. It came out so awesome, I was jumping up and down as I flipped through the book. I’ll be giving away 3 of these books, 60 designs in all. This is the cover and back. First of all, you have to join my mailing list in order to be in the giveaway. Please click HERE to join my mailing list. I promise […]

Categories: Coloring Book, Coloring Book, Freebie, New Design • Tags: amazon, art therapy, color, color like crazy, colored pencils, coloring book, dream job, focus, free, freebie, giveaway, groovity, groovity press, heal, kaleidoscope, mailing list, mandala, markers, mary tanana, millefiori, surface pattern design

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Join my Mailing List!

May 30, 2015 by groovity

Hey there! I’ve finally created a proper mailing list for you guys! I would love you to subscribe. I’ll be sending it out periodically and include the latest things that I’m working on, and also some discounts and early bird specials on my newest products. Click on the picture above to go to my sign up page. I’m really close to finally listing my coloring books on Amazon. It’s taken so very long to do all of the art for the project. […]

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Gardening is Good for your Soul…

May 28, 2015 by groovity

I think my favorite thing to do is gardening. Why? Because when I am doing it, I am not worrying about a thing. I find it highly therapeutic and relaxing, even though I’ve digging and carrying pails of water around the yard. I’ve just moved to a new house, and I’ve got tons of room and a yard and a deck! We had one of the toughest Winters, and this Spring is really an exciting time for me. This is my […]

Categories: Color, My Life, Photography • Tags: botanical interests, Butterfly, dianthus, flowers, garden, gazania, groovity, grow, herbs, ice plant, jalapeno peppers, mary tanana, osteospurmum, plant, spring, summer, tomatoes, yard, zucchini

Kaleidoscope Mandala 17.2 © Mary Tanana 2015

Almost Ready…Color Like Crazy!

May 13, 2015 by groovity

My first coloring book is nearly ready…YAY! It’s taken longer than I thought to create it. Right now I’m working on the cover and back cover. Below is a neato video that I made in Photoshop of my color progression on one of the design pages. Isn’t that the coolest? It didn’t really take that long to make. I used this tutorial from Dave Cross that I found on YouTube. Click HERE to see it. My first coloring book features kaleidoscope […]

Categories: Color, Coloring Book, Coloring Book, My Visual Nirvana, New Design • Tags: amazon, color, color like crazy, colored pencils, coloring book, create, groovity, hand drawn, henna, kaleidoscope, mandala, markers, mary tanana, paint, surface pattern design