Color “Muted Woman” modern abstract coloring page with Nan

Let’s color the “Muted Woman” coloring page from Nan’s Random Modern & Abstract Art Adult Coloring Book: 50 fun & challenging pages inspired by current events, modern times & famous works

Download pdf for free by clicking here.

Then print, get out your crayons or coloring pencils, and let’s color together.

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Color with Nan

Watch Nan color this coloring page with crayons in a short 12-minute video. Get yourself a snack and enjoy the video’s relaxing and cinematic YouTube audio library soundtracks.

Note on the video’s creation: video created in Canva; background instrumental songs downloaded from YouTube’s free audio library with no attribution required for videos posted on YouTube; photos and videos recorded on Nan’s smartphone near a window using a tripod. There’s some shadow on the page unfortunately, but hopefully you can still see well enough how Nan’s coloring the page.

More Coloring Tips

For more coloring tips from Nan, along with another short coloring video, see this blog post.

“Muted Woman”?

Yes, that’s what I decided to call this coloring page. When I made this coloring page, I was calling forth a version of that woman from the big pop art painters. Let’s face it, she seemed sort of desperate in a graphic, almost cartoonish way. “Muted Woman” is a simple coloring page that anyone could play around with.

We just came off the pandemic with its isolating and crazy-making alternative realities, women’s rights are being trounced upon by a Conservative Supreme Court that Democrats have not truly acted upon with enough scale and urgency, and too many women’s voices are being muted and divided for a variety of reasons.

Recently I joined the Women’s Strike on the 2nd anniversary of the Dobbs decision, a 50-year right that women had to determine their own destinies and not have it decided for them by a network of violent perverts — until that right was lost on that infamous date, June 24. Which someone should declare Women’s Day forever more to be celebrated with nudity, loud music, effigies, pinatas and parades in the street.

My version of “Muted Woman”

The way that I colored in my version for the video came out differently than I thought it would. I mean, I guess I was having a bad day!

My “muted woman” looks like she has a lot to say under that gag there, and her eyes are quite desperate, don’t you think? Not brimming with tears so much as shades of anger and anguish. She’s a blue- and red-head, so there’s that. And she’s got a blue polka dotted face. Surrounded in gray.

If you download and color in the page, your own Muted Woman may appear…

Note for the men

Let me say again, as I always do, that I’m fortunate that the men in my life are awesome, and I love them. I think men can be terrific and incredible. I love my husband so much still after all these years that my first real book I published under a 4seasonshelf ISBN # was a book of love poems — to him! Plus it includes some feminist poems and mom poems and wife poems, and he knows that’s just me trying to inspire and defend womankind.

Color with Nan! Modern abstract coloring book

This coloring book page is from page 11 of Random Modern & Abstract Art Adult Coloring Book created by NG Swett and published by 4seasonshelf.

I will be using crayons, but colored pencils or markers would also work just fine. Follow along as I color mine using the short video below.

Download this coloring book page pdf here

Get it, print it out, and get ready to color with me!

Nan’s notes on coloring technique

Feel free to color however you like, have fun, and enjoy the process. Sometimes people worry that their coloring isn’t good. But when it comes to coloring, the only thing that matters is that you’re having a coloring adventure. The more you do something, the better you get!

For me, I like to layer colors.

First I pick colors and then lightly color in the major blocks of color. Use whatever colors you want! It’s a coloring page, not a test. So if you’re feeling blue, beige, red, orange, purple, orange, green, whatever — just go with it and see what comes of it. By adding layers, you can adjust as you go til you’re pretty gosh darned pleased with your coloring.

Once the first layer is down, I add stronger colors and heavier layers on top. Sometimes I add details that aren’t on the coloring page. In this case, for example, I wanted a horizon line. But you don’t have to add that or anything else.

If you want to color inside the lines, then do that. If you like to color neatly, then do that. Personally, I like to start off nice and easy and then get nice and rough.

Don’t forget to sign your name!

And please share yours on Instagram and tag @4seasonshelf so I can see it!

Enjoy!

~ Nan