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.

To buy the complete paperback coloring book with all 50 modern designs, check Nan’s 4seasonshelf Shop for availability.

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.

How (and why) I’m making videos

Lately I’ve been making wide, longer form, evergreen videos for YouTube.

I use my android smartphone and Canva. I have a tripod, too, but I haven’t used it much yet. Oh, and I recently made a DIY phone mount on my bike safety helmet.

On my wish list are a bluetooth mic, a gimbel (for video stabilization), and a lot more courage.

A few of my first wide form videos for YouTube

Starting with the most recent as of this blog post, here are some of my first wide YouTube videos. Each is just a few minutes long. Notice the different topics, formats, and tools that I’m playing around with. For example,

• one is an animated video of a short story I wrote

• another is a climb up an historic lighthouse

• another is a day in the life type of vlog

• one is a selection of love poems from my book.

I have also done quite a few vertical mobile style short short videos, but here are longer, wide format videos.

Working on getting better at video making

Areas that I’m trying to improve are

• thumbnails

• titles

• research

• working up the courage to talk to camera

• video editing

• ideas for videos / relevant topics for both me and audience

WHY though??

Connect with Audience

As everyone knows, YouTube is a search engine as well as a massive collection of videos, and it continues to be a very popular platform. People like the video format, finding authentic people, and finding what they’re looking for. Of all the platforms out there, I think the best one for me to find my audience is YouTube. My goal is to connect with an audience, improve my craft, and own my intellectual property assets.

Pinterest is another great platform and search engine, and it’s somewhat under the radar. That’ll be a topic for another day.

Monetization?

Monetizing my YouTube channel through its Partner Program is do-able if I keep at it, be consistent, and continue to improve. Over the years, YouTube has stood behind people who create content with real resources. It continues to do so, unlike other platforms. I just need 1,000 YouTube channel subscribers and 4,000 “watch hours” LOL. It’s another long game! (Like writing and painting, let’s face it.)

I mean, what if by the time I’m 60, I have a nice big email list, a whole bunch of writing and painting going on, a monetized YouTube channel, a blog, and an online store as well? That would be a fun and awesome next chapter of life.