Hiya, and happy social-distancing Sunday! You know I had to do it — you know I had to release at least one house-themed colouring page. And without further ado, here it is!
Please only use this for personal use, and if you colour it in and post on social media, be sure to tag me (@natalieczer) so I can see your beautiful creation!
Hello all! The past few days of social isolation, I’ve been able to open my window more and more. Spring is coming! But did you know there’s a place in the city where spring is available year-round? Allen Gardens is my favourite, favourite spot in the entire city - it’s always the first place I suggest out-of-town friends go to check out. And so, since we’re all cooped up at home to flatten that curve, I decided to bring a little bit of Allen Gardens to all of you. (I keep saying each new colouring page is my favourite, but this one, truly, is my favourite so far!) Click the image or scroll down to get a download link. As per usual, please only use for personal use, and please do tag me (@natalieczer) if you happen to print it and colour it out!
If you’ve been enjoying these free colouring pages, and are at a place where you are able to do so, please consider donating a small amount. Running a small business completely on one’s own is never an easy feat, but particularly so during these tumultuous times. If you are able to donate, I’d appreciate so much. If you’re not able to donate, please consider sharing my website or instagram (@natalieczer) with your friends - every like, share, and comment go a long way! Thank you so much, and take good care of each other. We’re all in this together.
Hello, sweet socially distanced pals! Here’s today’s free colouring page download. As a teeny tiny one-woman business myself, my heart really aches for all the small businesses being hurt by everything that’s going on. I’ve worked at a lot of independently owned coffee shops, and owning an independent business is truly non-stop work. Tell me: what foods have you been ordering and delivering to your house to try and support small & local?
Happy Thursday! Hope your day is full of yummy quarantine treats and delicious take out!
Hey pals! Today’s free downloadable colouring page is my favourite type of illustration to draw - a good ol’ streetscape! This view is of Queen and Sherbourne, featuring Seaton Butcher Shop, The Apartment Life, and Acadia Books.
Hi friends! It’s day two of my week full of free colouring pages downloads. Today we’ve got two of my favourite Toronto-y things — a little free library with a squirrel perched on top! Print ‘em out, colour ‘em in, and be sure to tag me (@natalieczer) if you post on Instagram and Twitter! (Also, a happy little reminder: personal use only, please!)
Happy colouring, friends! Hang in there!
Hello! Since so many of us are stuck at home and most likely feeling restless, I decided to upload a few free downloadable colouring pages! Please use this for personal use only. If you happen to post it on social media, please feel free to tag me so I can sneak a peek! :)
Here’s the first of the bunch - one of the evergreen food trucks down in front of Toronto’s city hall!
Thanks for staying home and doing your part to keep everyone healthy and safe!
Spotted this colourful yellow storefront in Brooklyn - I loved how the bright yellow sign stood out from the rest of the building and new I wanted to draw it right away. I also wanted to try something new with my sketchbook! I’m so into that thing where artists will fill ENTIRE PAGES of their sketchbooks, rather than respect the borders, so I decided to give that a go. Check it out:
Spent a chunk of this rainy Sunday afternoon to sketch in a cafe - I’m trying my best to fill up entire sketchbook pages and it’s such a fun challenge!
Went to New York for a few days and I friggin LOVED it. Did you know that New York is VERY big and VERY good and that I want to move there immediately???
I also did a tiny bit of sketching, both there in NYC but also here back home at my desk. I find it really hard to sketch in public — I get embarrassed so easily and feel very self-conscious drawing in public, as if the girl from grade 5 who was mean to me is lurking in the bushes just WAITING for me to take out my sketchbook so she can jump out and say “what is THAT! u think ur an ~artist~?” but it turns out she’s not and you really can just take out your sketchbook and draw and no one friggin cares. So that was nice.
I’ll be posting some more post-NYC sketches soon, but for now, here are some I’ve done so far:
Spring is in the air, and with the change in the season comes a change in subject matter too! In 2019 I’ll be branching out into more cities and focusing on the storefronts and buildings that make that place special, and I’m starting off with Hamilton, Ontario! I love Hamilton and its lovely architecture and good local spots.
Last night I tried out a risograph printing workshop at Colour Code Printing. I’ve always wanted to try riso out but didn’t want to do it without knowing how it kind of works (it’s basically like if a photocopying machine and a screenprinting machine had a bébé) and so I figured a workshop was the perfect way to try it out. Because I guess I like just hurling myself into the unknown, I also decided to try printing a digital illustration despite the fact that I have never done a digital illustration before???? While I’m still not really sure what I was thinking, I’m kind of glad I did it? It’s nice to stick your hands into something you’ve never tried before!
The Conjuring is a SCARIER movie than I EXPECTED and I am only HUMAN okay?????? ALSO this is my first ever comic drawn on an iPad?????? which is why it looks kind of..... not great. I’m LEARNING but very very very slowly
This past Valentine’s Day was a dream come true. I love love, and few things make me happier than someone asking me to illustrate them with their sweetheart, or a cute family portrait, or an adorable pal portrait. Thank you so much to everyone who commissioned me for such a special thing.
I love how messy and fun these colour testing strips turn out! Right now I use them as thank you notes to slip into orders, but I kind of would like to turn them into something else at some point…
My favourite part of the day is eating breakfast at the little dining nook in my kitchen and looking through the little cut-out in the wall into my studio and planning all the things I’m going to do that day. My least favourite part of the day is getting off of the chair at the dining nook because anyone who’s been to my apartment will know that the dining nook and the chairs were built and left by the previous tenants who happened to be, like, SEVEN FEET TALL and so the chairs are VERY hard to clamber on and off of. But, uh, I digress. Mornings. They’re nice. I like ‘em.
Domestic bliss.
It is never not a delight to open up my email or my Instagram and see a photo from a previous client like this one. I am always thrilled to see a finished piece next to its real-life counterpart. Please do not ever stop sending me pictures like this, guys!!!
Holy heck, thank you so much for all the orders placed over the past few weeks??? That was bananas and I’m floored by how supportive people are and by how many people choose to support local art. THANK YOU SO MUCH!
