Life of Colour Blog

Lalela is a charity providing educational arts for at-risk youth in South Africa to spark creative thinking. This charity encompasses everything that we believe at Life of Colour, please read more about them in this article. 

A fraction of each purchase made in our store this year has contributed to our generous donation, and they'll also receive a huge hamper of Life of Colour products.

Perfect gift for teens: wood slices and paint pens! Why? Let these two fantastic teen artists show you what you can create. From a Harry Styles inspired wood slice, to a cute stencil rainbow for your drawers, let's go!

Spoil Dad this weekend with a handmade gift using your Life of Colour paint pens.

We all love a good superhero and Fathers are often the first superhero in our lives. Let’s show Dad how super he is this Father's Day! 

We were so inspired by our Life of Colour art group member Clare Parker’s use of Life of Colour watercolour brush pens and her mindfulness art painted upon sheets of music that we wanted to share it with the world!

Clare's pieces are full of emotion and are a source of inspiration for us because they encourage mindfulness and flowing with art as a way of relaxing!

Those Autumn feels have come around quite late in the season this year, the cold wind lapping around your face and the crunching sound of fallen leaves underfoot as you take a brisk morning walk. 

Give a makeover to an outdated clock using your watercolour pens and your paint pens! Easy clock revamp just changing the face of the clock

If lockdown has started off some serious home redecoration, no need to go out and buy all new items to match your new look, simply upcycle the ones you have! Save the planet, get creative and get a fresh new look.  

In this blog are 5 unique ideas to uplift objects you can find around home, plus each painted design is super achievable! These projects all use paint pens, so if you don’t have any, grab some from Life of Colour and come back to try these designs!

This gorgeous pink, purple and orange whale may seem difficult, but by following the video, we promise it’ll look amazing! Try making this colourful whale using Life of Colour paint pens, following the short 1-minute tutorial video and reading some tips and inspiration below, we hope you give it a try!

Learn how to paint a peacock on a rock. The peacock is a commonly depicted bird in the world of art. It can be found on flags, canvas masterpieces, decorative garden ornaments, wall batiks and stones!

With its massive beautiful tail feathers and iridescent colours from head to claw, this bird has long been fanciful eye candy to its human observers.

Friendship Day is just around the corner and we suggest you spread the love and paint some kindness rocks to drop around your community, or instead of gifting the conventional card why not personalise your sentiments by getting creative and making a “rock card”. 

We will show you how to create a perfectly simple and beautiful heart rock "card" for someone you love. 

Thank you to the amazing entries for this super flash giveaway! We will be sending out 1 pack of our classic paint pens medium tip tomorrow!

All you had to do was like, share and tag friends in this post and comment with your wish for Christmas to enter. Easy as that.

"Educators tell us that art encourages fine motor skills, neural development, and problem-solving abilities and that it can be used effectively to teach and understand other key subjects such as reading, writing, math, and science. Therapists tell us that art is valuable because it allows children to process their world, to deal with sometimes scary emotions in a safe way, and because it gives them critical sensory input. Artists tell us that art is important for its own sake—as a source of beauty and expression, as well as simply for the process of creating. Kids tell us that art is fun, an activity they enjoy. Parents tell us that art is vital to their families because it keeps everyone engaged and happy and helps with the sometimes difficult transitions of the day." (from the Artful parent if you want to read more why art is beneficial for kids)

Add a little spring in your shoe with Life of Colour Pens. Walk your way through Spring with funky and colourful shoes designed by...yourself! 

This week we had a competition on our new Facebook group. Paint on anything in your home...just not a rock, using the theme Spring as an inspiration. 

The winner has just been announced by our resident artist, Laura. Read her message below.

This weekend we are celebrating our classics and glitters. Here are some fun ways to use our metallic and glitter paint pens for your art projects.

Our paint pens can literally colour the world.

Nothing in your house is safe when Life of Colour is about. 

Your kitchen jars, kids book covers, stationary boxes, old clothes and shoes, wooden tables, ceramic mugs, post box, front door signs....it goes on...everything can be coloured!

Here we will show you a few examples of some of the fun stuff we have coloured over the past few weeks. Some of these are from customers who sent us pictures to show off their work. 

Many of you have seen our incredible (and now famous) brand ambassador, lettering artist and master blender Karen all over our Facebook and Instagram. Karen and her lettering and brush pens friends always talk about "blending" and how they love how Life of Colour's Watercolour pens blend. If you are a beginner and have no idea how to blend, or have never used brush pens before, then this tutorial is for you. 

Are you one of the people who makes their own cards or buys them from a newsagent? Personally I would rather spend more on the gift and less on the card, so I fall into the former category. With my Life of Colour Pens and stencils I feel like I can make all my own cards with confidence and pride. Nothing is more special and personal than giving a loved one a card that you took your time and effort to make. 

In this tutorial I will show you how to make a beautiful safari greeting card using all of our products.

One of our artists and brand ambassadors using Life of Colour Watercolour Pens is Subhashini @subhashini.artfactory on Instagram, an incredible artist with a background in textile design. Her love of nature inspires her work and because of this she creates detailed doodle type illustrations that are full of colour, florals, animal life and vibrant textures. 

She has created this awesome floral illustration with her Life of Colour pens, and made a video to share with all of you! It is a real time video so you can see step by step what she is doing, and it is pretty easy to follow along with her.

Art is a great healer.

Whether you are after mindfulness, focus or relaxation, or a way to distract you from pain or problems, it is an effective way to break the cycle of everyday monotony, busy-ness or illness. 

Tyler from our community has kindly shared with us her story of how she got into art, why she was attracted to the easy art tools like Watercolour Pens, and how it helps her manager the pain from her autoimmune disease.

Today we're showing you how to doodle a fuzzy bee. Step by Step guide by @laumoraiti.illustration

You'll need Life of Colour Watercolor Brush Pens in yellow, light and dark brown, black and red.

Karen is one of our incredible Brand Ambassadors, and here she offers her 6 top lettering tips.