Welcome! Minne-Mural™ Coloring Art Posters - Kolling Cards and Things Made Here!
Greetings from Your Artist "Out-There"! Cindy Kolling Gully MN USA
About Minne-Murals
What makes Minne-Murals™ so special?
Minne-Mural ™ Coloring Art Posters are really, truly, interesting!
Minne-Murals are interesting, interactive and sometimes complex...that's what makes them so much fun.
Minne-Mural Coloring Art Posters are about nature, history, heritage, science and other really interesting things "Out-There!" Careful research goes into the subjects and includes input and review from field experts to ensure accuracy and good details.
There is an informative write-up on the back of each poster. Coloring Minne-Murals is like going on a field trip into a whole new place or rediscovering a place you have been through the eyes of a coloring artist
Minne-Murals™ are original designs hand-drawn for you by Your Artist!
After all the research and homework, the "art" takes over.
Each design is intricately drawn by hand by a real artist (not computer-generated) specifically for you to color into a frame-able poster. With you in mind… the designs vary in complexity and attitude. Standard frame or mat size opens up a wide possibility of presentation opportunities for the finished piece.
Original design and creative styling keep the designs fresh, fun and interesting.
A signature feature to look for in all Minne-Murals designs is the arch-shaped border around the main scene (sometimes you have to look hard to see it), and a special place to sign your coloring work before hanging. (Really you should date it too!)
All the designs are hand-drawn with pen and ink. First rough shapes are sketched in pencil. Details are worked in with a fine technical pen, using real objects, photographs or memories for reference. Very fine point technical pen and lines are “built” into variable thickness adding depth and interest to the drawing. The detailed hand drawn work adds substance and depth to the drawings not usually connected with coloring mediums. These are a work of art already... just wait til you get your part done!
Varied shading techniques such as stippling (tiny dots of ink to create shadow: the closer the dots, the darker the shadow) and crosshatching (short parallel hatch-marks are crisscrossed with similar hatches to create interesting shadow and depth) and long parallel lines through a particular facet of the drawing, similar wavy lines, or tight zig-zags are also used when appropriate. Look closely at your Minne-Mural and see what drawing techniques you find.
Color it Your Way!
Minne-Mural Coloring Art Posters are meant to be originally Colored by You!
Minne-Murals™ deliberately are designed not to supply “paint-by-number” keys to coordinating colors, where everyone will turn out a nice picture… yet ... it's just like everyone elses!
Minne-Mural™Coloring Art Posters encourage your own individual, unique style and color choices. It’s your picture… you color it!
As you experiment with different colors. color mixes and other coloring art techniques, your coloring art and observation skills will continue grow.
Learn Stuff while you have Fun!
Ageless designs by artist Cindy Kolling are filled with interpretive content suited to kids, yet appealing to the fast-growing popularity of coloring artists among adults, teenagers and college dorm-dwellers. Let's all Color!
Let's Party: Simple and inexpensive to host and creative to implement, coloring parties allow busy people a chance to disconnect from their workday and slide into some quality creative time with a cup of color pencils and a content filled Minne-Mural™ coloring art poster from Kolling Cards and Things Made Here!™ (they make awesome wall art.)
So, call your best 10 friends, drop on down to your local independent gift retailer, favorite museum or park store and pick out a Minne-Mural that suits you... put your phone on park... and let's color on!
Choosing Minne-Mural Coloring Art Posters assures you a hand-drawn original design of carefully researched Nature, History, Heritage, Art or Science. Made Green in the USA -- Artist-owned business sustainably serving you sincew 1986! It's what you need... made here.
Let's Do This!
It's what you need... made here!
Artist-owned business sustainably serving you and your customers since 1986.
Minne-Murals™ from Kolling Cards and Things Made Here!
Carefully researched hand drawn original designs by Your Artist "Out-There" Cindy Kolling.
Wide age and demographic appeal... Let's All Color!
Learn Stuff While You Have Fun!
Your finished Minne-Mural will make awesome wall art and a perfect trip reminder.
"Life and Times of a Monarch" is definitely a wall hanger! Colored by fifty-something Ruth while relaxing at her family lake cabin.
Let's Do This! Contact me today!
Let's Showcase Your Place! Site and subject specific Minne-Mural options are available . Ask for more info.
growing greener each day
Notes from the Artist
“Kolling Cards is greener today than yesterday,
and intends to be greener tomorrow than today.”
Cindy Kolling, owner of Kolling Cards and Things Made Here!
KOLLING CARDS AND THINGS MADE HERE! TM
Growing Greener Each Day
1.Reduce. 2. Re-use. 3. Recycle 4. Re-think.
Kolling Cards and Things Made Here! has long been known for attention to low impact production and careful choices of eco-friendly materials.
Owner/Artist Cindy Kolling is aware that the increasing green movement means closer scrutiny and critical attention from more aware customers. “I welcome it. It is nice to know that people are paying attention- it’s encouraging and exciting!”
Kolling Cards is consciously and continually working to re- think ways of production, packaging, marketing, and is constantly seeking new information and resources with regards to materials and techniques that minimize impact to the environment on as many levels as possible.
Each material choice is carefully reviewed regularly for its overall impact: Does it help educate and create awareness about going green? Does one choice actually create less overall waste or production impact than a seemingly more “green” material? What are we going to do tomorrow to improve our “green” impact and responsible approach our environmental impact?
In addition to green conscious production; Kolling Cards concentrates on using local and regional suppliers and vendors whenever possible.
Kolling Cards and Things Made Here!
MADE GREEN IN THE USA!
reduce, reuse, recycle, re-think!