Do you like coloring? Do you know someone who does? Print out Ekaki•No•Mi's first-ever coloring page, featuring an adorable chibi Mairead sending spooky candy flying everywhere with her magic, and give you and/or anybody you know something fun and creative to do this cooped-up Halloween!

As all of you, young and old, all know, 2020 has been a...pretty mixed up year. As a result, Halloween has come early here at Ekaki•No•Mi!

It's not all that easy to draw a picture with out-lines of different colors or special effects that really pop without the messy original sketch showing up underneath...that is, if I do everything on the same paper. So what I do is finish the line-art first, then take a lightboard and trace over the entire thing on another paper, using colored pencils alone for the special effects. This was going to be the line-art for my Halloween picture this year, and it was going to have glowing swirls, shining stars, sparkles...*the works.*

But then I remembered how the pandemic is going to effect classic Halloween traditions for all the children--the older ones who would make it a point to put on their best for Halloween night to go Trick-Or-Treating or see the Wild Rumpus Parade, and suddenly had to drop everything to stay inside this year, and the younger ones who never even experienced those wonderful things to begin with...all because of this horrible virus, which will only get worse with time if we *don't* stay inside.

So this year, I decided to skip the bells, whistles, sparkles and glows and just post the line-art as a coloring page. And, I'm posting it early so you all have time to print it out before and during Halloween. Pretty clever, huh?

In case I'm not on-line to say it then...Happy Halloweeeeeeeen!!!

(*crazy witchy laughter because why not*)