Welcome to Coloring Coping

About Coloring Coping

Coloring Coping was created from a simple but powerful idea:

Humor can hold what we don’t always know how to process.

Skateboarding, creative work, and everyday life all come with friction—physical, mental, and emotional. There are moments that feel frustrating, repetitive, or quietly overwhelming. Instead of pushing those experiences aside, Coloring Coping leans into them—with humor.

Because humor does something unique.

It softens intensity without denying it.

It creates space without needing resolution.

In this way, humor becomes both therapeutic and subversive.

Coloring Coping: Comic Relief & Coloring Therapy

About the Mixed-Media Art

Kristi Sanders mixed-media art practice that explores these same ideas.

Through illustration, materials, and visual storytelling, the work captures the essence of a place or message—where humor and discomfort overlap. The goal isn’t to resolve those moments, but to highlight them in a way that feels playful, honest, and human.

Each piece reflects the same underlying thread of outsider art with a central focus of skateboarding.

Within each piece there is often something quietly absurd— and magical.