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FEATURED BOOK: Orangeroof Zoo by Mary Ogle
Genre: Coloring Book
Targeted Age Group: Adult
Steam/Violence Level: (Ranked from 1 to 5, as noted by the author): 1 – Clean read/not a lot of violence
Award-winning artist Mary Ogle’s Orangeroof Zoo is the next logical step in the adult coloring book revolution. Combining finely crafted and detailed line drawings with a fascinating narrative, Orangeroof Zoo is both coloring book and graphic novel.
The book begins with a curious summons. L receives a piece of unsolicited correspondence and must choose whether to accept a cryptic offer of transportation. Confused by the situation and perplexed by the enigmatic Z, a mystified L follows the instructions provided. The reader follows L and Z’s intriguing interaction through a series of black and white cards, becoming a part of the story by bringing the illustrations to life through their own creative application of color.
Read more about Mary Ogle here
Link to buy Orangeroof Zoo
What format is this book in? eBook, Print Book
Have you colored in this book or another by this author? Tell us about it in the comments!
FEATURED BOOK: Celtic Alphabet Coloring Book: A Set of 26 Original, Hand-Drawn Letters To Color by Kristen N. Fox
Genre: Coloring Books, Celtic Art
Targeted Age Group: all ages
Steam/Violence Level: (Ranked from 1 to 5, as noted by the author): 1 – Clean read/not a lot of violence
The original, hand-drawn alphabet in the Art of FoxVox Celtic Alphabet Coloring Book by Kristen N. Fox includes classic Celtic elements such as intricate knotwork and circular spiral art, as well as leaf and vine motifs. The compositions and decorations are uniquely tailored to each letter so no two are exactly alike, but together make a beautifully cohesive set. Coloring these letters can be a fun way to teach the alphabet to young children. Or you can choose a letter that’s a person’s name initial, color it as you like, carefully cut its page free of the book, and frame it for them. And of course, you can always just color them for the fun of it – following the knotwork as it loops around, and seeing where the path takes you! No matter what the subject, coloring is creative and relaxing – enjoy!
Link to buy Celtic Alphabet Coloring Book: A Set of 26 Original, Hand-Drawn Letters To Color
What format is this book in? Print Book
Have you read this book or another by this author? Tell us about it in the comments!
Free Hummingbird Coloring Pages for National Coloring Book Day
National Coloring Day happened to be the day after National Hummingbird Day so we made a couple coloring pages to give you that celebrate both days!
I love coloring. And I LOVE hummingbirds.
Here are two free pages for you to download and color. Click the image, right click and choose “save image as” and you can save the image to your computer.
Hummingbird Mandala Printable Coloring Page
Hummingbird Printable Coloring Mandala Page
Sketch Effects: Butterflies: Coloring Book for Adults (Sketch Effects Coloring Books for Adults)
About: Sketch Effects: Butterflies: Coloring Book for Adults (Sketch Effects Coloring Books for Adults) (Volume 1) – Grayscale coloring book for grownups.
These aren’t your standard coloring book images. They are the kind that are infused with nature, the kind that allow you to color what you see in them. We don’t dictate your vision.
Every image in this book started as a photograph of a living butterfly. I use soft lines and gray areas, since nature isn’t usually hard and black and white. There is more gray that you may be used to. With your choice of coloring medium, whether it is pens, markers, pencils, crayons or paints, you discover what you are meant to see in each image.
You are in control, your mind is in control.
Color your stress away by taking our butterfly sketches and creating the images that are in your mind. Crazy colors or realistic colors – the choice is yours.
Volume #1 of Sketch Effects: Butterflies Coloring Book for Adults includes:
28 Butterfly Sketches to color, plus a bonus Butterfly Mandala
Printed on one side of the page so your colors won’t bleed through and you can remove and frame your images without losing an image on the back Unique art by Deborah Carney
Examples of images included – from the back cover:
Click either image or click here to buy this book.
Mandalas Inspired by Lilacs – Volume 3 Bicolor: Adult Grayscale Coloring Book – Inspired by Nature, Brought to life by you
Grayscale Coloring Book for Grown-ups:
Every mandala started as a photograph of a lilac on a bush out in nature.
These aren’t your standard mandalas. They are the kind that are infused with nature, the kind that allow you to color what you see in them.
I don’t dictate your vision. I use soft lines and gray areas, since nature isn’t usually hard and black and white.
This edition is filled with mandalas created from photographs of Bicolor lilacs from Highland Park in Rochester, NY in 2005. If you are looking for color inspiration we put a photo of the original lilacs on the front cover and you can check out our site at RosesAndLilacs.com
There is more gray than you may be used to. With your choice of coloring medium, whether it is pens, markers, pencils, crayons or paints, you discover what you are meant to see in each image. You are in control, your mind is in control. Color your stress away by meditating on our mandalas and creating the images that are in your mind.
21 Designs – Unique Original Art by Deborah Carney from her own photographs Designs printed on one side only 8.5″ x 11″ pages with large images Wide Gutter so you can color the whole image Recommended for beginner to advanced colorists
Examples of inside images from the back cover:
Click on either image or on this link to buy this coloring book for adults.
Featured Book: Be Here With Love Coloring Book: Inspirational Coloring Words by Meri Kelly
About Be Here With Love Coloring Book: Inspirational Coloring Words to Lift Your Spirits, Relieve Stress and Spark Creativity by Meri Kelly
Step into some happy time as you release your inner artist, turning these motivating and uplifting words into your own unique, inspirational art.
The first-ever coloring book for caregivers, Be Here With Love is an adult coloring book with inspirational sayings to calm your worry and lift your spirits, and was created especially to celebrate and encourage family caregivers.
30 original, hand-drawn illustrations featuring whimsical backgrounds and colorable words. Each illustration has its own dedicated right-side page for ease of coloring.
Coloring is a way to keep your loved one company, and take care of yourself at the same time.
Be Here With Love is also a thoughtful, uplifting gift to recognize and show appreciation for a special caregiver you know!
The Color Me Caring Adult Coloring Book series was created by Meri Kelly and a few friends who took on the challenge of caregiving. We sometimes joke we’re in the “good daughter club.” We share our caregiving tips and free coloring pages at ColorMeCaring.com.
This Adult Coloring book is available in these Formats: Print
Featured Book: Three-Dimensional Christmas Ornaments Coloring Book & Paper Crafts by Monika Mira
About Three-Dimensional Christmas Ornaments Coloring Book & Paper Crafts by Monika Mira
The Three-Dimensional Christmas Ornament Coloring Book & Paper Crafts will inspire your creativity with twenty-four highly detailed holiday designs. Best-selling coloring book illustrator, Monika Mira, brings you this unique and delightful art activity. The elaborate patterns are fun and relaxing to color. Thousands of different color combinations are possible, so your designs will always be unique. The ornament designs can be used for Christmas cards, decorations, and gift tags, or assembled into unique three-dimensional ornaments to hang on the tree. Inside, you will find intricately designed ornaments such as Christmas trees, stars, and fanciful birds, as well as simple, but traditional ornament shapes, a tin angel, and a snowy church. Five blank templates have also been provided for artists who wish to design their own ornaments.
This Children’s Coloring Book Book book is available in these Formats: Print
Free Printable Coloring Books from Libraries Around the World #ColorOurCollections
Image credit: The Huntington
In February 2016, museums and libraries around the world took part in #ColorOurCollections – where they made available free coloring books created from their collections of art. Then they encouraged colorist to share their colored in images on social media using the hashtag #ColorOurCollections (Twitter) and on (Instagram). Here is a partial list of the libraries and museums with links to their pages or directly to their free printable adult coloring book PDFs.
Free printable coloring PDFs:
- Bodleian Library (PDF)
- National Archives of the United States (patents)
- New York Academy of Medicine
- New York Public Library (PDF)
- Special Collections and Rare Books, University of Missouri Libraries
- Smithsonian Libraries – (PDF)
Links to pages that have more information and more coloring pages:
- Biodiversity Heritage Library
- Digital Public Library of America
- Europeana
- Folger Library
- James Madison University (PDF)
- New York Botanical Garden
- The Getty
- The Huntington
- The Open Library
- Wangensteen Historical Library, University of Minnesota
The Library of Congress has a Pinterest board with a collection of coloring pages for printing as well.
Here is another page on our site with links to more free printable coloring pages.
Let us know in the comments if you are an institution with more free coloring pages! (We’ll have separate places for individual authors to post free pages).
Winners!
Our first Coloring Book Goodies giveaway has been a huge success. We are so excited that we got so many entries that we are giving away some extra prizes!
From the official Rafflecopter:
We had over 20,000 entries – so cool! The five winners there are listed on this post.
Because we had SO many Facebook shares and comments we decided to give away a few extra prizes.
Over 16,000 Facebook Shares, ove 6,000 comments and 8000 likes! We decided to award 5 books to random winners just from Facebook. Each winner will receive a copy of Sketch Effects: Butterflies Volume 1.
Beth Richard
Carla McLaughlin
Nancy Mosley
Linda Mogel
Linda Lechnir Chidster
And from our coloring group I randomly picked a few frequent posters.
Everyone that entered, shared, commented and liked the contest on Facebook that comes to this page will win a full length PDF coloring book from Inspirational Goodies. Because of the size of the file I can’t upload it to my server to give away until later this week so if you are interested in claiming that prize please subscribe to the email list at InspirationalGoodies.com
Everyone that is subscribed to our email list WILL get an additional PDF book to download that will be sent to the list later this week. Next week there will be another PDF book link sent to the email list so be sure to sign up!
Thank you to everyone that entered and we will have a lot more giveaways and coloring contests in the near future.
Coloring Book Giveaway! Books and More
Coloring Book Goodies is pleased to announce our really cool coloring book giveaway sponsored by us and authors Katie Darden, Vintage Pen Press and >Emily M Morgan. Please support our generous authors by buying and reviewing their books!
We will be giving away 12 print books including coloring books, coloring journals and coloring pencils supplied by the authors with a few things tossed in from Coloring Book Goodies. They will be divided up into 5 prize packages.
Enter our giveaway and join our newsletter to get a link to a special page that has links to free coloring pages from a variety of authors. We have plans to offer lots of cool freebies via our newsletter and social media so be sure to follow all the links in the Rafflecopter below!
Check out all the great books in our Coloring Book Goodies Holiday Gift Guide for more great books and journals too!
Gift Guide: Coloring To Relax The Mind: Geometric Designs Volume 1 by Mary D. Brooks
Category: Mandalas
Book Dimensions:8 x 10
Number of Images (colorable pages): 50
About Coloring To Relax The Mind: Geometric Designs Volume 1:
The Coloring To Relax The Mind is an Adult Coloring Book that will help you to relax. Psychologists say that activities such as coloring which immerses us in one activity helps our mind and relaxes us. We all lead very busy lives with family, work commitments, health issues and much more. There is so much going on.
We neglect the one thing we should not and that is ourselves. We need to MAKE time for ourselves. When we were children (and for some of us, that was some time ago), we found enjoyment in creating art by coloring. We spent many hours hunched over our coloring books with crayons (or pencils and/or markers)…
Gift Guide: Meditations Through Coloring by River Grove Books
Category: Meditation
Print book price range: $12.95
Book Dimensions: 8.5 x 0.2 x 8.5
Number of Images (colorable pages): 92
About Meditations Through Coloring:
Meditation is a stress-reduction technique implemented the world over. Although the techniques vary, people from across the globe embrace meditation as an essential part of their daily practice. As scientists and psychologists explore this ancient path today, they are discovering alternatives to traditional meditation. One of these is coloring. Coloring is a low-stress activity that invokes deep focus and relaxation. The act of coloring can unlock hidden creative potential while alleviating stress by allowing the practitioner to concentrate on specific patterns and colors while letting go of any worries and concerns. This volume showcases images inspired by the ancient art form of henna tattoos, known as mehndi. Throughout the world, mehndi is incorporated into special celebrations and rites of passage, ranging from weddings to childbirth. Experienced meditation practitioners and general readers alike will enjoy Meditations through Coloring as they explore intricate patterns and the calming interaction of color and space on every page.
Gift Guide: Adult Coloring Book – Color Your World Calm – Book 1 – 50 Mandalas by Carol Clifford
Category: Mandalas
Book Dimensions: 8.25 x 8.25 inches
Number of Images (colorable pages): 50
About Adult Coloring Book – Color Your World Calm – Book 1 – 50 Mandalas:
I hope you enjoy coloring these 50 mandalas and find some calm moments amid the hustle and bustle of modern life. To ensure you have a mandala for various amounts of coloring time, I’ve included some quick and easy ones amongst the more intricate ones.
Maybe you’d like to frame your finished artwork. My adult daughter laminates hers and uses them for placemats… see what uses you can put your mandalas to, aside from admiring the finished product and enjoying the coloring process.
Each image has a page of its own as per one sided printing so you won’t be bothered by losing the image on the reverse of the page.
TIP: if you use markers for coloring, make sure to place a piece of light cardboard under the page you are coloring as it will prevent bleed-through onto the page behind it.
Finally, I wish you all the best as you relax with your coloring projects.
