If you like to take some coloring wherever you go, coloring journals are a great option. Sometimes you sit down to journal and you can’t really think of what to write, but if you sit and put color to shapes on a page that often opens up the creative parts of our brain and relaxes us enough to be able to get in touch with our feelings and intentions for the now and the future.
Coloring Journals come in a few types, some have a few doodles or designs on each page, some have full pictures to color in on one page with either a journaling area or a calendar area on the other side, some have inspirational pieces to color while others have inspirational quotes with surrounding art. I have explored quite a few and of course have some favorites.
As you may know if you follow my social media, I have started using my large stash of art supplies in mixed media and with my Lifebook 2018 projects I am using this beautiful journal from Tyndale Publishing as my art journal.
I really adore this GORGEOUS Prayer and Coloring Journal from Tyndale! The cover is the first of it’s kind with a raised printed hardback that just invites you to journal and color. Each page is special with either a scripture, prayer or inspirational quote and beautiful images to color and meditate on as well.
Gratitude invites you to bring creative journaling and the calming act of coloring into your quiet time. The Tyndale’s Living Expressions collection helps guide your thoughts as you pray or meditate about concerns such as health, overcoming stress, personal relationships, and more. Gratitude gives you a way to celebrate and give thanks. Filled with over 100 designs to color, plenty of space for journaling and sketching. A sample page is below
This gorgeous book is the sister to Gratitude shown above, with gorgeous colored in portions, bible verses, inspiration and prompts to get you reflecting on your day.
Color, Journal and brainstorm your way to a creative life. Combining quotes from inspiring women, positive affirmations, and artistic advice direct from Andrea Pippins, along with supportive prompts and exercises, this uplifting book is the perfect tool to get those creative juices flowing. And with stylish hand-lettering and full-color illustrations throughout, Becoming Me is a perfect gift and keepsake—as well as a powerful tool for self-expression.
These journals are 6×9 inches in size, 200 pages, and available in hardcover and paperback options. Selina’s book also includes area’s for bullet journaling.
Watercolor Discovery and Releasing Your Creative Spirit. This gorgeous journal by Kristi Rice is designed for watercolors and you can learn more about how to do that here. It includes 9 illustrations on thick, textured paper, alongside full-color frameable reproductions of the same works painted by Kristy herself, demonstrating palette choices and brushwork.
Secret Garden Journal – If features gilt edging, a ribbon and includes 70 small images from Secret Garden.
Secret Garden Mini-Journal This set of three mini journals is packaged as a gift set. Each journal contains 64 blank pages for your notes and sketches.
The first time I saw one of Daria Song’s coloring books I fell completely in love with her illustration style.
These are simply GORGEOUS Adult coloring books.
DARIA SONG is an author and artist from Seoul, Korea. Winner of the Kyung Hyang Arts Contest, Song has a master’s degree in fiber arts and has exhibited at numerous galleries and museums in Korea, Singapore, Turkey, and Hong Kong. She spent five years of her childhood in San Francisco, California, before returning to Korea, and the sense of wonder and mystery that comes from living in a far-off place inspired The Time Garden.
Daria has gone and done it again, created a magical book that is completely different from anything else on the market. I received the book from her publishers and still can’t bring myself to color in it or cut out anything because it’s just that perfect. There are paper doll sets to cut out, puzzles to do, search for treasure and mostly just enjoying the amazing artwork throughout the book. This is much more than a coloring book. I did a flip-through for the members of the Facebook group here, so join us to see.
A young girl, playing in the countryside, enters a mysterious mansion and must solve a variety of puzzles and riddles to get out. With a range of different activities—from dot-to-dot, to intricate mazes, to optical illusions and coloring pages.
I was so excited to receive Daria’s first book “The Time Garden” from Amazon and it is spectacular, gorgeous, intricate, whimsical I could gush on and on. If you like Johanna Basford’s style of illustration I think you will love these intricate coloring books too. They are completely different in subject matter yet for some reason they seem similar to me. Perhaps it is the luscious thick paper printed with pictures on both sides of the paper telling a story.
Daria Song’s Christmas Book “The Gift” or.. “Night Voyage”
The third book in Daria Song’s “Time” series is available for pre-order in the US. Known throughout Asia as “The Gift,” or “All Gifts of the World.” The English version is called “The Night Voyage: A Magical Adventure and Coloring Book” I think I like “The Gift” better but I’m not in charge. I have seen Daria sharing images from this book since October and am beyond excited to get my hands on one of them.
The Gift or All Gifts of the World or the Night Voyage are all alternate names for Daria Song’s Christmas book.
The tabby cat you see in this image is throughout the book for you cat lovers that are also Daria Song fans. Her Christmas book follows the little girl on a new nighttime adventure when the conductor of her toy train comes to life and helps her distribute gifts across the world.
The Night Voyage is an evocatively illustrated story of a little girl who is swept away on the eve of her birthday by her toy train conductor on a magical journey to distribute gifts around the globe. Taking devotees of The Time Garden and The Time Chamber on an imaginative new adventure, The Night Voyage continues Daria Song’s wildly successful series with the beautifully intricate art that her fans have come to love, featuring a world of paper cranes, penny-farthing bicycles, trolleys, cityscapes, and hot air balloon-filled skies.
This gorgeous Christmas book is available on Amazon US – UK – Canada or Book Depository Worldwide. October 2016
In both of Daria’s books, you get to travel along with her to her childhood imagination and then out into the pages that her talented hands create and illustrate. This first book “The Time Garden” has a little red-headed girl escaping from a coo-coo clock and exploring the big beautiful world outside. My best advice is to not stick to a traditional color palette and let your creativity wander while you fill in these gorgeous illustrations with color. Order Online from Amazon US ~ UK ~ Canada ~ Book Depository
A dazzlingly beautiful coloring book for all ages, The Time Garden will sweep you away into a whimsical cuckoo clock–inspired world, created in intricate pen and ink by the internationally best-selling Korean artist Daria Song. Then, explore the magical world outside the clock through the eyes of a fairy in the sequel, The Time Chamber: A Magical Story and Coloring Book.
Journey through the doors of a mysterious cuckoo clock into its inky inner workings to discover a magical land of clock gears, rooftops, starry skies, and giant flying owls—all ready for you to customize with whatever colors you can dream up.
The Time Chamber: A Magical Story and Coloring Book
Korean artist Daria Song’s sequel to The Time Garden takes readers on a visual journey into a magical nighttime world seen through the eyes of that same little ginger girl.
This second book in best-selling Korean artist Daria Song’s coloring series features the voyage of a fairy who, when the cuckoo clock chimes midnight, enters the human world. To the tiny fairy, everything seems enormous and magical, from the curtains to the chandelier to a mystical rowboat that takes her further into an inky adventure. Filled with the imaginative, intricately detailed illustrations Song’s readers have come to love, The Time Chamber presents a view of our world made new—and ready for coloring.
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We are not kidding you need this book if you love intriguing detailed coloring books. You probably should get two because someone else is going to want it for a gift once they see it.
All of Daria’s books feature extra-thick craft paper, ideal for non-bleed-through coloring, and the jacketed cover with flaps is removable and colorable. Special gold-foil stamping on the cover and spine and a To/From page make it perfect for gifting to adults and kids alike.
Daria Song’s Christmas Coloring Book “The Gift”
Daria has created an AMAZING Christmas Coloring book this year as well but it is only available in Korea, Viet Nam, and the Philippines right now. If you follow her on social media I’m sure you have seen many of the colored images. It’s fantastic and amazing and has everything wonderful about Christmas in it. At least Johanna gave us 4 intricate Christmas illustrations to color in this year but I am really hoping and praying for both these talented illustrators to give the UK and the US Christmas coloring books in 2016!
A full coloring page faces each week so you can enjoy coloring on the go and keep yourself organized.
The Time Chamber: A Magical Story and Coloring Book
Korean artist Daria Song’s sequel to The Time Garden takes readers on a visual journey into a magical nighttime world seen through the eyes of a fairy.
I just received Daria’s first book “The Time Garden” and it is spectacular. This gorgeous book has arrived! See the instagram video below, and images of the boat picture I’m working on first on the Coloring Book Addicts FB page.
Click to order on Amazon… not kidding you need this book if you love intriguing detailed coloring books. You probably should get two because someone else is going to want it for a gift once they see it.
This second book in best-selling Korean artist Daria Song’s coloring series features the voyage of a fairy who, when the cuckoo clock chimes midnight, enters the human world. To the tiny fairy, everything seems enormous and magical, from the curtains to the chandelier to a mystical rowboat that takes her further into an inky adventure. Filled with the imaginative, intricately detailed illustrations Song’s readers have come to love, The Time Chamber presents a view of our world made new—and ready for coloring.
Daria Song’s two books are in the large square format and printed on both sides of the luscious thick paper like Secret Garden. Here is a quick flip through of the Time Garden.
These are the four I’m excited about receiving… Let me know in the comments if I have missed any of your favorites.
presents a view of our world made new—and ready for coloring.
