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Best Coloring Books for Seniors or those with physical or vision challenges

October 22, 2020 By Addicted Colorist Leave a Comment

Many seniors will like any of the coloring books we have featured on the site already, however, some either because of vision, dementia or fine motor control issues may need to have coloring books for seniors that are better suited to them.

Coloring Books for Seniors

Kimberly Garvey Books for Senior Citizens

This review says it all “This is a wonderful coloring book. I’m 36, but I have severe arthritis, chronic pain, and several other health issues that lead to my hands being very shaky. Also, when I have to concentrate on the very small designs in some other coloring books, it often gives me a headache. This book is one of only 2 or 3 “simple” coloring books for adults out there. But, really, the designs are not “simple” at all, the areas to color are a bit larger than most you find in adult coloring books. This would be good for anyone: adults who might prefer their coloring areas not be so intricate, those with arthritis or other health problems like me, older adults, and even, perhaps, adults with Alzheimers or bad eyesight. To the author: please, please think about doing more of this kind of coloring book! There is such a need for less intricate books like this. I’ve posted it to the RA website (there is a post that talks about coloring) and also recommended it to friends who are also registered nurses (as I once was) to use in their assisted living centers and nursing homes.”

Simple Designs – A Laid Back Coloring Book by Kimberly Garvey

coloring books for seniors Simple Designs - A Laid Back Coloring Book for seniors by Kimberly Garvey

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That reviewer got her wish. Kimberly has created a few books directed at seniors

Simple Designs II – Another Easy Coloring book for Senior Adults

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Sweet Home Coloring Book

50 large print images including cute objects and animals of a cozy house – including cats, flowers, sweets, plants on one sided letter sized paper.

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My Sweet Home Coloring Book for Seniors

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Winter Village

Winter Village – Coloring Book: Serene Little Village Series

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Large Print Adult Coloring Book

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100 Amazing Patterns by Jade Summer

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Easy Coloring Book for Adults: Beautiful Simple Designs for Seniors and Beginners

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SUPER Simple Designs: An Adult Coloring Book with EASY Designs

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This coloring book was designed specifically for seniors, beginners, disabled people and those with various other issues that require MUCH easier coloring pages. Or maybe you just like simpler books. This is a simplified version of the Simple Designs book above. Many of the drawings are similar but simpler than Simple Designs. It is drawn with bolder lines to help those who have vision problems. Also, this book is great for beginners or anyone who feels like kicking back with an easier picture to color. This book has 36, one-sided, SIMPLE pages to color. A perfect coloring book for seniors, disabled, those with rheumatoid arthritis, anxiety, It seems to have calming, relaxing, and anti-stress characteristics.

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Easy Coloring Book for Adults: Inspirational Quotes

54 pages on one-sided paper, reviews say this is great for seniors. It is a CreateSpace book.

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Advanced Style Coloring Book

Ari Seth Cohen is the author of this unique book featuring stylish seniors dressed in high fashion. The senior ladies on your gift list are really going to enjoy the illustrations in this book and the celebration of women “of a certain age,” indeed we are fans of celebrating women of all ages. The paper is your basic Createspace quality and it contains only 30 illustrations, a bit thin for the price but it is still a great buy for that perfect person.

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Norman Rockwell Classics from the Saturday Evening Post

norman rockwell classic coloring book for seniors

The subject matter of these two coloring books makes them perfect for seniors, both by Creative Haven so expect single-sided images on perforated white paper.

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The Saturday Evening Post-American Coloring Book

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Harmony of Nature: Unwind Create Color by Japanese artist Mihoko Kurihara

This pretty nature book was personally recommended by Ruth, one of the members of the Facebook group as a fantastic coloring book for seniors, and I agree with her. It’s perfect! Simple designs yet more realistic than Kimberly Garvey’s, particularly if you are a nature and bird lover.

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I’ve recently been introduced to this coloring book illustrator Aisling D’Art and her series of books Bold and Easy Coloring Pages. She has several versions and they are designed to be colored by those with mobility difficulties, vision issues or hand-eye coordination.

Bold and Easy Coloring Pages 1 by Aisling D’Art

The designs in this book include simple, relaxing mandalas, easy kaleidoscope drawings and calming, repeating patterns with two copies of 25 patterns.

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She has several others in this series below. This coloring book is also a Left-Handed book

Coloring Cafe Books by Ronnie Walter

Ronnie Walter’s coloring cafe books are spiral bound filled with biblical and uplifting verses and messages with simple designs perfect for seniors to color in.

Colorful Blessings

Coloring Books for Seniors Ronnie Walter

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Kindness Matters

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Color My Heart Happy

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Large Print Color By Numbers: Butterflies, Birds & Flowers

What a great idea! This is the first of these I have seen with the color by numbers with spaces big enough to see. Even in my 50’s I have a hard time with the adult color by number books but this one looks great. If anyone has seen it in person, please let us know what you think.

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Even though we are grown-up, coloring things that remind us of our past glory days is particularly satisfying. They call it “retro” but to baby-boomers, it might feel like yesterday.

My favorite thing about going to the doctor when I was a kid was the kids books. I particularly loved Highlights.

Highlights Hidden Pictures®: A Coloring Book for Grown-Up Children

This iconic coloring book features a nostalgic collection of intricate, challenging black-and-white Hidden Pictures puzzles for a grown-up audience. Helping to re-discover a beloved childhood pastime.

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Fun Coloring Books for Seniors by Thaneeya McArdle

Thaneeya’s books are fun and have simple large areas to color, as well as examples for colors to use both in the front and the back of her books. Kemberlee, one of our reviewers pointed out that lots of seniors were once 60’s & 70’s hippies so they might really enjoy these books even though they aren’t targeted specifically to senior citizens.

Good Vibes

simple coloring books for seniors by Thaneeya McArdle

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Christmas Coloring Book – Coloring is Fun

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Live for Today – Coloring is Fun by Thaneeya McArdle

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Day of the Dead Coloring – Coloring is Fun

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Don’t Worry, Be Happy

Coloring Book Treasury: Color Your Way To A Calm, Positive Mood by Thaneeya

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More Good Vibes: Coloring is Fun by Thaneeya McArdle

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Nature Mandalas

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Happy Campers – Fun to Color Coloring Book

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Free Spirit Coloring Book

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Any of Thaneeya McArdle’s books would be great for seniors

Mandala’s for Seniors

Easy Adult Coloring Books for Seniors or Beginners

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Angie Grace also has mandala coloring books for those that have vision issues or prefer larger spaces to shade in with pencils or pens. These books with larger spaces may be better for seniors or younger children that find Angie’s patterns too complex and intricate.

Centered by Angie Grace

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Transcend – For Crayons And Wide Tipped Markers: Angie’s Gentle Mood Menders

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Balance – For Crayons & Wide Tipped Markers: Angie’s Gentle Mood Menders – Volume 1

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Breathe Easy Mandalas

For Crayons & Wide Tipped Markers: Angie’s Gentle Mood Menders – Volume 3

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Coloring Books for Seniors with Alzheimer’s Disease

The Best Alzheimer’s Products website says that Stained Glass Coloring Books are particularly good for seniors because of the thicker black lines that are fairly simple to stay within.

Amazing Angels Stained Glass Coloring Book

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Art Nouveau Windows Stained Glass Windows Coloring Book

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Wild Animals Stained Glass Coloring Book

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Cats Stained Glass Coloring Book

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Coloring Dreams

One of the members of the Facebook Coloring Book Addicts group has been sharing her pages from this book and it looks perfect for seniors. It is 8 1/2 x 11 printed on 1 side of the paper. It is a Createspace book.

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Happy Coloring Easy Flowers

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We will be adding to this article as we come across new recommendations. Please feel free to ping us on our social media accounts if you have suggestions or leave them in the comments below.

Swear Word Coloring for Grandmas

Granny Swears Coloring Book

Adult Coloring Book with swear words that Granny would say. “Well Bless Your Little Heart,” or “Son of a Biscuit!” Another pretty cuss word coloring book for you.

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Granny Swears Black Edition Coloring Book

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How Gramma’s Swear Coloring Book

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Grandma Approved Curse Words

This book has phrases like “Gee Willikers! What the devil are you doin’? Get your crapola off the flippin’ floor, shut your pie hole, and help me with these cotton pickin’ children you lazy jackwagon!”

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Coloring Supply Recommendations for Seniors

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Best Mandala Coloring Books for Relaxation

November 14, 2019 By Addicted Colorist 2 Comments

Mandala Coloring Books were one of the first to come to the adult coloring book world because of the relaxation and mindfulness qualities that are part of the Mandala mystique.

My first exposure to Mandalas was in “Color Me Calm” A Zen Coloring book written by Lucy Mucklow, a licensed art therapist and illustrated by Angela Porter. I loved the simple swirling lines that Angela uses in her drawings and my next book was another by Angela called “Entangled” which combined mandalas and Zentangle which I also like to do.

For the unfamiliar, a mandala is a sacred symbol in Hinduism and Buddhism, made from a nest of squares and circles, that represents the cosmos. As the Asian Art Museum put it: “mandalas are not just images to view, but worlds to enter — after recreating the image in their mind’s eye, meditators imaginatively enter its realm.” Huffington Post

For me, mandala’s are just pretty designs that are repeated in a circular fashion that let me stop thinking about which colors to use and how to do shading and just sit down and fill up the spaces with whatever color appeals to me at that time. That is what art therapists suggest, choosing colors that appeal to you in that moment is filling a need you have to evoke the emotion that the color brings you. It can be the traditional meaning of yellow for happiness, blue for calm or a more personal connection, pink reminds you of your mother and you miss her today, green reminds you of a beautiful mountain setting where your husband proposed. That’s for you to decide. I’ve bought and received review copies of several mandala coloring books and I’ll list them below for you to explore.

If you’d like to learn a little more about Mandala’s I recommend Kathy Rausch’s Book Activate Divine Creativity where she talks about the Life-Changing Magic of the Mandala.

Best Relaxing Mandala Coloring Books for Meditation and Mindfulness

The Art of Mandala by Jason Hamilton

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Color Me Calm: 100 Coloring Templates for Meditation and Relaxation

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The Color Me series of books are completely unique in the way they are bound. Each book has 100 unique designs with sections of the book following a theme that Lucy Mucklow spells out for you in the short introduction to each chapter. The book is bound in such a way that the pages open fully flat and they are 1 sided images so you really don’t need to worry about bleed-through unless you use sharpies or that sort of marker, just slip a piece of blank paper behind it if you do. The facing page is a repeated flower mandala that I use to test color combinations on. I particularly liked the houses in this book. While these books are not strictly mandala books, the swirling nature of the illustrations along with the mandala’s will give the same mindful escape. This book also comes in the smaller portable version with 70 illustrations in a 6″x 7″ format.
Color Me Calm – Portable
Color Me Happy – Portable
Color Me Stress-Free – Portable
Color Me Fearless – Portable
Color Me To Sleep
Color Me Grateful

Other Mindful Coloring Books illustrated by Angela Porter

Entangled (A Creative Haven Book)

Entangle Best Mandala Coloring Books for Relaxation and Mindfulness

Entangled Dragonflies

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Mandala Coloring Books

Tranquil Ocean Mandalas – Just Add Color

Fantastic, quality coloring book from Barrons with 120 large perforated pages of ocean-themed mandalas and illustrations to color. This book also features and accompanying QR code that leads to special relaxing music to play on your device while coloring.

Barron’s has a few books in this same series including:

Angie Grace Mandala Coloring Books For Adults

Best-selling coloring book artist Angie Grace invites you to relax and explore the intricate and exquisite world of stress mending circular whimsical art. Stroke by stroke, shade by shade, tension and worries fade away as you transform Angie’s beautiful black and white lines into your own unique, personal and beautiful keepsake art piece.

Balance by Angie Grace

Centered – Volume II

Breath Volume III by Angie Grace

Transcend Volume 4 by Angie Grace

Centered – for Crayons and Wide Markers

Transcend – For Crayons And Wide Tipped Markers: Angie’s Gentle Mood Menders

Balance – For Crayons And Wide Tipped Markers: Angie’s Gentle Mood Menders – Volume 1

Breathe – For Crayons And Wide Tipped Markers: Angie’s Gentle Mood Menders – Volume 3

100 Magnificent Mandalas Coloring Book

100 magnificent mandalas Mandala Coloring Books for Relaxation stress relief and Mindfulness

100+ Unique Mandala Designs and Stress Relieving Patterns for Adult Relaxation, Meditation, and Happiness
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Stress Less Coloring Mandalas

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Mandala Coloring Book

According to the reviews, this coloring book allows you to use markers without it bleeding through the paper. Markers seem to be the preferred medium for Mandala Coloring.

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Mandalas For Beginners

An Adult Coloring Book with Simple and Easy Designs for Meditation, Mi

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Creative Haven Mandala Low-Cost Coloring Books

Creative Haven Books are favorites for price-point, single-sided perforated pages, and decent paper quality.

Snowflake Mandala Coloring Book by Marty Noble

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I don’t know anyone who isn’t fascinated by snowflakes, their imperfect perfection and uniqueness just speaks to our soul don’t you think? This book really stands out for me.

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Christmas Mandalas by Marty Noble

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Magical Mandalas by Alberta Hutchinson

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Square Mandalas

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Paisley Mandalas

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Nature Mandalas

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More Creative Haven Mandalas

Mindfulness Coloring Books

The Mindfulness Coloring Book

Mindfulness Art Therapy Coloring Book Volume II

Colour Me Calm – REALLY Relaxing Colouring Book

Mindful Mandalas

Zen Art Therapy for Adults

Activate Divine Creativity Mandala Doodles Coloring Book

This book by Kerry McQuaide is based on Japanese prints and patterns. This is a smaller format book with one-sided, non-perforated pages on better than average paper. No designs go into the margin.

Interestingly, many of this year’s top books were also in the top 10 for Amazon sales in 2015, you can see that list here. We hope you will find one of these coloring books can help your stress levels and create Zen in your life. If you have a favorite we have missed, please let us know on one of our social media accounts.

Color By Number Adult Coloring Books

November 7, 2019 By Addicted Colorist 8 Comments

Dover Publications has come out with a new idea for adult coloring books in their Creative Haven series… color by number. Many new colorists express frustration at the stress caused when trying to decide which are the right colors to color in your picture. These color by number books invite you to follow the numbered guide to creating accurate portraits of the illustrated images. Illustrations are printed on one side of the perforated pages for easy removal and display in all of the Creative Haven coloring books.

Creative Haven Color By Number Coloring Books for Adults

The link above goes directly to the Dover site and lists all of their Adult Coloring books.

Color by Number Colouring books in the UK and in Canada.

Country Scenes Creative Haven Color By Number

A new artist, George Toufexis illustrated this book July of 2018.

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Color by Number Christmas Coloring by George Toufexis

George’s book is filled with traditional Christmas holiday scenes and is secular in nature with things like Santa, Christmas Trees, Stockings by the Fire and Winter Nature scenes. Images are printed on one side of the page and are perforated. These 46 images are designed for experienced colorists.

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Butterflies Color By Number

The book contains 46 realistic butterfly and moth illustrations printed one per page (the back of each is blank) on medium weight, bright white, perforated paper. It’s always a good idea to use a blank sheet behind your work if you are using markers.
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Birds Color by Number Coloring Book

From waders such as the spoonbill and flamingo to the woodland-dwelling wild turkey and backyard species like the cedar waxwing and the Baltimore oriole, this collection portrays a tremendous variety of birds. All 46 are identified and depicted in their natural habitats. Use the numbered color key to creating perfectly natural pictures.
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Floral Design Color by Number

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Sea Life Color by Number

Sea turtles, coral reef-dwelling fish, dolphins, and other marine creatures swim through these full-page pictures. Colorists can achieve realistic effects and perfect shading with the help of lightly printed numbers that correspond to a simple color key. Pages are perforated and printed on one side only for easy removal and display. The Sea Life book is specially designed for experienced colorists according to Creative Haven.
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Mandalas Color by Number

Color by Number Mandala’s offers unlimited opportunities for shading and color choices, mandalas can be among the most challenging designs to color. This helpful book offers lightly printed numbers that correspond to a color key: use them for guidance or strike out on your own. 46 illustrations. Click here to order

Dogs – Color by Number from Creative Haven

Dog lovers will adore these realistic portraits of a German shepherd, Labrador, beagle, and other popular breeds. Use the simple color guide to complete 46 heartwarming images — finished thumbnail images on the inside covers offer coloring ideas for you.

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Color by Number Cats

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American Landscapes

A travelogue of great American vistas includes scenes from Yosemite National Park, Monument Valley, Boulder Mountain, Fossil Butte National Monument, Enders State Forest, and many other landscapes of rugged natural beauty. It contains 46 1 sided, perforated pages.

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Horses

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Still Life Color

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Animal Stencils Color by Number

This is a bit of a different style with more of a mosaic look than some of the other books. This also has black-backed one-sided images.

Brain Game Color By Number Coloring Books for Adults

Each Brain Games® Color by Number book is side bought spiral and is printed on one side of the paper so there is no bleed through to worry about. The images are varied in each book with animals, mandalas, home scenes and more. They are relatively simple color palettes with only 4-6 colors being used on each page.

Brain Games® Color by Number: Stress-Free Coloring (Pink)

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Brain Games® Color by Number: Stress-Free Coloring (Green)

Brain Games® Color by Number: Stress-Free Coloring (Orange)

Brain Games® Color by Number: Stress-Free Coloring (Pink)

Color by Numbers Calm

Color by Number Colouring books in the UK and in Canada.

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You can trust the Creative Haven coloring books regardless of illustrator, they have been producing adult coloring books for over 20 years but others that come up on this search have awful reviews, so be cautious.. all coloring books are not created equal!

Guided Coloring by F Sehnaz Bac

Italian Artists F Sehnaz Bac series presents 30 pieces of numbered original artwork to color in. Renowned for the stunning palettes of her whimsical painted rock winged creatures come alive. Birds and Butterflies include songbirds, owls, butterflies, moths, dragonflies, and other winged marvels, all numbered for vibrant coloring in markers, colored pencils, crayons, or paints, along with coloring instruction (with a color key) and four bonus full-color prints. Simply color in each numbered space with the corresponding color in the color key, or explore your unique creative path and fill the spaces with your own palette. Relax, unwind, and be creative as you color in these lovely pieces of art. Once you’ve enjoyed these designs, you’ll want to try Sehnaz’s two other Brilliantly Vivid Color-by-Number books: Animal Friends, which feature her endearing cats, bunnies, and elephants, along with many other marvelous creatures frolicking on land and under the sea; and Flowers and Mandalas, which include her dazzling mandalas and fun and fanciful blooms.

Birds & Butterflies Guided Coloring by F. Sehnaz Bac

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Animal Friends Color By Number

Flowers & Mandalas Color by Number

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Usborne has a couple of color by number coloring books to offer as well. They have a variety of designs that could appeal to both kids and adults alike. Reading through the reviews shows that adults fancy this book as a break from the most complicated books that take days to complete a project. These pictures are colored in under an hour with no worries about which colors to use.

The Usborne Color by Numbers Book

The Usborne BIG Color by Numbers Book

Colortronic: A kaleidoscopic Coloring Challenge

Trianimal Extreme Color By Number Books

A unique color-by-number coloring book featuring 80 vibrant animal faces designed in the popular “low poly” 3-D geometric style.

Create dozens of beautiful, lifelike animal faces with this irresistible color-by-number book. Graphic designer and illustrator Hope Little uses a distinctive “low poly” graphic style to fashion clean, contemporary three-dimensional designs made up of hundreds of triangles—an approach to organic subjects that gives them a modern aesthetic that is also relaxing to color.

Each picture in Trianimals comes with a numbered color palate that can be used as a guide for consistently creating amazing finished pieces. All are printed on a heavy paper stock to ensure that whatever medium you use—whether ink, marker or paint—doesn’t bleed through. The pages are also perforated, making your artworks easy to remove and display. In addition, some of the pages are also perforated around the image so that it can be pressed out and made into a mask for parties, games, playtime, Halloween, birthdays, and more.

Trianimals Color Me Wild Color by Number Book

Trianimals Color Me Dog

Trianimals Color Me Cat

60 cat designs are made up of hundreds of triangles that, when filled in, transform a flat illustration or 2D piece of work into a 3D image. Each page has a different breed of cat from the ordinary to the rare. The color keys on each page allow you to use either traditional colors or bright non-realistic colors for a pop-art look. Some of the cats have quite tiny spaces to color while others are a bit larger. This reminds me of those picture puzzles in crossword books where you didn’t know how the picture would turn out until the end.

If you are looking for more advanced Color by Number types of books, click to explore this page as well.

We think these books are a great idea for those that struggle with color choices, after all, this whole coloring book thing is supposed to be a fun, relaxing stress-free hobby/addiction. Let us know what you think about these books if you have tried them or if there are others that are missing.

Are you looking for coloring supplies? We have recommendations for Colored Pencils, Gel Pens or Markers.

Coloring Books from Design Originals

December 8, 2016 By Addicted Colorist Leave a Comment

I stumbled upon DO Magazine in an unlikely spot at the Sprouts market and instantly fell in love. This magazine not only has interviews with your favorite coloring book artists and pages to color but it also features coloring tutorials and all sorts of things to do with your coloring outside of the books.

DO Magazine Back Issues

DO Magazines bi-monthly publication features projects and patterns from best-selling artists and authors, and combines the super-hot adult coloring and mindful drawing trends. Brought to you by Design Originals, the original Zentangle® publisher, it’s jam-packed with craft projects, feature articles, drawing exercises, and artistic advice. 24 tear-out coloring book pages, printed on one side only of archival-grade paper, are perforated to detach easily for gifting or display. You don’t need to be an artist, devote a lot of time, or spend a lot of money to get creative with this magazine. Paint and pen can be all it takes to create a beautiful work of art.

DO Magazine Color Tangle Craft Doodle #6 November 2016

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DO Magazine Color Tangle Craft Doodle #5 August 2016

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DO Magazine Color Tangle Craft Doodle #4 June 2016

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DO Magazine Color Tangle Craft Doodle #3 January 2016

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DO Magazine Color Tangle Craft Doodle #2 November 2015

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DO Magazine Color, Tangle, Craft, Doodle: DO Magazine, Color Your Way to a Calm Mind Premiere Issue

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Design Originals Coloring Books

The New Guide To Coloring by the creators of Do Magazine

Colored Pencil Techniques + Tips and Tricks for Colorists of all skill levels

This book has everything you ever wanted to know about coloring in adult coloring books but didn’t know how to ask. From basic blending, shading and highlighting techniques to complex color theory, ideas for things to do with your colorings and advice on supplies. The amount of knowledge in the coloring book bible will blow you away. It is published by Design Originals and the editors of DO Magazine.

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We have already introduced you to Thaneeya McArdle here, one of Design Originals most prolific illustrators so now we want to make sure you have seen their other top designer Valentina Harper.

Valentina Harper Coloring Books

Creative Coloring Inspiration

Color a Doodle Inspirations, the coloring book that offers hope and encouragement on every page. Inside you’ll find 30 relaxing activities designed to motivate your creativity and stimulate your spirit. Team up with talented artist Valentina Harper as you personalize her exquisite line drawings. Valentina combines exhilarating words with flowing, intricate, and highly detailed patterns. Best-selling craft author Marie Browning joins in with beautifully colored examples of finished work. Printed on high-quality extra-thick paper that won’t bleed through, all pages are pre-perforated for easy removal and display.
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