Paisley Designs

Obviously, I love the 'design' sorts of coloring books. Those and the fashion ones are my favs. I love using bold markers for the designs. Paisley Designs is another Marty Noble book, and I love all his work. This one is a must have! If you click on the link, it'll take you to Amazon where I see they have a few colored examples uploaded. Very cool!

Pre-Raphaelite Paintings

Color Your Own Pre-Raphaelite Paintings by Marty Noble is another keeper. I like when the books have colored pictures of the actual paintings on the back covers so you can chose to either duplicate the original painting, or give it your own idea of color. I did a little of both with this example.

Heart Designs

Hearts seem so innocent, so...kind. Yet this coloring book just may drive you mad. It has the simplest designs, and then very busy ones. As you can tell by the colored pic, I like busy. The pages are a little thin in this one, so if you use markers, it will bled through and you won't be able to use the pic on the other side of the page. But check out Heart Designs by Wil Stegenga for hours of fun.

Floral Bouquets

Very delicate drawings fill the pages of Floral Bouquets by Charlene Tarbox. These are so pretty, you'll want to cut out a page and hang it on your fridge when you're done. Hey, if the kids can do it, why not us?

Dazzling Designs

This one is a bunch of optical illusion sort of designs. They range from simple to drive you mad when it comes to small details. Fun to work with. Check out Dazzling Designs by Koichi Sato

The Far East

Ruth Heller's Designs for Coloring books are always awesome. Clean lines and only one design on each page, so the back is blank (great if you use markers to color like I do). These books are worth the little higher price tag as well.


RUTH HELLER'S FAR EAST

Poster Masterpieces

I've been a little reluctant to check out any of the 'color your own' series, since most of the pictures are adapted from paintings, and depending on which artists does the adapting, they may or may not make for good coloring. This is another Marty Noble book, so it rocks. Color Your Own Poster Masterpieces features a lot of posters from the Art Nouveau time period. There are 30 posters to color.